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Daily network digest

Wednesday, November 6, 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

XDCUSD was the most central name, carrying 4.93× the influence of an average node across 214 assets.

assets
214
Density
0.120
Clustering
0.346
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
XDCUSD 1 0.02302 4.93× 51.2% 13.6% STORJUSD, DOTUSD, HNTUSD, TUSD, IMXUSD
REPUSD 2 0.02011 4.30× 37.1% 17.8% LPTUSD, HIGHUSD, ASMUSD, SRMUSD, IOTUSD
TSDUSD 3 0.01780 3.81× 48.8% 32.4% EGLDUSD, CGLDUSD, QTUMUSD, SCUSD, ETCUSD
XRPBTC 4 0.01682 3.60× 38.5% 16.4% VTHOUSD, RLYUSD, AVAXUSD, CROUSD, XDCUSD
MKRUSD 5 0.01534 3.28× 31.5% 11.3% GTCUSD, XRPBTC, TLOSUSD, APEUSD, NEOUSD
BTCJPY 6 0.01400 3.00× 31.5% 33.3% LTCAUD, LTCUSD, QNTUSD, NEXOUSD, OXYUSD
PAXGUSD 7 0.01262 2.70× 30.5% 11.7% LPTUSD, CVXUSD, MKRUSD, REPUSD, FXUSD
TRBUSD 8 0.01105 2.36× 30.0% 7.0% WAVESUSD, JASMYUSD, AMPUSD, FXUSD, DYDXUSD
TLOSUSD 9 0.01095 2.34× 22.1% 17.4% NEOUSD, BOBAUSD, QNTUSD, BTCJPY, AKTEUR
LTCBTC 10 0.01090 2.33× 25.4% 23.5% VTHOUSD, CROUSD, XDCUSD, ARPAUSD, JSTUSD

Rising influence vs 2024-11-05

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
XDCUSD 0.023020.00606 +0.01696
TSDUSD 0.017800.00470 +0.01310
MKRUSD 0.015340.00376 +0.01158
REPUSD 0.020110.01188 +0.00823
BTCJPY 0.014000.00602 +0.00798

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
BTRSTUSD 0.008690.03186 -0.02317
ORCAUSD 0.003840.01302 -0.00918
HNTUSD 0.010890.01970 -0.00881
LCXUSD 0.003020.00967 -0.00665
ZENUSD 0.002930.00926 -0.00633

Foreign exchange

IDRZAR was the most central name, carrying 6.15× the influence of an average node across 619 pairs.

pairs
619
Density
0.036
Clustering
0.316
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
IDRZAR 1 0.00993 6.15× 4.9% 0.5% KRWGBP, ILSZAR, TZSZAR
RUBEUR 2 0.00882 5.46× 12.8% 6.3% JPYMYR, BRLCAD, SGDBRL, ILSJOD, XAGTRY
BRLCLP 3 0.00806 4.99× 21.7% 5.0% NGNUSD, XAGMXN, GBPSCR, KRWMYR, XAGEUR
DKKRUB 4 0.00780 4.83× 15.5% 6.5% JPYMYR, ILSPLN, BRLCAD, USDNOK, SGDBRL
EURRUB 5 0.00717 4.44× 16.0% 9.7% JPYILS, JPYMYR, USDKRW, USDNOK, SEKNOK
USDMAD 6 0.00705 4.36× 8.7% 17.6% SEKILS, JODILS, ZARNGN, ILSCAD, UYUGBP
BRLCAD 7 0.00705 4.36× 12.1% 3.6% XAGJPY, ETBUSD, MYRKRW, KRWTHB, GBPNIO
AUDSEK 8 0.00601 3.72× 7.6% 2.6% JPYNZD, MURGBP, CNYAUD, USDMUR, USDKES
EURUZS 9 0.00594 3.68× 0.8% 0.3% JPYRUB, RUBJPY
CHFKRW 10 0.00593 3.67× 4.5% 0.6% MXNARS, ZARMXN, MXNZAR, USDMXN

Rising influence vs 2024-11-05

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
IDRZAR 0.009930.00323 +0.00669
BRLCAD 0.007050.00070 +0.00635
BRLCLP 0.008060.00255 +0.00551
AUDSEK 0.006010.00071 +0.00530
COPCLP 0.004650.00043 +0.00423

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
PENCOP 0.001220.00809 -0.00687
SCRUSD 0.002080.00894 -0.00686
USDALL 0.002390.00805 -0.00566
PKRJPY 0.000740.00536 -0.00461
ZARCOP 0.001870.00636 -0.00449

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.