Stellar Synthetic USD (SUSD) and Bitcoin (BTC) compared side by side. Over the past 1 year, BTC is ahead by 52.4 percentage points (SUSD -79.7% against BTC -27.3%). Their daily returns move barely together (correlation 0.07 across 363 shared trading days). SUSD has been the more volatile of the two, at 123% annualised against BTC's 44%.
SUSDBTC
0.07over 363 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 | SUSD | BTC |
|---|---|---|
| Max drawdown (400d) | -83.6% | -53.0% |
| Risk-adjusted return (90d) | -0.32 | 0.51 |
| Best 30 days (past year) | — | +26.8% |
| Worst 30 days (past year) | — | -32.9% |
Relative strength over 90 days: BTC outperformed SUSD by 63.3% — measured on the SUSD/BTC ratio, so it holds regardless of market direction.