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Daily network digest

Monday, January 19, 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

PBA was the most central name, carrying 3.16× the influence of an average node across 1494 stocks.

stocks
1494
Density
0.175
Clustering
0.417
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
PBA 1 0.00211 3.16× 26.8% 12.2% MCK, AGNC, O, L, ULS
CSX 2 0.00180 2.69× 23.4% 13.6% CL, IDA, V, CWEN, DIS
CME 3 0.00175 2.61× 28.7% 20.3% SPGI, ALLE, OTEX, OGE, AWK
EPD 4 0.00162 2.43× 23.7% 10.2% CSX, CSCO, COR, MKL, PBH
COST 5 0.00161 2.41× 30.1% 13.0% LECO, VLTO, DIS, CB, CHE
OHI 6 0.00159 2.38× 28.5% 16.9% DPZ, PNW, INGR, PSA, O
ROP 7 0.00158 2.36× 22.2% 14.5% CME, BNS, STE, SSB, JCI
EVRG 8 0.00157 2.34× 21.2% 10.2% FRT, ADC, WSFS, CNA, PBA
LNT 9 0.00155 2.32× 23.0% 14.9% CNI, MORN, LXP, SNA, ROP
TGNA 10 0.00154 2.31× 24.7% 14.1% CP, AEP, CPB, UGI, AWK

Rising influence vs 2026-01-16

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
S 0.001090.00010 +0.00099
MATX 0.000980.00010 +0.00088
CWAN 0.000970.00010 +0.00086
WSC 0.000960.00010 +0.00086
LINE 0.000960.00010 +0.00086

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
KRYS 0.000100.00104 -0.00094
COO 0.000100.00101 -0.00091
FOLD 0.000100.00100 -0.00090
CMPO 0.000100.00097 -0.00087
VERX 0.000100.00092 -0.00082

Cryptocurrency

REQUSD was the most central name, carrying 5.67× the influence of an average node across 379 assets.

assets
379
Density
0.128
Clustering
0.371
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
REQUSD 1 0.01497 5.67× 57.4% 18.0% TUSD, ASTUSD, LCXUSD, HBARUSD, AXLUSD
NYMUSD 2 0.01216 4.61× 55.3% 19.8% ETCUSD, REPV2USD, ADXUSD, API3USD, RENUSD
LCXUSD 3 0.01143 4.33× 49.5% 13.8% GOMININGUSD, LQTYUSD, AEROUSD, DOGEUSD, ALEPHUSD
GOMININGUSD 4 0.01086 4.12× 48.7% 27.8% ICXUSD, UMAUSD, DEXTUSD, NOSUSD, CLVUSD
BSXUSD 5 0.01053 3.99× 48.9% 8.2% PAXGUSD, SGBUSD, XAUTUSD, XRTUSD, PRIMEUSD
MNGOUSD 6 0.00987 3.74× 44.4% 27.8% EGLDUSD, CELRUSD, SNXUSD, ARPAUSD, TUSD
PROUSD 7 0.00986 3.74× 48.4% 23.5% HNTUSD, PNKUSD, ATOMUSD, ASMUSD, AVTUSD
INVUSD 8 0.00968 3.67× 48.4% 15.9% TUSD, BSXUSD, RARIUSD, SCUSD, HDXUSD
ASMUSD 9 0.00920 3.49× 41.8% 6.1% BITUSD, XMRUSD, MDTUSD, BADGERUSD, SHDWUSD
GARIUSD 10 0.00914 3.47× 50.0% 23.5% INVUSD, NEARUSD, NYMUSD, ONDOUSD, DSHUSD

Rising influence vs 2026-01-18

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
GOMININGUSD 0.010860.00301 +0.00785
NYMUSD 0.012160.00553 +0.00663
ASMUSD 0.009200.00300 +0.00620
PROUSD 0.009860.00393 +0.00593
LCXUSD 0.011430.00553 +0.00590

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
CQTUSD 0.002960.01112 -0.00816
MVUSD 0.003840.01164 -0.00780
SRMUSD 0.001560.00750 -0.00594
DNTUSD 0.002710.00862 -0.00591
KAVAUSD 0.005840.01134 -0.00550

Foreign exchange

GBPXPF was the most central name, carrying 12.95× the influence of an average node across 868 pairs.

pairs
868
Density
0.047
Clustering
0.364
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 0.01491 12.95× 4.7% 7.7% NZDTRY, TWDCHF, BRLSEK, USDTWD, GBPKRW
TWDSEK 2 0.01259 10.93× 6.1% 5.1% KRWBRL, GBPBRL, BRLJPY, CHFRON, RONZAR
JPYBRL 3 0.01046 9.08× 13.4% 7.2% BRLUSD, USDRUB, RUBUSD, CADRUB, RUBKRW
BRLJPY 4 0.01039 9.02× 12.6% 7.2% USDRUB, RUBUSD, CADRUB, BRLUSD, RUBCAD
CNYCAD 5 0.00782 6.79× 21.7% 1.0% GBPXPF, TWDSEK, GBPBRL, KRWBRL, BRLSEK
MYRZAR 6 0.00778 6.75× 21.6% 0.2% GBPXPF, TWDSEK
PENMXN 7 0.00761 6.60× 21.3% 0.2% GBPXPF, TWDSEK
CNYSGD 8 0.00752 6.53× 21.2% 0.9% GBPXPF, GBPBRL, TWDSEK, KRWBRL, BRLSEK
ARSMXN 9 0.00725 6.30× 24.8% 1.7% BRLJPY, JPYBRL, GBPXPF, BRLCHF, TWDSEK
BRLCHF 10 0.00703 6.11× 6.8% 20.0% RUBUSD, BRLUSD, IDRZAR, TZSZAR, QARZAR

Rising influence vs 2026-01-16

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
GBPXPF 0.014910.00050 +0.01441
TWDSEK 0.012590.00194 +0.01065
MYRZAR 0.007780.00037 +0.00741
BRLUSD 0.006020.00034 +0.00569
GBPBRL 0.005810.00037 +0.00543

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
AUDBRL 0.001080.02222 -0.02113
CADBRL 0.002160.01725 -0.01508
KRWBRL 0.006070.01621 -0.01015
CHFTHB 0.000260.00927 -0.00900
PENCAD 0.001730.00999 -0.00825

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.