Does Bitcoin correlate with anything?

A Binance Research report published earlier Wednesday named ATOM as the cryptocurrency that is least concern with the price movements of bitcoin. The Cosmos blockchain’s staking token has a median annual coefficient of 0.31, which indicates its lack of linear relationship with the benchmark cryptocurrency.

The larger the absolute value of the coefficient, the stronger the relationship. This chart shows that bitcoin maintained a positive correlation with the S&P and the Nasdaq Composite since February 2020, respectively, meaning that the assets have been moving generally in the same direction.

Bitcoin’s movements are now mirroring those of U.S. stocks to an unprecedented degree. A 40-day correlation coefficient for the digital token and the tech-heavy Nasdaq 100 has reached almost 0.66 — the most in data compiled by Bloomberg since 2010 — while a similar correlation with the S&P 500 is at a record too.

High ETH-BTC Correlation Notably, data from Coin Metrics highlighted that ETH-BTC correlation was nearing all-time high values at press time, sitting at 0.902 . Seemingly, Ethereum and Bitcoin could move in tandem in the short term.

As the International Monetary Fund warned in a blog post, sentiment in equities and crypto appear increasingly connected, raising the “risk of contagion across financial markets.” Bitcoin’s correlation to the S&P 500 was just 0.01 from 2017 to 2019 , said the IMF, suggesting that equity and crypto prices were moving …14 Oca 2022

Historically, Bitcoin has maintained a relatively low correlation to traditional asset classes, including equity indices and commodities like gold. However, in recent weeks, the leading cryptocurrency’s correlation to two major indices—the S&P 500 and Nasdaq —has been on the rise.11 Oca 2022

But two charts depicting relative performance amid recent stock market corrections illustrate that bitcoin is more positively correlated to equities than some might think . The first one shows that when stocks fell nearly 20% in the fourth quarter of 2018, bitcoin fell as much as 50%, while gold traded up nearly 8%.23 Oca 2022