Aerodrome Finance (AERO) is 135.7× the size of Orbiter Finance (OBT) by market capitalisation. Their daily returns move barely together (correlation 0.11 across 83 shared trading days). AERO has been the more volatile of the two, at 101% annualised against OBT's 79%.
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0.11over 83 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 | OBT | AERO |
|---|---|---|
| Max drawdown (400d) | -94.8% | -36.4% |
| Risk-adjusted return (90d) | -0.23 | 0.44 |
| Best 30 days (past year) | +31.0% | — |
| Worst 30 days (past year) | -56.7% | — |
Relative strength over 90 days: AERO outperformed OBT by 35.7% — measured on the OBT/AERO ratio, so it holds regardless of market direction.