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Daily network digest

Monday, April 8, 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 3.36× the influence of an average node across 332 assets.

assets
332
Density
0.182
Clustering
0.400
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 0.01013 3.36× 50.8% 26.0% RNDRUSD, REPUSD, BNTUSD, ELAUSD, ANKRUSD
XRDUSD 2 0.00894 2.97× 46.8% 18.7% APTUSD, DEXTUSD, ENJUSD, RARIEUR, EWTUSD
TIMEUSD 3 0.00868 2.88× 44.1% 16.9% AIRUSD, DOTUSD, NKNUSD, SCRTUSD, VETUSD
ABTUSD 4 0.00868 2.88× 44.4% 26.0% PLUUSD, DEXTUSD, MATHUSD, MATICUSD, RPLUSD
DVFUSD 5 0.00833 2.76× 44.4% 26.3% NYMUSD, ETHUSD, CBETHUSD, GNOUSD, ZECUSD
PAXGUSD 6 0.00804 2.67× 49.8% 22.1% HBARUSD, ETCUSD, COMPUSD, KSMUSD, YFIUSD
MVUSD 7 0.00764 2.54× 39.3% 22.7% LCXUSD, DUSKUSD, API3USD, KNCUSD, KEYUSD
REPUSD 8 0.00745 2.47× 39.6% 27.5% DESOUSD, CRVUSD, POWRUSD, RNDRUSD, LCXUSD
SHPINGUSD 9 0.00723 2.40× 40.8% 17.5% XRPAUD, MASKUSD, TRUUSD, TRXUSD, LTCBTC
AVTUSD 10 0.00713 2.37× 39.0% 21.1% GSTUSD, ENJUSD, GNOUSD, PLUUSD, RADUSD

Rising influence vs 2024-04-07

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
NANOUSD 0.007020.00211 +0.00491
TIMEUSD 0.008680.00403 +0.00465
MUSEUSD 0.006900.00255 +0.00436
XRDUSD 0.008940.00461 +0.00434
AMPUSD 0.006560.00242 +0.00415

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
AERGOUSD 0.001570.00883 -0.00726
POWRUSD 0.001740.00664 -0.00491
CQTUSD 0.001470.00618 -0.00471
CVCUSD 0.002620.00651 -0.00390
ASTUSD 0.003070.00686 -0.00378

Foreign exchange

COPMXN was the most central name, carrying 8.37× the influence of an average node across 652 pairs.

pairs
652
Density
0.013
Clustering
0.360
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
COPMXN 1 0.01284 8.37× 2.3% 1.1% EURTWD, ILSSEK, SGDNOK, PENGBP, JPYCZK
EURCOP 2 0.00846 5.52× 2.2% 1.4% EURHTG, RUBJPY, RUBGBP, JPYRUB, PENEUR
DKKRUB 3 0.00800 5.22× 2.6% 1.4% GBPHUF, NZDHUF, NZDPLN, NZDIDR, MXNPLN
MXNPLN 4 0.00733 4.78× 2.6% 0.9% ZARIDR, AUDTRY, TRYJPY, DKKRUB, NZDTRY
BRLRSD 5 0.00657 4.28× 8.0% 2.5% ZARGHS, GHSZAR, AUDZAR, BRLHKD, GBPGHS
RUBEUR 6 0.00620 4.04× 7.2% 4.0% MWKUSD, MWKGBP, GBPMWK, USDPKR, EURRUB
EUROMR 7 0.00618 4.03× 1.7% 1.5% USDZAR, ARSCLP, GBPKRW, OMRZAR, INRKRW
ZARILS 8 0.00575 3.75× 2.3% 0.9% ZARPLN, ZARIDR, ZARGBP, SEKNOK, MYRNZD
USDALL 9 0.00546 3.56× 6.6% 8.0% LKRGBP, NZDAED, NZDZAR, AUDZAR, NZDCNY
XAGCAD 10 0.00534 3.48× 4.8% 1.7% XAUKRW, XAUUSD, XAUSAR, XAUMXN, JPYCLP

Rising influence vs 2024-04-05

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
EURCOP 0.008460.00027 +0.00819
COPMXN 0.012840.00521 +0.00762
BRLRSD 0.006570.00050 +0.00608
ZARILS 0.005750.00027 +0.00548
USDKRW 0.005060.00073 +0.00434

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
ZAREUR 0.000410.00649 -0.00608
USDSEK 0.001080.00702 -0.00594
TRYPLN 0.000390.00592 -0.00553
CLPAUD 0.001470.00691 -0.00543
XAGJPY 0.000750.00579 -0.00504

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.