What if Cheap gas accelerates coal-to-gas switching in Asian power?
A flood of cheap LNG makes gas-fired generation competitive with coal across South and Southeast Asia, lifting structural import demand while undercutting the global thermal-coal complex.
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. A flood of cheap LNG makes gas-fired generation competitive with coal across South and Southeast Asia, lifting structural import demand while undercutting the global thermal-coal complex. The trigger decomposes into signed root‑shocks — Clean-energy abundance ▲ · European energy ▼ · Industrial demand ▲ · 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.
| Market | Class | Projected move | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Solana SOLon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Crypto | ▲ +0.6% hist -3.37–+5.98% · other way +5.06% (n=9) |
| 2 | Energy sector XLEon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Equity | ▼ -0.5% hist -0.32–+0.01% · other way -3.53% (n=10) |
| 3 | Hyperliquid (HYPE) HYPEon Hyperliquid | Crypto | ▲ +0.5% model prior · unmeasured |
| 4 | Brent crude BRENTon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Commodity | ▼ -0.4% hist -0.38–+0.08% · other way -3.01% (n=10) |
| 5 | Nasdaq 100 NDXon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Index | ▲ +0.4% hist -0.03–+0.61% · other way +0.6% (n=10) |
| 6 | ExxonMobil XOM 📈 chart | Equity | ▼ -0.4% hist -0.26–-0.13% · other way -1.52% (n=12) |
| 7 | WTI crude CLon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Commodity | ▼ -0.4% hist -1.62–+0.32% · other way -3.73% (n=10) |
| 8 | MicroStrategy MSTRon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Equity | ▲ +0.4% hist -3.06–+6.64% · other way +0.64% (n=10) |
| 9 | Ether ETHon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Crypto | ▲ +0.4% hist -0.48–+1.35% · other way -0.67% (n=10) |
| 10 | Freeport (copper) FCX 📈 chart | Equity | ▲ +0.3% hist -1.69–+7.93% · other way +0.55% (n=10) |
| 11 | Volatility (VIX) VIXon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Vol | ▼ -0.3% hist -6.46–+1.94% · other way +6.2% (n=10) |
| 12 | Bitcoin BTCon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Crypto | ▲ +0.2% hist -3.0–+4.61% · other way +2.19% (n=10) |
| 13 | Tech sector XLK 📈 chart | Equity | ▲ +0.2% hist +0.08–+0.15% · other way +0.43% (n=10) |
| 14 | United Airlines UAL 📈 chart | Equity | ▲ +0.2% hist -4.45–+15.48% · other way +0.86% (n=10) |
Probable recommendation
Historical precedent — what analogous events actually did
Across 33 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DAL DAL | LONG | +7.9% · 5d +2.1% | 75% | 22 | 0.48 | ✓ matches cascade |
| FCX FCX | LONG | +6.7% · 5d +1.0% | 67% | 26 | 0.33 | ✓ matches cascade |
| UAL UAL | LONG | +13.8% · 5d +1.2% | 63% | 23 | 0.25 | ✓ matches cascade |
| CL CL | SHORT | -1.3% · 5d -2.6% | 63% | 25 | 0.24 | ✓ matches cascade |
| Volatility VIX | SHORT | -5.7% · 5d -3.9% | 62% | 28 | 0.20 | ✓ matches cascade |
| SPX SPX | LONG | +0.8% · 5d -0.1% ↺ fades | 59% | 33 | 0.18 | ✓ matches cascade |
| COIN COIN | LONG | +17.1% · 5d +3.6% | 60% | 10 | 0.18 | ✓ matches cascade |
| NDX NDX | LONG | +0.4% · 5d -0.3% ↺ fades | 59% | 29 | 0.14 | ✓ matches cascade |
| ETH ETH | LONG | +1.1% · 5d -4.2% ↺ fades | 59% | 15 | 0.13 | ✓ matches cascade |
| XLE XLE | LONG | +0.2% · 5d -1.1% ↺ fades | 56% | 26 | 0.11 | ⚠ differs |
| SOL SOL | LONG | +5.8% · 5d -6.5% ↺ fades | 57% | 14 | 0.10 | ✓ matches cascade |
| SMH SMH | LONG | +0.3% · 5d -0.2% ↺ fades | 56% | 25 | 0.10 | ✓ matches cascade |
| CVX CVX | SHORT | -0.9% · 5d -1.2% | 54% | 33 | 0.07 | ✓ matches cascade |
| US dollar DXY | LONG | +0.2% · 5d -0.1% ↺ fades | 54% | 33 | 0.07 | · |