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Daily network digest

Wednesday, September 4, 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

REPUSD was the most central name, carrying 4.82× the influence of an average node across 335 assets.

assets
335
Density
0.157
Clustering
0.367
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
REPUSD 1 0.01439 4.82× 53.9% 22.2% RBCUSD, WAXLUSD, ASMUSD, SEIEUR, BICOUSD
KRLUSD 2 0.01314 4.40× 51.2% 12.0% EWTUSD, HIGHUSD, RADUSD, SHPINGUSD, TRXUSD
XDCUSD 3 0.01129 3.78× 49.4% 15.6% GNOUSD, BNTUSD, ZECUSD, IMXUSD, STORJUSD
BLZUSD 4 0.00887 2.97× 44.0% 24.9% DIMOUSD, PUNDIXUSD, RLCUSD, ROSEUSD, QNTUSD
TRBUSD 5 0.00885 2.96× 50.3% 11.4% PHAUSD, AMPUSD, BTRSTUSD, BONDUSD, TEERUSD
SHPINGUSD 6 0.00869 2.91× 40.4% 21.3% NYMUSD, DOTUSD, EWTUSD, MUSEUSD, SOLUSD
TSDUSD 7 0.00852 2.85× 47.0% 38.0% POLISUSD, SDNUSD, CGLDUSD, ARBUSD, AUDIOUSD
PNKUSD 8 0.00836 2.80× 40.4% 41.0% ENSUSD, XCNUSD, PERPUSD, MASKUSD, SCRTUSD
MULTIUSD 9 0.00829 2.78× 38.0% 24.3% BANDUSD, DOGEUSD, KP3RUSD, CLVUSD, TLOSUSD
DIMOUSD 10 0.00828 2.77× 40.7% 18.0% FXUSD, RENUSD, ENSUSD, TRUUSD, RLCUSD

Rising influence vs 2024-09-03

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
KRLUSD 0.013140.00419 +0.00895
XDCUSD 0.011290.00350 +0.00778
TSDUSD 0.008520.00203 +0.00650
REPUSD 0.014390.00864 +0.00575
TRBUSD 0.008850.00325 +0.00560

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
TEERUSD 0.002520.01128 -0.00876
DESOUSD 0.002760.01120 -0.00844
BTRSTUSD 0.005440.01239 -0.00696
NODLUSD 0.002650.00902 -0.00637
EULUSD 0.003180.00921 -0.00603

Foreign exchange

AUDSEK was the most central name, carrying 5.56× the influence of an average node across 650 pairs.

pairs
650
Density
0.020
Clustering
0.343
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
AUDSEK 1 0.00856 5.56× 4.3% 0.8% JPYNZD, ILSNOK, CNYAUD, ZARHUF, KRWSEK
DKKRUB 2 0.00763 4.96× 7.1% 4.9% BRLUSD, AUDUSD, PLNEUR, NZDPLN, PLNCHF
ARSCOP 3 0.00758 4.93× 7.4% 7.4% DKKRUB, USDKRW, MXNJPY, JPYMXN, NOKJPY
COPUSD 4 0.00695 4.52× 8.9% 3.4% XAGZAR, DKKRUB, XAGJPY, ZARIDR, GBPBRL
RUBEUR 5 0.00673 4.37× 4.8% 3.9% SGDBRL, BRLSGD, USDBIF, GBPRWF, KRWTHB
PLNILS 6 0.00629 4.09× 2.9% 4.0% USDMAD, BRLSEK, ARSJPY, GBPBDT, MXNBRL
USDPGK 7 0.00554 3.60× 6.0% 3.2% GBPBWP, USDLBP, BWPGBP, LBPUSD, HKDBRL
GBPZMW 8 0.00554 3.60× 4.0% 1.5% MXNBRL, USDPGK, USDGHS, USDSCR, EURMUR
CHFSZL 9 0.00520 3.38× 4.6% 1.1% CHFBRL, PENBRL, EURBRL, ZARMXN, USDMXN
ZARTRY 10 0.00518 3.37× 8.5% 8.0% BRLCLP, ARSEUR, XAUMXN, PLNMXN, SGDJPY

Rising influence vs 2024-09-03

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
AUDSEK 0.008560.00060 +0.00796
ARSCOP 0.007580.00216 +0.00542
THBPKR 0.005030.00030 +0.00473
USDPGK 0.005540.00133 +0.00422
ZARTND 0.004760.00056 +0.00420

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
ZARTRY 0.005180.01514 -0.00996
NZDHUF 0.001290.00988 -0.00859
SEKZAR 0.001000.00722 -0.00622
CHFPKR 0.002390.00838 -0.00599
EURCLP 0.000270.00495 -0.00467

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.