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Daily network digest

Friday, September 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

AEP was the most central name, carrying 3.53× the influence of an average node across 1496 stocks.

stocks
1496
Density
0.240
Clustering
0.530
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
AEP 1 0.00236 3.53× 55.7% 11.3% PBA, MDLZ, PRI, IRT, RCI
EMA 2 0.00193 2.89× 47.6% 6.1% CVBF, BJ, RDN, NMIH, FHN
WRB 3 0.00192 2.87× 48.2% 11.8% NNI, MDLZ, SR, TRP, UNM
LIN 4 0.00191 2.86× 56.8% 11.0% NLY, ITGR, RGA, INDB, JNJ
NEE 5 0.00189 2.83× 55.6% 14.3% WBD, RGA, CURB, WAB, UBSI
AIZ 6 0.00187 2.80× 50.1% 15.1% ELS, SFNC, ALC, EMA, MDLZ
VTR 7 0.00187 2.79× 53.8% 17.4% EG, WBD, BMO, FULT, AB
BSX 8 0.00182 2.72× 72.9% 26.6% OGS, CPT, LNT, REG, SPG
WBD 9 0.00181 2.71× 45.5% 17.0% AIZ, NI, CSQ, PNC, BR
ESS 10 0.00181 2.71× 60.3% 12.2% RSG, AB, ONB, BNS, BXSL

Volatility watch

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

SymbolScore Recent volatility
XENE 0.8854 16.24%
GM 0.7480 3.19%
FANG 0.7406 4.38%
JBHT 0.7233 6.46%
AN 0.7155 4.57%
AVT 0.7101 4.05%
AMGN 0.7038 1.21%
MKC.V 0.7037 3.37%
KEYS 0.7025 4.17%
CASY 0.6884 3.32%

Rising influence vs 2026-09-17

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
BSX 0.001820.00010 +0.00172
ADPT 0.001710.00010 +0.00161
BKNG 0.001580.00010 +0.00148
GIB 0.001540.00010 +0.00144
MDGL 0.001510.00010 +0.00141

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
UI 0.000100.00179 -0.00169
SLG 0.000100.00167 -0.00157
CHTR 0.000100.00166 -0.00156
NXPI 0.000100.00166 -0.00156
KDP 0.000100.00160 -0.00150

Cryptocurrency

SUKUUSD was the most central name, carrying 4.82× the influence of an average node across 342 assets.

assets
342
Density
0.145
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
SUKUUSD 1 0.01411 4.82× 60.7% 23.2% ILVUSD, BCHUSD, FORTHUSD, BCHNUSD, NANOUSD
HOPRUSD 2 0.01371 4.69× 54.5% 22.6% NCTUSD, POLUSD, XRPAUD, KNCUSD, XRPUSD
OCEANUSD 3 0.01208 4.13× 55.7% 31.1% KASUSD, DENTUSD, HOPRUSD, FORTHUSD, SNXUSD
TRACUSD 4 0.01122 3.84× 53.1% 35.2% FLRUSD, WIFEUR, MINAUSD, MOVRUSD, SPELLUSD
FISUSD 5 0.01009 3.45× 49.6% 25.8% EGLDUSD, WUSD, WEUR, BTCAUD, AUCTIONUSD
NYMUSD 6 0.00915 3.13× 39.0% 17.0% AMPUSD, DOTUSD, GTCUSD, KARRATUSD, RADUSD
PAXGUSD 7 0.00820 2.80× 47.5% 25.5% SAGAUSD, SPELLUSD, STORJUSD, XDCUSD, DENTUSD
AUDIOUSD 8 0.00792 2.71× 40.2% 8.8% NYMUSD, TRACUSD, OXTUSD, ALPHAUSD, ALEOUSD
SHPINGUSD 9 0.00786 2.69× 35.5% 15.8% FLOKIUSD, XMRUSD, XRPUSD, ETHUSD, XRPAUD
PERPUSD 10 0.00781 2.67× 39.6% 14.1% STORJUSD, GTCUSD, ALEOUSD, KMNOUSD, OSMOUSD

Rising influence vs 2026-09-17

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
OCEANUSD 0.012080.00290 +0.00918
TRACUSD 0.011220.00338 +0.00783
HOPRUSD 0.013710.00659 +0.00712
SUKUUSD 0.014110.00792 +0.00619
AUDIOUSD 0.007920.00194 +0.00598

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
XAUTUSD 0.005930.02218 -0.01625
AERGOUSD 0.002400.01642 -0.01403
PAXGUSD 0.008200.01643 -0.00823
ZEXUSD 0.002840.00887 -0.00603
JTOUSD 0.001880.00708 -0.00519

Foreign exchange

USDEGP was the most central name, carrying 10.94× the influence of an average node across 555 pairs.

pairs
555
Density
0.034
Clustering
0.363
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 10.94× 9.7% 1.4% SEKINR, ZARTRY, NOKINR, ZARINR, ZARMYR
COPCAD 2 0.00918 5.10× 6.3% 4.2% USDUGX, PENCLP, SZLGBP, LSLUSD, GBPUGX
ARSCOP 3 0.00811 4.50× 3.8% 2.7% LRDGBP, BOBUSD, ARSPEN, GBPUGX, GBPLYD
KRWTHB 4 0.00763 4.23× 5.8% 1.3% THBINR, CHFINR, XAUINR, JPYINR, XAUMXN
XAGARS 5 0.00693 3.85× 4.5% 6.5% LKRZAR, OMRZAR, AEDZAR, TZSZAR, EGPZAR
TZSZAR 6 0.00689 3.82× 11.2% 11.4% ZARAED, KRWINR, ZARTRY, LKRZAR, ZARSGD
RUBCAD 7 0.00650 3.61× 10.6% 4.5% XAUJPY, XAUINR, PENCAD, MUREUR, PENGBP
LKRZAR 8 0.00642 3.56× 16.1% 8.7% ZARAED, ZARTRY, ZARNGN, KRWINR, SEKINR
COPMXN 9 0.00629 3.49× 9.0% 3.1% BRLKRW, ZAREGP, HUFUSD, GBPRUB, XAUSAR
XAUJPY 10 0.00626 3.48× 7.8% 7.8% RUBCAD, ARSCHF, MXNBRL, BRLCAD, KRWTHB

Rising influence vs 2026-09-17

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
USDEGP 0.019720.00342 +0.01629
COPCAD 0.009180.00320 +0.00598
ARSCOP 0.008110.00232 +0.00580
KRWTHB 0.007630.00246 +0.00517
XAGARS 0.006930.00212 +0.00481

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
ZMWZAR 0.003740.01258 -0.00883
EGPZAR 0.001920.00734 -0.00542
ARSAUD 0.001900.00646 -0.00457
USDMUR 0.002040.00660 -0.00456
ZARNGN 0.002900.00734 -0.00444

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.