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Daily network digest

Wednesday, August 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.

Jump to: US equities · Cryptocurrency · Foreign exchange

US equities

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

stocks
1494
Density
0.246
Clustering
0.533
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
SR 1 0.00195 2.92× 49.8% 11.6% RNST, USB, MTG, SKT, RLI
PFE 2 0.00193 2.88× 50.0% 15.8% INDB, BMO, AWK, CVBF, HON
AEP 3 0.00188 2.81× 44.2% 13.8% PBA, EGP, IRT, MDLZ, ACT
CB 4 0.00185 2.76× 53.0% 13.3% D, ARCC, DTM, COR, CSX
DUK 5 0.00180 2.69× 49.0% 7.7% TRNO, ICE, TXT, WELL, RS
NTRS 6 0.00180 2.68× 57.1% 11.3% HON, CPT, SOBO, SUI, AEG
BXSL 7 0.00178 2.65× 65.0% 14.9% SNA, AIZ, CBSH, UNM, MFC
CPT 8 0.00177 2.64× 58.1% 11.7% TRP, ARCC, TXNM, CTAS, CINF
L 9 0.00177 2.64× 51.2% 14.4% STWD, CNI, NFG, UNM, COR
AFL 10 0.00176 2.63× 52.0% 9.2% SR, RLI, YUMC, MAA, ITGR

Volatility watch

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

SymbolScore Recent volatility
ACM 0.9264 3.15%
PTC 0.8729 3.30%
UGI 0.8518 4.01%
HGV 0.8349 3.05%
KEYS 0.8279 3.74%
MSI 0.8276 2.07%
HST 0.8274 0.59%
EHC 0.8254 0.63%
AVT 0.8252 3.64%
CQP 0.8219 2.26%

Rising influence vs 2026-08-18

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
A 0.001600.00010 +0.00150
IVZ 0.001600.00010 +0.00150
VST 0.001570.00010 +0.00147
MDGL 0.001550.00010 +0.00145
AXP 0.001520.00010 +0.00142

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
APO 0.000100.00176 -0.00166
NPO 0.000100.00164 -0.00154
AMP 0.000100.00160 -0.00150
MTDR 0.000100.00160 -0.00150
HRL 0.000100.00152 -0.00142

Cryptocurrency

SUKUUSD was the most central name, carrying 5.02× the influence of an average node across 353 assets.

assets
353
Density
0.147
Clustering
0.376
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
SUKUUSD 1 0.01423 5.02× 62.2% 29.5% CPOOLUSD, BCHNUSD, PYRUSD, BCHUSD, SCUSD
ACAUSD 2 0.01261 4.45× 58.2% 18.2% ENJUSD, DRVUSD, RARIEUR, ASTUSD, GHSTUSD
OCEANUSD 3 0.01208 4.26× 59.1% 24.4% AMPUSD, MASKUSD, BTCJPY, FORTHUSD, MDTUSD
TRACUSD 4 0.01046 3.69× 48.6% 40.9% FLRUSD, ARKMUSD, SPELLUSD, GFIUSD, XDCUSD
FISUSD 5 0.01022 3.61× 50.6% 16.5% BTCEUR, ETCUSD, ILVUSD, ZROUSD, WUSD
SWFTCUSD 6 0.00953 3.37× 47.7% 14.8% ZETAUSD, ZETACHAINUSD, POLSUSD, CTXUSD, BTRSTUSD
HOPRUSD 7 0.00920 3.25× 44.0% 29.3% NCTUSD, GFIUSD, SNXUSD, DENTUSD, XRPUSD
SHPINGUSD 8 0.00907 3.20× 42.3% 14.2% FLOKIUSD, XMRUSD, LINKUSD, AVAXUSD, ACAUSD
OXTUSD 9 0.00803 2.83× 31.8% 19.3% GFIUSD, HOPRUSD, AXSUSD, IOUSD, ADXUSD
LCXUSD 10 0.00727 2.57× 36.6% 23.3% POLUSD, XMRUSD, SUKUUSD, ASTUSD, FXSUSD

Rising influence vs 2026-08-18

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
OCEANUSD 0.012080.00320 +0.00888
TRACUSD 0.010460.00290 +0.00756
SUKUUSD 0.014230.00705 +0.00718
ACAUSD 0.012610.00690 +0.00571
SHPINGUSD 0.009070.00361 +0.00545

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
XAUTUSD 0.005600.01877 -0.01317
PAXGUSD 0.007090.01773 -0.01064
AERGOUSD 0.002670.00993 -0.00726
XRPBTC 0.001750.00698 -0.00522
SBRUSD 0.005690.01017 -0.00448

Foreign exchange

ZMWZAR was the most central name, carrying 5.20× the influence of an average node across 529 pairs.

pairs
529
Density
0.036
Clustering
0.393
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
ZMWZAR 1 0.00984 5.20× 13.4% 8.7% ZARTRY, XAUCNY, CHFARS, ZARNGN, ZARHKD
ZARINR 2 0.00865 4.58× 2.5% 0.4% ZMWZAR, XAUGBP
KRWRUB 3 0.00841 4.45× 17.8% 10.4% RUBGBP, RUBKRW, ARSAUD, ARSCAD, RUBJPY
USDEGP 4 0.00757 4.01× 14.4% 9.1% HUFCHF, CHFHUF, SEKINR, HUFEUR, GBPHUF
XAUJPY 5 0.00669 3.54× 11.6% 5.3% ILSZAR, USDMUR, GBPNGN, GBPSCR, USDSCR
USDMUR 6 0.00631 3.34× 8.3% 1.7% MUREUR, AUDFJD, ARSCHF, AEDSEK, ARSJPY
CLPBRL 7 0.00585 3.10× 4.4% 3.4% DOPUSD, COPDKK, LKRGBP, LKRUSD, USDLKR
XAUBRL 8 0.00576 3.04× 13.8% 9.5% ZMWZAR, ZARBWP, KRWRUB, RUBKRW, XAUCNY
ZARUSD 9 0.00564 2.99× 7.0% 4.4% USDMUR, GBPTHB, GBPEGP, ILSZAR, ILSJOD
LKRZAR 10 0.00557 2.95× 10.6% 9.5% USDZAR, ZARNGN, AEDZAR, ZARAED, COPBRL

Rising influence vs 2026-08-18

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
ZMWZAR 0.009840.00365 +0.00619
KRWRUB 0.008410.00234 +0.00606
ZARINR 0.008650.00393 +0.00473
USDMUR 0.006310.00191 +0.00440
ILSZAR 0.005390.00101 +0.00439

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
USDEGP 0.007570.01972 -0.01215
ARSCOP 0.001150.00805 -0.00690
KRWTHB 0.001920.00841 -0.00649
XAGARS 0.002760.00895 -0.00619
RUBUSD 0.001190.00591 -0.00472

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.