SeriesMagCorrOverlapThrough
These move together about 89% of the time
Very strong positive
Strong enough to use as a signal — read the stability and regime notes below before relying on it.
US GDP
GDP
Total Consumer Credit
TOTALSL
What to Watch
Unusual right now
Recent correlation (+98%) is 4.1σ from the long-run average of +100% — pair is behaving differently than usual.
Rock solid
Correlation barely moves across time windows — treat this as a reliable relationship.
Time Series
Time-Shifted Correlation
See how correlation changes when one series is offset in time. A taller bar at a non-zero shift means the two move together better when one leads the other — that's a potential lead/lag signal.
Correlation by shift
Click a bar to inspect. Range: -6 to 6 days.
Selected shift
No shift
Correlation at this shift
+100%
No shift — both series at their actual dates.
317 overlapping points at this shift
Time series with Total Consumer Credit at original dates
Indexed to 100 at start
Deep Dive
Stability
How the correlation evolves over time. A stable line means the relationship is reliable; large swings signal regime-dependent behavior.
Corr
+100%
Pearson correlation
95% CI
+99% → +100%
Likely range
R²
99.1%
Variance explained
Trend agreement
88.6%
Same-direction moves
Significance
p < 0.001
Statistical confidence
Data points
317
Robust
Pipeline
Pipeline Summary
317 paired data points survived the daily window.
Raw input
317
998
Normalized
317
998
Prepared
317
998
Aligned
317
317
Invalid removed
Explore
The strongest positive and inverse pairs we’ve saved for each side of this comparison — good jumping-off points if this result raised a question.
Do They Crash Together?
How these series behave when markets are rising, falling, or diverging. A correlation that holds in drawdowns is very different from one that only works in rallies.
Both Rising
+57%
217 periods · Return correlation when both series rose
Both Falling
N/A
4 periods · Return correlation when both series fell
Diverging
-63%
28 periods · Return correlation when series moved apart
Scatter
0
A: 0 / B: 0
Duplicates removed
0
A: 0 / B: 0
Alignment drops
681
A: 0 / B: 681
Series A
GDP
FRED · 317 raw → 317 prepared
Series B
TOTALSL
FRED · 998 raw → 998 prepared
Sign agreement
100.0%
How often both values share the same sign.
Zero crossings
1
Estimated crossover points between normalized spreads.
Slope
181.4985
Linear regression slope.
Intercept
-116795.8991
Linear regression intercept.
Saved 2 days ago · ID: fred:gdp|fred:totalsl|5Y
TOTALSL
Total Consumer Credit
Strongest positive