🛢 Energy & Commodities mixed · 0–6 months
A what‑if from the future

What if Australian LNG strike at NWS/Gorgon spikes JKM and TTF?

A protracted labor strike across major Australian LNG plants curtails Pacific supply, spiking JKM and dragging TTF higher as Asian buyers compete for Atlantic cargoes to cover the gap.

12%
our model probability
over 0–6 months
prediction markets — wisdom of the crowd
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Empirically anchored 12% · 90% range 2–22% · 40 analogues · measured class energy 52% in 6 mo · 3% held back for the unknown
how we built this number — every step
Measured class rate — energy ≈1.4869/yr → 52% in 6 mo52%
Analyst prior · editorial share 23% of the class12%
Pooled · weight 87%12%
Crowd — no liquid market
Reserve 3% · no extremizing (×1.0)12%
Published12%

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 0–6 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 mixed shock. A protracted labor strike across major Australian LNG plants curtails Pacific supply, spiking JKM and dragging TTF higher as Asian buyers compete for Atlantic cargoes to cover the gap. The trigger decomposes into signed root‑shocks — Natural gas ▲ · European energy ▲ · Inflation surprise ▲ · 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
1Solana SOLon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCrypto▼ -0.3%
hist -3.12–+6.18% · other way -1.62% (n=10)
2Natural gas NGon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCommodity▲ +0.3%
hist -10.3–+1.79% · other way +10.12% (n=12)
3Hyperliquid (HYPE) HYPEon HyperliquidCrypto▼ -0.3%
model prior · unmeasured
4MicroStrategy MSTRon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -0.3%
hist -0.94–+1.55% · other way +16.28% (n=12)
5Ether ETHon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCrypto▼ -0.2%
hist -1.56–+0.77% · other way +5.3% (n=10)
6EUR/USD EURUSDon Hyperliquid 📈 chartFX▼ -0.2%
hist -1.31–+0.29% · other way -0.03% (n=12)
7Nasdaq 100 NDXon Hyperliquid 📈 chartIndex▼ -0.2%
hist -0.17–+0.25% · other way +0.13% (n=12)
8Bitcoin BTCon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCrypto▼ -0.2%
hist -0.3–+0.03% · other way +9.86% (n=10)
9Tech sector XLK 📈 chartEquity▼ -0.1%
hist -0.3–+0.59% · other way +0.17% (n=12)
1030y Treasury yield DGS30 📈 chartRate▲ +1bp
hist -2.26–+5.96% · other way +5.2% (n=12)
1110y Treasury yield DGS10 📈 chartRate▲ +1bp
hist -1.04–+3.58% · other way +6.4% (n=12)

Probable recommendation

If the scenario above plays out, the probable cross‑asset positioning → a scenario‑conditional read, not personalized investment advice
For a common-man portfolio: Mixed for a typical portfolio — the move is more about rotation than direction. Favour the winners over the losers below rather than net exposure.
Also moves (not yet on Hyperliquid): Tech sector -0.1% · 30y Treasury yield +1bp · 10y Treasury yield +1bp

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.

1979 Iranian Revolution oil shock 1979-01 Silver Thursday 1980-03 Gold peaks at $850 1980-01 Iran hostage crisis / US freezes Iranian assets 1979-11 Iranian Revolution oil shock 1978-12 Gold tops $4,000 and silver spikes past $50 in historic squeeze 2025-10 Israel strikes Iran — Operation Rising Lion 2025-06 Gold tops $3,000 for the first time amid tariff and rate-cut fears 2025-03 Henry Hub natural gas falls to an all-time inflation-adjusted low on record output 2024-11 October 2024 Iranian ballistic-missile attack on Israel 2024-10 Gold tops $2,500 for the first time on Fed rate-cut bets 2024-08 Niger coup d'etat 2023-07 PJM grid emergency during Winter Storm Elliott 2022-12 August 2022 hot CPI 2022-09 Powell's hawkish 'pain' speech at Jackson Hole 2022-08 Turkish lira record low on rate cuts 2021-11 European gas crisis intraday record spike 2021-10 Texas grid failure during Winter Storm Uri 2021-02 Gold closes above $2,000/oz for the first time 2020-08 Norilsk Nickel Arctic diesel spill 2020-05 Saudi-Russia oil price war 2020-03 February 2018 hot wage print triggers rate scare 2018-02 North Korea sixth nuclear test 2017-09 North Korea 'fire and fury' nuclear scare 2017-08 OPEC abandons output defense, opting for market share vs US shale 2014-11 Gold futures velocity-logic flash crash 2014-01 Gold all-time peak of $1,921/oz 2011-09 Egyptian revolution / Mubarak uprising 2011-01 Crude oil all-time high 2008-07 Crude oil all-time high 2008-07 ECB's ill-timed pre-crisis rate hike 2008-07 Henry Hub natural gas spot price peaks during 2008 commodity boom 2008-07 Platinum hits all-time record near $2,290 on South African power crisis 2008-03 South Africa Eskom power emergency spikes platinum/PGMs 2008-01 Amaranth Advisors natural-gas blowup 2006-09 Northeast blackout cascading grid failure hits ~55 million 2003-08 Soviet August coup attempt against Gorbachev 1991-08 1990-91 recession onset 1990-07 Argentina hyperinflation peak / Alfonsin early handover 1989-07 1986 oil price collapse bottoms below $10 a barrel 1986-07
AssetHistory saysAbnormal (20d · 5d)HitnConfidencevs cascade
NG NGSHORT-8.7% · 5d -4.1%71%31 0.41⚠ differs
SOL SOLLONG+6.2% · 5d -5.5% ↺ fades67%15 0.23⚠ differs
EURUSD EURUSDSHORT-1.1% · 5d -0.0%63%30 0.23✓ matches cascade
NDX NDXLONG+0.3% · 5d -0.9% ↺ fades63%35 0.21⚠ differs
Gold XAUSHORT-1.4% · 5d -0.9%61%31 0.21·
High-yield credit HYGSHORT-0.5% · 5d -0.1%62%29 0.19·
Volatility VIXLONG+2.2% · 5d +5.3%61%33 0.18·
Bitcoin BTCSHORT-0.2% · 5d -2.3%60%20 0.15✓ matches cascade
XLK XLKLONG+0.6% · 5d -0.6% ↺ fades58%31 0.13⚠ differs
US dollar DXYLONG+0.3% · 5d +0.2%56%40 0.10·
10y yield DGS10LONG+3bp · 5d +4bp52%40 0.04✓ matches cascade
MSTR MSTRLONG+1.7% · 5d -1.7% ↺ fades52%31 0.02⚠ differs
ETH ETHSHORT-1.4% · 5d -3.9%47%17 0.00✓ matches cascade
30y yield DGS30LONG+5bp · 5d +4bp50%40 0.00✓ 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.