Litecoin (LTC) is 1017.9× the size of Secret (SCRT) by market capitalisation. Over the past 1 year, LTC is ahead by 58.3 percentage points (SCRT -96.2% against LTC -37.9%). Their daily returns move loosely together (correlation 0.40 across 337 shared trading days). SCRT has been the more volatile of the two, at 115% annualised against LTC's 62%.
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0.40over 337 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 | SCRT | LTC |
|---|---|---|
| Max drawdown (400d) | -97.3% | -67.5% |
| Risk-adjusted return (90d) | -0.64 | 0.32 |
| Best 30 days (past year) | — | +45.4% |
| Worst 30 days (past year) | — | -39.5% |
Relative strength over 90 days: LTC outperformed SCRT by 90.2% — measured on the SCRT/LTC ratio, so it holds regardless of market direction.