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Daily network digest

Monday, August 18, 2025

Directed information-flow networks for this session, covering US equities, 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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US equities

CME was the most central name, carrying 3.20× the influence of an average node across 1493 stocks.

stocks
1493
Density
0.173
Clustering
0.433
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
CME 1 0.00214 3.20× 32.9% 19.5% CMS, POR, ECL, TMUS, RBA
EXPD 2 0.00190 2.83× 28.6% 14.2% L, PECO, ENB, CL, FTDR
CB 3 0.00185 2.77× 28.5% 18.8% GIL, LIN, MSI, SYY, SPG
PBA 4 0.00182 2.71× 23.3% 13.7% ITW, AEE, BSX, WEC, NEU
SPG 5 0.00177 2.65× 23.9% 13.1% CB, WTM, TGNA, IDA, RGA
RPRX 6 0.00169 2.53× 39.1% 19.2% RY, WTW, RSG, SSNC, BK
PAGP 7 0.00160 2.38× 25.0% 18.4% CUBE, SO, JNJ, INGR, MSFT
HIG 8 0.00157 2.34× 22.6% 15.7% SPG, CSCO, GIB, SKT, WEC
CUZ 9 0.00156 2.33× 34.2% 17.5% GIB, L, EXPD, DCI, MA
AEE 10 0.00155 2.32× 23.5% 17.2% DGX, BMRN, MO, HTGC, OTIS

Cryptocurrency

XAUTUSD was the most central name, carrying 4.64× the influence of an average node across 219 assets.

assets
219
Density
0.084
Clustering
0.281
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
XAUTUSD 1 0.02118 4.64× 38.5% 24.8% C98USD, QIUSD, AUCTIONUSD, XDCUSD, YGGUSD
PAXGUSD 2 0.01713 3.75× 32.6% 23.4% NEARUSD, QIUSD, C98USD, TRUUSD, DYDXEUR
LTCBTC 3 0.01684 3.69× 27.5% 16.1% ORCAUSD, XRPBTC, TUSD, MIRUSD, ETHBTC
JTOUSD 4 0.01657 3.63× 24.3% 16.1% BTRSTUSD, 1INCHUSD, INJUSD, XRPUSD, PNKUSD
XRPUSD 5 0.01615 3.54× 26.1% 10.6% AAVEUSD, KRLUSD, LTCBTC, LITUSD, ALPHAUSD
TRXUSD 6 0.01608 3.52× 27.5% 13.3% CVCUSD, APEUSD, FORTHUSD, METISUSD, LQTYUSD
PNKUSD 7 0.01602 3.51× 29.4% 12.4% MSOLUSD, XRPBTC, LQTYUSD, CLVUSD, RENUSD
MKRUSD 8 0.01600 3.50× 30.3% 12.8% MLNUSD, BADGERUSD, BTTUSD, XLMUSD, FISUSD
XRPBTC 9 0.01540 3.37× 28.0% 9.2% FARMUSD, OXYUSD, JUPUSD, AAVEUSD, BTTUSD
USTUSD 10 0.01386 3.04× 28.0% 15.1% ASTUSD, JUPUSD, FARMUSD, OXTUSD, TVKUSD

Rising influence vs 2025-08-17

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
JTOUSD 0.016570.00237 +0.01420
MKRUSD 0.016000.00317 +0.01283
XRPUSD 0.016150.00465 +0.01150
XAUTUSD 0.021180.01290 +0.00828
LTCBTC 0.016840.00891 +0.00792

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
PNKUSD 0.016020.05195 -0.03592
KRLUSD 0.013610.02279 -0.00918
SRMUSD 0.006800.01529 -0.00848
KAVAUSD 0.010380.01840 -0.00802
KEEPUSD 0.001870.00957 -0.00770

Foreign exchange

GBPXPF was the most central name, carrying 11.52× the influence of an average node across 893 pairs.

pairs
893
Density
0.068
Clustering
0.369
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
GBPXPF 1 0.01290 11.52× 6.3% 8.7% NZDTRY, XAGZAR, KRWBRL, TWDCAD, NZDKRW
SEKILS 2 0.01193 10.66× 9.8% 5.8% ARSEUR, BRLARS, GBPBRL, KRWBRL, CADRUB
BRLEUR 3 0.01025 9.16× 2.6% 1.5% GBPDOP, DOPGBP, EURLRD, RUBCAD, BWPEUR
ARSEUR 4 0.00860 7.68× 34.1% 2.7% GBPXPF, SEKILS, KRWTWD, XAUBRL, XAURUB
TWDSEK 5 0.00826 7.38× 17.4% 9.5% XAGEUR, BRLKRW, SGDJPY, KRWBRL, MXNJPY
MXNARS 6 0.00614 5.49× 32.5% 4.0% SEKILS, XAUARS, GBPXPF, XAUINR, ARSCHF
PENMXN 7 0.00611 5.45× 26.0% 0.3% GBPXPF, SEKILS, TWDSEK
MYRZAR 8 0.00610 5.45× 25.9% 0.3% GBPXPF, SEKILS, TWDSEK
ARSSGD 9 0.00610 5.45× 28.8% 3.8% ARSCHF, SEKILS, CHFARS, GBPXPF, JPYARS
GBPMUR 10 0.00608 5.43× 25.9% 0.3% GBPXPF, SEKILS, TWDSEK

Rising influence vs 2025-08-15

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
GBPXPF 0.012900.00037 +0.01253
SEKILS 0.011930.00226 +0.00967
TWDSEK 0.008260.00136 +0.00690
BRLEUR 0.010250.00415 +0.00611
GBPMUR 0.006080.00034 +0.00574

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
AUDBRL 0.002100.00829 -0.00619
XAUBRL 0.002660.00816 -0.00550
AEDCHF 0.000320.00499 -0.00467
CHFINR 0.000320.00497 -0.00465
XAUAUD 0.001310.00548 -0.00417

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.