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Daily network digest

Tuesday, September 22, 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

NI was the most central name, carrying 3.50× the influence of an average node across 1496 stocks.

stocks
1496
Density
0.233
Clustering
0.524
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
NI 1 0.00234 3.50× 49.4% 10.0% ELS, UGI, CBU, FULT, WTS
VICI 2 0.00206 3.09× 53.6% 12.4% NDSN, BKH, POR, CM, ADC
CB 3 0.00206 3.08× 53.6% 9.0% TOWN, GILD, FTV, LAMR, MMM
UI 4 0.00199 2.97× 51.1% 26.3% TD, HIG, BPOP, CSQ, AIG
SCHW 5 0.00194 2.90× 47.7% 9.0% FCNCA, MCD, ARLP, ARMK, EWBC
ALL 6 0.00193 2.88× 59.5% 13.8% PLD, STWD, EXR, NATL, WCN
USAC 7 0.00192 2.87× 55.6% 14.0% ATO, BATRK, CB, LXP, MET
DTM 8 0.00192 2.87× 54.8% 15.0% LNG, AES, GGG, FFIN, ADT
TMUS 9 0.00188 2.81× 57.5% 20.1% CBSH, NATL, ED, WRB, AFL
BIP 10 0.00185 2.77× 49.8% 14.1% WSBC, AFG, BPOP, PFSI, PNC

Volatility watch

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

SymbolScore Recent volatility
NYT 0.9140 3.62%
HHH 0.9055 4.29%
HPQ 0.8931 4.07%
ARQT 0.8792 5.63%
AMRX 0.8734 4.78%
COP 0.8660 2.60%
NTRS 0.8606 1.59%
COO 0.8582 2.38%
LECO 0.8540 0.64%
SNX 0.8395 2.09%

Rising influence vs 2026-09-21

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
UI 0.001990.00010 +0.00189
MTDR 0.001830.00010 +0.00173
CHTR 0.001740.00010 +0.00164
MSGS 0.001710.00010 +0.00161
PFSI 0.001640.00010 +0.00154

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
CRUS 0.001000.00305 -0.00206
ETN 0.000100.00181 -0.00171
CSW 0.000100.00164 -0.00154
HHH 0.000100.00164 -0.00154
ZTS 0.000100.00163 -0.00152

Cryptocurrency

PAXGUSD was the most central name, carrying 6.90× the influence of an average node across 342 assets.

assets
342
Density
0.130
Clustering
0.359
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
PAXGUSD 1 0.02017 6.90× 75.1% 23.5% RARIEUR, XRPUSD, GUSD, ADXUSD, HIGHUSD
XAUTUSD 2 0.01997 6.83× 74.5% 24.6% RARIEUR, GUSD, XRPUSD, JTOUSD, HIGHUSD
GOMININGUSD 3 0.01300 4.45× 54.0% 19.1% GALAUSD, DEGENUSD, ATOMUSD, SPAUSD, XMRUSD
FISUSD 4 0.01279 4.37× 54.3% 14.1% MOVRUSD, HIGHUSD, C98USD, KMNOUSD, PENDLEUSD
SUKUUSD 5 0.01223 4.18× 48.4% 19.6% LRCUSD, TRACUSD, NANOUSD, CTXUSD, CGLDUSD
MLNUSD 6 0.01176 4.02× 46.0% 7.6% AMPUSD, PROUSD, SWFTCUSD, ZROUSD, BTCGBP
ELAUSD 7 0.01051 3.59× 46.3% 30.8% 1INCHUSD, BONKEUR, FILUSD, PROUSD, EIGENUSD
UNFIUSD 8 0.01025 3.50× 44.6% 33.4% STRKUSD, TRBUSD, HYPEUSD, CROUSD, GMTUSD
REQUSD 9 0.00898 3.07× 40.2% 22.9% MOGUSD, ZEUSUSD, SWFTCUSD, SUKUUSD, XMRUSD
LEOUSD 10 0.00883 3.02× 41.9% 30.2% ORCAUSD, HNTUSD, RARIEUR, BCHUSD, C98USD

Rising influence vs 2026-09-21

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
XAUTUSD 0.019970.00614 +0.01383
PAXGUSD 0.020170.00811 +0.01206
GOMININGUSD 0.013000.00460 +0.00840
MLNUSD 0.011760.00429 +0.00747
UNFIUSD 0.010250.00412 +0.00613

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
HOPRUSD 0.004010.01395 -0.00994
OCEANUSD 0.002880.01204 -0.00916
TRACUSD 0.002160.01108 -0.00892
AUDIOUSD 0.003240.00876 -0.00552
POLSUSD 0.002470.00708 -0.00461

Foreign exchange

USDEGP was the most central name, carrying 11.23× the influence of an average node across 551 pairs.

pairs
551
Density
0.034
Clustering
0.372
Diameter
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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 0.02038 11.23× 9.3% 1.8% ZARINR, SEKINR, NOKINR, ZARTRY, ZARMYR
COPCAD 2 0.00829 4.57× 6.2% 4.0% USDUGX, PENCLP, SZLGBP, BHDUSD, CLPCNY
KRWTHB 3 0.00808 4.45× 5.8% 1.6% THBINR, CHFINR, XAUINR, XAUEUR, JPYINR
XAGARS 4 0.00749 4.13× 5.3% 6.7% LKRZAR, OMRZAR, AEDZAR, EGPZAR, TZSZAR
RUBUSD 5 0.00723 3.99× 6.4% 6.5% XAUBRL, XAURUB, XAGUSD, XAUZAR, GBPINR
LKRZAR 6 0.00702 3.87× 16.4% 9.1% ZARTRY, ZARAED, ZARNGN, KRWINR, SEKINR
XAUJPY 7 0.00696 3.83× 7.5% 7.3% RUBCAD, ARSCHF, KRWTHB, BRLCAD, AEDJPY
TZSZAR 8 0.00690 3.80× 11.1% 11.3% ZARAED, KRWINR, ZARTRY, LKRZAR, ZARSGD
OMRZAR 9 0.00640 3.53× 10.4% 8.5% ZARTRY, ZARAED, ZARNGN, SEKINR, JPYRUB
ARSCOP 10 0.00636 3.50× 3.1% 2.2% LRDGBP, BOBUSD, BHDUSD, GBPLYD, LYDUSD

Rising influence vs 2026-09-21

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
USDEGP 0.020380.00369 +0.01669
COPCAD 0.008290.00230 +0.00599
XAGARS 0.007490.00209 +0.00539
KRWTHB 0.008080.00270 +0.00538
TZSZAR 0.006900.00216 +0.00474

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
ZMWZAR 0.003910.01298 -0.00906
EGPZAR 0.002040.00750 -0.00546
ZARHKD 0.001200.00661 -0.00541
USDMUR 0.002140.00750 -0.00536
EURINR 0.000280.00562 -0.00534

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.