🛢 Energy & Commodities risk-off · 0–6 months
A what‑if from the future

What if Cyberattack on a US LNG terminal halts exports, splits prices?

A cyberattack forces a precautionary shutdown of a major US LNG export terminal, stranding feedgas domestically and spiking TTF and JKM on the sudden loss of Atlantic-basin cargoes.

10%
our model probability
over 0–6 months
prediction markets — wisdom of the crowd
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Empirically anchored 10% · 90% range 0–22% · 40 analogues · measured class deflation 18% in 6 mo · 3% held back for the unknown
how we built this number — every step
Measured class rate — deflation ≈0.3895/yr → 18% in 6 mo18%
Analyst prior · editorial share 56% of the class10%
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 0–6 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 risk-off shock. A cyberattack forces a precautionary shutdown of a major US LNG export terminal, stranding feedgas domestically and spiking TTF and JKM on the sudden loss of Atlantic-basin cargoes. The trigger decomposes into signed root‑shocks — Natural gas ▼ · European energy ▲ · Geopolitical risk ▲ · Inflation surprise ▲ · 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▲ +5.2%
hist +1.55–+3.27% · other way -3.02% (n=12)
2Nasdaq 100 NDXon Hyperliquid 📈 chartIndex▼ -2.1%
hist -1.33–-0.79% · other way -0.15% (n=12)
3Tech sector XLK 📈 chartEquity▼ -1.5%
hist -0.95–-0.51% · other way -0.28% (n=12)
4S&P 500 SPXon Hyperliquid 📈 chartIndex▼ -1.1%
hist -0.55–-0.06% · other way -0.91% (n=12)
5Solana SOLon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCrypto▼ -1.0%
hist -0.62–-0.07% · other way +0.7% (n=11)
6MicroStrategy MSTRon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -1.0%
hist -3.2–+5.95% · other way +25.67% (n=12)
7Semiconductors SMHon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -1.0%
hist -0.64–-0.2% · other way +2.23% (n=12)
8Hyperliquid (HYPE) HYPEon HyperliquidCrypto▼ -0.8%
model prior · unmeasured
9Ether ETHon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCrypto▼ -0.7%
hist -2.05–+0.5% · other way +8.54% (n=11)
10Bitcoin BTCon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCrypto▼ -0.6%
hist -0.72–+0.6% · other way +7.64% (n=11)
11Nvidia NVDAon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -0.7%
hist -1.31–+0.1% · other way +4.02% (n=12)
12Gold XAUon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCommodity▲ +0.5%
hist -0.25–+1.24% · other way -1.43% (n=12)
13High-yield credit HYG 📈 chartRate▼ -0.6%
hist -0.43–-0.11% · other way -0.59% (n=12)
14AMD AMDon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -0.6%
hist -0.81–-0.02% · other way -0.06% (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 -1.5% · High-yield credit -0.6% · Financials -0.4% · JPMorgan -0.3% · Lockheed +0.4% · Northrop +0.3%

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.

Henry Hub natural gas hits a 25-year low amid record US production 2024-11 Waha hub natural gas prices crash to record negative on Permian glut 2024-08 Saudi-Russia oil price war 2020-03 1986 oil price collapse 1986-02 Gold peaks at $850 1980-01 Iran hostage crisis / US freezes Iranian assets 1979-11 1979 Iranian Revolution oil shock 1979-01 Israel strikes Iran — Operation Rising Lion 2025-06 Gold tops $3,000 for the first time amid tariff and rate-cut fears 2025-03 October 2024 Iranian ballistic-missile attack on Israel 2024-10 Niger coup d'etat 2023-07 WTI crude futures settle negative as demand collapses 2020-04 North Korea sixth nuclear test 2017-09 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 Oil collapses from $147 to the $30s as the GFC craters demand 2008-12 OPEC and non-OPEC Vienna pact ends the 1998 price war 1999-03 Soviet August coup attempt against Gorbachev 1991-08 Gulf War air campaign begins 1991-01 Silver Thursday 1980-03 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan 1979-12 Volcker Saturday Night Special 1979-10 Iranian Revolution oil shock 1978-12 US intervention removes Maduro in Venezuela 2026-01 Gold tops $4,000 and silver spikes past $50 in historic squeeze 2025-10 China retaliates to Liberation Day: 34% tariffs + rare-earth controls 2025-04 Henry Hub natural gas falls to an all-time inflation-adjusted low on record output 2024-11 Hezbollah pager and device explosions across Lebanon 2024-09 Gold tops $2,500 for the first time on Fed rate-cut bets 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 Gabon coup d'etat 2023-08 Wagner Group mutiny against the Kremlin 2023-06 ExxonMobil posts most profitable year for any US oil company 2023-01 PJM grid emergency during Winter Storm Elliott 2022-12 Nord Stream pipeline sabotage 2022-09 August 2022 hot CPI 2022-09 Powell's hawkish 'pain' speech at Jackson Hole 2022-08 US-led 240-million-barrel SPR release answers the Ukraine spike 2022-03
AssetHistory saysAbnormal (20d · 5d)HitnConfidencevs cascade
SPX SPXLONG+0.3% · 5d -0.3% ↺ fades64%40 0.26⚠ differs
COIN COINLONG+9.9% · 5d +2.8%63%22 0.25⚠ differs
AUD AUDSHORT-0.8% · 5d -0.4%62%29 0.21✓ matches cascade
NG NGSHORT-1.8% · 5d -1.9%61%29 0.20✓ matches cascade
NVDA NVDASHORT-0.9% · 5d -3.6%62%30 0.19✓ matches cascade
INTC INTCSHORT-1.8% · 5d +0.4% ↺ fades59%34 0.16✓ matches cascade
AMD AMDSHORT-0.5% · 5d -1.4%60%34 0.15✓ matches cascade
AVGO AVGOSHORT-0.4% · 5d -2.7%59%28 0.15✓ matches cascade
TSM TSMSHORT-1.2% · 5d -2.2%58%30 0.14✓ matches cascade
EURUSD EURUSDSHORT-0.3% · 5d -0.1%58%29 0.14✓ matches cascade
Volatility VIXLONG+0.4% · 5d +0.2%57%32 0.12✓ matches cascade
XLF XLFLONG+0.0% · 5d -0.2% ↺ fades57%30 0.12⚠ differs
30y yield DGS30LONG+10bp · 5d +6bp56%40 0.12✓ matches cascade
JPM JPMLONG+1.0% · 5d -0.3% ↺ fades56%34 0.10⚠ 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.