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Daily network digest

Tuesday, August 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.

Jump to: US equities · Cryptocurrency · Foreign exchange

US equities

AMH was the most central name, carrying 2.90× the influence of an average node across 1495 stocks.

stocks
1495
Density
0.240
Clustering
0.521
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
AMH 1 0.00194 2.90× 62.0% 13.1% SNA, TRV, PFE, WPC, DUK
BIP 2 0.00191 2.85× 44.6% 14.1% BATRA, EPD, EMA, FBP, KFY
MFC 3 0.00190 2.84× 50.8% 8.6% ED, DPZ, EPRT, PCG, YUM
SCHW 4 0.00186 2.78× 55.4% 12.1% AFL, MCD, NMIH, SYK, AME
NI 5 0.00184 2.75× 58.7% 15.2% TJX, FULT, NATL, VOYA, WTS
JPM 6 0.00181 2.71× 51.9% 14.0% SPG, PFG, EPD, DLB, AXS
STN 7 0.00178 2.66× 61.4% 13.1% EVRG, TRNO, FIBK, T, SKT
AM 8 0.00176 2.64× 45.5% 13.0% PEN, MCD, MDT, WSBC, CL
AGNC 9 0.00176 2.64× 44.1% 11.5% MPLX, CPT, OBDC, OTTR, EG
APO 10 0.00176 2.63× 60.5% 27.0% PEG, RY, KMI, LH, KO

Volatility watch

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

SymbolScore Recent volatility
RBA 0.8566 3.20%
TDS 0.8402 2.93%
GXO 0.8316 2.09%
POST 0.8220 1.65%
EHC 0.8179 0.62%
ZTS 0.7986 2.51%
ACM 0.7885 4.87%
ABNB 0.7867 2.58%
VIK 0.7855 4.39%
HAE 0.7761 6.62%

Rising influence vs 2026-08-14

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
APO 0.001760.00010 +0.00166
NPO 0.001640.00010 +0.00154
AMP 0.001600.00010 +0.00150
MTDR 0.001600.00010 +0.00150
HRL 0.001520.00010 +0.00142

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
AXP 0.000100.00165 -0.00154
VST 0.000100.00154 -0.00144
IVZ 0.000100.00153 -0.00143
META 0.000100.00146 -0.00136
TECH 0.000100.00145 -0.00135

Cryptocurrency

XAUTUSD was the most central name, carrying 6.62× the influence of an average node across 353 assets.

assets
353
Density
0.154
Clustering
0.383
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 0.01877 6.62× 76.4% 19.3% SAGAUSD, KMNOUSD, RAREUSD, LSKUSD, BONKUSD
PAXGUSD 2 0.01773 6.26× 75.6% 19.0% ZRXUSD, SAGAUSD, BONKEUR, RAREUSD, LSKUSD
SBRUSD 3 0.01017 3.59× 53.7% 23.0% UNFIUSD, MIRUSD, BCHEUR, HFTUSD, RARIUSD
AERGOUSD 4 0.00993 3.51× 53.4% 21.3% XAUTUSD, RSRUSD, DENTUSD, PONDUSD, PAXGUSD
FISUSD 5 0.00854 3.02× 48.0% 6.8% TONUSD, LTCBTC, BICOUSD, DRVUSD, PAXGUSD
SKYUSD 6 0.00841 2.97× 42.3% 16.2% GTCUSD, FILUSD, AXLUSD, SUPERUSD, LCXUSD
LTCBTC 7 0.00811 2.86× 50.0% 6.0% ELAUSD, PRIMEUSD, CPOOLUSD, UNFIUSD, PAXGUSD
CQTUSD 8 0.00741 2.62× 44.0% 29.8% TRACUSD, GUSD, IDEXUSD, SAFEUSD, FIDAUSD
ZROUSD 9 0.00731 2.58× 34.9% 16.2% MULTIUSD, GMTUSD, SYRUPUSD, LDOUSD, GTCUSD
MULTIUSD 10 0.00717 2.53× 35.8% 26.7% PAXGUSD, SUKUUSD, XAUTUSD, GLMUSD, POWRUSD

Rising influence vs 2026-08-17

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
SBRUSD 0.010170.00381 +0.00636
CQTUSD 0.007410.00272 +0.00469
FXSUSD 0.007000.00247 +0.00453
XRPBTC 0.006980.00261 +0.00436
LTCBTC 0.008110.00383 +0.00428

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
GOMININGUSD 0.002360.01035 -0.00799
REQUSD 0.002370.00984 -0.00746
AURORAUSD 0.002820.00943 -0.00661
WELLUSD 0.001650.00672 -0.00508
XRPAUD 0.002100.00667 -0.00457

Foreign exchange

USDEGP was the most central name, carrying 10.83× the influence of an average node across 549 pairs.

pairs
549
Density
0.035
Clustering
0.400
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 0.01972 10.83× 9.1% 1.8% SEKINR, ZARINR, NOKINR, ZARTRY, ZARMYR
XAGARS 2 0.00895 4.91× 12.2% 5.3% AEDZAR, OMRZAR, LKRZAR, TZSZAR, ZARTHB
KRWTHB 3 0.00841 4.62× 5.1% 1.8% THBINR, XAUEUR, XAUJPY, XAUMXN, CHFINR
ARSCOP 4 0.00805 4.42× 4.6% 3.1% BWPCHF, LRDGBP, CDFGBP, GBPCDF, ARSPEN
TZSZAR 5 0.00735 4.04× 11.9% 11.3% ZARAED, KRWINR, ZARTRY, LKRZAR, ZARSGD
LKRZAR 6 0.00735 4.03× 17.0% 10.0% ZARAED, ZARTRY, ZARNGN, KRWINR, SEKINR
NADUSD 7 0.00717 3.94× 6.4% 2.0% MXNPEN, GBPUYU, CLPMXN, UYUGBP, CLPARS
COPCAD 8 0.00699 3.84× 6.0% 4.7% USDUGX, PENCLP, CLPCNY, SZLGBP, RWFZAR
XAUJPY 9 0.00679 3.73× 8.4% 7.8% RUBCAD, ARSCHF, BRLCAD, KRWTHB, THBINR
RUBCAD 10 0.00656 3.60× 10.8% 5.8% XAUJPY, XAGCNY, ARSEUR, DKKHUF, SCRGBP

Rising influence vs 2026-08-14

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
TZSZAR 0.007350.00623 +0.00112
XAGARS 0.008950.00801 +0.00094
GHSEUR 0.001430.00053 +0.00090
USDMGA 0.001470.00058 +0.00089
USDSCR 0.006450.00560 +0.00085

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
XAGUSD 0.003860.00517 -0.00131
EURBHD 0.004910.00598 -0.00107
EURSCR 0.001760.00265 -0.00088
ARSPEN 0.001440.00223 -0.00080
PENARS 0.000530.00126 -0.00073

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.