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Daily network digest

Friday, April 5, 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

LTCBTC was the most central name, carrying 3.57× the influence of an average node across 331 assets.

assets
331
Density
0.185
Clustering
0.401
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
LTCBTC 1 0.01079 3.57× 55.5% 30.3% RNDRUSD, REPUSD, BNTUSD, ANKRUSD, ELAUSD
XRDUSD 2 0.00928 3.07× 49.7% 22.4% APTUSD, ENJUSD, RARIEUR, EWTUSD, DEXTUSD
TIMEUSD 3 0.00855 2.83× 43.3% 20.9% DOTUSD, AIRUSD, XCNUSD, IOTXUSD, STGUSD
ABTUSD 4 0.00851 2.82× 45.2% 22.7% PLUUSD, MATHUSD, DEXTUSD, BTRSTUSD, RPLUSD
DVFUSD 5 0.00843 2.79× 47.9% 27.0% NYMUSD, ETHUSD, CBETHUSD, MANAUSD, BATUSD
PAXGUSD 6 0.00800 2.65× 51.2% 12.7% PYRUSD, IMXUSD, KRLUSD, PROUSD, PUNDIXUSD
MVUSD 7 0.00730 2.42× 43.0% 23.9% LCXUSD, DUSKUSD, DENTUSD, KEYUSD, OXTUSD
REPUSD 8 0.00705 2.33× 37.3% 29.1% DESOUSD, POLSUSD, CRVUSD, GALUSD, RNDRUSD
DESOUSD 9 0.00686 2.27× 41.5% 30.6% XRTUSD, GLMUSD, SHPINGUSD, DVFUSD, AXSUSD
AVTUSD 10 0.00679 2.25× 37.9% 18.5% GSTUSD, PLUUSD, ENJUSD, RADUSD, CVXUSD

Rising influence vs 2024-04-04

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
XRDUSD 0.009280.00450 +0.00478
NANOUSD 0.006500.00201 +0.00448
TIMEUSD 0.008550.00410 +0.00445
PAXGUSD 0.008000.00373 +0.00427
MUSEUSD 0.006640.00242 +0.00423

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
AERGOUSD 0.001660.00924 -0.00758
ROOKUSD 0.005110.01190 -0.00678
POWRUSD 0.001920.00649 -0.00457
CQTUSD 0.001870.00634 -0.00447
CVCUSD 0.002640.00675 -0.00410

Foreign exchange

EURKWD was the most central name, carrying 5.12× the influence of an average node across 699 pairs.

pairs
699
Density
0.013
Clustering
0.340
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
EURKWD 1 0.00732 5.12× 2.6% 3.7% KWDEUR, BHDEUR, NZDZAR, NGNUSD, AEDEUR
USDSEK 2 0.00702 4.91× 1.4% 1.3% ZAREUR, AUDKRW, ZARINR, MXNJPY, ZARKRW
NZDNOK 3 0.00699 4.89× 2.7% 1.6% ZARTWD, NZDTWD, ZARMYR, NOKSEK, MXNPLN
CLPAUD 4 0.00691 4.83× 3.4% 0.3% ZAREUR, USDSEK
ZAREUR 5 0.00649 4.53× 1.6% 1.4% ZARKRW, ZARNOK, ZARAED, ZAREGP, ILSZAR
PLNMXN 6 0.00630 4.40× 5.7% 0.4% TRYPLN, ILSCAD, AUDTRY
AUDCLP 7 0.00610 4.26× 4.0% 0.3% USDSEK, LKRZAR
EURCDF 8 0.00606 4.24× 0.7% 0.3% EURHTG, RUBJPY
ZARPLN 9 0.00597 4.17× 5.0% 1.7% XAGEUR, XAGJPY, XAGCNY, XAGSAR, XAGGBP
TRYPLN 10 0.00592 4.14× 1.7% 2.0% ZARPLN, ZARNZD, JPYDKK, DKKJPY, CZKNOK

Rising influence vs 2024-04-04

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
NZDNOK 0.006990.00028 +0.00671
EURKWD 0.007320.00163 +0.00569
EURCDF 0.006060.00066 +0.00541
CLPAUD 0.006910.00224 +0.00467
USDSEK 0.007020.00243 +0.00459

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
NOKJPY 0.001080.00675 -0.00567
ZARNGN 0.001220.00687 -0.00565
USDNOK 0.001160.00582 -0.00466
KWDGBP 0.001830.00645 -0.00461
ZARSEK 0.000580.00425 -0.00366

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.