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Daily network digest

Tuesday, February 20, 2024

Directed information-flow networks for this session, covering Cryptocurrency, Foreign exchange. Each class is estimated independently over a trailing one-year window; the tables below rank the assets carrying the most influence within their own network.

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Cryptocurrency

XRDUSD was the most central name, carrying 2.99× the influence of an average node across 341 assets.

assets
341
Density
0.206
Clustering
0.430
Diameter
2

Most central

Ranked by PageRank within the session's directed network. “vs average” shows influence relative to a node with no advantage — 1.00× would mean perfectly ordinary.

Symbol#PageRank vs averageReceives fromSends toStrongest outgoing
XRDUSD 1 0.00878 2.99× 54.7% 28.5% DEXTUSD, RARIEUR, OPUSD, NYMUSD, ENJUSD
TIMEUSD 2 0.00866 2.95× 49.7% 37.6% LINKUSD, DOTUSD, AURORAUSD, GNOUSD, AIRUSD
NANOUSD 3 0.00788 2.69× 47.4% 14.4% XRPAUD, ANTUSD, PLAUSD, GALUSD, ETCUSD
MVUSD 4 0.00741 2.53× 47.4% 26.2% UNIUSD, BICOUSD, LRCUSD, DUSKUSD, ALEPHUSD
LTCBTC 5 0.00735 2.51× 44.1% 26.8% ELAUSD, SUKUUSD, YFIUSD, NKNUSD, BNTUSD
EULUSD 6 0.00713 2.43× 42.1% 17.9% MNGOUSD, ELAUSD, SWEATUSD, CHRUSD, ROOKUSD
ABTUSD 7 0.00703 2.40× 44.4% 22.4% EULUSD, PLUUSD, RUNEUSD, DEXTUSD, SUKUUSD
SUKUUSD 8 0.00666 2.27× 44.4% 18.8% EULUSD, ZILUSD, EWTUSD, XRDUSD, QNTUSD
SHPINGUSD 9 0.00641 2.19× 42.9% 20.3% TRXUSD, KEYUSD, MASKUSD, COMPUSD, TIMEUSD
OXYUSD 10 0.00628 2.14× 40.3% 29.1% PNKUSD, BCHNUSD, ASTUSD, BTCUSD, ETH2XUSD

Rising influence vs 2024-02-19

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
XRDUSD 0.008780.00340 +0.00538
NANOUSD 0.007880.00275 +0.00513
TIMEUSD 0.008660.00431 +0.00435
EULUSD 0.007130.00351 +0.00362
ASMUSD 0.005590.00201 +0.00358

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
ASTUSD 0.004330.01056 -0.00624
ZILUSD 0.006140.01134 -0.00521
BTRSTUSD 0.002540.00758 -0.00504
MDTUSD 0.002500.00703 -0.00453
ROOKUSD 0.004850.00924 -0.00439

Foreign exchange

JODILS was the most central name, carrying 7.22× the influence of an average node across 711 pairs.

pairs
711
Density
0.014
Clustering
0.334
Diameter

Most central

Ranked by PageRank within the session's directed network. “vs average” shows influence relative to a node with no advantage — 1.00× would mean perfectly ordinary.

Symbol#PageRank vs averageReceives fromSends toStrongest outgoing
JODILS 1 0.01016 7.22× 3.4% 1.4% MADAUD, CADTRY, INRSEK, SGDTRY, THBNZD
AEDNZD 2 0.00968 6.88× 4.5% 0.8% SGDTRY, TRYSGD, CADTRY, AUDMAD, MADAUD
USDNZD 3 0.00872 6.20× 2.8% 0.8% NOKILS, ZARRON, RONZAR, NOKUSD, MXNZAR
XAUMXN 4 0.00819 5.82× 4.9% 2.4% AUDHUF, AUDCZK, GBPCZK, NZDCZK, XAURUB
XAURUB 5 0.00627 4.45× 5.4% 2.5% RUBGBP, RUBJPY, AUDHUF, TRYJPY, JPYRUB
CADTRY 6 0.00593 4.22× 1.0% 0.4% JODILS, HUFZAR, ZARSGD
THBNZD 7 0.00557 3.96× 1.4% 0.1% AEDNZD
USDTZS 8 0.00485 3.45× 4.2% 1.4% MWKGBP, MWKUSD, GBPMWK, MWKZAR, ZARTHB
JPYZAR 9 0.00463 3.29× 1.3% 0.7% KRWTHB, CNYKRW, CHFBRL, ARSUSD, ZMWUSD
MDLUSD 10 0.00458 3.26× 1.7% 1.3% USDSEK, JPYUSD, CLPAUD, AUDCLP, USDNOK

Rising influence vs 2024-02-19

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
USDNZD 0.008720.00116 +0.00756
JODILS 0.010160.00511 +0.00505
CADTRY 0.005930.00090 +0.00503
XAURUB 0.006270.00201 +0.00426
XAUJPY 0.004500.00049 +0.00401

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
KESUSD 0.000400.00603 -0.00564
ZARNGN 0.002660.00634 -0.00368
EURRUB 0.002770.00607 -0.00330
SGDNOK 0.000500.00369 -0.00319
ARSUSD 0.001350.00441 -0.00305

How these numbers are produced

Transfer entropy measures how much knowing one asset's past reduces uncertainty about another's future, beyond what that asset's own past already explains. Unlike correlation it is directional, so an edge from A to B means A's moves carry information about B's next move — not merely that they move together.

Each night we estimate transfer entropy across three universes — roughly 1,500 US common stocks, 350 cryptocurrencies and 550 currency pairs — over a trailing one-year window, conditioning on a broad market series so that shared market-wide movement is discounted rather than counted as a link. Edges surviving the significance filter form that session's directed network, from which the centrality figures on this page are computed. Coverage differs by class: crypto reaches back to January 2024, equities to August 2025, so older digests may cover fewer classes.

PageRank ranks an asset by how much influence flows into it from other influential assets. In-degree and out-degree are the share of the network sending information to it and receiving information from it. Betweenness captures how often an asset sits on the shortest path between two others.

The volatility watch score is a model estimate of the probability that an asset sees elevated volatility in the coming sessions. It is a research output, not a forecast of price direction, and nothing on this page is investment advice.