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Daily network digest

Wednesday, February 18, 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

EVRG was the most central name, carrying 3.09× the influence of an average node across 1494 stocks.

stocks
1494
Density
0.175
Clustering
0.422
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
EVRG 1 0.00207 3.09× 24.9% 9.3% FRT, ADC, SBCF, CME, POST
TGNA 2 0.00192 2.86× 30.5% 15.1% XEL, BNS, AEP, AEE, CP
AEP 3 0.00183 2.74× 26.0% 18.8% HUBB, SNA, CHD, GGG, EGP
CTVA 4 0.00177 2.65× 33.5% 17.7% SNA, OGS, TDY, DTE, AGO
SCHW 5 0.00176 2.63× 29.3% 11.5% TRP, MSCI, ATO, ED, SXT
IDA 6 0.00172 2.57× 25.7% 14.7% CME, EXLS, EXC, FOXA, BCE
SLF 7 0.00172 2.57× 24.8% 11.8% FE, SNA, HSIC, COST, GBDC
LNT 8 0.00168 2.51× 25.7% 14.7% DIS, ROP, WTM, ESNT, IT
PBA 9 0.00166 2.49× 23.9% 14.7% L, MCK, PCAR, O, AIZ
XEL 10 0.00166 2.48× 24.9% 15.6% HON, PBH, PBA, FRT, JCI

Rising influence vs 2026-02-17

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
INTU 0.001380.00010 +0.00128
AYI 0.001300.00010 +0.00120
IONS 0.001280.00010 +0.00118
PLNT 0.001250.00010 +0.00115
CNC 0.001250.00010 +0.00115

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
DBX 0.000100.00177 -0.00167
CAT 0.000100.00131 -0.00121
KRC 0.000100.00126 -0.00116
ALL 0.000100.00125 -0.00115
BKR 0.000100.00121 -0.00111

Cryptocurrency

REQUSD was the most central name, carrying 5.31× the influence of an average node across 408 assets.

assets
408
Density
0.117
Clustering
0.370
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 0.01302 5.31× 50.4% 11.8% ELAUSD, ATOMUSD, JTOUSD, PAXGUSD, MXCUSD
SWEATUSD 2 0.01270 5.18× 58.5% 9.8% NCTUSD, FLRUSD, SOLUSD, MIRUSD, UNFIUSD
GARIUSD 3 0.01207 4.92× 54.8% 21.6% LSETHUSD, BEAMUSD, INVUSD, DSHUSD, RBCUSD
ELAUSD 4 0.01145 4.67× 50.1% 19.2% SAMOUSD, BTTUSD, XCNUSD, BSXUSD, PLUUSD
MNGOUSD 5 0.01100 4.49× 49.1% 29.5% ATLASUSD, BCHUSD, BCHNUSD, NANOUSD, UMAUSD
XAUTUSD 6 0.01051 4.29× 56.8% 32.4% DEGENUSD, TRUUSD, XDCUSD, BCHEUR, OMGUSD
NYMUSD 7 0.01036 4.23× 51.1% 16.7% RENUSD, PUFFERUSD, ETH2XUSD, MNGOUSD, QTUMUSD
MOONUSD 8 0.01008 4.11× 45.9% 9.8% BANDUSD, KAVAUSD, NEXOUSD, STRDUSD, KRLUSD
INVUSD 9 0.01007 4.11× 51.1% 13.8% REQUSD, BSXUSD, TUSD, JUNOUSD, SCUSD
NEXOUSD 10 0.00983 4.01× 41.0% 12.0% MASKUSD, GARIUSD, FLRUSD, XRPAUD, BITUSD

Rising influence vs 2026-02-17

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
ELAUSD 0.011450.00331 +0.00814
GARIUSD 0.012070.00403 +0.00804
MOONUSD 0.010080.00276 +0.00733
NEXOUSD 0.009830.00333 +0.00650
BNCUSD 0.009040.00263 +0.00641

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
SRMUSD 0.001170.00955 -0.00838
MVUSD 0.005330.01318 -0.00785
EURRUSD 0.002180.00961 -0.00742
RARIEUR 0.002010.00848 -0.00647
MXCUSD 0.003540.00995 -0.00641

Foreign exchange

DOPUSD was the most central name, carrying 8.86× the influence of an average node across 841 pairs.

pairs
841
Density
0.076
Clustering
0.483
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
DOPUSD 1 0.01053 8.86× 3.7% 1.3% JPYRSD, CHFRSD, GBPRSD, RSDGBP, CLPCOP
GBPXPF 2 0.00886 7.45× 5.1% 6.8% COPMXN, KRWGBP, TWDINR, TWDSGD, TWDCAD
EURHNL 3 0.00726 6.11× 1.5% 2.7% EURHTG, EURPGK, EURGNF, EURQAR, EURBSD
GBPMUR 4 0.00656 5.51× 8.2% 0.7% SEKILS, PLNILS, JPYINR, XAUCAD, XAUJPY
CNYINR 5 0.00642 5.40× 8.2% 1.3% SEKILS, BRLKRW, JPYILS, ILSJPY, PLNILS
SEKILS 6 0.00605 5.09× 5.2% 6.0% BRLKRW, ILSEUR, ILSJOD, USDCLP, ILSPLN
CNYSGD 7 0.00597 5.02× 13.7% 0.2% GBPXPF, CHFBRL
USDSOS 8 0.00593 4.99× 5.7% 4.0% USDPEN, GHSGBP, ARSCLP, CLPARS, GHSZAR
SGDARS 9 0.00546 4.59× 18.2% 3.3% GBPXPF, BWPZAR, USDRUB, RUBKRW, PHPGBP
UYUEUR 10 0.00534 4.49× 6.3% 1.7% INREUR, GBPMUR, CNYINR, ARSEUR, XAUBRL

Rising influence vs 2026-02-17

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
GBPXPF 0.008860.00034 +0.00852
EURHNL 0.007260.00134 +0.00592
CNYINR 0.006420.00186 +0.00456
USDSOS 0.005930.00177 +0.00416
CNYSGD 0.005970.00220 +0.00376

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
AUDBRL 0.001640.01606 -0.01442
KRWBRL 0.001360.01151 -0.01015
CADBRL 0.001240.01121 -0.00997
GBPCLP 0.000200.00827 -0.00808
CLPGBP 0.000200.00822 -0.00802

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.