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

What if Foreign central banks rotate Treasury reserves into bunds and JGBs?

Diversifying official reserves out of US Treasuries into German and Japanese government bonds thins the structural Treasury bid and lifts the US term premium.

15%
our model probability
over 6–18 months
prediction markets — wisdom of the crowd
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Empirically anchored 15% · 90% range 0–36% · 40 analogues · measured class de_dollarization 35% in 18 mo · 3% held back for the unknown
how we built this number — every step
Measured class rate — de_dollarization ≈0.2857/yr → 35% in 18 mo35%
Analyst prior · editorial share 46% of the class16%
Pooled · weight 87%16%
Crowd — no liquid market
Reserve 3% · no extremizing (×1.0)16%
Published15%

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. Diversifying official reserves out of US Treasuries into German and Japanese government bonds thins the structural Treasury bid and lifts the US term premium. The trigger decomposes into signed root‑shocks — Yield-curve slope ▲ · Dollar/reserve confidence ▼ · 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▲ +1.3%
hist +0.4–+0.93% · other way +24.57% (n=12)
230y Treasury yield DGS30 📈 chartRate▲ +8bp
hist +1.18–+7.96% · other way +14.1% (n=12)
3Gold XAUon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCommodity▲ +0.8%
hist +0.1–+0.79% · other way -0.17% (n=12)
4Bitcoin BTCon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCrypto▲ +0.8%
hist -4.09–+1.94% · other way +5.56% (n=12)
5Tech sector XLK 📈 chartEquity▼ -0.7%
hist -0.54–-0.07% · other way -0.38% (n=12)
610y Treasury yield DGS10 📈 chartRate▲ +7bp
hist +1.21–+7.1% · other way +14.7% (n=12)
7Nasdaq 100 NDXon Hyperliquid 📈 chartIndex▼ -0.7%
hist -0.39–-0.21% · other way -0.29% (n=12)
8US dollar (DXY) DXYon Hyperliquid 📈 chartFX▼ -0.6%
hist -0.37–-0.22% · other way +0.7% (n=12)
9Coinbase COINon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▲ +0.5%
hist +0.02–+0.38% · other way +18.8% (n=12)
10EUR/USD EURUSDon Hyperliquid 📈 chartFX▲ +0.5%
hist +0.16–+0.34% · other way -0.53% (n=12)
11S&P 500 SPXon Hyperliquid 📈 chartIndex▼ -0.4%
hist -0.17–+0.18% · other way +0.18% (n=12)
12GBP/USD GBPUSDon Hyperliquid 📈 chartFX▲ +0.4%
hist +0.15–+0.27% · other way -0.62% (n=12)
13Turkish lira TRY 📈 chartFX▲ +0.4%
hist -1.31–+0.73% · other way -0.25% (n=12)
14Solana SOLon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCrypto▲ +0.3%
hist -9.45–+1.74% · other way -1.0% (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): 30y Treasury yield +8bp · Tech sector -0.7% · 10y Treasury yield +7bp · Turkish lira +0.4% · Indian rupee +0.4% · Aussie dollar +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.

Russia cut from SWIFT + central-bank reserves frozen 2022-02 Louvre Accord 1987-02 Iranian Revolution oil shock 1978-12 Nixon Shock 1971-08 FDR gold confiscation & revaluation 1933-04 Gold tops $4,000 and silver spikes past $50 in historic squeeze 2025-10 Israel strikes Iran — Operation Rising Lion 2025-06 China retaliates to Liberation Day: 34% tariffs + rare-earth controls 2025-04 Gold tops $3,000 for the first time amid tariff and rate-cut fears 2025-03 Tesla shares crater on DOGE political backlash and Europe sales collapse 2025-03 TSMC slumps as DeepSeek roils AI-chip demand assumptions 2025-02 Micron's weak FQ2 guidance sparks a sharp December selloff 2024-12 ASML bookings-miss crash 2024-10 October 2024 Iranian ballistic-missile attack on Israel 2024-10 Gold tops $2,500 for the first time on Fed rate-cut bets 2024-08 Nikkei 225 record single-day rebound 2024-08 Nikkei 225 worst single-day crash since 1987 2024-08 KOSPI biggest-ever point loss triggers circuit breaker 2024-08 VIX third-highest spike on record 2024-08 Intel's Q2 earnings trigger its worst single-day crash since 1974 2024-08 Megacap AI-capex doubt selloff 2024-07 Trump 'Taiwan should pay for defense' chip selloff 2024-07 India's Modi loses single-party majority 2024-06 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 First Republic Bank seized and sold to JPMorgan 2023-05 Regional-bank panic deepens after Signature seizure 2023-03 India Adani-Hindenburg rout 2023-01 Solana craters toward $8 on FTX/Alameda overhang 2022-12 Offshore yuan hits a record low 2022-11 CoinDesk exposes Alameda's FTT-heavy balance sheet 2022-11 August 2022 hot CPI 2022-09 Powell's hawkish 'pain' speech at Jackson Hole 2022-08 China fires ballistic missiles into Japan's EEZ during Taiwan drills 2022-08 Three Arrows Capital liquidation order 2022-06 Celsius Network freezes withdrawals 2022-06 Netflix subscriber-loss crash 2022-04 Alibaba upsizes buyback to record $25 billion 2022-03 Meta 2022-02
AssetHistory saysAbnormal (20d · 5d)HitnConfidencevs cascade
SPX SPXLONG+0.3% · 5d -0.5% ↺ fades68%39 0.35⚠ differs
SOL SOLSHORT-8.0% · 5d -6.5%72%36 0.34⚠ differs
USDJPY USDJPYLONG+0.1% · 5d -0.2% ↺ fades64%36 0.27⚠ differs
ARM ARMSHORT-4.1% · 5d -5.2%63%19 0.19✓ matches cascade
30y yield DGS30LONG+4bp · 5d +2bp60%38 0.16✓ matches cascade
CNY CNYSHORT-0.4% · 5d -0.2%58%36 0.16⚠ differs
Gold XAULONG+0.3% · 5d -0.1% ↺ fades58%36 0.14✓ matches cascade
KRW KRWLONG+0.3% · 5d +0.2%58%36 0.14✓ matches cascade
Bitcoin BTCSHORT-4.2% · 5d -2.8%58%36 0.13⚠ differs
TRY TRYSHORT-1.4% · 5d +0.9% ↺ fades58%36 0.12⚠ differs
INR INRSHORT-0.0% · 5d +0.2% ↺ fades58%36 0.12⚠ differs
NDX NDXSHORT-0.0% · 5d -0.8%58%37 0.11✓ matches cascade
EURUSD EURUSDLONG+0.0% · 5d +0.0%56%36 0.10✓ matches cascade
AUD AUDLONG+0.3% · 5d +0.1%56%36 0.09✓ 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.