Project Ailey (ALE) and The Sandbox (SAND) compared side by side. Over the past 1 year, ALE is ahead by 7.1 percentage points (ALE -67.7% against SAND -74.8%). Their daily returns move barely together (correlation 0.10 across 366 shared trading days). SAND has been the more volatile of the two, at 103% annualised against ALE's 41%.
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0.10over 366 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 | ALE | SAND |
|---|---|---|
| Max drawdown (400d) | -68.3% | -88.4% |
| Risk-adjusted return (90d) | -0.46 | 0.07 |
| Best 30 days (past year) | +2.7% | +94.1% |
| Worst 30 days (past year) | -36.9% | -48.8% |
Relative strength over 90 days: SAND outperformed ALE by 30.2% — measured on the ALE/SAND ratio, so it holds regardless of market direction.