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Daily network digest

Tuesday, April 23, 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 4.21× the influence of an average node across 332 assets.

assets
332
Density
0.167
Clustering
0.374
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 0.01268 4.21× 57.4% 23.6% RNDRUSD, BNTUSD, ELAUSD, REPUSD, LOKAUSD
AVTUSD 2 0.01025 3.40× 47.1% 12.1% ENJUSD, GSTUSD, LSETHUSD, EULUSD, RADUSD
DIMOUSD 3 0.01021 3.39× 55.6% 10.6% DEXTUSD, QNTUSD, DYDXEUR, BICOUSD, RARIEUR
PAXGUSD 4 0.00981 3.26× 55.3% 14.2% PYRUSD, KSMUSD, NEOUSD, HBARUSD, YFIUSD
SHPINGUSD 5 0.00847 2.81× 41.4% 16.6% XRPAUD, TRXUSD, LTCBTC, ETH2XUSD, RPLUSD
DEXTUSD 6 0.00833 2.77× 31.7% 27.8% ENJUSD, MASKUSD, DOTUSD, RADUSD, ARPAUSD
MVUSD 7 0.00833 2.76× 39.9% 20.5% DUSKUSD, LCXUSD, BICOUSD, HMTUSD, KNCUSD
TIMEUSD 8 0.00796 2.64× 39.6% 19.0% DOTUSD, STGUSD, NKNUSD, XCNUSD, AURORAUSD
ASMUSD 9 0.00783 2.60× 45.3% 28.7% MASKUSD, BCHUSD, ROOKUSD, COVALUSD, BCHNUSD
DESOUSD 10 0.00781 2.59× 43.5% 24.2% GLMUSD, ETH2XUSD, VOXELUSD, BOBAUSD, CVCUSD

Rising influence vs 2024-04-22

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
DIMOUSD 0.010210.00343 +0.00678
AVTUSD 0.010250.00455 +0.00570
KILTUSD 0.007560.00206 +0.00550
DEXTUSD 0.008330.00316 +0.00518
ASMUSD 0.007830.00313 +0.00470

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
AERGOUSD 0.001540.00762 -0.00607
NEXOUSD 0.003460.00753 -0.00407
ROOKUSD 0.005350.00891 -0.00356
CQTUSD 0.001430.00492 -0.00349
BTCGBP 0.002110.00560 -0.00348

Foreign exchange

SEKRUB was the most central name, carrying 6.20× the influence of an average node across 699 pairs.

pairs
699
Density
0.013
Clustering
0.329
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
SEKRUB 1 0.00887 6.20× 6.3% 4.9% TRYPLN, NZDTRY, HKDNZD, ILSCAD, TWDNZD
SEKILS 2 0.00655 4.58× 4.2% 2.1% EUROMR, MXNZAR, DKKNZD, NZDDKK, USDSEK
USDPKR 3 0.00612 4.28× 4.3% 4.2% USDSZL, USDMAD, JPYCNY, USDGHS, MDLGBP
PKRJPY 4 0.00600 4.19× 1.1% 0.3% OMRPKR, EGPPKR
TRYPLN 5 0.00588 4.11× 2.1% 2.1% ZARIDR, ZARPLN, DKKJPY, ZARNZD, JPYDKK
GBPNGN 6 0.00569 3.98× 3.4% 0.9% SEKUSD, AUDUSD, ZMWZAR, SEKINR, NOKINR
BRLAUD 7 0.00563 3.94× 1.3% 0.0%
PLNMXN 8 0.00561 3.92× 5.6% 0.7% TRYPLN, ILSCAD, AUDTRY, XAGBRL, TRYJPY
ARSPEN 9 0.00532 3.72× 1.4% 1.0% PLNJPY, SGDPLN, JPYPLN, THBEUR, QARZAR
ZARIDR 10 0.00531 3.71× 4.0% 4.3% XAGCNY, XAGJPY, XAURUB, DKKJPY, HKDMYR

Rising influence vs 2024-04-22

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
SEKILS 0.006550.00029 +0.00626
PKRJPY 0.006000.00064 +0.00536
SEKRUB 0.008870.00357 +0.00530
TRYPLN 0.005880.00081 +0.00507
BRLAUD 0.005630.00154 +0.00409

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
PLNILS 0.000960.00698 -0.00602
MDLUSD 0.002070.00753 -0.00546
ZARNGN 0.001160.00610 -0.00495
ARSSGD 0.000580.00522 -0.00464
JPYCLP 0.000280.00484 -0.00456

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.