🏛 Central Banks & Macro mixed · 6–18 months
A what‑if from the future

What if Coal and LNG import spike widens India's energy trade gap?

A cold-then-hot demand year forces costly thermal coal and spot LNG imports, widening the energy trade deficit and pressuring the rupee even with Brent contained.

19%
our model probability
over 6–18 months
prediction markets — wisdom of the crowd
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Empirically anchored 19% · 90% range 8–30% · 40 analogues · measured class energy 89% in 18 mo · 3% held back for the unknown
how we built this number — every step
Measured class rate — energy ≈1.4869/yr → 89% in 18 mo89%
Analyst prior · editorial share 22% of the class20%
Pooled · weight 87%20%
Crowd — no liquid market
Reserve 3% · no extremizing (×1.0)20%
Published19%

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 6–18 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 cold-then-hot demand year forces costly thermal coal and spot LNG imports, widening the energy trade deficit and pressuring the rupee even with Brent contained. The trigger decomposes into signed root‑shocks — EM currencies ▼ · Natural gas ▲ · Dollar/reserve confidence ▲ · 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
1MicroStrategy MSTRon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -1.4%
hist -1.3–+0.97% · other way +23.0% (n=11)
2Bitcoin BTCon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCrypto▼ -0.8%
hist -1.69–+1.55% · other way +5.03% (n=10)
3Gold XAUon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCommodity▼ -0.8%
hist -0.48–+0.37% · other way +0.35% (n=11)
4Turkish lira TRY 📈 chartFX▼ -0.7%
hist -1.05–+0.07% · other way +0.04% (n=11)
5Solana SOLon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCrypto▼ -0.6%
hist -3.68–+4.39% · other way -0.85% (n=10)
6Indian rupee INR 📈 chartFX▼ -0.5%
hist -0.23–+0.01% · other way -0.27% (n=11)
7Coinbase COINon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -0.6%
hist -4.9–+4.99% · other way +21.63% (n=10)
8Hyperliquid (HYPE) HYPEon HyperliquidCrypto▼ -0.4%
model prior · unmeasured
9US dollar (DXY) DXYon Hyperliquid 📈 chartFX▲ +0.4%
hist +0.13–+0.25% · other way +1.22% (n=12)
10Ether ETHon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCrypto▼ -0.4%
hist -0.29–-0.13% · other way +4.63% (n=10)
11EUR/USD EURUSDon Hyperliquid 📈 chartFX▼ -0.4%
hist -0.24–-0.14% · other way -0.55% (n=11)
12Chinese yuan CNY 📈 chartFX▼ -0.3%
hist -0.27–+0.03% · other way -0.77% (n=11)
13Natural gas NGon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCommodity▲ +0.3%
hist -0.31–+1.02% · other way +9.47% (n=11)
1430y Treasury yield DGS30 📈 chartRate▼ -3bp
hist -3.74–+3.73% · other way +23.9% (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): Turkish lira -0.7% · Indian rupee -0.5% · Chinese yuan -0.3% · 30y Treasury yield -3bp · 10y Treasury yield -2bp · Aussie dollar -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
KRW KRWSHORT-0.4% · 5d +0.6% ↺ fades66%25 0.31✓ matches cascade
INR INRLONG+0.2% · 5d +0.3%68%25 0.30⚠ differs
Gold XAULONG+0.7% · 5d +0.3%61%26 0.22⚠ differs
Volatility VIXLONG+3.3% · 5d -0.7% ↺ fades59%27 0.14·
TRY TRYSHORT-0.7% · 5d +0.9% ↺ fades57%25 0.11✓ matches cascade
USDJPY USDJPYSHORT-0.2% · 5d -0.3%57%26 0.11⚠ differs
EURUSD EURUSDSHORT-0.0% · 5d +0.2% ↺ fades55%25 0.09✓ matches cascade
MSTR MSTRLONG+1.6% · 5d -3.5% ↺ fades55%26 0.08⚠ differs
ETH ETHLONG+0.0% · 5d -1.9% ↺ fades56%15 0.08⚠ differs
GBPUSD GBPUSDSHORT-0.2% · 5d +0.3% ↺ fades53%25 0.05✓ matches cascade
US dollar DXYSHORT-0.0% · 5d +0.0% ↺ fades52%38 0.03⚠ differs
AUD AUDLONG+0.1% · 5d +0.4%51%25 0.02⚠ differs
30y yield DGS30LONG+5bp · 5d +2bp51%36 0.01⚠ differs
Bitcoin BTCLONG+2.1% · 5d -1.0% ↺ fades42%17 0.00⚠ differs

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.