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Daily network digest

Thursday, August 20, 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

COST was the most central name, carrying 3.61× the influence of an average node across 1493 stocks.

stocks
1493
Density
0.234
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
COST 1 0.00242 3.61× 56.9% 13.3% EMA, LNT, PG, WBD, NI
UDR 2 0.00240 3.58× 56.7% 12.9% TRP, PEP, MWA, MSM, JPM
CNO 3 0.00209 3.12× 59.0% 9.8% L, TROW, CZR, IDA, JNJ
CP 4 0.00194 2.90× 59.6% 11.5% AEP, FNB, GATX, QSR, MWA
WCN 5 0.00190 2.83× 52.3% 11.4% MAR, ICE, BATRA, NEE, NYT
L 6 0.00190 2.83× 42.4% 11.1% PEG, LXP, ICE, WELL, ACM
GILD 7 0.00187 2.79× 61.5% 17.8% CPT, CNI, SR, KRG, DOX
PAA 8 0.00186 2.77× 60.0% 16.2% FFIN, AWR, HOMB, BNS, SPG
NLY 9 0.00185 2.77× 41.5% 12.6% GBDC, SRE, ESNT, KMI, LAD
CNI 10 0.00185 2.76× 55.8% 11.9% FE, NWE, WTRG, ATO, HBAN

Volatility watch

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

SymbolScore Recent volatility
LBRDA 0.9060
LBRDK 0.9050
WMT 0.8562 4.20%
RS 0.8420 2.76%
UGI 0.8313 4.31%
CON 0.8275 0.89%
ZTS 0.8240 2.65%
TDS 0.8154 1.34%
MOG.A 0.8124 4.58%
MSGE 0.8104 2.22%

Rising influence vs 2026-08-19

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
CSW 0.001610.00010 +0.00151
NKE 0.001540.00010 +0.00144
ENS 0.001530.00010 +0.00143
RL 0.001520.00010 +0.00142
CTSH 0.001500.00010 +0.00139

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
REGN 0.000100.00169 -0.00159
IVZ 0.000100.00160 -0.00150
VST 0.000100.00157 -0.00147
WWD 0.000100.00155 -0.00145
EBAY 0.000100.00150 -0.00140

Cryptocurrency

XAUTUSD was the most central name, carrying 7.16× the influence of an average node across 353 assets.

assets
353
Density
0.139
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
XAUTUSD 1 0.02028 7.16× 76.7% 25.0% BADGERUSD, JASMYUSD, JUPUSD, AKTUSD, GUSD
PAXGUSD 2 0.01812 6.40× 74.7% 25.9% BADGERUSD, JUPUSD, ACAUSD, DENTUSD, GRTUSD
FISUSD 3 0.01306 4.61× 58.2% 13.4% PENDLEUSD, C98USD, ARKMUSD, HIGHUSD, OMGUSD
REQUSD 4 0.01182 4.17× 53.1% 15.9% ALPHAUSD, XCNUSD, BCHGBP, ZEUSUSD, UNFIUSD
UNFIUSD 5 0.01063 3.75× 51.7% 30.7% STRKUSD, CROUSD, VANRYUSD, BLASTUSD, AIOZUSD
AURORAUSD 6 0.00998 3.52× 42.0% 12.8% BATUSD, SHPINGUSD, UNFIUSD, HIGHUSD, ATOMUSD
ELAUSD 7 0.00927 3.27× 45.7% 39.5% 1INCHUSD, CGLDUSD, SAGAUSD, HFTUSD, ARKMUSD
GOMININGUSD 8 0.00903 3.19× 44.9% 16.8% DEGENUSD, GALAUSD, GOATUSD, PHAUSD, SGBUSD
SUKUUSD 9 0.00824 2.91× 42.6% 24.7% NANOUSD, LRCUSD, SBRUSD, SHIBUSD, DNTUSD
SWELLUSD 10 0.00817 2.88× 42.9% 15.3% COWUSD, NCTUSD, RUNEUSD, AUDIOUSD, SPELLUSD

Rising influence vs 2026-08-19

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
XAUTUSD 0.020280.00560 +0.01469
PAXGUSD 0.018120.00709 +0.01103
REQUSD 0.011820.00425 +0.00757
UNFIUSD 0.010630.00358 +0.00705
AURORAUSD 0.009980.00345 +0.00653

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
OCEANUSD 0.002080.01208 -0.01000
TRACUSD 0.001830.01046 -0.00863
SUKUUSD 0.008240.01423 -0.00600
ACAUSD 0.007000.01261 -0.00561
LCXUSD 0.002200.00727 -0.00507

Foreign exchange

ZMWZAR was the most central name, carrying 6.65× the influence of an average node across 550 pairs.

pairs
550
Density
0.042
Clustering
0.421
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 0.01209 6.65× 14.8% 9.7% XAUBRL, DOPGBP, XAUZAR, USDEGP, XAUCNY
EGPZAR 2 0.00756 4.16× 10.2% 8.7% SGDZAR, ZARSGD, MXNZAR, ARSHKD, ARSUSD
ARSAUD 3 0.00739 4.07× 15.5% 8.9% XAGMXN, XAGJPY, XAGTRY, XAGCAD, XAGINR
ZARNGN 4 0.00732 4.03× 9.5% 7.1% SGDZAR, ZARTRY, USDRUB, NOKRUB, MXNZAR
XAUAUD 5 0.00727 4.00× 18.8% 8.0% AUDIDR, CZKNOK, PLNNOK, RUBJPY, BRLARS
USDMUR 6 0.00709 3.90× 3.6% 2.7% COPMXN, CADZAR, KWDEUR, JPYRSD, HUFUSD
EURZMW 7 0.00620 3.41× 1.1% 0.4% EURGHS, GHSEUR
USDUYU 8 0.00603 3.31× 6.2% 1.5% DOPUSD, DKKCOP, COPDKK, COPCLP, CADCOP
UYUGBP 9 0.00601 3.30× 6.0% 1.5% DOPUSD, COPDKK, DKKCOP, CADCOP, COPCLP
GBPUYU 10 0.00588 3.23× 6.0% 1.5% DOPUSD, COPDKK, DKKCOP, COPCLP, CADCOP

Rising influence vs 2026-08-19

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
USDUYU 0.006030.00114 +0.00489
ZARJPY 0.004570.00105 +0.00352
CHFTHB 0.004560.00109 +0.00347
ARSAUD 0.007390.00397 +0.00342
EGPZAR 0.007560.00421 +0.00335

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
ZARINR 0.002020.00865 -0.00663
KRWRUB 0.003040.00841 -0.00536
PENCOP 0.000350.00514 -0.00479
CLPBRL 0.001180.00585 -0.00467
ZARUSD 0.001310.00564 -0.00434

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.