Suspicious Correlations™

Everything we track, ranked by how closely it moves with carrots over the past year, at each series' best lag. Recomputed every morning.

	Series	r	Best lag	Verdict
1	Orange juice Commodities	−0.37	Carrots lead by 30 days	Frosty relationship
2	Coca-Cola (KO) US stocks	+0.36	Carrots lead by 30 days	Suspiciously friendly
3	Nvidia (NVDA) US stocks	+0.35	Carrots follow by 12 days	Suspiciously friendly
4	Dogecoin (AUD) Crypto	−0.35	Carrots lead by 29 days	Frosty relationship
5	Apple (AAPL) US stocks	+0.34	Carrots lead by 23 days	Suspiciously friendly
6	S&P 500 Markets	+0.33	Carrots lead by 9 days	Suspiciously friendly
7	BHP (BHP) ASX stocks	+0.33	Carrots follow by 19 days	Suspiciously friendly
8	Nasdaq Markets	+0.33	Carrots lead by 9 days	Suspiciously friendly
9	Metcash / IGA (MTS) ASX stocks	−0.33	Carrots follow by 26 days	Frosty relationship
10	Tesla (TSLA) US stocks	−0.32	Carrots follow by 1 day	Frosty relationship
11	JB Hi-Fi (JBH) ASX stocks	−0.32	Carrots follow by 26 days	Frosty relationship
12	Elders (ELD) ASX stocks	−0.31	Carrots follow by 30 days	Frosty relationship
13	Alphabet (GOOGL) US stocks	+0.31	Carrots lead by 3 days	Suspiciously friendly
14	a2 Milk (A2M) ASX stocks	−0.31	Carrots follow by 19 days	Frosty relationship
15	ASX 200 Markets	+0.31	Carrots follow by 14 days	Suspiciously friendly
16	Woolworths (WOW) Supermarkets	+0.31	Carrots follow by 26 days	Suspiciously friendly
17	Coles (COL) Supermarkets	+0.31	Carrots follow by 20 days	Suspiciously friendly
18	Ethereum (AUD) Crypto	−0.31	Carrots lead by 29 days	Frosty relationship
19	AUD/JPY Currencies	+0.30	Carrots follow by 26 days	Suspiciously friendly
20	RBA cash rate Economy	+0.30	Carrots follow by 22 days	Suspiciously friendly
21	Amazon (AMZN) US stocks	+0.30	Carrots lead by 2 days	Suspiciously friendly
22	Wheat Commodities	+0.30	Carrots lead by 21 days	Faint whiff
23	Xero (XRO) ASX stocks	−0.30	Carrots lead by 16 days	Mild beef
24	John Deere (DE) US stocks	+0.29	Carrots lead by 9 days	Faint whiff
25	AUD/USD Currencies	+0.28	Carrots lead by 23 days	Faint whiff
26	GrainCorp (GNC) ASX stocks	−0.28	Carrots lead by 30 days	Mild beef
27	Bitcoin (AUD) Crypto	−0.28	Carrots lead by 30 days	Mild beef
28	McDonald's (MCD) US stocks	−0.28	Carrots follow by 12 days	Mild beef
29	Fortescue (FMG) ASX stocks	−0.27	Carrots follow by 7 days	Mild beef
30	Sydney max temp Weather	−0.27	Same day	Mild beef
31	Coffee Commodities	−0.27	Carrots follow by 19 days	Mild beef
32	VIX fear index Markets	−0.22	Carrots follow by 11 days	Mild beef
33	Crude oil (WTI) Commodities	+0.22	Carrots follow by 12 days	Faint whiff
34	Sydney rainfall Weather	−0.21	Carrots follow by 11 days	Mild beef
35	Sydney sunshine Weather	−0.19	Carrots follow by 26 days	Mild beef
36	Moon illumination Chaos	−0.19	Carrots lead by 18 days	Mild beef
37	Gold Commodities	−0.19	Carrots lead by 30 days	Mild beef
38	Corn Commodities	+0.18	Carrots follow by 28 days	Faint whiff
39	CSL (CSL) ASX stocks	−0.15	Carrots follow by 30 days	Mild beef
40	Wesfarmers / Bunnings (WES) ASX stocks	+0.13	Carrots follow by 14 days	Faint whiff
41	Cocoa Commodities	+0.13	Carrots lead by 29 days	Faint whiff
42	Treasury Wine (TWE) ASX stocks	+0.13	Carrots follow by 6 days	Faint whiff
43	Telstra (TLS) ASX stocks	−0.12	Carrots lead by 7 days	Mild beef
44	Meta (META) US stocks	−0.12	Carrots follow by 25 days	Mild beef
45	Qantas (QAN) ASX stocks	+0.11	Carrots follow by 14 days	Faint whiff
46	GameStop (GME) US stocks	−0.10	Carrots lead by 29 days	Mild beef
47	CommBank (CBA) ASX stocks	+0.10	Carrots follow by 13 days	Faint whiff
48	Microsoft (MSFT) US stocks	+0.07	Carrots lead by 8 days	Pure noise

With enough series and a lag slider, something will always look meaningful. That's the joke. That's also most of finance.