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Correlation

Linear relationship between two variables, from −1 to +1.

A correlation of +1 means two assets move perfectly together; −1 means perfectly inverse; 0 means no linear relationship. Diversification works by combining low-correlation assets.

Example

corr_matrix = returns_df.corr()

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