Maple Finance (SYRUP) is 105.8× the size of Ready Cards (READY) by market capitalisation. Over the past 1 year, SYRUP is ahead by 36.0 percentage points (READY -96.7% against SYRUP -60.7%). Their daily returns move barely together (correlation 0.26 across 373 shared trading days). READY has been the more volatile of the two, at 265% annualised against SYRUP's 87%.
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0.26over 373 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 | READY | SYRUP |
|---|---|---|
| Max drawdown (400d) | -96.8% | -74.3% |
| Risk-adjusted return (90d) | -0.31 | 0.00 |
| Best 30 days (past year) | +196.0% | +52.7% |
| Worst 30 days (past year) | -71.7% | -49.6% |
Relative strength over 90 days: SYRUP outperformed READY by 77.6% — measured on the READY/SYRUP ratio, so it holds regardless of market direction.