For each of the top ten most correlated years, Bespoke also calculated the maximum drawdown and gain from May 16 through Dec. 31.

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And we had a maximum drawdown of 14%.

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The Calculation: To quantify the data, I measured each of those four statistics (YTD return, number of up days, standard deviation, and maximum drawdown) against all other stocks and gave them a score from zero to 100.

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When we looked at maximum drawdown during the great recession we just came through, both infrastructure and commodity MLPs declined in price with the broader markets, but were within a percentage-and-a-half of each other in the maximum drawdown.

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