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Daily network digest

Thursday, October 1, 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 3.11× the influence of an average node across 1495 stocks.

stocks
1495
Density
0.236
Clustering
0.526
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 0.00208 3.11× 55.3% 10.8% PBA, PRI, CZR, OBDC, IRT
BNT 2 0.00205 3.07× 63.5% 14.5% CSQ, PAA, DTM, BANF, NI
SR 3 0.00195 2.91× 52.1% 8.9% RNST, HESM, MCD, RF, IFS
AIZ 4 0.00192 2.87× 60.5% 14.6% ELS, SWX, RY, MDLZ, EHC
PRI 5 0.00191 2.86× 57.6% 11.0% LIN, NTRS, NSC, BNS, ESS
BNS 6 0.00187 2.79× 57.8% 11.5% ALLE, FTV, PAG, FR, PRK
ESS 7 0.00186 2.79× 54.5% 11.6% BNS, BXSL, AB, RF, PG
DLB 8 0.00186 2.78× 66.7% 15.9% GSAT, ITW, POR, OTTR, AFG
WRB 9 0.00181 2.71× 43.8% 11.8% GHC, MDLZ, NNI, D, SR
OGS 10 0.00180 2.68× 45.1% 10.0% BATRK, BNT, HUBB, ALLE, WSFS

Rising influence vs 2026-09-30

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
BSX 0.001670.00010 +0.00157
MDGL 0.001610.00010 +0.00151
HEI.A 0.001580.00010 +0.00148
CMCSA 0.001580.00010 +0.00148
VIRT 0.001560.00010 +0.00146

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
UI 0.000100.00195 -0.00185
CHTR 0.000100.00172 -0.00162
NEU 0.000100.00168 -0.00158
HRL 0.000100.00165 -0.00155
MGA 0.000100.00161 -0.00151

Cryptocurrency

FISUSD was the most central name, carrying 4.72× the influence of an average node across 342 assets.

assets
342
Density
0.144
Clustering
0.361
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
FISUSD 1 0.01379 4.72× 61.3% 14.7% HIGHUSD, MOVRUSD, AVTUSD, PENDLEUSD, RARIEUR
MLNUSD 2 0.01239 4.24× 53.4% 10.0% AMPUSD, LTCBTC, FLOWUSD, FLRUSD, FISUSD
GOMININGUSD 3 0.01221 4.18× 52.8% 20.2% GALAUSD, DEGENUSD, GOATUSD, SPAUSD, IOTUSD
SUKUUSD 4 0.01096 3.75× 49.3% 22.9% LRCUSD, TRACUSD, CTXUSD, NANOUSD, DNTUSD
LTCBTC 5 0.00938 3.21× 41.6% 16.7% PERPUSD, BCHEUR, LCXUSD, KAVAUSD, POLSUSD
UNFIUSD 6 0.00913 3.12× 40.2% 38.1% STRKUSD, TRBUSD, PNUTUSD, GMTUSD, UNIUSD
XDCUSD 7 0.00912 3.12× 44.3% 9.7% NCTUSD, GLMUSD, BTCAUD, WHBTUSD, RADUSD
XAUTUSD 8 0.00860 2.94× 44.9% 15.5% ADXUSD, HIGHUSD, XRPUSD, JTOUSD, BADGERUSD
ELAUSD 9 0.00838 2.87× 41.9% 29.0% 1INCHUSD, BONKEUR, UMAUSD, EIGENUSD, PRIMEUSD
PAXGUSD 10 0.00837 2.86× 44.3% 13.8% XRPUSD, BADGERUSD, HIGHUSD, JTOUSD, RARIEUR

Rising influence vs 2026-09-30

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
GOMININGUSD 0.012210.00360 +0.00861
MLNUSD 0.012390.00452 +0.00787
FISUSD 0.013790.00787 +0.00593
LTCBTC 0.009380.00351 +0.00587
SKYUSD 0.007840.00264 +0.00520

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
TRACUSD 0.001870.01164 -0.00977
POLSUSD 0.002360.00969 -0.00733
A8USD 0.001970.00754 -0.00557
AUDIOUSD 0.003580.00874 -0.00516
HOPRUSD 0.004130.00891 -0.00479

Foreign exchange

ZMWZAR was the most central name, carrying 7.18× the influence of an average node across 562 pairs.

pairs
562
Density
0.036
Clustering
0.397
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
ZMWZAR 1 0.01278 7.18× 13.5% 10.9% XAUBRL, DOPGBP, JPYRUB, USDEGP, XAUUSD
ZARNGN 2 0.00867 4.87× 8.9% 8.2% SGDZAR, USDRUB, MXNZAR, BRLRUB, ZARTRY
ZARHKD 3 0.00859 4.83× 8.7% 5.5% OMRZAR, GBPINR, MXNCAD, INRKRW, ZARGBP
USDMUR 4 0.00810 4.55× 3.7% 3.4% COPMXN, CADZAR, KWDEUR, ZARARS, USDHUF
EGPZAR 5 0.00765 4.30× 10.0% 8.7% SGDZAR, MXNZAR, LKRZAR, ZARSGD, BRLRUB
UYUEUR 6 0.00723 4.07× 3.9% 1.2% GBPNPR, EURMUR, GBPBTN, MXNCLP, USDQAR
ZARJPY 7 0.00707 3.97× 6.1% 8.6% NOKRUB, XAUUSD, HKDBRL, USDRUB, LKRZAR
EURINR 8 0.00644 3.62× 0.9% 0.4% USDMUR, SCRUSD
RUBCHF 9 0.00610 3.43× 23.7% 9.6% ZMWZAR, OMRZAR, EGPZAR, ZARJPY, AEDZAR
ARSAUD 10 0.00595 3.35× 11.1% 5.2% THBMYR, MYRIDR, INRMYR, BWPZAR, HUFCAD

Rising influence vs 2026-09-30

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
ZARJPY 0.007070.00036 +0.00671
EURINR 0.006440.00146 +0.00497
RUBCHF 0.006100.00194 +0.00417
UYUEUR 0.007230.00316 +0.00407
CHFTHB 0.005070.00109 +0.00398

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
ZARINR 0.002590.01140 -0.00881
USDEGP 0.003870.01126 -0.00739
ZARBWP 0.003200.00877 -0.00557
ZARUSD 0.001490.00608 -0.00459
KRWRUB 0.003050.00739 -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.