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Daily network digest

Tuesday, August 11, 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

EXC was the most central name, carrying 2.92× the influence of an average node across 1494 stocks.

stocks
1494
Density
0.248
Clustering
0.527
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
EXC 1 0.00196 2.92× 54.9% 11.7% IEX, GWW, ADT, THG, DCI
TECH 2 0.00194 2.90× 61.8% 32.2% BRK.B, RY, ELS, AWK, INGR
SR 3 0.00187 2.80× 46.4% 11.5% WES, RNST, USB, MTG, SKT
AEP 4 0.00187 2.80× 44.3% 14.3% PBA, MDLZ, IRT, EGP, RCI
EMA 5 0.00187 2.80× 50.6% 5.4% WMB, RACE, LBRDK, FFIV, FHN
PFE 6 0.00185 2.77× 50.0% 15.9% BNS, HON, INDB, PAA, CVBF
CNI 7 0.00179 2.67× 48.2% 12.6% AEP, SWX, STN, VRSN, MCD
WBD 8 0.00173 2.58× 45.5% 22.2% CSQ, WES, SPGI, GFL, CPRT
SO 9 0.00172 2.57× 52.2% 9.8% ACT, CPT, CUBE, TXT, V
SNA 10 0.00172 2.57× 51.2% 8.7% HR, MKL, CFG, FRT, ECL

Volatility watch

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

SymbolScore Recent volatility
DVA 0.9635 8.18%
NYT 0.9578 6.32%
EHC 0.9447 5.21%
RBA 0.9265 6.49%
MSFT 0.9227 1.43%
ACM 0.9218 4.00%
LDOS 0.9186 3.31%
TKR 0.9169 1.98%
DLB 0.9042 1.02%
ROK 0.9001 1.84%

Rising influence vs 2026-08-10

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
TECH 0.001940.00010 +0.00184
AXP 0.001660.00010 +0.00156
VST 0.001580.00010 +0.00148
COKE 0.001510.00010 +0.00140
MDGL 0.001500.00010 +0.00139

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
UI 0.000100.00175 -0.00165
KRC 0.000100.00162 -0.00152
NPO 0.000100.00156 -0.00146
SAIA 0.000100.00151 -0.00141
NTRA 0.000100.00150 -0.00140

Cryptocurrency

XAUTUSD was the most central name, carrying 6.31× the influence of an average node across 360 assets.

assets
360
Density
0.152
Clustering
0.393
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
XAUTUSD 1 0.01752 6.31× 74.7% 27.0% JASMYUSD, BADGERUSD, JUPUSD, GUSD, KEYUSD
PAXGUSD 2 0.01644 5.92× 77.7% 30.6% JUPUSD, BADGERUSD, JASMYUSD, MASKUSD, XRPUSD
FISUSD 3 0.01119 4.03× 54.9% 12.0% DEGENUSD, CRVUSD, STGUSD, C98USD, ARKMUSD
UNFIUSD 4 0.01076 3.87× 54.3% 31.5% VANRYUSD, CROUSD, STRKUSD, OMGUSD, SUPERUSD
GOMININGUSD 5 0.01017 3.66× 51.0% 18.9% SNXUSD, SGBUSD, IOTUSD, GALAUSD, PHAUSD
REQUSD 6 0.00984 3.54× 50.7% 17.3% UNFIUSD, BCHUSD, BCHGBP, RUNEUSD, KP3RUSD
SUKUUSD 7 0.00837 3.01× 47.6% 22.0% NANOUSD, SHIBUSD, MNGOUSD, DNTUSD, CHRUSD
AURORAUSD 8 0.00819 2.95× 40.4% 19.2% BATUSD, XRPAUD, UNFIUSD, SHPINGUSD, SEIEUR
OMNIUSD 9 0.00805 2.90× 38.4% 30.9% ENJUSD, NEIROUSD, MDTUSD, LUNAUSD, ICPUSD
SWELLUSD 10 0.00750 2.70× 43.2% 17.0% ETHAUD, BEAMUSD, DEXTUSD, COWUSD, RUNEUSD

Rising influence vs 2026-08-10

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
XAUTUSD 0.017520.00489 +0.01263
PAXGUSD 0.016440.00500 +0.01143
UNFIUSD 0.010760.00332 +0.00744
GOMININGUSD 0.010170.00368 +0.00649
REQUSD 0.009840.00417 +0.00567

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
OCEANUSD 0.002430.01073 -0.00830
TRACUSD 0.001740.00882 -0.00708
ACAUSD 0.006530.01191 -0.00538
LCXUSD 0.002470.00713 -0.00466
FXSUSD 0.001960.00616 -0.00420

Foreign exchange

USDEGP was the most central name, carrying 10.76× the influence of an average node across 542 pairs.

pairs
542
Density
0.036
Clustering
0.402
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 0.01986 10.76× 9.1% 1.7% SEKINR, NOKINR, ZARTRY, ZARINR, ZARMYR
ARSCOP 2 0.00965 5.23× 4.8% 3.1% BWPCHF, LRDGBP, CDFGBP, ARSPEN, CDFUSD
KRWTHB 3 0.00839 4.55× 5.4% 1.3% THBINR, XAUMXN, XAUEUR, XAUINR, JPYINR
XAGARS 4 0.00821 4.45× 10.9% 5.5% LKRZAR, OMRZAR, AEDZAR, TZSZAR, EGPZAR
LKRZAR 5 0.00726 3.93× 16.6% 10.4% ZARAED, ZARTRY, ZARNGN, KRWINR, XAUBRL
NADUSD 6 0.00685 3.71× 6.7% 1.8% MXNPEN, UYUGBP, CLPMXN, GBPUYU, CLPARS
XAUMXN 7 0.00652 3.54× 10.0% 6.7% USDSCR, RUBCAD, GBPRUB, KRWTHB, CHFRUB
TZSZAR 8 0.00650 3.52× 11.5% 11.3% ZARAED, KRWINR, LKRZAR, ZARTRY, ZARSGD
RUBCAD 9 0.00648 3.51× 11.3% 5.2% SCRGBP, XAUJPY, ARSEUR, XAGCNY, XAGKRW
XAUJPY 10 0.00640 3.47× 7.8% 8.7% BRLCAD, KRWTHB, RUBCAD, GBPRUB, THBGBP

Rising influence vs 2026-08-10

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
USDEGP 0.019860.00310 +0.01676
ARSCOP 0.009650.00226 +0.00739
KRWTHB 0.008390.00241 +0.00598
XAGARS 0.008210.00247 +0.00574
SEKINR 0.005230.00063 +0.00460

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
ZMWZAR 0.003790.01295 -0.00915
EGPZAR 0.002170.00752 -0.00535
ARSAUD 0.001490.00668 -0.00519
USDMUR 0.001940.00703 -0.00509
GHSEUR 0.000560.00541 -0.00485

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.