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Daily network digest

Friday, November 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

BTRSTUSD was the most central name, carrying 6.52× the influence of an average node across 213 assets.

assets
213
Density
0.107
Clustering
0.321
Diameter
3

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
BTRSTUSD 1 0.03061 6.52× 46.2% 26.9% AXSUSD, KRLUSD, STORJUSD, GALAUSD, FETUSD
HNTUSD 2 0.02090 4.45× 50.0% 24.1% KRLUSD, 1INCHUSD, SANDUSD, DYDXUSD, OMGUSD
LTCBTC 3 0.01699 3.62× 34.9% 16.0% VTHOUSD, TVKUSD, HBARUSD, PAXGUSD, MASKUSD
XAUTUSD 4 0.01566 3.34× 35.4% 5.7% KRLUSD, NKNUSD, MKRUSD, GHSTUSD, FXUSD
XRPBTC 5 0.01548 3.30× 33.5% 21.7% XDCUSD, GHSTUSD, LINKUSD, TVKUSD, XLMUSD
PAXGUSD 6 0.01512 3.22× 30.7% 5.2% NKNUSD, SGBUSD, OXTUSD, BTRSTUSD, KRLUSD
KRLUSD 7 0.01461 3.11× 25.0% 12.3% BTRSTUSD, HIGHUSD, PAXUSD, RLYUSD, DARUSD
ETHBTC 8 0.01355 2.89× 37.3% 21.2% XDCUSD, DASHUSD, DSHUSD, TVKUSD, ZECUSD
REPUSD 9 0.01321 2.81× 28.8% 14.6% HBARUSD, ICPUSD, SGBUSD, AUCTIONUSD, SOLUSD
ORCAUSD 10 0.01314 2.80× 34.0% 10.8% EGLDUSD, AUCTIONUSD, SWFTCUSD, FORTHUSD, XDCUSD

Rising influence vs 2024-11-07

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
BTRSTUSD 0.030610.00960 +0.02101
HNTUSD 0.020900.00710 +0.01380
ORCAUSD 0.013140.00348 +0.00966
FXUSD 0.010800.00355 +0.00725
HIGHUSD 0.009260.00296 +0.00631

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
XRPBTC 0.015480.02903 -0.01356
REPUSD 0.013210.02444 -0.01123
KRLUSD 0.014610.02338 -0.00877
TRACUSD 0.004560.01270 -0.00814
PAXGUSD 0.015120.02272 -0.00761

Foreign exchange

USDALL was the most central name, carrying 7.46× the influence of an average node across 616 pairs.

pairs
616
Density
0.030
Clustering
0.325
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
USDALL 1 0.01211 7.46× 6.0% 4.6% MXNJPY, JPYMXN, CHFINR, USDBIF, USDKRW
SCRUSD 2 0.01179 7.26× 15.9% 5.2% XAGBRL, XAGCNY, XAGCAD, USDCNH, XAGINR
PKRJPY 3 0.01156 7.12× 2.0% 0.2% JPYPKR
JPYPKR 4 0.01046 6.45× 1.5% 0.3% BHDPKR, PKRJPY
RUBPLN 5 0.00986 6.08× 11.7% 4.9% PLNILS, GBPOMR, JPYGBP, XAGCNY, JODILS
COPUSD 6 0.00833 5.13× 10.4% 4.1% XAUZAR, NGNUSD, ZARPLN, ZARCZK, USDALL
XAUZAR 7 0.00749 4.62× 11.9% 9.3% XAGCNY, XAGGBP, XAGJPY, XAGEUR, XAGCAD
BHDPKR 8 0.00729 4.49× 2.3% 0.2% PKRJPY
EURRUB 9 0.00727 4.48× 13.3% 8.3% ARSJPY, SGDJPY, JPYMYR, CLPAUD, ARSMXN
PENCOP 10 0.00726 4.47× 1.1% 0.7% MXNPEN, XAGARS, XAUARS, PENBRL

Rising influence vs 2024-11-07

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
PKRJPY 0.011560.00083 +0.01073
USDALL 0.012110.00150 +0.01061
JPYPKR 0.010460.00078 +0.00969
SCRUSD 0.011790.00325 +0.00854
BHDPKR 0.007290.00126 +0.00604

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
IDRZAR 0.003280.01604 -0.01276
COPMXN 0.001660.01401 -0.01235
CHFJPY 0.002110.01208 -0.00997
USDTHB 0.000530.00604 -0.00551
RUBNOK 0.002160.00745 -0.00529

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.