What if Argentina scraps the peso and adopts the dollar?
Full dollarization is risk-ON for Argentine assets: rally GD-bonds and ADRs (YPF, banks) on regime-credibility, tighter Argentine spreads, a LatAm sympathy bid. The template is Ecuador 2000 and El Salvador 2001 dollarization, which compressed sovereign risk and stabilized prices. But the cascade is built on a false macro premise — Argentina dollarizing has negligible effect on US Treasuries, gold, or DXY; those lines (30y -7bp, gold -2%, Nikkei analogues) are spurious. The local credit/equity rally is the only real trade.
how we built this number — every step
The class rate is measured from our dated, sourced event library (decade-normalized Poisson — the full table is public at base_rates.json). The variant’s share within its class is the analyst’s editorial call, published so you can audit it. A wider range means thinner precedent. Full recipe: methodology · scored at Reality Check.
The butterfly cascade
How this trigger trickles across markets, left → right — the root shock, its first‑order moves, then the ripple effects. Drag any node; tap a market for its real price history.
Resolution timeline — how this probability is moving
Our model's odds (gold) over time vs the crowd's (Polymarket, blue), from the past toward the 1–3 years horizon. Each dot is a real macro event that nudged the probability — green pushed it up, red pushed it down. Tap a dot for the source. The gold path is an illustrative reconstruction anchored to today's estimate — real dated events, not a live re-estimate history.
What it would mean
If this plays out, it is a risk-on shock. Buenos Aires legislates full dollarization, scraps the peso, sparking a Latam-wide rally in Argentine ADRs and BCS bonds. The trigger decomposes into signed root‑shocks — FX carry appetite ▲ · Credit spreads ▼ · Risk appetite ▲ · EM currencies ▲ — which propagate through our causal graph to the markets below.
If it happens — the markets it would move
Biggest moves first. Projected moves are cascade-model priors; hist A–B% = what comparable past events actually did (measured abnormal returns), and model prior · unmeasured marks markets with no analogue backing yet. Tap any market for its price history.
| Market | Class | Projected move | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | MicroStrategy MSTRon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Equity | ▲ +1.2% hist -7.62–+2.6% · other way +8.76% (n=11) |
| 2 | Solana SOLon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Crypto | ▲ +0.9% hist -4.54–+0.93% · other way +24.08% (n=7) |
| 3 | Nasdaq 100 NDXon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Index | ▲ +0.8% hist +0.13–+0.87% · other way +1.56% (n=11) |
| 4 | Hyperliquid (HYPE) HYPEon Hyperliquid | Crypto | ▲ +0.8% model prior · unmeasured |
| 5 | Turkish lira TRY 📈 chart | FX | ▲ +0.7% hist -5.81–+1.04% · other way -0.14% (n=10) |
| 6 | Volatility (VIX) VIXon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Vol | ▼ -0.7% hist -1.03–+0.05% · other way -4.71% (n=11) |
| 7 | Ether ETHon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Crypto | ▲ +0.7% hist -7.34–+2.45% · other way +5.0% (n=8) |
| 8 | Bitcoin BTCon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Crypto | ▲ +0.7% hist -1.92–+1.05% · other way +5.29% (n=8) |
| 9 | High-yield credit HYG 📈 chart | Rate | ▲ +0.7% hist +0.02–+0.37% · other way +1.38% (n=10) |
| 10 | Indian rupee INR 📈 chart | FX | ▲ +0.6% hist -0.66–+0.47% · other way +0.65% (n=10) |
| 11 | S&P 500 SPXon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Index | ▲ +0.6% hist -0.02–+0.83% · other way +0.03% (n=12) |
| 12 | Financials XLF 📈 chart | Equity | ▲ +0.5% hist +0.04–+0.21% · other way -2.31% (n=11) |
| 13 | Tech sector XLK 📈 chart | Equity | ▲ +0.5% hist -0.15–+0.99% · other way +1.2% (n=11) |
| 14 | Coinbase COINon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Equity | ▲ +0.5% hist -0.42–+0.48% · other way +4.95% (n=4) |
Probable recommendation
Why we may diverge from history
Trust the cascade's LONG ETH: the -9% history is built from EM-FX-stress windows (lira, Sheinbaum) structurally opposite to a risk-on dollarization rally — thin n=7, wrong-regime analogues mis-sign the move.
Historical precedent — what analogous events actually did
Across 40 analogous events (overlap‑weighted), as abnormal returns — market beta stripped, so it's the event's own effect, not the market backdrop. Shown at 20 days (persistent) and 5 days (immediate); ↺ fades = the two horizons disagree. Confidence = consistency × sample × significance.
| Asset | History says | Abnormal (20d · 5d) | Hit | n | Confidence | vs cascade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TRY TRY | SHORT | -5.0% · 5d -0.5% | 72% | 30 | 0.43 | ⚠ differs |
| SOL SOL | SHORT | -4.0% · 5d -9.2% | 74% | 20 | 0.37 | ⚠ differs |
| XLF XLF | SHORT | -0.1% · 5d -0.1% | 65% | 31 | 0.28 | ⚠ differs |
| CNY CNY | SHORT | -0.3% · 5d -0.4% | 68% | 30 | 0.28 | ⚠ differs |
| JPM JPM | SHORT | -2.0% · 5d -1.0% | 65% | 39 | 0.26 | ⚠ differs |
| MSTR MSTR | SHORT | -7.2% · 5d -4.2% | 65% | 32 | 0.24 | ⚠ differs |
| INR INR | SHORT | -0.9% · 5d -0.2% | 62% | 30 | 0.23 | ⚠ differs |
| ETH ETH | SHORT | -6.9% · 5d -6.7% | 65% | 22 | 0.20 | ⚠ differs |
| AVGO AVGO | LONG | +1.8% · 5d -1.0% ↺ fades | 60% | 29 | 0.19 | ✓ matches cascade |
| High-yield credit HYG | SHORT | -0.2% · 5d +0.0% ↺ fades | 62% | 30 | 0.18 | ⚠ differs |
| SPX SPX | LONG | +0.5% · 5d +0.6% | 58% | 39 | 0.15 | ✓ matches cascade |
| Bitcoin BTC | SHORT | -2.1% · 5d -3.2% | 59% | 26 | 0.13 | ⚠ differs |
| AUD AUD | SHORT | -0.7% · 5d -0.8% | 57% | 30 | 0.13 | ⚠ differs |
| MRVL MRVL | SHORT | -0.7% · 5d -2.5% | 57% | 31 | 0.12 | ⚠ differs |
Why this probability
Full legislated dollarization remains politically/operationally hard; Milei has shelved it; low even over 1-3y. A base‑rate‑anchored prior, continuously scored against what actually happens — not a forecast.