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Daily network digest

Thursday, October 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

WRB was the most central name, carrying 3.37× the influence of an average node across 1497 stocks.

stocks
1497
Density
0.239
Clustering
0.528
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
WRB 1 0.00225 3.37× 57.2% 11.6% GHC, GBDC, D, MDLZ, WEC
AEP 2 0.00224 3.35× 59.0% 10.8% PBA, PRI, SBCF, OBDC, OUT
WEC 3 0.00214 3.20× 54.8% 8.6% BNT, HUBB, MAIN, WAL, TT
EXC 4 0.00213 3.19× 54.6% 10.5% MDLZ, MAIN, ACT, UNM, COO
MKL 5 0.00212 3.17× 65.2% 11.5% FRT, CLH, BMO, WTFC, CNP
AFL 6 0.00193 2.89× 56.3% 10.8% DUK, HUBB, RHP, SR, OGS
PRI 7 0.00193 2.89× 57.4% 12.3% LIN, NSC, NTRS, MCHB, BNT
SR 8 0.00192 2.87× 39.2% 9.1% RNST, HESM, GGG, MNST, SSNC
ESS 9 0.00190 2.85× 48.1% 10.2% ONB, AB, ABT, CINF, APG
LOPE 10 0.00186 2.78× 62.1% 16.8% AFL, AEP, TD, IEP, MKL

Volatility watch

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

SymbolScore Recent volatility
FCFS 0.9036 7.16%
MSM 0.8977 7.79%
GGG 0.8362 7.49%
WCN 0.8029 4.28%
CRS 0.7650 9.98%
AMT 0.7628 2.33%
BMI 0.7506 5.36%
VZ 0.7442 2.32%
CPB 0.7209 4.36%
KEYS 0.7205 4.56%

Rising influence vs 2026-10-21

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
PHG 0.001730.00010 +0.00163
IONS 0.001610.00010 +0.00151
MAT 0.001600.00010 +0.00150
A 0.001560.00010 +0.00146
DKS 0.001540.00010 +0.00144

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
UI 0.000100.00191 -0.00181
MGA 0.000100.00172 -0.00162
CHTR 0.000100.00166 -0.00156
URBN 0.000100.00165 -0.00155
BIPC 0.000100.00158 -0.00148

Cryptocurrency

FISUSD was the most central name, carrying 4.37× the influence of an average node across 342 assets.

assets
342
Density
0.173
Clustering
0.401
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 0.01277 4.37× 62.5% 13.5% MOVRUSD, AVTUSD, KMNOUSD, HIGHUSD, ARKMUSD
MLNUSD 2 0.01069 3.66× 54.3% 13.5% HBARUSD, AMPUSD, FISUSD, LTCBTC, POWRUSD
ELAUSD 3 0.01023 3.50× 53.7% 32.6% 1INCHUSD, BONKEUR, PROUSD, ADAUSD, EIGENUSD
SUKUUSD 4 0.01019 3.48× 56.9% 29.9% LRCUSD, DNTUSD, TRACUSD, SHIBUSD, FISUSD
BLASTUSD 5 0.01017 3.48× 57.5% 10.0% MATHUSD, XMRUSD, SDUSD, LQTYUSD, TRBUSD
UNFIUSD 6 0.00870 2.98× 41.1% 39.6% STRKUSD, ARBUSD, OCEANUSD, SEIUSD, UNIUSD
SWFTCUSD 7 0.00787 2.69× 50.1% 9.4% NYMUSD, SGBUSD, SWELLUSD, USTUSD, UNIUSD
GOMININGUSD 8 0.00780 2.67× 44.9% 26.7% DEGENUSD, GALAUSD, ATOMUSD, SPAUSD, DIMOUSD
XAUTUSD 9 0.00765 2.62× 49.6% 19.9% HIGHUSD, XRPUSD, JTOUSD, ADXUSD, ALPHAUSD
LTCBTC 10 0.00738 2.52× 44.6% 14.1% BCHEUR, SKYUSD, PERPUSD, KAVAUSD, IDEXUSD

Rising influence vs 2026-10-21

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
ELAUSD 0.010230.00307 +0.00716
MLNUSD 0.010690.00385 +0.00684
FISUSD 0.012770.00758 +0.00519
XAUTUSD 0.007650.00334 +0.00432
SDUSD 0.006310.00209 +0.00422

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
TRACUSD 0.002050.01074 -0.00869
A8USD 0.002240.00756 -0.00533
AUDIOUSD 0.003730.00876 -0.00504
IDEXUSD 0.002850.00733 -0.00449
ACSUSD 0.001960.00575 -0.00379

Foreign exchange

ZMWZAR was the most central name, carrying 8.10× the influence of an average node across 586 pairs.

pairs
586
Density
0.034
Clustering
0.379
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 0.01383 8.10× 13.3% 9.2% DOPGBP, NOKRUB, XAUUSD, USDEGP, XAUBRL
ZARNGN 2 0.00941 5.52× 10.4% 6.7% SGDZAR, RUBCHF, USDRUB, LKRZAR, XAUZAR
ZARHKD 3 0.00836 4.90× 9.1% 4.8% OMRZAR, MXNCAD, KRWINR, CHFZAR, DKKINR
USDMUR 4 0.00816 4.78× 3.4% 3.2% CADZAR, COPMXN, ZARARS, USDHUF, ARSZAR
ZARJPY 5 0.00720 4.22× 6.5% 8.9% NOKRUB, XAUCNY, XAUUSD, LKRZAR, CADRUB
UYUEUR 6 0.00713 4.18× 3.6% 1.2% GBPBTN, EURMUR, GBPNPR, MXNCLP, USDQAR
EGPZAR 7 0.00705 4.13× 8.5% 7.7% SGDZAR, ZARSGD, LKRZAR, ARSHKD, ARSUSD
RUBCHF 8 0.00679 3.98× 23.4% 8.2% ZMWZAR, ZARNGN, XAUAUD, OMRZAR, ZARJPY
EURRUB 9 0.00664 3.89× 5.3% 1.4% COPCLP, USDPYG, COPCAD, COPDKK, USDZMW
EURINR 10 0.00606 3.55× 1.2% 0.3% USDMUR, SCRUSD

Rising influence vs 2026-10-21

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
ZMWZAR 0.013830.00677 +0.00706
ZARJPY 0.007200.00036 +0.00685
ZARNGN 0.009410.00426 +0.00515
EURINR 0.006060.00153 +0.00453
RUBCHF 0.006790.00265 +0.00415

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
ZARINR 0.002360.01318 -0.01082
GBPNGN 0.000390.01025 -0.00986
USDEGP 0.004030.01061 -0.00658
MADAUD 0.000950.00730 -0.00635
KRWRUB 0.002870.00813 -0.00526

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.