🏛 Central Banks & Macro risk-off · 0–6 months
A what‑if from the future

What if a sharp safe-haven dollar surge crushes carry trades and EM positions?

A sharp safe-haven dollar surge crushes the carry trade and EM/funding-currency positions, transmitting stress back to banks via prime-broker and FX exposures.

5%
our model probability
over 0–6 months
prediction markets — wisdom of the crowd
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Empirically anchored 5% · 90% range 0–15% · 29 analogues · measured class monetary_order 76% in 6 mo · 3% held back for the unknown
how we built this number — every step
Measured class rate — monetary_order ≈2.8549/yr → 76% in 6 mo76%
Analyst prior · editorial share 5% of the class4%
Pooled · weight 83%6%
Crowd — no liquid market
Reserve 3% · no extremizing (×1.0)6%
Published5%

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 sharp safe-haven dollar surge crushes the carry trade and EM/funding-currency positions, transmitting stress back to banks via prime-broker and FX exposures. The trigger decomposes into signed root‑shocks — US dollar (DXY) ▲ · EM currencies ▼ · FX carry appetite ▼ · 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
1Turkish lira TRY 📈 chartFX▼ -1.4%
hist -10.34–+2.42% · other way -0.66% (n=12)
2Indian rupee INR 📈 chartFX▼ -1.2%
hist -1.7–+0.04% · other way -0.75% (n=12)
3MicroStrategy MSTRon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -0.9%
hist -9.19–+3.83% · other way +23.24% (n=12)
4Solana SOLon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCrypto▼ -0.7%
hist -0.8–-0.19% · other way -3.1% (n=10)
5Aussie dollar AUD 📈 chartFX▼ -0.7%
hist -1.24–+0.17% · other way -1.81% (n=12)
6Chinese yuan CNY 📈 chartFX▼ -0.7%
hist -0.85–-0.03% · other way -0.55% (n=12)
7US dollar (DXY) DXYon Hyperliquid 📈 chartFX▲ +0.7%
hist +0.08–+0.38% · other way +1.04% (n=12)
8Hyperliquid (HYPE) HYPEon HyperliquidCrypto▼ -0.6%
model prior · unmeasured
9EUR/USD EURUSDon Hyperliquid 📈 chartFX▼ -0.6%
hist -1.26–+0.24% · other way -1.12% (n=12)
10Ether ETHon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCrypto▼ -0.5%
hist -7.59–+5.39% · other way +2.79% (n=11)
11Bitcoin BTCon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCrypto▼ -0.5%
hist -5.18–+3.12% · other way +9.75% (n=11)
12GBP/USD GBPUSDon Hyperliquid 📈 chartFX▼ -0.5%
hist -0.56–-0.08% · other way -0.64% (n=12)
13Nasdaq 100 NDXon Hyperliquid 📈 chartIndex▼ -0.4%
hist -0.28–-0.13% · other way +0.63% (n=12)
14Volatility (VIX) VIXon Hyperliquid 📈 chartVol▲ +0.4%
hist -0.43–+0.47% · other way -7.07% (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 cash hedge.
Also moves (not yet on Hyperliquid): Turkish lira -1.4% · Indian rupee -1.2% · Aussie dollar -0.7% · Chinese yuan -0.7% · Tech sector -0.3% · High-yield credit -0.2%

Historical precedent — what analogous events actually did

Across 29 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.

Louvre Accord 1987-02 Nikkei 225 worst single-day crash since 1987 2024-08 Mexico's Sheinbaum landslide + supermajority scare 2024-06 Wagner Group mutiny against the Kremlin 2023-06 Turkish lira hits record low after Erdogan re-election 2023-05 Russia central-bank reserves frozen 2022-02 Turkish lira record low on rate cuts 2021-11 Turkey fires central-bank governor Agbal, sparking lira plunge 2021-03 Turkish lira crash 2018-08 Pravin Gordhan fired in midnight cabinet reshuffle 2017-03 Mexican peso crash on Trump 2016 win 2016-11 August 24, 2015 ETF flash crash 2015-08 Russian ruble 'Black Tuesday' 2014-12 Russia annexation crisis: Moscow market plunge 2014-03 SNB imposes EUR/CHF 1.20 floor 2011-09 Turkey lets the lira float 2001-02 Russia GKO default and ruble moratorium 1998-08 Hong Kong defends the peg with sky-high HIBOR 1997-10 Philippines peso float 1997-07 Thai baht float 1997-07 Mexico $50bn international rescue package 1995-01 Mexican peso devaluation / Tequila Crisis 1994-12 Saudi Arabia fixes the riyal to the US dollar at 3.75 1986-06 Plaza Accord dollar devaluation 1985-09 US dollar index peaks at its all-time high 1985-02 Iranian Revolution oil shock 1978-12 Smithsonian Agreement 1971-12 London Gold Pool collapses 1968-03 FDR gold confiscation & revaluation 1933-04
AssetHistory saysAbnormal (20d · 5d)HitnConfidencevs cascade
TRY TRYSHORT-8.7% · 5d -1.4%79%14 0.54✓ matches cascade
CNY CNYSHORT-0.5% · 5d -0.4%79%14 0.46✓ matches cascade
AMD AMDSHORT-3.2% · 5d -3.0%73%25 0.42✓ matches cascade
AVGO AVGOLONG+2.9% · 5d -1.1% ↺ fades71%14 0.39⚠ differs
MU MUSHORT-7.8% · 5d -4.9%69%25 0.36✓ matches cascade
SOL SOLSHORT-0.2% · 5d -6.7%71%7 0.35✓ matches cascade
High-yield credit HYGSHORT-0.6% · 5d -0.1%71%14 0.34✓ matches cascade
INR INRSHORT-0.9% · 5d -0.3%64%14 0.27✓ matches cascade
COIN COINSHORT-0.6% · 5d +0.8% ↺ fades67%6 0.27✓ matches cascade
AUD AUDSHORT-0.8% · 5d -0.8%64%14 0.25✓ matches cascade
SPX SPXLONG+0.9% · 5d +0.3%64%27 0.22⚠ differs
MSTR MSTRSHORT-8.4% · 5d -5.4%62%16 0.19✓ matches cascade
US dollar DXYSHORT-0.1% · 5d +0.1% ↺ fades60%27 0.19⚠ differs
10y yield DGS10SHORT-8bp · 5d -3bp62%27 0.19·

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.