SeriesMagCorrOverlapThrough
These move opposite each other about 52% of the time
Light inverse
Weak relationship — not much actionable signal here beyond directional colour.
M2 Money Supply
M2SL
Housing Starts
HOUST
What to Watch
Unusual right now
Recent correlation (+86%) is 2.4σ from the long-run average of -24% — pair is behaving differently than usual.
Tighter in drawdowns
Pair moves more tightly when both fall (+51%) than when both rise (-16%) — typical risk-off behaviour.
Regime-dependent
The correlation has flipped sign across time windows — not reliable as a standalone signal.
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
-24%
No shift — both series at their actual dates.
807 overlapping points at this shift
Time series with Housing Starts 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
-24%
Pearson correlation
95% CI
-30% → -17%
Likely range
R²
5.7%
Variance explained
Trend agreement
52.4%
Same-direction moves
Significance
p < 0.001
Statistical confidence
Data points
807
Deep
Pipeline
Pipeline Summary
807 paired data points survived the daily window.
Raw input
807
807
Normalized
807
807
Prepared
807
807
Aligned
807
807
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
-16%
123 periods · Return correlation when both series rose
Both Falling
+51%
8 periods · Return correlation when both series fell
Diverging
+1%
118 periods · Return correlation when series moved apart
Scatter
0
A: 0 / B: 0
Duplicates removed
0
A: 0 / B: 0
Alignment drops
0
A: 0 / B: 0
Series A
M2SL
FRED · 807 raw → 807 prepared
Series B
HOUST
FRED · 807 raw → 807 prepared
Sign agreement
100.0%
How often both values share the same sign.
Zero crossings
7
Estimated crossover points between normalized spreads.
Slope
-0.0146
Linear regression slope.
Intercept
1514.7754
Linear regression intercept.
Saved 2 days ago · ID: fred:houst|fred:m2sl|5Y
HOUST
Housing Starts
Strongest positive