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Daily network digest

Tuesday, August 4, 2026

Directed information-flow networks for this session, covering US equities, Cryptocurrency. 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

BHF was the most central name, carrying 3.38× the influence of an average node across 1494 stocks.

stocks
1494
Density
0.242
Clustering
0.522
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
BHF 1 0.00226 3.38× 51.4% 12.3% PEP, SKT, FITB, BLK, WAB
UDR 2 0.00220 3.29× 51.0% 11.1% PEP, NDAQ, MAIN, UTHR, SPGI
PAA 3 0.00207 3.09× 59.9% 17.4% FFIN, HOMB, SPG, MTB, PH
D 4 0.00202 3.01× 56.7% 10.7% VRSN, NEE, MSA, BNS, HEI.A
CNI 5 0.00197 2.94× 59.7% 11.4% FE, ACT, HBAN, MSA, SJM
RPRX 6 0.00194 2.90× 67.6% 15.3% BRX, ESS, TSN, NWE, ECL
PECO 7 0.00188 2.81× 53.9% 9.2% EXR, ESNT, HBAN, ETN, ERIE
COST 8 0.00187 2.80× 49.8% 14.7% EMA, PECO, ITW, WBD, NI
BCO 9 0.00185 2.76× 50.9% 17.3% TXNM, PECO, VICI, GWW, DOX
NLY 10 0.00183 2.73× 60.7% 12.5% GBDC, SRE, ESNT, DIS, UNM

Volatility watch

Highest modelled probability of elevated volatility ahead. A research output, not a directional call.

SymbolScore Recent volatility
ITGR 0.9069 7.90%
DORM 0.9069 8.16%
SLGN 0.8817 6.06%
ITRI 0.8688 3.90%
ROK 0.8599 4.17%
AMZN 0.8466 6.70%
WAB 0.8462 2.54%
LKQ 0.8394 8.16%
DOV 0.8387 2.11%
ETN 0.8345 5.67%

Rising influence vs 2026-08-03

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
SARO 0.001570.00010 +0.00147
CSW 0.001500.00010 +0.00140
THO 0.001480.00010 +0.00138
DHI 0.001460.00010 +0.00136
ALGN 0.001430.00010 +0.00133

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
TECH 0.000100.00201 -0.00190
BNT 0.000100.00172 -0.00162
REGN 0.000100.00154 -0.00144
VST 0.000100.00147 -0.00137
SNDR 0.000100.00145 -0.00134

Cryptocurrency

ACAUSD was the most central name, carrying 4.33× the influence of an average node across 362 assets.

assets
362
Density
0.149
Clustering
0.374
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
ACAUSD 1 0.01196 4.33× 57.1% 16.3% ZENUSD, BLURUSD, FIDAUSD, RAREUSD, GHSTUSD
OMNIUSD 2 0.01138 4.12× 54.0% 18.3% LCXUSD, SHDWUSD, SHPINGUSD, AMPUSD, RARIEUR
SUKUUSD 3 0.01030 3.73× 49.9% 30.5% BCHNUSD, BCHUSD, PYRUSD, BCHEUR, SPELLUSD
OCEANUSD 4 0.00989 3.58× 51.2% 25.8% 00USD, XRPUSD, MASKUSD, ACSUSD, ACAUSD
FISUSD 5 0.00901 3.26× 48.2% 16.1% CVCUSD, BTCEUR, OXTUSD, ZROUSD, ETCUSD
TRACUSD 6 0.00891 3.23× 47.9% 44.6% FLRUSD, AVTUSD, CORECHAINUSD, SANDUSD, XDCUSD
SWFTCUSD 7 0.00804 2.91× 44.0% 11.6% CTXUSD, NYMUSD, XYOUSD, BTRSTUSD, PAXGUSD
SHPINGUSD 8 0.00804 2.91× 41.3% 20.2% FLOKIUSD, AVAXUSD, XMRUSD, OMNIUSD, LINKUSD
OXTUSD 9 0.00778 2.81× 30.5% 22.7% AXSUSD, HOPRUSD, IOUSD, ACSUSD, APEUSD
ELAUSD 10 0.00746 2.70× 39.1% 32.1% AIOZUSD, JASMYUSD, VTHOUSD, FILUSD, DIMOUSD

Rising influence vs 2026-08-03

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
OMNIUSD 0.011380.00421 +0.00718
OCEANUSD 0.009890.00323 +0.00666
TRACUSD 0.008910.00266 +0.00626
ACAUSD 0.011960.00640 +0.00556
OXTUSD 0.007780.00253 +0.00525

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
XAUTUSD 0.005180.02081 -0.01564
PAXGUSD 0.005400.01887 -0.01346
AERGOUSD 0.002380.00985 -0.00746
XRPBTC 0.001380.00738 -0.00600
JUNOUSD 0.001180.00677 -0.00559

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.