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Daily network digest

Monday, October 26, 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 2.98× the influence of an average node across 1493 stocks.

stocks
1493
Density
0.238
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 0.00200 2.98× 55.2% 9.2% UBSI, FULT, UGI, VMI, ATR
PFE 2 0.00189 2.82× 53.2% 12.1% FFIN, CATY, VICI, EPD, GL
VICI 3 0.00186 2.78× 48.4% 12.2% GNTX, REG, BKH, WM, NDSN
JBS 4 0.00183 2.73× 66.0% 31.2% PEN, NSC, EMA, CB, AEE
BIP 5 0.00182 2.71× 36.7% 15.8% AFG, WSBC, BCPC, ADC, FAST
KIM 6 0.00181 2.71× 52.5% 9.5% VLY, WRB, AVA, OTTR, ITRI
MDGL 7 0.00181 2.70× 56.2% 25.1% MFC, PFE, CZR, JPM, VMC
CSQ 8 0.00180 2.69× 42.9% 4.2% SRE, COR, COO, UHAL.B, OHI
INVH 9 0.00180 2.69× 41.2% 12.9% MMM, FE, DTE, TT, VLTO
MPLX 10 0.00177 2.64× 57.7% 10.6% PLD, PEP, BCPC, HLT, AVA

Volatility watch

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

SymbolScore Recent volatility
FCFS 0.8510 7.41%
CWST 0.8325 4.85%
WCN 0.7960 4.08%
HHH 0.7947 2.02%
MSM 0.7939 8.55%
RRC 0.7675 6.97%
R 0.7570 3.82%
CURB 0.7453 3.52%
VNO 0.7340 2.04%
ALLE 0.7317 4.37%

Rising influence vs 2026-10-23

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
UI 0.001690.00010 +0.00159
PHM 0.001650.00010 +0.00155
USB 0.001640.00010 +0.00154
MRK 0.001610.00010 +0.00151
SBAC 0.001580.00010 +0.00148

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
CRUS 0.000840.00290 -0.00206
HEI.A 0.000100.00189 -0.00178
HWM 0.000100.00185 -0.00175
A 0.000100.00173 -0.00163
CUZ 0.000100.00172 -0.00162

Cryptocurrency

STGUSD was the most central name, carrying 4.88× the influence of an average node across 339 assets.

assets
339
Density
0.150
Clustering
0.374
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
STGUSD 1 0.01439 4.88× 66.3% 20.1% LRCUSD, BNTUSD, RENUSD, IMXUSD, CGLDUSD
AERGOUSD 2 0.01319 4.47× 58.6% 17.8% PRCLUSD, GSTUSD, PONDUSD, RSRUSD, XAUTUSD
ZEXUSD 3 0.01032 3.50× 55.9% 31.1% ABTUSD, POLUSD, ARKMUSD, NANOUSD, ZKUSD
UNFIUSD 4 0.00941 3.19× 46.4% 38.5% SCUSD, JASMYUSD, GALAUSD, FXSUSD, ENSUSD
XMRUSD 5 0.00935 3.17× 45.3% 14.2% ALCXUSD, ANKRUSD, GLMRUSD, PHAUSD, XRPBTC
XAUTUSD 6 0.00908 3.08× 49.7% 16.3% LIFIIIUSD, MLNUSD, LSKUSD, INDEXUSD, HIGHUSD
SUKUUSD 7 0.00857 2.91× 46.7% 23.1% XMRUSD, RAREUSD, RAYUSD, CELRUSD, AVAXUSD
XRPBTC 8 0.00830 2.81× 44.1% 12.4% STGUSD, SDUSD, POLSUSD, SUKUUSD, GHSTUSD
LIFIIIUSD 9 0.00810 2.74× 39.1% 22.5% INDEXUSD, BTRSTUSD, XRPBTC, UNIUSD, XLMUSD
SKYUSD 10 0.00796 2.70× 35.8% 19.2% SUPERUSD, FILUSD, TRACUSD, LIFIIIUSD, PYRUSD

Rising influence vs 2026-10-25

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
STGUSD 0.014390.00367 +0.01071
AERGOUSD 0.013190.00389 +0.00930
GSTUSD 0.007940.00247 +0.00547
FXSUSD 0.007890.00262 +0.00527
BLZUSD 0.007680.00249 +0.00519

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
ELAUSD 0.003740.00996 -0.00622
GOMININGUSD 0.002820.00893 -0.00611
MLNUSD 0.003830.00980 -0.00597
CHZUSD 0.001290.00545 -0.00417
PERPUSD 0.003070.00712 -0.00405

Foreign exchange

ZMWZAR was the most central name, carrying 7.75× the influence of an average node across 580 pairs.

pairs
580
Density
0.035
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 0.01336 7.75× 13.1% 9.8% DOPGBP, XAUBRL, NOKRUB, ARSUSD, USDEGP
ZARNGN 2 0.00895 5.19× 9.7% 7.1% SGDZAR, XAUZAR, LKRZAR, ZARTRY, USDRUB
USDMUR 3 0.00849 4.93× 3.6% 3.5% CADZAR, COPMXN, KWDEUR, HUFUSD, ARSZAR
ZARHKD 4 0.00836 4.85× 9.5% 4.8% OMRZAR, DKKINR, MXNCAD, ZARGBP, ZARCNY
EGPZAR 5 0.00719 4.17× 8.1% 7.9% SGDZAR, RUBUSD, RUBMXN, ZARSGD, ARSUSD
UYUEUR 6 0.00711 4.12× 3.8% 1.0% EURMUR, GBPNPR, GBPBTN, MXNCLP, USDQAR
ZARJPY 7 0.00680 3.94× 6.4% 8.6% NOKRUB, XAUUSD, USDRUB, XAUCNY, XAUBRL
ARSAUD 8 0.00664 3.85× 12.3% 3.5% MYRIDR, THBMYR, ZARMYR, INRMYR, ZARHKD
EURINR 9 0.00650 3.77× 1.0% 0.3% USDMUR, SCRUSD
RUBCHF 10 0.00630 3.66× 24.4% 8.5% ZMWZAR, ZARNGN, XAUAUD, OMRZAR, AEDZAR

Rising influence vs 2026-10-23

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
ZMWZAR 0.013360.00363 +0.00973
ZARHKD 0.008360.00153 +0.00683
ZARJPY 0.006800.00061 +0.00619
USDMUR 0.008490.00233 +0.00617
EURINR 0.006500.00104 +0.00547

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
USDEGP 0.003720.01759 -0.01386
KRWTHB 0.002420.00920 -0.00678
LKRZAR 0.002530.00807 -0.00554
XAGARS 0.002030.00710 -0.00506
TZSZAR 0.002110.00670 -0.00460

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.