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Daily network digest

Friday, August 7, 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.

Jump to: US equities · Cryptocurrency · Foreign exchange

US equities

BHF was the most central name, carrying 3.12× the influence of an average node across 1494 stocks.

stocks
1494
Density
0.239
Clustering
0.519
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 0.00209 3.12× 51.3% 12.1% PEP, BPOP, FITB, SKT, BLK
EQR 2 0.00203 3.03× 52.8% 8.6% BAP, GBTG, SJM, UGI, MLM
AWR 3 0.00201 3.01× 56.0% 10.5% AXS, HEI.A, GLPI, IRT, DOV
UDR 4 0.00196 2.93× 52.0% 11.6% PEP, NDAQ, CNP, MAIN, MSM
COST 5 0.00194 2.90× 50.6% 14.6% EMA, LNT, ITW, PECO, WBD
LECO 6 0.00191 2.85× 64.9% 14.6% APG, CPT, KO, XEL, MA
NLY 7 0.00187 2.79× 60.7% 13.0% GBDC, SRE, ESNT, MKL, DIS
CNO 8 0.00187 2.79× 58.6% 10.0% L, TROW, OTTR, IDA, EIX
PAA 9 0.00184 2.76× 59.9% 17.5% AWR, FFIN, HOMB, PH, SPG
FTV 10 0.00182 2.72× 52.0% 11.1% OGS, HESM, VICI, ADC, GHC

Volatility watch

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

SymbolScore Recent volatility
RBA 0.9367 7.09%
DVA 0.9340 7.91%
ITGR 0.9324 1.24%
EHC 0.9223 5.38%
CON 0.9156 5.33%
ABNB 0.9117 7.24%
ROK 0.9084 3.53%
DORM 0.9073 8.03%
POST 0.9067 6.08%
TDS 0.9062 5.00%

Rising influence vs 2026-08-06

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
TPL 0.001510.00010 +0.00141
CSW 0.001500.00010 +0.00140
RL 0.001470.00010 +0.00137
BIIB 0.001470.00010 +0.00137
EXEL 0.001460.00010 +0.00136

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
TECH 0.000100.00191 -0.00181
VST 0.000100.00160 -0.00150
IVZ 0.000100.00150 -0.00140
MGA 0.000100.00148 -0.00137
SNPS 0.000100.00146 -0.00136

Cryptocurrency

ACAUSD was the most central name, carrying 4.25× the influence of an average node across 362 assets.

assets
362
Density
0.159
Clustering
0.390
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 0.01173 4.25× 61.2% 16.9% RAREUSD, ASTUSD, BLURUSD, ENJUSD, FIDAUSD
SUKUUSD 2 0.01160 4.20× 58.4% 29.9% BCHUSD, BCHNUSD, MNGOUSD, BCHEUR, CPOOLUSD
OMNIUSD 3 0.01082 3.92× 55.1% 16.9% SHPINGUSD, LCXUSD, SHDWUSD, SUKUUSD, LMWRUSD
OCEANUSD 4 0.00980 3.55× 52.6% 24.9% SPAUSD, ACSUSD, SKYUSD, MASKUSD, FORTHUSD
FISUSD 5 0.00899 3.26× 51.8% 15.2% ETCUSD, BTCEUR, ZROUSD, OXTUSD, IDEXUSD
HOPRUSD 6 0.00838 3.04× 43.5% 37.7% METISUSD, GFIUSD, NCTUSD, QTUMUSD, ALCXUSD
TRACUSD 7 0.00808 2.92× 47.6% 42.9% AVTUSD, ARKMUSD, FLRUSD, ROSEUSD, ENSUSD
SWFTCUSD 8 0.00806 2.92× 46.5% 13.6% CTXUSD, POLSUSD, CHZUSD, PAXGUSD, NYMUSD
SHPINGUSD 9 0.00748 2.71× 40.7% 21.9% FLOKIUSD, AVAXUSD, XMRUSD, MNGOUSD, OMNIUSD
OXTUSD 10 0.00705 2.55× 30.2% 21.6% AXSUSD, IOUSD, GFIUSD, APEUSD, HOPRUSD

Rising influence vs 2026-08-06

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
OCEANUSD 0.009800.00324 +0.00656
OMNIUSD 0.010820.00444 +0.00639
TRACUSD 0.008080.00248 +0.00560
ACAUSD 0.011730.00681 +0.00492
OXTUSD 0.007050.00233 +0.00472

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
XAUTUSD 0.004790.02050 -0.01570
PAXGUSD 0.005130.01817 -0.01303
AERGOUSD 0.002520.01005 -0.00753
XRPBTC 0.001380.00734 -0.00596
JUNOUSD 0.001190.00666 -0.00547

Foreign exchange

USDEGP was the most central name, carrying 11.24× the influence of an average node across 544 pairs.

pairs
544
Density
0.036
Clustering
0.398
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
USDEGP 1 0.02066 11.24× 9.0% 1.8% SEKINR, NOKINR, ZARTRY, ZARINR, ZARMYR
ARSCOP 2 0.00953 5.18× 5.0% 3.7% LRDGBP, BWPCHF, CDFGBP, GBPCDF, CDFUSD
KRWTHB 3 0.00851 4.63× 5.2% 1.3% THBINR, XAUEUR, XAUJPY, XAUINR, CHFINR
XAGARS 4 0.00817 4.44× 11.0% 5.7% LKRZAR, OMRZAR, AEDZAR, EGPZAR, TZSZAR
LKRZAR 5 0.00732 3.98× 16.6% 9.4% ZARAED, ZARNGN, ZARTRY, KRWINR, XAUBRL
TZSZAR 6 0.00710 3.86× 12.3% 11.2% KRWINR, ZARAED, ZARTRY, ZARSGD, USDEGP
NADUSD 7 0.00654 3.56× 6.4% 2.0% MXNPEN, CLPMXN, GBPUYU, UYUGBP, CLPARS
COPCAD 8 0.00640 3.48× 6.1% 4.6% PENCLP, USDUGX, CLPCNY, USDUYU, EURBHD
COPMXN 9 0.00637 3.47× 9.0% 2.9% BRLKRW, MXNBRL, HUFUSD, GBPEGP, XAUMXN
XAUMXN 10 0.00597 3.25× 10.1% 7.0% USDSCR, KRWTHB, DKKRUB, RUBCAD, AEDJPY

Rising influence vs 2026-08-06

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
USDEGP 0.020660.00359 +0.01707
ARSCOP 0.009530.00246 +0.00707
KRWTHB 0.008510.00248 +0.00603
XAGARS 0.008170.00249 +0.00568
SEKINR 0.005310.00066 +0.00465

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
ZMWZAR 0.003680.01196 -0.00829
EGPZAR 0.002120.00754 -0.00542
ARSAUD 0.001590.00676 -0.00517
ZARNGN 0.003180.00795 -0.00477
ZARJPY 0.000720.00513 -0.00442

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.