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Daily network digest

Friday, August 22, 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

CTAS was the most central name, carrying 2.93× the influence of an average node across 1493 stocks.

stocks
1493
Density
0.168
Clustering
0.416
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
CTAS 1 0.00196 2.93× 30.0% 13.5% BNS, KO, BNL, ARCC, CP
FSV 2 0.00194 2.89× 27.9% 13.3% L, HTGC, PECO, RGA, CPT
WCN 3 0.00174 2.60× 27.4% 14.7% CSCO, AGNC, PNC, CPT, ITW
FRT 4 0.00173 2.58× 24.2% 8.6% MCD, USFD, TDY, VRRM, APTV
TRP 5 0.00166 2.48× 26.1% 19.5% ECL, WTM, OGE, BRX, RBA
VRSK 6 0.00166 2.47× 27.5% 17.4% FRT, AMCR, INVH, CPT, CPK
CASY 7 0.00164 2.46× 31.4% 15.6% EXC, MAA, T, ATR, FHI
CWST 8 0.00164 2.45× 30.8% 13.3% MAIN, VRSK, RYN, GBDC, MMSI
PECO 9 0.00163 2.44× 26.9% 11.9% TMO, RY, EHC, GMED, NI
COR 10 0.00160 2.39× 27.3% 18.6% IDA, L, AER, SPG, FSV

Rising influence vs 2025-08-21

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
EHC 0.001600.00010 +0.00149
ULTA 0.001540.00010 +0.00144
STLA 0.001430.00010 +0.00133
MSM 0.001320.00010 +0.00122
HASI 0.001320.00010 +0.00122

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
LAUR 0.000100.00140 -0.00130
THO 0.000100.00135 -0.00125
TOST 0.000100.00132 -0.00122
PCVX 0.000100.00131 -0.00121
ROIV 0.000100.00130 -0.00120

Cryptocurrency

TRXUSD was the most central name, carrying 7.10× the influence of an average node across 219 assets.

assets
219
Density
0.095
Clustering
0.336
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
TRXUSD 1 0.03242 7.10× 51.4% 9.6% FOXUSD, ETHBTC, AIOZUSD, LSKUSD, SRMUSD
LTCBTC 2 0.03202 7.01× 52.8% 18.3% AERGOUSD, TRXUSD, TUSD, XMRUSD, USTUSD
KEEPUSD 3 0.02249 4.93× 42.2% 9.6% TRXUSD, BALUSD, YFIUSD, PNKUSD, JUPUSD
LCXUSD 4 0.01966 4.31× 36.7% 17.0% HNTUSD, BONDUSD, SRMUSD, REPUSD, SHIBUSD
XMRUSD 5 0.01643 3.60× 25.7% 23.9% STXUSD, RUNEUSD, LSKUSD, BTCJPY, PUNDIXUSD
BTCEUR 6 0.01574 3.45× 34.9% 13.8% LTCBTC, YFIUSD, TRXUSD, RARIUSD, NANOUSD
KRLUSD 7 0.01507 3.30× 39.9% 8.7% ETHAUD, TRXUSD, NEXOUSD, USTUSD, SOLUSD
BTCJPY 8 0.01459 3.20× 33.5% 16.5% REPUSD, TRACUSD, DIAUSD, TRXUSD, MLNUSD
ETHBTC 9 0.01377 3.01× 28.9% 16.1% TRXUSD, ASTUSD, OMGUSD, OXTUSD, MIRUSD
BTCAUD 10 0.01336 2.93× 33.5% 6.4% LTCBTC, DIAUSD, CVXUSD, TRACUSD, YGGUSD

Rising influence vs 2025-08-21

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
KEEPUSD 0.022490.00222 +0.02027
LTCBTC 0.032020.01544 +0.01657
TRXUSD 0.032420.01618 +0.01624
BTCEUR 0.015740.00436 +0.01137
LCXUSD 0.019660.00856 +0.01110

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
XAUTUSD 0.006910.02179 -0.01488
PNKUSD 0.007640.01882 -0.01118
PAXGUSD 0.006770.01777 -0.01101
XRPUSD 0.003020.01287 -0.00985
MKRUSD 0.007980.01690 -0.00892

Foreign exchange

AUDBRL was the most central name, carrying 6.73× the influence of an average node across 854 pairs.

pairs
854
Density
0.064
Clustering
0.389
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
AUDBRL 1 0.00788 6.73× 37.6% 7.0% BRLKRW, XAUBRL, USDRUB, GBPHTG, AEDGBP
XAUBRL 2 0.00779 6.65× 28.3% 7.0% XAURUB, SEKZAR, IDRTHB, HKDARS, ARSGBP
BRLJPY 3 0.00690 5.89× 18.8% 5.9% XAUJPY, COPBRL, CHFTHB, BRLKRW, AUDBRL
COPBRL 4 0.00586 5.01× 32.9% 15.9% NZDSEK, BRLKRW, HKDEUR, USDMKD, USDEUR
BRLCHF 5 0.00586 5.00× 15.8% 9.3% XAUJPY, BRLKRW, PENCAD, COPBRL, XAUBRL
CHFBRL 6 0.00574 4.90× 15.8% 9.0% XAUJPY, BRLKRW, COPBRL, PENCAD, CHFINR
USDCLP 7 0.00573 4.89× 35.2% 7.9% HKDCHF, CLPCHF, CHFHKD, CHFUSD, HKDTHB
KRWBRL 8 0.00567 4.84× 22.9% 8.7% BRLKRW, PHPUSD, EURSEK, GBPCLP, ARSEUR
JPYBRL 9 0.00563 4.81× 19.5% 5.9% XAUJPY, COPBRL, CHFTHB, PENCAD, AUDBRL
BRLKRW 10 0.00554 4.74× 18.4% 10.4% ARSMXN, QARZAR, XAGRUB, TRYPLN, JPYARS

Rising influence vs 2025-08-21

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
AUDBRL 0.007880.00210 +0.00578
XAUBRL 0.007790.00276 +0.00503
AEDCHF 0.004580.00030 +0.00428
CHFINR 0.004540.00031 +0.00423
BRLJPY 0.006900.00326 +0.00364

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
GBPXPF 0.000350.01295 -0.01260
SEKILS 0.002420.01227 -0.00985
TWDSEK 0.001370.00832 -0.00696
GBPMUR 0.000310.00618 -0.00587
MYRZAR 0.000440.00618 -0.00573

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.