Tether (USDT) is 4155.2× the size of Talus (US) by market capitalisation. Over the past 30 days, USDT is ahead by 33.6 percentage points (US -33.6% against USDT +0.0%). Their daily returns move barely together (correlation 0.06 across 26 shared trading days). US has been the more volatile of the two, at 120% annualised against USDT's 0%.
| Period | US | USDT | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 days | +4.58% | -0.01% | US |
| 30 days | -33.59% | +0.05% | USDT |
| Metric | US | USDT |
|---|---|---|
| Max drawdown (400d) | -36.5% | -0.0% |
| Risk-adjusted return (90d) | -0.28 | 0.19 |
Relative strength over 90 days: USDT outperformed US by 30.8% — measured on the US/USDT ratio, so it holds regardless of market direction.
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.