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

What if Duration rally bull market: yields fall, long bonds return double digits?

Confirmed disinflation and rate cuts drive a powerful duration rally that delivers double-digit long-bond returns and eases conditions for risk assets.

18%
our model probability
over 6–18 months
prediction markets — wisdom of the crowd
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Empirically anchored 18% · 90% range 1–35% · 40 analogues · measured class deflation 44% in 18 mo · 3% held back for the unknown
how we built this number — every step
Measured class rate — deflation ≈0.3895/yr → 44% in 18 mo44%
Analyst prior · editorial share 41% of the class18%
Pooled · weight 87%18%
Crowd — no liquid market
Reserve 3% · no extremizing (×1.0)18%
Published18%

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 risk-on shock. Confirmed disinflation and rate cuts drive a powerful duration rally that delivers double-digit long-bond returns and eases conditions for risk assets. The trigger decomposes into signed root‑shocks — Credit spreads ▼ · Financial conditions ▼ · Inflation expectations ▼ · Real yields ▼ · 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▲ +1.5%
hist -6.02–+13.89% · other way -1.63% (n=6)
2Solana SOLon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCrypto▲ +1.1%
hist -2.69–+6.75% · other way +2.29% (n=3)
3Tech sector XLK 📈 chartEquity▲ +0.9%
hist +0.19–+0.9% · other way +1.41% (n=6)
4Nasdaq 100 NDXon Hyperliquid 📈 chartIndex▲ +0.9%
hist +0.22–+0.68% · other way +0.28% (n=7)
5Bitcoin BTCon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCrypto▲ +0.8%
hist -2.24–+6.38% · other way +2.08% (n=5)
6Ether ETHon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCrypto▲ +0.8%
hist -0.68–+2.67% · other way +0.08% (n=4)
7Hyperliquid (HYPE) HYPEon HyperliquidCrypto▲ +0.8%
model prior · unmeasured
8Volatility (VIX) VIXon Hyperliquid 📈 chartVol▼ -0.6%
hist -2.98–+0.58% · other way -0.07% (n=7)
930y Treasury yield DGS30 📈 chartRate▼ -6bp
hist -4.63–+2.23% · other way +11.5% (n=11)
10High-yield credit HYG 📈 chartRate▲ +0.5%
hist -0.13–+0.31% · other way +0.57% (n=6)
11S&P 500 SPXon Hyperliquid 📈 chartIndex▲ +0.5%
hist -0.06–+1.14% · other way -3.55% (n=12)
1210y Treasury yield DGS10 📈 chartRate▼ -5bp
hist -3.7–+4.52% · other way +4.3% (n=12)
13Coinbase COINon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▲ +0.5%
hist -5.13–+10.85% · other way +11.59% (n=3)
14Gold XAUon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCommodity▲ +0.4%
hist +0.07–+0.27% · other way -3.15% (n=6)

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: A typical stock-heavy portfolio should benefit. Stay invested; you can lean modestly into the beneficiaries below.
Also moves (not yet on Hyperliquid): Tech sector +0.9% · 30y Treasury yield -6bp · High-yield credit +0.5% · 10y Treasury yield -5bp · Financials +0.4% · JPMorgan +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.

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AssetHistory saysAbnormal (20d · 5d)HitnConfidencevs cascade
SPX SPXLONG+0.8% · 5d +0.7%70%40 0.34✓ matches cascade
AMD AMDSHORT-3.3% · 5d -2.4%68%40 0.27⚠ differs
TSM TSMLONG+1.9% · 5d -1.1% ↺ fades65%40 0.24✓ matches cascade
Volatility VIXSHORT-2.4% · 5d -6.4%65%40 0.23✓ matches cascade
HOOD HOODLONG+10.2% · 5d +0.1%61%23 0.20✓ matches cascade
10y yield DGS10LONG+6bp · 5d +3bp62%40 0.19⚠ differs
High-yield credit HYGSHORT-0.3% · 5d -0.1%62%40 0.17⚠ differs
SMH SMHLONG+1.2% · 5d -0.4% ↺ fades60%40 0.17✓ matches cascade
AVGO AVGOLONG+0.7% · 5d -0.7% ↺ fades60%40 0.16✓ matches cascade
US dollar DXYSHORT-0.2% · 5d -0.1%60%40 0.15·
MRVL MRVLLONG+1.4% · 5d -1.3% ↺ fades60%40 0.14✓ matches cascade
NDX NDXLONG+0.2% · 5d -0.8% ↺ fades57%40 0.11✓ matches cascade
Bitcoin BTCLONG+5.7% · 5d -2.3% ↺ fades55%40 0.09✓ matches cascade
Gold XAUSHORT-0.1% · 5d -0.9%55%40 0.09⚠ 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.