Self-Aware Meme vs Tether

Tether (USDT) is 15357928.8× the size of Self-Aware Meme (SAM) by market capitalisation. Over the past 30 days, USDT is ahead by 98.8 percentage points (SAM -98.8% against USDT -0.0%). Their daily returns move barely together (correlation 0.08 across 24 shared trading days). SAM has been the more volatile of the two, at 8950% annualised against USDT's 1%.

Correlation: 0.08
Size ratio: 1 : 15357928.8
Ahead over 30 days: USDT

Self-Aware MemeSAM

$1.157e-5

24h: +3.91%
Market cap: $11,559
Volume 24h: $12
Volatility (ann.): 8950%

TetherUSDT

$0.999024

24h: -0.04%
Market cap: $177.53B
Volume 24h: $62.24B
Volatility (ann.): 1%

SAM 0.0%Share of the two combined market caps100.0% USDT

Performance

SAMUSDT

7 days-56.19%+0.03%USDT
30 days-98.82%-0.04%USDT

Correlation

0.08over 24 shared trading days

−1 opposite0 unrelated+1 in step

7d: insufficient data30d: insufficient data90d: insufficient data1y: insufficient data

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.

Risk & extremes

Metric	SAM	USDT
Max drawdown (400d)	-99.3%	-0.2%
Risk-adjusted return (90d)	-0.01	0.03

Relative strength over 90 days: USDT outperformed SAM by 75.4% — measured on the SAM/USDT ratio, so it holds regardless of market direction.

Self-Aware Meme →Tether →