🏛 Central Banks & Macro risk-on · 1–3 years
A what‑if from the future

What if Azerbaijan becomes the EU's strategic gas-diversification partner?

With Russian pipeline gas curtailed, Brussels deepens energy ties with Baku, locking in long-term Azeri supply that supports its receipts and the manat.

21%
our model probability
over 1–3 years
prediction markets — wisdom of the crowd
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Empirically anchored 21% · 90% range 11–32% · 40 analogues · measured class energy 99% in 3 yr · 3% held back for the unknown
how we built this number — every step
Measured class rate — energy ≈1.4869/yr → 99% in 3 yr99%
Analyst prior · editorial share 22% of the class22%
Pooled · weight 87%22%
Crowd — no liquid market
Reserve 3% · no extremizing (×1.0)22%
Published21%

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.

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What it would mean

If this plays out, it is a risk-on shock. With Russian pipeline gas curtailed, Brussels deepens energy ties with Baku, locking in long-term Azeri supply that supports its receipts and the manat. The trigger decomposes into signed root‑shocks — EM currencies ▲ · European energy ▼ · Geopolitical 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▼ -1.3%
hist -1.06–+0.67% · other way -0.95% (n=12)
2Nasdaq 100 NDXon Hyperliquid 📈 chartIndex▲ +0.6%
hist -0.46–+0.39% · other way -0.27% (n=12)
3Solana SOLon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCrypto▲ +0.4%
hist -4.58–+1.66% · other way +9.99% (n=9)
4Tech sector XLK 📈 chartEquity▲ +0.4%
hist -0.94–+0.3% · other way +-0.0% (n=12)
5Hyperliquid (HYPE) HYPEon HyperliquidCrypto▲ +0.3%
model prior · unmeasured
6Turkish lira TRY 📈 chartFX▲ +0.4%
hist -2.06–+1.29% · other way -0.08% (n=11)
7Ether ETHon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCrypto▲ +0.3%
hist -0.08–+0.56% · other way +2.47% (n=9)
8Indian rupee INR 📈 chartFX▲ +0.3%
hist +0.01–+0.14% · other way +0.34% (n=11)
9S&P 500 SPXon Hyperliquid 📈 chartIndex▲ +0.3%
hist -0.17–+2.07% · other way +0.74% (n=12)
10MicroStrategy MSTRon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▲ +0.3%
hist -4.42–+13.0% · other way +5.58% (n=12)
11Semiconductors SMHon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▲ +0.2%
hist -0.08–+0.21% · other way -0.9% (n=12)
12Chinese yuan CNY 📈 chartFX▲ +0.2%
hist -0.67–+0.19% · other way -0.62% (n=12)
13Nvidia NVDAon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▲ +0.2%
hist -0.34–+0.94% · other way -1.86% (n=12)
14High-yield credit HYG 📈 chartRate▲ +0.2%
hist -0.49–+0.12% · other way +0.93% (n=11)

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: A typical stock-heavy portfolio should benefit. Stay invested; you can lean modestly into the beneficiaries below.
Also moves (not yet on Hyperliquid): Tech sector +0.4% · Turkish lira +0.4% · Indian rupee +0.3% · Chinese yuan +0.2% · High-yield credit +0.2%

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.

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AssetHistory saysAbnormal (20d · 5d)HitnConfidencevs cascade
SPX SPXLONG+1.6% · 5d +0.4%75%40 0.46✓ matches cascade
10y yield DGS10LONG+15bp · 5d +6bp73%40 0.38·
CNY CNYSHORT-0.6% · 5d -0.2%69%39 0.37⚠ differs
High-yield credit HYGSHORT-0.5% · 5d -0.1%75%38 0.35⚠ differs
XLK XLKSHORT-0.9% · 5d -1.1%71%39 0.33⚠ differs
INR INRSHORT-0.1% · 5d +0.2% ↺ fades68%38 0.22⚠ differs
NDX NDXSHORT-0.7% · 5d -1.0%64%40 0.19⚠ differs
MSTR MSTRLONG+11.9% · 5d -1.7% ↺ fades60%39 0.18✓ matches cascade
SOL SOLSHORT-4.3% · 5d -6.0%62%38 0.17⚠ differs
Gold XAUSHORT-0.1% · 5d -1.1%57%39 0.12✓ matches cascade
Volatility VIXLONG+1.2% · 5d -2.6% ↺ fades57%40 0.11⚠ differs
SMH SMHSHORT-0.2% · 5d -1.4%52%39 0.04⚠ differs
TRY TRYSHORT-2.3% · 5d +0.3% ↺ fades50%38 0.00⚠ differs
ETH ETHLONG+0.4% · 5d -2.2% ↺ fades47%38 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.