Maple Finance (SYRUP) is 2.2× the size of RedStone (RED) by market capitalisation. Over the past 1 year, RED is ahead by 9.1 percentage points (RED -51.5% against SYRUP -60.7%). Their daily returns move loosely together (correlation 0.45 across 399 shared trading days). RED has been the more volatile of the two, at 115% annualised against SYRUP's 87%.
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0.45over 399 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 | RED | SYRUP |
|---|---|---|
| Max drawdown (400d) | -83.4% | -74.3% |
| Risk-adjusted return (90d) | 0.68 | 0.00 |
| Best 30 days (past year) | +69.2% | +52.7% |
| Worst 30 days (past year) | -41.3% | -49.6% |
Relative strength over 90 days: RED outperformed SYRUP by 62.5% — measured on the RED/SYRUP ratio, so it holds regardless of market direction.