Spurious correlation: two drifting stock prices
Two stocks in unrelated businesses both drifted upward over a decade. Their daily price levels correlate at . A colleague says such tightly correlated names must be a great pair trade.
Why is the 0.98 misleading, and what should you correlate instead?
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