⚔ Geopolitics risk-off · 1–3 years
A what‑if from the future

What if China-Vietnam clash at Vanguard Bank over oil drilling?

CCG and survey ships block a Vietnamese gas project at Vanguard Bank, sparking a maritime standoff; VND and Vietnamese equities dip, Brent and tanker war-risk premia rise.

10%
our model probability
over 1–3 years
prediction markets — wisdom of the crowd
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Empirically anchored 10% · 90% range 1–18% · 40 analogues · measured class vol_spike 89% in 3 yr · 3% held back for the unknown
how we built this number — every step
Measured class rate — vol_spike ≈0.7371/yr → 89% in 3 yr89%
Analyst prior · editorial share 9% of the class8%
Pooled · weight 87%10%
Crowd — no liquid market
Reserve 3% · no extremizing (×1.0)10%
Published10%

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-off shock. CCG and survey ships block a Vietnamese gas project at Vanguard Bank, sparking a maritime standoff; VND and Vietnamese equities dip, Brent and tanker war-risk premia rise. The trigger decomposes into signed root‑shocks — Volatility (VIX) ▲ · 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▲ +6.8%
hist +0.88–+5.01% · other way -0.36% (n=12)
2Nasdaq 100 NDXon Hyperliquid 📈 chartIndex▼ -2.7%
hist -1.35–-0.72% · other way -0.34% (n=12)
3Tech sector XLK 📈 chartEquity▼ -1.9%
hist -1.29–-0.54% · other way -0.15% (n=12)
4Brent crude BRENTon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCommodity▲ +1.8%
hist -0.25–+1.37% · other way -3.03% (n=12)
5WTI crude CLon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCommodity▲ +1.5%
hist -3.55–+1.6% · other way -2.56% (n=12)
6S&P 500 SPXon Hyperliquid 📈 chartIndex▼ -1.4%
hist -1.43–-0.23% · other way +1.22% (n=12)
7MicroStrategy MSTRon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -1.3%
hist -1.69–+1.53% · other way +31.53% (n=12)
8Semiconductors SMHon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -1.3%
hist -0.86–-0.34% · other way +1.95% (n=12)
9Solana SOLon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCrypto▼ -1.2%
hist -1.37–+0.48% · other way -3.0% (n=12)
10Hyperliquid (HYPE) HYPEon HyperliquidCrypto▼ -1.0%
model prior · unmeasured
11Energy sector XLEon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▲ +1.1%
hist +0.37–+0.71% · other way -1.36% (n=12)
12Ether ETHon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCrypto▼ -0.9%
hist -4.52–+1.08% · other way +5.29% (n=12)
13Bitcoin BTCon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCrypto▼ -0.8%
hist -2.72–+0.84% · other way +7.71% (n=12)
14Nvidia NVDAon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -0.9%
hist -1.42–+0.08% · other way +3.19% (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 -1.9% · High-yield credit -0.7% · United Airlines -0.9% · ExxonMobil +0.8% · Chevron +0.7% · Delta -0.8%

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 North Korea 'fire and fury' nuclear scare 2017-08 OPEC abandons output defense, opting for market share vs US shale 2014-11 Egyptian revolution / Mubarak uprising 2011-01 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 VIX third-highest spike on record 2024-08 April 2024 Iranian drone-and-missile barrage on Israel 2024-04 Ukrainian drone strikes hit Russian refineries, lifting crude and gasoline 2024-03 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 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 Evergrande debt crisis - global selloff 2021-09 COVID-19 fourth circuit breaker 2020-03 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 Worst Christmas Eve selloff on record 2018-12 Bitcoin Cash hash war capitulation 2018-11 February 2018 hot wage print triggers rate scare 2018-02 North Korea sixth nuclear test 2017-09 China-led global 'Black Monday' rout 2015-08 Thailand 2014 military coup 2014-05 SEC approves Limit Up-Limit Down plan and revised market-wide circuit breakers 2012-05 US-downgrade Black Monday equity rout and VIX spike to 48 2011-08 Libya civil war halts output and lifts Brent above $100 2011-02 VIX record intraday high of 89.53 2008-10 Shanghai Sneeze global selloff with then-record VIX spike 2007-02 2006 Lebanon War oil spike 2006-07 Iraq invasion 2003 relief rally 2003-03 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
AssetHistory saysAbnormal (20d · 5d)HitnConfidencevs cascade
COIN COINLONG+9.5% · 5d +2.5%70%15 0.35⚠ differs
CL CLSHORT-3.8% · 5d -1.9%64%37 0.25⚠ differs
NDX NDXSHORT-0.1% · 5d -0.7%65%39 0.23✓ matches cascade
AMD AMDSHORT-1.0% · 5d -0.5%65%39 0.23✓ matches cascade
QCOM QCOMSHORT-2.0% · 5d -1.3%65%38 0.23✓ matches cascade
MU MUSHORT-2.2% · 5d -2.5%64%39 0.22✓ matches cascade
MRVL MRVLSHORT-1.1% · 5d -1.7%64%37 0.22✓ matches cascade
INR INRSHORT-0.3% · 5d +0.1% ↺ fades64%35 0.22✓ matches cascade
CVX CVXLONG+0.6% · 5d -0.3% ↺ fades62%40 0.21✓ matches cascade
ETH ETHSHORT-3.7% · 5d -4.0%62%23 0.18✓ matches cascade
LMT LMTLONG+2.9% · 5d +0.1%62%40 0.18✓ matches cascade
NOC NOCLONG+1.6% · 5d +0.2%62%39 0.18✓ matches cascade
INTC INTCSHORT-1.8% · 5d -1.4%60%39 0.17✓ matches cascade
10y yield DGS10LONG+1bp · 5d +6bp60%40 0.16✓ 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.