SeriesMagCorrOverlapThrough
These move opposite each other about 55% of the time
Moderate inverse
A real but noisy link — useful as context, risky as a standalone signal.
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Market cap 333.1B · 390,000 employees
Invesco QQQ Trust, Series 1
QQQ
What to Watch
Holds across regimes
Correlation is similar when markets rise (+33%) and fall (+14%) — reliable in both directions.
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
-56%
No shift — both series at their actual dates.
1,255 overlapping points at this shift
Time series with Invesco QQQ Trust, Series 1 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
-56%
Pearson correlation
95% CI
-60% → -52%
Likely range
R²
31.3%
Variance explained
Trend agreement
55.5%
Same-direction moves
Significance
p < 0.001
Statistical confidence
Data points
1,255
Deep
Pipeline
Pipeline Summary
1,255 paired data points survived the daily window.
Raw input
1,255
1,255
Normalized
1,255
1,255
Prepared
1,255
1,255
Aligned
1,255
1,255
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.
UNH
UNITEDHEALTH GROUP INCORPORATED (Delaware)
Strongest inverse
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
+33%
99 periods · Return correlation when both series rose
Both Falling
+14%
82 periods · Return correlation when both series fell
Diverging
-41%
68 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
UNITEDHEALTH GROUP INCORPORATED (Delaware)
UNH
Market cap 333.1B · 390,000 employees
Stock · 1,255 raw → 1,255 prepared
Series B
Invesco QQQ Trust, Series 1
QQQ
Stock · 1,255 raw → 1,255 prepared
Sign agreement
100.0%
How often both values share the same sign.
Zero crossings
29
Estimated crossover points between normalized spreads.
Slope
-0.6925
Linear regression slope.
Intercept
743.9589
Linear regression intercept.
Saved 1 hour ago · ID: stock-qqq_stock-unh_5y
QQQ
Invesco QQQ Trust, Series 1
Strongest positive