Tether Gold (XAUT) is 3293.7× the size of OpenAI (Tessera Pre-IPO) (TOPENAI) by market capitalisation. Their daily returns move barely together (correlation 0.25 across 38 shared trading days). TOPENAI has been the more volatile of the two, at 254% annualised against XAUT's 24%.
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0.25over 38 shared trading days
Measured on daily returns rather than on prices. Two assets that both simply trend upward score near 1.0 on raw prices whether or not they move together, so returns are what answer the question people mean by correlation.
| Metric | TOPENAI | XAUT |
|---|---|---|
| Max drawdown (400d) | -34.2% | -19.4% |
| Risk-adjusted return (90d) | 0.29 | -0.36 |
Relative strength over 90 days: TOPENAI outperformed XAUT by 92.3% — measured on the TOPENAI/XAUT ratio, so it holds regardless of market direction.