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Daily network digest

Thursday, January 15, 2026

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

SCHW was the most central name, carrying 2.74× the influence of an average node across 1493 stocks.

stocks
1493
Density
0.175
Clustering
0.430
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
SCHW 1 0.00183 2.74× 31.8% 15.5% JKHY, AVB, CME, NDSN, VRSK
TD 2 0.00183 2.73× 25.9% 13.7% SPG, PEG, JKHY, ITW, MKL
EPRT 3 0.00183 2.73× 31.2% 16.8% PPL, ROL, HTGC, XYL, AEP
STE 4 0.00178 2.65× 30.3% 13.2% ALLE, AB, PEN, SYK, TFC
BNS 5 0.00176 2.63× 28.1% 14.1% PRI, PB, FRT, CWEN, NLY
RPRX 6 0.00176 2.62× 28.4% 18.3% LH, V, RBA, WPC, LBTYK
PECO 7 0.00171 2.55× 28.9% 14.7% WPC, BNS, CLH, IRT, TRP
ADC 8 0.00169 2.53× 21.5% 9.4% CNO, PTC, VICI, BSX, TRMB
TRV 9 0.00168 2.51× 32.8% 15.4% ROP, RSG, EPD, MLM, FR
FTS 10 0.00167 2.49× 24.3% 18.2% AMH, LECO, EQIX, SSNC, GLW

Rising influence vs 2026-01-14

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
FG 0.001410.00010 +0.00130
MMM 0.001340.00010 +0.00124
BTSG 0.001320.00010 +0.00122
RDN 0.001290.00010 +0.00119
LGND 0.001280.00010 +0.00118

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
ETN 0.000100.00143 -0.00133
BBU 0.000100.00139 -0.00129
IRTC 0.000100.00134 -0.00124
CNH 0.000100.00132 -0.00122
HST 0.000100.00131 -0.00121

Cryptocurrency

CQTUSD was the most central name, carrying 4.46× the influence of an average node across 378 assets.

assets
378
Density
0.122
Clustering
0.353
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
CQTUSD 1 0.01179 4.46× 48.3% 22.3% XRPUSD, DOTUSD, BTTUSD, RBCUSD, CSPRUSD
MVUSD 2 0.01162 4.39× 45.9% 36.3% AIRUSD, GNOUSD, SAFEUSD, GUSD, RBCUSD
KAVAUSD 3 0.01106 4.18× 47.2% 9.3% BLZUSD, REQUSD, AIRUSD, ADXUSD, PROUSD
REQUSD 4 0.00982 3.71× 42.4% 24.1% RBCUSD, QIUSD, DIMOUSD, KRLUSD, TOKENUSD
AIRUSD 5 0.00944 3.57× 44.0% 10.9% DIMOUSD, KAVAUSD, XMRUSD, 00USD, SEAMUSD
XAUTUSD 6 0.00941 3.56× 46.4% 36.9% AERGOUSD, MASKUSD, XDCUSD, PYRUSD, SEIEUR
DNTUSD 7 0.00887 3.35× 43.5% 8.2% OMGUSD, NEONUSD, NEXOUSD, ZECUSD, STRDUSD
MXCUSD 8 0.00876 3.31× 44.6% 33.7% ETHAUD, HBARUSD, NEOUSD, INDEXUSD, LMWRUSD
REPUSD 9 0.00866 3.27× 40.3% 16.4% MULTIUSD, NEXOUSD, XMRUSD, BTRSTUSD, RBCUSD
TRXUSD 10 0.00866 3.27× 38.2% 19.9% CQTUSD, INVUSD, STRKUSD, AUSDTUSD, NANOUSD

Rising influence vs 2026-01-14

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
CQTUSD 0.011790.00380 +0.00799
DNTUSD 0.008870.00227 +0.00660
MVUSD 0.011620.00560 +0.00602
MXCUSD 0.008760.00301 +0.00575
BSXUSD 0.007520.00219 +0.00534

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
SGBUSD 0.004810.01262 -0.00782
SBRUSD 0.005040.01223 -0.00719
KMNOUSD 0.004860.01094 -0.00607
FLRUSD 0.001950.00691 -0.00496
PNKUSD 0.005480.00963 -0.00415

Foreign exchange

GBPXPF was the most central name, carrying 12.67× the influence of an average node across 870 pairs.

pairs
870
Density
0.047
Clustering
0.358
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 0.01457 12.67× 4.7% 7.8% NZDTRY, TWDCHF, DKKTWD, USDTWD, KRWCHF
TWDSEK 2 0.01251 10.89× 6.0% 5.3% KRWBRL, GBPBRL, BRLJPY, JPYBRL, BRLUSD
BRLJPY 3 0.01066 9.27× 12.7% 7.0% USDRUB, BRLUSD, CADRUB, RUBUSD, RUBCAD
JPYBRL 4 0.01049 9.13× 12.9% 6.9% BRLUSD, USDRUB, CADRUB, RUBUSD, RUBCAD
CNYCAD 5 0.00775 6.75× 21.3% 1.0% TWDSEK, BRLSEK, GBPXPF, GBPBRL, KRWBRL
MYRZAR 6 0.00775 6.74× 21.3% 0.2% GBPXPF, TWDSEK
CNYSGD 7 0.00769 6.69× 21.1% 0.9% GBPXPF, TWDSEK, KRWBRL, GBPBRL, BRLSEK
PENMXN 8 0.00768 6.68× 21.4% 0.2% GBPXPF, TWDSEK
ARSMXN 9 0.00700 6.09× 23.7% 1.8% BRLJPY, JPYBRL, GBPXPF, TWDSEK, BRLCHF
MXNARS 10 0.00687 5.98× 24.5% 1.8% BRLJPY, JPYBRL, BRLCHF, TWDSEK, GBPXPF

Rising influence vs 2026-01-14

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
TWDSEK 0.012510.00081 +0.01170
BRLJPY 0.010660.00094 +0.00972
JPYBRL 0.010490.00094 +0.00956
MYRZAR 0.007750.00144 +0.00630
CNYCAD 0.007750.00155 +0.00620

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
GBPMUR 0.000580.00773 -0.00715
USDSOS 0.002100.00872 -0.00662
CNYINR 0.001190.00776 -0.00657
SEKILS 0.000680.00612 -0.00544
PLNILS 0.000600.00522 -0.00462

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.