vBSWAP (VBSWAP) and Rain (RAIN) compared side by side. Over the past 30 days, VBSWAP is ahead by 47.5 percentage points (VBSWAP -10.7% against RAIN -58.2%). Their daily returns move barely together (correlation 0.03 across 23 shared trading days). RAIN has been the more volatile of the two, at 134% annualised against VBSWAP's 45%.
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0.03over 23 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 | VBSWAP | RAIN |
|---|---|---|
| Max drawdown (400d) | -14.2% | -68.5% |
| Risk-adjusted return (90d) | -0.24 | -0.37 |
Relative strength over 90 days: VBSWAP outperformed RAIN by 36.0% — measured on the VBSWAP/RAIN ratio, so it holds regardless of market direction.