Vanguard Morningstar Total Stock Market ETF • Robinhood Token vs Tether Gold

Tether Gold (XAUT) is 52374.5× the size of Vanguard Morningstar Total Stock Market ETF • Robinhood Token (VTI) by market capitalisation. Their daily returns move barely in opposite directions (correlation -0.12 across 32 shared trading days). Both have run at a similar volatility, around 25% annualised.

Correlation: -0.12
Size ratio: 1 : 52374.5

Vanguard Morningstar Total Stock Market ETF • Robinhood TokenVTI

$378.5200

24h: +2.03%
Market cap: $63,147
Volume 24h: $8,446
Volatility (ann.): 26%

Tether GoldXAUT

$4,089.08

24h: +0.92%
Market cap: $3.31B
Volume 24h: $403.79M
Volatility (ann.): 24%

VTI 0.0%Share of the two combined market caps100.0% XAUT

Performance

VTIXAUT

7 days+4.59%+0.05%VTI
30 days-0.34%-2.08%VTI
90 days—-4.40%—

Correlation

-0.12over 32 shared trading days

−1 opposite0 unrelated+1 in step

7d: insufficient data30d: -0.1190d: 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	VTI	XAUT
Max drawdown (400d)	-7.6%	-19.4%
Risk-adjusted return (90d)	0.00	-0.20

Relative strength over 90 days: VTI outperformed XAUT by 3.4% — measured on the VTI/XAUT ratio, so it holds regardless of market direction.

Vanguard Morningstar Total Stock Market ETF • Robinhood Token →Tether Gold →