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Daily network digest

Monday, September 21, 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

CRUS was the most central name, carrying 4.56× the influence of an average node across 1494 stocks.

stocks
1494
Density
0.222
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
CRUS 1 0.00305 4.56× 67.2% 17.0% EVRG, SRE, SSB, RITM, XEL
BATRA 2 0.00230 3.44× 54.5% 6.6% DIS, FIBK, TDG, CFG, PAA
MPLX 3 0.00202 3.02× 46.0% 8.4% EGP, BCO, CTVA, WRB, AWK
COST 4 0.00200 2.98× 50.1% 12.4% EMA, LNT, PG, WBD, NI
GSAT 5 0.00195 2.91× 52.4% 17.1% FTS, CBSH, ATO, ADT, BMO
TTC 6 0.00194 2.89× 46.6% 15.0% D, TOWN, APD, AES, CHD
MCHB 7 0.00193 2.89× 55.5% 16.5% IDA, SO, GWW, AWR, NI
EMA 8 0.00192 2.87× 61.6% 7.5% V, KMB, NDAQ, KGS, STT
ATO 9 0.00191 2.85× 48.7% 6.8% FITB, HEI.A, USAC, MAIN, FHN
D 10 0.00189 2.83× 47.4% 9.4% KO, BNS, DLR, MSA, HEI.A

Volatility watch

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

SymbolScore Recent volatility
COO 0.8813 2.45%
AMRX 0.8283 4.79%
AMGN 0.8260 1.37%
XENE 0.8165 16.12%
HHH 0.8006 4.34%
NXST 0.7867 3.83%
QRVO 0.7655 5.12%
RUSHB 0.7538 3.68%
MGY 0.7516 4.42%
MTDR 0.7279 4.67%

Rising influence vs 2026-09-18

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
CRUS 0.003050.00010 +0.00295
ETN 0.001810.00010 +0.00171
DLR 0.001730.00010 +0.00163
ERIE 0.001670.00010 +0.00157
CSW 0.001640.00010 +0.00154

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
MAT 0.000100.00180 -0.00170
ADPT 0.000100.00171 -0.00161
BKNG 0.000100.00158 -0.00148
REGN 0.000100.00158 -0.00148
LLYVA 0.000100.00156 -0.00146

Cryptocurrency

HOPRUSD was the most central name, carrying 4.77× the influence of an average node across 342 assets.

assets
342
Density
0.138
Clustering
0.362
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
HOPRUSD 1 0.01395 4.77× 53.1% 21.4% XRPAUD, NCTUSD, XRPUSD, FXSUSD, QTUMUSD
SUKUUSD 2 0.01318 4.51× 56.9% 25.2% YFIUSD, BCHNUSD, BCHUSD, ILVUSD, NANOUSD
OCEANUSD 3 0.01204 4.12× 53.4% 32.3% HOPRUSD, ACSUSD, SNXUSD, ETCUSD, DENTUSD
TRACUSD 4 0.01108 3.79× 49.3% 34.0% FLRUSD, XYOUSD, XDCUSD, SPELLUSD, WIFEUR
FISUSD 5 0.00992 3.39× 46.3% 24.6% WUSD, BTCEUR, BTCAUD, EGLDUSD, BTCUSD
NYMUSD 6 0.00879 3.01× 36.1% 16.7% AMPUSD, GTCUSD, RADUSD, KARRATUSD, LRCUSD
AUDIOUSD 7 0.00876 3.00× 40.5% 8.8% TRACUSD, FISUSD, NYMUSD, OCEANUSD, ZEUSUSD
SHPINGUSD 8 0.00875 2.99× 37.8% 13.8% FLOKIUSD, XRPUSD, XMRUSD, XRPAUD, ETHUSD
PAXGUSD 9 0.00811 2.77× 44.9% 30.2% SAGAUSD, AKTUSD, DENTUSD, XDCUSD, DIAUSD
XMRUSD 10 0.00803 2.75× 32.0% 21.7% TRACUSD, DOGEUSD, MORPHOUSD, MATHUSD, 1INCHUSD

Rising influence vs 2026-09-20

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
OCEANUSD 0.012040.00334 +0.00870
TRACUSD 0.011080.00315 +0.00793
HOPRUSD 0.013950.00696 +0.00699
AUDIOUSD 0.008760.00202 +0.00674
SHPINGUSD 0.008750.00304 +0.00571

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
XAUTUSD 0.006140.02393 -0.01779
AERGOUSD 0.002600.01611 -0.01351
PAXGUSD 0.008110.01782 -0.00970
ZEXUSD 0.003060.01100 -0.00794
JTOUSD 0.001860.00835 -0.00649

Foreign exchange

ZMWZAR was the most central name, carrying 7.19× the influence of an average node across 554 pairs.

pairs
554
Density
0.040
Clustering
0.410
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 0.01298 7.19× 14.1% 10.1% DOPGBP, XAUBRL, ZARSGD, USDEGP, INRMYR
ZARNGN 2 0.00871 4.83× 9.0% 7.6% SGDZAR, USDRUB, LKRZAR, ZARTRY, NOKRUB
EGPZAR 3 0.00750 4.16× 9.9% 8.1% SGDZAR, MXNZAR, ZARSGD, LKRZAR, KRWRUB
USDMUR 4 0.00750 4.15× 3.8% 3.1% COPMXN, CADZAR, KWDEUR, ZARARS, HUFUSD
UYUEUR 5 0.00668 3.70× 4.0% 1.3% EURMUR, GBPNPR, GBPBTN, MXNCLP, USDQAR
ARSAUD 6 0.00668 3.70× 14.3% 7.4% JPYMYR, MYRIDR, PHPJPY, JPYUSD, USDJPY
ZARHKD 7 0.00661 3.66× 8.5% 5.4% OMRZAR, KRWINR, ZARGBP, ZARCNY, DKKINR
USDUYU 8 0.00594 3.29× 5.8% 1.4% DOPUSD, COPDKK, DKKCOP, COPCLP, GBPCOP
UYUGBP 9 0.00584 3.23× 5.4% 1.4% DOPUSD, COPDKK, DKKCOP, COPCLP, GBPCOP
GBPUYU 10 0.00581 3.22× 5.8% 1.4% DOPUSD, DKKCOP, COPDKK, COPCLP, GBPCOP

Rising influence vs 2026-09-18

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
ZMWZAR 0.012980.00374 +0.00923
ZARNGN 0.008710.00290 +0.00581
EGPZAR 0.007500.00192 +0.00558
USDMUR 0.007500.00204 +0.00545
ZARHKD 0.006610.00119 +0.00542

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
USDEGP 0.003690.01972 -0.01602
COPCAD 0.002300.00918 -0.00688
ARSCOP 0.002040.00811 -0.00607
KRWTHB 0.002700.00763 -0.00493
XAGARS 0.002090.00693 -0.00483

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.