⚔ Geopolitics risk-off · 6–18 months
A what‑if from the future

What if Armenia-Azerbaijan war reignites over a corridor?

Renewed fighting over the Zangezur corridor disrupts a Caspian-to-Turkey energy and trade route, lifting regional risk and European gas-routing concerns.

11%
our model probability
over 6–18 months
prediction markets — wisdom of the crowd
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Empirically anchored 11% · 90% range 2–19% · 40 analogues · measured class energy 89% in 18 mo · 3% held back for the unknown
how we built this number — every step
Measured class rate — energy ≈1.4869/yr → 89% in 18 mo89%
Analyst prior · editorial share 11% of the class10%
Pooled · weight 87%11%
Crowd — no liquid market
Reserve 3% · no extremizing (×1.0)11%
Published11%

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 6–18 months 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.

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What it would mean

If this plays out, it is a risk-off shock. Renewed fighting over the Zangezur corridor disrupts a Caspian-to-Turkey energy and trade route, lifting regional risk and European gas-routing concerns. The trigger decomposes into signed root‑shocks — European energy ▲ · Geopolitical risk ▲ · Oil supply risk ▲ · Risk appetite ▼ — 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.

MarketClassProjected move
1Volatility (VIX) VIXon Hyperliquid 📈 chartVol▲ +6.5%
hist +1.02–+5.78% · other way -9.61% (n=12)
2Nasdaq 100 NDXon Hyperliquid 📈 chartIndex▼ -2.6%
hist -1.85–-0.43% · other way +0.27% (n=12)
3Tech sector XLK 📈 chartEquity▼ -1.8%
hist -1.12–-0.58% · other way +0.29% (n=12)
4S&P 500 SPXon Hyperliquid 📈 chartIndex▼ -1.4%
hist -1.28–-0.31% · other way +0.66% (n=12)
5Semiconductors SMHon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -1.3%
hist -1.11–-0.29% · other way -0.2% (n=12)
6Solana SOLon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCrypto▼ -1.1%
hist -4.03–+6.52% · other way -1.88% (n=11)
7Brent crude BRENTon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCommodity▲ +1.2%
hist +0.35–+0.79% · other way +0.33% (n=12)
8MicroStrategy MSTRon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -1.2%
hist -1.88–+2.09% · other way +11.86% (n=12)
9Hyperliquid (HYPE) HYPEon HyperliquidCrypto▼ -0.9%
model prior · unmeasured
10WTI crude CLon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCommodity▲ +1.0%
hist -2.14–+1.19% · other way +4.42% (n=12)
11Ether ETHon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCrypto▼ -0.8%
hist -2.97–+0.73% · other way +4.46% (n=11)
12Bitcoin BTCon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCrypto▼ -0.7%
hist -2.91–+0.69% · other way +8.87% (n=11)
13Nvidia NVDAon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -0.9%
hist -2.9–+0.42% · other way -0.32% (n=12)
14Gold XAUon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCommodity▲ +0.6%
hist +0.02–+0.49% · other way +0.74% (n=12)

Probable recommendation

If the scenario above plays out, the probable cross‑asset positioning → a scenario‑conditional read, not personalized investment advice
Cash / hedgeRaise cash and hold the long hedges above; this scenario is net risk-off.
For a common-man portfolio: A typical stock-heavy portfolio is at risk. Consider trimming equities, raising cash, and a small gold hedge.
Also moves (not yet on Hyperliquid): Tech sector -1.8% · High-yield credit -0.7% · Financials -0.5% · United Airlines -0.6% · ExxonMobil +0.5% · JPMorgan -0.4%

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.

Israel strikes Iran — Operation Rising Lion 2025-06 October 2024 Iranian ballistic-missile attack on Israel 2024-10 Saudi-Russia oil price war 2020-03 OPEC abandons output defense, opting for market share vs US shale 2014-11 1986 oil price collapse 1986-02 Iran hostage crisis / US freezes Iranian assets 1979-11 China retaliates to Liberation Day: 34% tariffs + rare-earth controls 2025-04 Gold tops $3,000 for the first time amid tariff and rate-cut fears 2025-03 Hezbollah pager and device explosions across Lebanon 2024-09 April 2024 Iranian drone-and-missile barrage on Israel 2024-04 Ukrainian drone strikes hit Russian refineries, lifting crude and gasoline 2024-03 Gabon coup d'etat 2023-08 Niger coup d'etat 2023-07 Wagner Group mutiny against the Kremlin 2023-06 ExxonMobil posts most profitable year for any US oil company 2023-01 Nord Stream pipeline sabotage 2022-09 US-led 240-million-barrel SPR release answers the Ukraine spike 2022-03 Houthi drone-and-missile strike on Aramco's Jeddah depot 2022-03 Houthi drone-and-missile attack on Abu Dhabi oil sites lifts Brent to 7-year high 2022-01 Myanmar military coup 2021-02 Abqaiq-Khurais strike triggers the biggest Brent spike on record 2019-09 Chinese yuan breaks 7 per dollar; US names China manipulator 2019-08 Houthi drones strike Saudi East-West crude pipeline 2019-05 Bitcoin Cash hash war capitulation 2018-11 North Korea sixth nuclear test 2017-09 North Korea 'fire and fury' nuclear scare 2017-08 Thailand 2014 military coup 2014-05 Libya civil war halts output and lifts Brent above $100 2011-02 Egyptian revolution / Mubarak uprising 2011-01 2006 Lebanon War oil spike 2006-07 Iraq invasion 2003 relief rally 2003-03 Venezuela coup attempt against Hugo Chávez 2002-04 US airline stocks plunge ~40% on first trading day after 9/11 2001-09 OPEC and non-OPEC Vienna pact ends the 1998 price war 1999-03 Hong Kong defends the peg with sky-high HIBOR 1997-10 Soviet August coup attempt against Gorbachev 1991-08 Operation Desert Storm begins 1991-01 Tiananmen Square crackdown 1989-06 1986 oil price collapse bottoms below $10 a barrel 1986-07 Anwar Sadat assassinated 1981-10
AssetHistory saysAbnormal (20d · 5d)HitnConfidencevs cascade
MRVL MRVLSHORT-2.4% · 5d -3.0%73%31 0.34✓ matches cascade
NDX NDXSHORT-0.7% · 5d -0.8%72%38 0.33✓ matches cascade
COIN COINLONG+9.0% · 5d +2.2%69%15 0.31⚠ differs
AMD AMDSHORT-2.2% · 5d -1.3%69%39 0.29✓ matches cascade
NVDA NVDASHORT-2.2% · 5d -4.6%66%32 0.26✓ matches cascade
JPM JPMLONG+2.3% · 5d +0.0%64%39 0.24⚠ differs
Volatility VIXLONG+2.5% · 5d +2.5%64%35 0.23✓ matches cascade
TSM TSMSHORT-2.1% · 5d -3.2%64%33 0.22✓ matches cascade
QCOM QCOMSHORT-2.1% · 5d -1.7%63%33 0.21✓ matches cascade
INR INRSHORT-0.3% · 5d +0.1% ↺ fades63%28 0.20✓ matches cascade
CL CLSHORT-2.4% · 5d -1.5%61%31 0.19⚠ differs
MU MUSHORT-3.0% · 5d -4.1%62%38 0.19✓ matches cascade
SOL SOLLONG+7.1% · 5d -4.1% ↺ fades62%16 0.17⚠ differs
LMT LMTLONG+2.8% · 5d +0.1%60%40 0.17✓ matches cascade

Methodology. Probability and impact are anchored to history and scored against what actually happens — wins and losses, in public, at Reality Check. Crowd odds live from Polymarket & Kalshi. By Vikas Singh, Quantitative Strategist. Updated 2026-07-03.