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Daily network digest

Wednesday, September 23, 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 2.93× the influence of an average node across 1495 stocks.

stocks
1495
Density
0.235
Clustering
0.525
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 0.00196 2.93× 52.3% 8.9% MCD, HESM, RNST, USB, RF
MKL 2 0.00195 2.92× 55.0% 11.8% SPG, LIN, BNS, CLH, MPLX
PRI 3 0.00192 2.88× 57.4% 10.2% LIN, NTRS, BANF, BNS, AMT
AEP 4 0.00191 2.85× 55.4% 10.7% PBA, PRI, LNT, IRT, CVS
AIZ 5 0.00191 2.85× 60.6% 14.1% ELS, RY, SFNC, MDLZ, JPM
NTRS 6 0.00190 2.84× 51.1% 10.9% V, AGNC, FR, BRX, INVH
EQIX 7 0.00189 2.83× 62.0% 15.4% OTTR, RY, LNT, WES, MCY
MAT 8 0.00189 2.82× 58.2% 21.0% WAB, LNT, BNL, NWE, WELL
WRB 9 0.00189 2.82× 43.9% 11.2% NNI, MDLZ, GHC, BRX, SR
IEX 10 0.00186 2.78× 45.2% 12.1% PEG, STN, CINF, SR, CUBE

Volatility watch

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

SymbolScore Recent volatility
XENE 0.8831 15.86%
HHH 0.8297 4.77%
PLNT 0.7988 3.89%
NYT 0.7969 3.55%
SNX 0.7468 1.68%
GRAL 0.6614 —
AN 0.6529 4.70%
SCHW 0.6515 3.05%
ABNB 0.6472 3.41%
LECO 0.6423 0.65%

Rising influence vs 2026-09-22

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
GIB 0.001710.00010 +0.00161
ADPT 0.001560.00010 +0.00146
LOAR 0.001560.00010 +0.00145
VNO 0.001520.00010 +0.00142
THO 0.001520.00010 +0.00142

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
UI 0.000100.00199 -0.00189
CHTR 0.000100.00174 -0.00164
KDP 0.000100.00166 -0.00156
PFSI 0.000100.00164 -0.00154
LSTR 0.000100.00162 -0.00152

Cryptocurrency

XAUTUSD was the most central name, carrying 6.25× the influence of an average node across 342 assets.

assets
342
Density
0.133
Clustering
0.358
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 0.01826 6.25× 66.3% 16.1% GRTUSD, JASMYUSD, RAREUSD, LRDSUSD, RADUSD
PAXGUSD 2 0.01465 5.01× 60.4% 14.7% JASMYUSD, BLURUSD, ZRXUSD, RADUSD, GRTUSD
AERGOUSD 3 0.01407 4.81× 62.2% 16.7% XAUTUSD, PONDUSD, RSRUSD, DENTUSD, PAXGUSD
STGUSD 4 0.01111 3.80× 53.7% 16.4% IMXUSD, LRCUSD, SKYUSD, LIFIIIUSD, CGLDUSD
UNFIUSD 5 0.01043 3.57× 46.0% 27.9% JASMYUSD, FXSUSD, GALAUSD, OGNUSD, OMGUSD
LTCBTC 6 0.01039 3.55× 44.0% 8.8% ELAUSD, SHDWUSD, UNFIUSD, GSTUSD, ACSUSD
SUKUUSD 7 0.01018 3.48× 48.7% 14.4% APEUSD, EWTUSD, XMRUSD, CELRUSD, HNTUSD
ZEXUSD 8 0.01010 3.45× 54.0% 27.6% NANOUSD, POLUSD, INDEXUSD, ABTUSD, MDTUSD
SWFTCUSD 9 0.00926 3.17× 44.6% 6.2% SUKUUSD, INVUSD, XAUTUSD, STGUSD, MOVRUSD
SWELLUSD 10 0.00900 3.08× 42.2% 6.7% SYNUSD, WEUR, XRPBTC, AKTUSD, TRACUSD

Rising influence vs 2026-09-22

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
AERGOUSD 0.014070.00395 +0.01013
STGUSD 0.011110.00385 +0.00726
FXSUSD 0.008760.00248 +0.00628
INDEXUSD 0.008320.00267 +0.00565
LTCBTC 0.010390.00499 +0.00539

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
GOMININGUSD 0.003120.01300 -0.00988
MLNUSD 0.003610.01176 -0.00816
REQUSD 0.003070.00898 -0.00591
LEOUSD 0.003090.00883 -0.00573
PAXGUSD 0.014650.02017 -0.00552

Foreign exchange

ZMWZAR was the most central name, carrying 7.56× the influence of an average node across 557 pairs.

pairs
557
Density
0.031
Clustering
0.377
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 0.01357 7.56× 12.6% 7.4% ZARNGN, ZARTRY, CHFARS, XAUCNY, KRWMYR
USDEGP 2 0.01077 6.00× 14.4% 8.6% HUFCHF, HUFEUR, GBPHUF, CHFHUF, SEKINR
ZARINR 3 0.01022 5.69× 2.7% 0.2% ZMWZAR
KRWRUB 4 0.00709 3.95× 16.4% 12.1% XAUUSD, RUBKRW, XAGMXN, XAUKRW, ARSMXN
XAUJPY 5 0.00662 3.69× 10.3% 3.8% GBPNGN, ILSZAR, USDMUR, RUBCAD, USDDOP
GBPUYU 6 0.00645 3.59× 4.9% 1.3% UYUGBP, DOPUSD, COPDKK, CLPCOP, COPCAD
MADAUD 7 0.00632 3.52× 4.7% 2.5% ZARCNY, ZARIDR, ZARNGN, ZARTRY, JPYARS
USDMUR 8 0.00621 3.46× 7.9% 1.8% MUREUR, ARSCHF, ARSJPY, AUDFJD, AEDSEK
ZARHKD 9 0.00591 3.29× 7.4% 8.1% OMRZAR, AEDZAR, USDZAR, IDRZAR, ZARIDR
BWPGBP 10 0.00591 3.29× 6.8% 2.7% GBPGHS, GBPETB, PGKAUD, USDLKR, GBPPGK

Rising influence vs 2026-09-22

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
ZMWZAR 0.013570.00391 +0.00966
ZARINR 0.010220.00398 +0.00623
GHSEUR 0.005390.00035 +0.00504
KRWRUB 0.007090.00229 +0.00480
ZARHKD 0.005910.00120 +0.00471

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
USDEGP 0.010770.02038 -0.00961
XAGARS 0.000660.00749 -0.00683
KRWTHB 0.001620.00808 -0.00645
RUBUSD 0.001090.00723 -0.00614
COPCAD 0.002530.00829 -0.00576

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.