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Daily network digest

Thursday, February 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

STN was the most central name, carrying 3.35× the influence of an average node across 1494 stocks.

stocks
1494
Density
0.175
Clustering
0.418
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
STN 1 0.00225 3.35× 30.4% 10.4% SCI, COR, AFL, V, AMT
CSQ 2 0.00203 3.03× 27.9% 5.0% EWBC, ESNT, PFE, HRB, MAT
APG 3 0.00180 2.68× 28.5% 12.9% L, TDG, WRB, CVX, FTV
FRT 4 0.00174 2.60× 28.5% 14.0% EMR, BRO, WCN, TDY, RGA
DRI 5 0.00171 2.55× 29.3% 22.5% BRK.B, OBDC, SYK, APG, MSFT
OTTR 6 0.00168 2.51× 31.5% 19.8% KO, CNP, WRB, HIG, SUN
BNS 7 0.00167 2.50× 23.4% 12.2% WTRG, CCK, MORN, KRG, CNA
AN 8 0.00163 2.44× 38.3% 18.0% EXC, AMH, FRT, WTM, PNW
CNO 9 0.00161 2.41× 29.1% 14.4% BMO, ES, AMH, SKT, ARCC
ETN 10 0.00160 2.39× 33.5% 15.7% GBDC, TD, GLPI, MA, EXC

Rising influence vs 2026-02-18

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
PRK 0.001310.00010 +0.00121
BKR 0.001310.00010 +0.00121
TKO 0.001310.00010 +0.00121
SSD 0.001300.00010 +0.00120
RUSHB 0.001270.00010 +0.00117

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
INTU 0.000100.00138 -0.00128
IONS 0.000100.00128 -0.00118
TPC 0.000100.00125 -0.00115
CNC 0.000100.00125 -0.00115
IMO 0.000100.00123 -0.00113

Cryptocurrency

RBCUSD was the most central name, carrying 6.93× the influence of an average node across 408 assets.

assets
408
Density
0.119
Clustering
0.362
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
RBCUSD 1 0.01699 6.93× 62.2% 20.4% LPTUSD, FIDAUSD, TRUMPUSD, XTZUSD, ZRXUSD
AIRUSD 2 0.01242 5.07× 58.7% 13.8% AUDIOUSD, TRXUSD, CSPRUSD, JUPUSD, LITUSD
SBRUSD 3 0.01075 4.39× 51.8% 18.9% TONUSD, RARIEUR, COWUSD, INVUSD, RBCUSD
XAUTUSD 4 0.00994 4.05× 53.8% 32.9% HFTUSD, ORCAUSD, RAREUSD, DIAUSD, KEYUSD
PAXGUSD 5 0.00952 3.88× 50.6% 29.2% UNIUSD, ORCAUSD, DIAUSD, KEYUSD, HFTUSD
REPUSD 6 0.00853 3.48× 40.0% 21.9% CQTUSD, A8USD, SHPINGUSD, MVUSD, LTCEUR
LTCBTC 7 0.00825 3.37× 42.3% 8.8% ABTUSD, PAXGUSD, PRIMEUSD, AIRUSD, SBRUSD
CSPRUSD 8 0.00823 3.36× 38.8% 5.2% QNTUSD, GARIUSD, BITUSD, APENFTUSD, BTRSTUSD
GARIUSD 9 0.00821 3.35× 34.2% 17.7% VOXELUSD, LMWRUSD, NMRUSD, DBRUSD, NCTUSD
UOSUSD 10 0.00773 3.15× 35.6% 14.7% GSTUSD, API3USD, DNTUSD, MEUSD, RBCUSD

Rising influence vs 2026-02-18

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
RBCUSD 0.016990.00669 +0.01030
AIRUSD 0.012420.00510 +0.00733
CSPRUSD 0.008230.00262 +0.00561
SBRUSD 0.010750.00546 +0.00529
TIMEUSD 0.006920.00299 +0.00393

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
REQUSD 0.004930.01302 -0.00809
MOONUSD 0.002130.01008 -0.00796
NYMUSD 0.003070.01036 -0.00729
BSXUSD 0.002140.00931 -0.00718
ELAUSD 0.004590.01145 -0.00686

Foreign exchange

TWDSEK was the most central name, carrying 9.29× the influence of an average node across 889 pairs.

pairs
889
Density
0.061
Clustering
0.500
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
TWDSEK 1 0.01045 9.29× 13.6% 8.0% GBPBRL, KRWBRL, JPYBRL, PENBRL, CHFRON
GBPXPF 2 0.00905 8.05× 4.4% 8.1% TWDCHF, TWDNZD, GBPBRL, TWDDKK, EURTWD
EURILS 3 0.00759 6.74× 9.3% 5.0% XAUMXN, XAUGBP, XAUCNY, XAUINR, XAUCAD
BRLJPY 4 0.00754 6.71× 14.0% 7.8% RUBKRW, USDRUB, RUBUSD, CADRUB, CHFRUB
JPYBRL 5 0.00725 6.45× 14.0% 8.0% USDRUB, RUBUSD, RUBKRW, BRLUSD, JPYRUB
USDXPF 6 0.00595 5.29× 12.2% 4.3% EURTZS, EURCUP, PKREUR, GBPRWF, RWFGBP
BRLCHF 7 0.00564 5.02× 29.3% 22.9% RUBUSD, BRLUSD, USDRUB, IDRZAR, QARZAR
MXNARS 8 0.00561 4.99× 29.6% 1.8% BRLJPY, TWDSEK, JPYBRL, GBPXPF, BRLCHF
MYRZAR 9 0.00560 4.98× 21.4% 0.7% GBPXPF, TWDSEK, SEKUSD, BRLARS, DKKPKR
PENMXN 10 0.00558 4.96× 21.4% 0.6% GBPXPF, TWDSEK, BRLARS, ARSBRL, SEKUSD

Rising influence vs 2026-02-18

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
TWDSEK 0.010450.00074 +0.00972
BRLJPY 0.007540.00184 +0.00570
EURILS 0.007590.00195 +0.00564
JPYBRL 0.007250.00189 +0.00536
MYRZAR 0.005600.00126 +0.00434

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
EURHNL 0.000290.00726 -0.00697
GBPMUR 0.000490.00656 -0.00607
CNYINR 0.001070.00642 -0.00535
SEKILS 0.000700.00605 -0.00535
BRLEUR 0.000400.00517 -0.00477

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.