What if Commodity-wide deleveraging hits both gold and copper?
A liquidity squeeze forces simultaneous selling across precious and base metals; gold and copper fall together as funds raise cash and cut commodity risk.
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 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.
What it would mean
If this plays out, it is a risk-off shock. A liquidity squeeze forces simultaneous selling across precious and base metals; gold and copper fall together as funds raise cash and cut commodity risk. The trigger decomposes into signed root‑shocks — Volatility (VIX) ▲ · Gold ▼ · Copper ▼ · Risk appetite ▼ · Risk-parity deleveraging ▲ — 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 | Nasdaq 100 NDXon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Index | ▼ -0.8% hist -0.65–+0.13% · other way -0.29% (n=12) |
| 2 | Volatility (VIX) VIXon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Vol | ▲ +0.7% hist -2.64–+1.83% · other way +3.18% (n=12) |
| 3 | Solana SOLon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Crypto | ▼ -0.6% hist -8.83–+1.1% · other way -1.0% (n=12) |
| 4 | Hyperliquid (HYPE) HYPEon Hyperliquid | Crypto | ▼ -0.5% model prior · unmeasured |
| 5 | S&P 500 SPXon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Index | ▼ -0.4% hist -0.24–+0.15% · other way +0.18% (n=12) |
| 6 | Tech sector XLK 📈 chart | Equity | ▼ -0.5% hist -0.53–+0.34% · other way -0.38% (n=12) |
| 7 | MicroStrategy MSTRon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Equity | ▼ -0.5% hist -0.74–+0.78% · other way +24.57% (n=12) |
| 8 | Ether ETHon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Crypto | ▼ -0.4% hist -7.25–+1.68% · other way +4.71% (n=12) |
| 9 | Copper XCUon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Commodity | ▼ -0.5% hist -0.55–-0.03% · other way +2.36% (n=12) |
| 10 | Freeport (copper) FCX 📈 chart | Equity | ▼ -0.4% hist -1.07–+0.28% · other way +1.0% (n=12) |
| 11 | Bitcoin BTCon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Crypto | ▼ -0.3% hist -0.62–+0.99% · other way +5.56% (n=12) |
| 12 | Semiconductors SMHon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Equity | ▼ -0.3% hist -0.44–+0.54% · other way +2.4% (n=12) |
| 13 | Gold XAUon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Commodity | ▼ -0.3% hist -0.76–+2.2% · other way -0.17% (n=12) |
| 14 | High-yield credit HYG 📈 chart | Rate | ▼ -0.2% hist -0.15–-0.07% · other way -0.35% (n=12) |
Probable recommendation
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.
| Asset | History says | Abnormal (20d · 5d) | Hit | n | Confidence | vs cascade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SOL SOL | SHORT | -7.1% · 5d -8.6% | 75% | 29 | 0.37 | ✓ matches cascade |
| SPX SPX | LONG | +0.3% · 5d -0.4% ↺ fades | 63% | 40 | 0.26 | ⚠ differs |
| ETH ETH | SHORT | -6.2% · 5d -6.5% | 67% | 33 | 0.26 | ✓ matches cascade |
| Gold XAU | LONG | +2.1% · 5d +0.3% | 63% | 40 | 0.24 | ⚠ differs |
| XCU XCU | SHORT | -0.3% · 5d -1.2% | 63% | 40 | 0.22 | ✓ matches cascade |
| US dollar DXY | SHORT | -0.2% · 5d +0.1% ↺ fades | 56% | 40 | 0.09 | · |
| Bitcoin BTC | LONG | +1.1% · 5d -3.1% ↺ fades | 55% | 35 | 0.08 | ⚠ differs |
| SMH SMH | LONG | +0.7% · 5d +0.5% | 54% | 40 | 0.07 | ⚠ differs |
| FCX FCX | SHORT | -0.8% · 5d -0.9% | 52% | 40 | 0.03 | ✓ matches cascade |
| High-yield credit HYG | SHORT | -0.0% · 5d -0.2% | 52% | 39 | 0.03 | ✓ matches cascade |
| NDX NDX | LONG | +0.5% · 5d -0.4% ↺ fades | 46% | 40 | 0.00 | ⚠ differs |
| Volatility VIX | SHORT | -3.0% · 5d +4.6% ↺ fades | 50% | 40 | 0.00 | ⚠ differs |
| XLK XLK | LONG | +0.6% · 5d -0.0% ↺ fades | 48% | 40 | 0.00 | ⚠ differs |
| MSTR MSTR | LONG | +1.1% · 5d -2.0% ↺ fades | 48% | 40 | 0.00 | ⚠ differs |