What if insufficient battery-recycling capacity leaves lithium and cobalt secondary supply short?
Insufficient end-of-life battery recycling capacity leaves lithium, nickel and cobalt secondary supply short of demand late in the transition, tightening primary markets, an IEA circular-supply scenario.
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 mixed shock. Insufficient end-of-life battery recycling capacity leaves lithium, nickel and cobalt secondary supply short of demand late in the transition, tightening primary markets, an IEA circular-supply scenario. The trigger decomposes into signed root‑shocks — Climate/crop supply ▲ · Industrial demand ▲ · Inflation surprise ▲ · Trade tension ▲ — 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 | Semiconductors SMHon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Equity | ▼ -0.6% hist -0.38–-0.15% · other way +1.17% (n=12) |
| 2 | Nasdaq 100 NDXon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Index | ▼ -0.6% hist -0.43–+0.07% · other way +1.25% (n=12) |
| 3 | TSMC TSMon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Equity | ▼ -0.5% hist -2.65–+0.62% · other way +2.93% (n=12) |
| 4 | Freeport (copper) FCX 📈 chart | Equity | ▲ +0.4% hist -3.98–+1.37% · other way +7.57% (n=12) |
| 5 | Nvidia NVDAon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Equity | ▼ -0.4% hist -0.62–+0.02% · other way +6.78% (n=12) |
| 6 | Alibaba BABAon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Equity | ▼ -0.4% hist -2.37–+0.89% · other way -1.7% (n=9) |
| 7 | Wheat WHEATon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Commodity | ▲ +0.4% hist -0.26–+0.27% · other way +0.06% (n=12) |
| 8 | AMD AMDon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Equity | ▼ -0.4% hist -0.87–+1.2% · other way +5.2% (n=12) |
| 9 | Broadcom AVGOon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Equity | ▼ -0.4% hist -0.89–+1.3% · other way -1.23% (n=10) |
| 10 | Micron MUon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Equity | ▼ -0.4% hist -1.74–+0.62% · other way +6.1% (n=12) |
| 11 | Marvell MRVLon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Equity | ▼ -0.4% hist -1.08–+2.19% · other way +10.41% (n=12) |
| 12 | Corn CORNon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Commodity | ▲ +0.3% hist -0.86–+0.67% · other way +1.35% (n=12) |
| 13 | ASML ASMLon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Equity | ▼ -0.3% hist -2.04–+0.81% · other way -0.31% (n=12) |
| 14 | Tech sector XLK 📈 chart | Equity | ▼ -0.3% hist -0.33–+0.49% · other way +1.94% (n=12) |
Probable recommendation
Historical precedent — what analogous events actually did
Across 37 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| INTC INTC | SHORT | -4.3% · 5d -2.6% | 72% | 27 | 0.40 | ✓ matches cascade |
| CNY CNY | SHORT | -0.4% · 5d -0.1% | 67% | 24 | 0.33 | ✓ matches cascade |
| FCX FCX | SHORT | -3.8% · 5d -1.3% | 63% | 24 | 0.21 | ⚠ differs |
| TSM TSM | SHORT | -2.2% · 5d -2.6% | 63% | 24 | 0.19 | ✓ matches cascade |
| QCOM QCOM | SHORT | -2.3% · 5d -2.8% | 63% | 24 | 0.19 | ✓ matches cascade |
| WHEAT WHEAT | SHORT | -0.4% · 5d -2.5% | 59% | 24 | 0.17 | ⚠ differs |
| XLK XLK | LONG | +0.6% · 5d -1.0% ↺ fades | 61% | 24 | 0.17 | ⚠ differs |
| BABA BABA | SHORT | -2.1% · 5d -3.4% | 57% | 18 | 0.12 | ✓ matches cascade |
| MRVL MRVL | LONG | +2.3% · 5d -1.1% ↺ fades | 57% | 24 | 0.11 | ⚠ differs |
| Gold XAU | SHORT | -0.9% · 5d -0.6% | 53% | 24 | 0.06 | · |
| SMH SMH | LONG | +0.1% · 5d -1.1% ↺ fades | 53% | 24 | 0.05 | ⚠ differs |
| NDX NDX | LONG | +0.3% · 5d -1.0% ↺ fades | 54% | 26 | 0.05 | ⚠ differs |
| Volatility VIX | LONG | +2.2% · 5d +5.6% | 53% | 25 | 0.05 | · |
| US dollar DXY | LONG | +0.4% · 5d +0.2% | 52% | 36 | 0.04 | ✓ matches cascade |