What if Ecuador-Ivory-Coast cocoa rains lift the global main crop?
Recovering rains and disease control across West Africa and Ecuador lift the cocoa main crop, easing the deficit and pulling prices off records.
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 mixed shock. Recovering rains and disease control across West Africa and Ecuador lift the cocoa main crop, easing the deficit and pulling prices off records. The trigger decomposes into signed root‑shocks — Climate/crop supply ▼ · Consumer spending ▲ · Food inflation ▼ · 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.
| Market | Class | Projected move | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wheat WHEATon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Commodity | ▼ -0.4% hist -2.12–+0.47% · other way -1.98% (n=11) |
| 2 | Corn CORNon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Commodity | ▼ -0.4% hist -1.99–+0.66% · other way -2.29% (n=11) |
| 3 | Solana SOLon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Crypto | ▲ +0.2% hist -3.44–+1.39% · other way +7.25% (n=5) |
| 4 | MicroStrategy MSTRon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Equity | ▲ +0.2% hist -4.63–+12.54% · other way +1.7% (n=11) |
| 5 | Semiconductors SMHon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Equity | ▲ +0.2% hist -0.25–+1.02% · other way +0.34% (n=11) |
| 6 | Nasdaq 100 NDXon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Index | ▲ +0.2% hist -0.4–+0.19% · other way +0.34% (n=12) |
| 7 | Hyperliquid (HYPE) HYPEon Hyperliquid | Crypto | ▲ +0.2% model prior · unmeasured |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| WHEAT WHEAT | SHORT | -1.7% · 5d -0.8% | 62% | 38 | 0.23 | ✓ matches cascade |
| SMH SMH | LONG | +0.8% · 5d -1.3% ↺ fades | 62% | 38 | 0.22 | ✓ matches cascade |
| NDX NDX | SHORT | -0.4% · 5d -1.1% | 64% | 39 | 0.19 | ⚠ differs |
| MSTR MSTR | LONG | +11.6% · 5d -1.2% ↺ fades | 58% | 38 | 0.15 | ✓ matches cascade |
| SOL SOL | SHORT | -3.3% · 5d -6.5% | 59% | 35 | 0.13 | ⚠ differs |
| US dollar DXY | LONG | +0.2% · 5d +0.2% | 55% | 40 | 0.09 | · |
| High-yield credit HYG | SHORT | -0.1% · 5d +0.1% ↺ fades | 56% | 38 | 0.08 | · |
| CORN CORN | SHORT | -1.7% · 5d -1.9% | 53% | 38 | 0.06 | ✓ matches cascade |
| Gold XAU | SHORT | -0.3% · 5d -1.5% | 51% | 38 | 0.02 | · |
| 10y yield DGS10 | LONG | +7bp · 5d +4bp | 51% | 40 | 0.02 | · |
| Volatility VIX | SHORT | -0.5% · 5d -1.3% | 47% | 39 | 0.00 | · |
| Bitcoin BTC | LONG | +3.8% · 5d -1.6% ↺ fades | 49% | 36 | 0.00 | · |