🛢 Energy & Commodities risk-off · 6–18 months
A what‑if from the future

What if European industry curtails as TTF spike makes ammonia uneconomic?

A renewed TTF spike pushes European ammonia, methanol and fertilizer plants below breakeven, triggering demand-destroying curtailments that cap gas upside but deepen the industrial recession.

13%
our model probability
over 6–18 months
prediction markets — wisdom of the crowd
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Empirically anchored 13% · 90% range 2–25% · 21 analogues · measured class energy 89% in 18 mo · 3% held back for the unknown
how we built this number — every step
Measured class rate — energy ≈1.4869/yr → 89% in 18 mo89%
Analyst prior · editorial share 13% of the class12%
Pooled · weight 78%14%
Crowd — no liquid market
Reserve 3% · no extremizing (×1.0)14%
Published13%

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-off shock. A renewed TTF spike pushes European ammonia, methanol and fertilizer plants below breakeven, triggering demand-destroying curtailments that cap gas upside but deepen the industrial recession. The trigger decomposes into signed root‑shocks — European energy ▲ · Fertilizer cost ▲ · 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
1Solana SOLon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCrypto▼ -0.5%
hist -0.52–-0.08% · other way -1.19% (n=11)
2Hyperliquid (HYPE) HYPEon HyperliquidCrypto▼ -0.4%
model prior · unmeasured
3MicroStrategy MSTRon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -0.4%
hist -5.35–+6.15% · other way +21.38% (n=12)
4Ether ETHon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCrypto▼ -0.4%
hist -0.68–+0.21% · other way +5.94% (n=11)
5Nasdaq 100 NDXon Hyperliquid 📈 chartIndex▼ -0.3%
hist -0.58–+0.07% · other way -0.07% (n=12)
6Volatility (VIX) VIXon Hyperliquid 📈 chartVol▲ +0.3%
hist -2.29–+2.18% · other way -10.0% (n=12)
7Bitcoin BTCon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCrypto▼ -0.2%
hist -1.52–+1.37% · other way +11.14% (n=11)
8Tech sector XLK 📈 chartEquity▼ -0.2%
hist -0.82–+0.69% · other way -0.01% (n=12)
9EUR/USD EURUSDon Hyperliquid 📈 chartFX▼ -0.2%
hist -1.33–+0.45% · other way +0.26% (n=12)
10S&P 500 SPXon Hyperliquid 📈 chartIndex▼ -0.1%
hist -1.87–+0.84% · other way +1.28% (n=12)
11Coinbase COINon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -0.2%
hist -9.72–+19.99% · other way +23.14% (n=10)
12Semiconductors SMHon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -0.2%
hist -0.52–+0.41% · other way -0.53% (n=12)
1330y Treasury yield DGS30 📈 chartRate▲ +1bp
hist -1.0–+3.48% · other way +1.5% (n=12)
1410y Treasury yield DGS10 📈 chartRate▲ +1bp
hist +0.19–+0.71% · other way +3.1% (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): Tech sector -0.2% · 30y Treasury yield +1bp · 10y Treasury yield +1bp

Historical precedent — what analogous events actually did

Across 21 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.

1979 Iranian Revolution oil shock 1979-01 Iranian Revolution oil shock 1978-12 Israel strikes Iran — Operation Rising Lion 2025-06 Henry Hub natural gas falls to an all-time inflation-adjusted low on record output 2024-11 October 2024 Iranian ballistic-missile attack on Israel 2024-10 August 2022 hot CPI 2022-09 Powell's hawkish 'pain' speech at Jackson Hole 2022-08 Turkish lira record low on rate cuts 2021-11 European gas crisis intraday record spike 2021-10 Saudi-Russia oil price war 2020-03 February 2018 hot wage print triggers rate scare 2018-02 OPEC abandons output defense, opting for market share vs US shale 2014-11 ECB's ill-timed pre-crisis rate hike 2008-07 1990-91 recession onset 1990-07 Argentina hyperinflation peak / Alfonsin early handover 1989-07 1986 oil price collapse bottoms below $10 a barrel 1986-07 1986 oil price collapse 1986-02 Silver Thursday 1980-03 Gold peaks at $850 1980-01 Iran hostage crisis / US freezes Iranian assets 1979-11 1973-75 recession onset 1973-11
AssetHistory saysAbnormal (20d · 5d)HitnConfidencevs cascade
COIN COINLONG+19.6% · 5d +8.3%86%7 0.63⚠ differs
EURUSD EURUSDSHORT-1.2% · 5d -0.3%82%11 0.46✓ matches cascade
Gold XAUSHORT-2.1% · 5d -2.8%82%11 0.46·
US dollar DXYLONG+0.6% · 5d +0.7%66%21 0.29·
SOL SOLLONG+0.2% · 5d -7.6% ↺ fades71%7 0.25⚠ differs
High-yield credit HYGSHORT-0.8% · 5d -0.0%64%11 0.22·
MSTR MSTRLONG+7.0% · 5d +2.2%55%11 0.07⚠ differs
ETH ETHLONG+0.5% · 5d -5.3% ↺ fades56%9 0.07⚠ differs
SMH SMHLONG+0.6% · 5d -0.8% ↺ fades55%11 0.07⚠ differs
XLK XLKLONG+0.9% · 5d -0.3% ↺ fades55%11 0.06⚠ differs
NDX NDXSHORT-0.3% · 5d -0.6%53%15 0.05✓ matches cascade
Volatility VIXSHORT-2.7% · 5d +14.7% ↺ fades50%12 0.00⚠ differs
Bitcoin BTCLONG+1.7% · 5d -3.8% ↺ fades50%10 0.00⚠ differs
SPX SPXSHORT-1.8% · 5d -1.6%48%21 0.00✓ matches cascade

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.