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

What if European gas prices triple on combined supply shocks and a harsh winter?

European gas prices rise more than 300% per the BoE 2025 BCST, as combined supply shocks and a harsh winter overwhelm storage and import capacity.

8%
our model probability
over 6–18 months
prediction markets — wisdom of the crowd
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Empirically anchored 8% · 90% range 1–14% · 40 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 7% of the class6%
Pooled · weight 87%8%
Crowd — no liquid market
Reserve 3% · no extremizing (×1.0)8%
Published8%

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. European gas prices rise more than 300% per the BoE 2025 BCST, as combined supply shocks and a harsh winter overwhelm storage and import capacity. The trigger decomposes into signed root‑shocks — Natural gas ▲ · European energy ▲ · Inflation surprise ▲ · Recession signal ▲ — 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
1Natural gas NGon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCommodity▲ +0.9%
hist -10.32–+1.57% · other way +9.59% (n=12)
2MicroStrategy MSTRon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -0.8%
hist -0.73–+0.15% · other way +30.67% (n=12)
3EUR/USD EURUSDon Hyperliquid 📈 chartFX▼ -0.6%
hist -1.11–+0.07% · other way -0.92% (n=12)
4Nasdaq 100 NDXon Hyperliquid 📈 chartIndex▼ -0.6%
hist -0.33–+0.49% · other way -0.44% (n=12)
5Tech sector XLK 📈 chartEquity▼ -0.6%
hist -0.47–+0.44% · other way -0.44% (n=12)
6Bitcoin BTCon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCrypto▼ -0.5%
hist -1.17–+1.67% · other way +8.97% (n=11)
7Solana SOLon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCrypto▼ -0.5%
hist -2.87–+4.88% · other way -0.88% (n=11)
8Financials XLF 📈 chartEquity▼ -0.3%
hist -0.37–+0.31% · other way +0.63% (n=12)
9Hyperliquid (HYPE) HYPEon HyperliquidCrypto▼ -0.4%
model prior · unmeasured
10Ether ETHon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCrypto▼ -0.3%
hist -0.27–-0.13% · other way +6.43% (n=11)
11Volatility (VIX) VIXon Hyperliquid 📈 chartVol▲ +0.3%
hist +0.09–+0.22% · other way -6.59% (n=12)
12Gold XAUon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCommodity▼ -0.4%
hist -1.11–+0.22% · other way -0.53% (n=12)
13S&P 500 SPXon Hyperliquid 📈 chartIndex▼ -0.3%
hist -1.31–+0.46% · other way +0.44% (n=12)
1430y Treasury yield DGS30 📈 chartRate▲ +3bp
hist -1.37–+7.49% · other way +4.8% (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 -0.6% · Financials -0.3% · 30y Treasury yield +3bp · High-yield credit -0.3% · 10y Treasury yield +3bp · Homebuilders -0.2%

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.

1979 Iranian Revolution oil shock 1979-01 WTI crude futures settle negative as demand collapses 2020-04 Oil collapses from $147 to the $30s as the GFC craters demand 2008-12 1990-91 recession onset 1990-07 Silver Thursday 1980-03 Gold peaks at $850 1980-01 Iran hostage crisis / US freezes Iranian assets 1979-11 Iranian Revolution oil shock 1978-12 1973-75 recession onset 1973-11 Gold tops $4,000 and silver spikes past $50 in historic squeeze 2025-10 Israel strikes Iran — Operation Rising Lion 2025-06 Gold tops $3,000 for the first time amid tariff and rate-cut fears 2025-03 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 Gold tops $2,500 for the first time on Fed rate-cut bets 2024-08 Niger coup d'etat 2023-07 PJM grid emergency during Winter Storm Elliott 2022-12 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 Texas grid failure during Winter Storm Uri 2021-02 Gold closes above $2,000/oz for the first time 2020-08 Norilsk Nickel Arctic diesel spill 2020-05 Saudi-Russia oil price war 2020-03 February 2018 hot wage print triggers rate scare 2018-02 North Korea sixth nuclear test 2017-09 North Korea 'fire and fury' nuclear scare 2017-08 China-led global 'Black Monday' rout 2015-08 OPEC abandons output defense, opting for market share vs US shale 2014-11 Gold futures velocity-logic flash crash 2014-01 Gold all-time peak of $1,921/oz 2011-09 Egyptian revolution / Mubarak uprising 2011-01 Greek sovereign debt crisis / first EU-IMF bailout 2010-05 Crude oil all-time high 2008-07 Crude oil all-time high 2008-07 ECB's ill-timed pre-crisis rate hike 2008-07 Henry Hub natural gas spot price peaks during 2008 commodity boom 2008-07 Platinum hits all-time record near $2,290 on South African power crisis 2008-03 South Africa Eskom power emergency spikes platinum/PGMs 2008-01
AssetHistory saysAbnormal (20d · 5d)HitnConfidencevs cascade
NG NGSHORT-8.6% · 5d -3.7%74%33 0.45⚠ differs
COIN COINLONG+11.6% · 5d +3.4%67%12 0.31⚠ differs
HOOD HOODLONG+6.2% · 5d +1.0%67%12 0.31⚠ differs
NDX NDXLONG+0.6% · 5d -0.8% ↺ fades66%34 0.26⚠ differs
EURUSD EURUSDSHORT-0.7% · 5d +0.0% ↺ fades63%33 0.24✓ matches cascade
ARM ARMSHORT-3.1% · 5d -5.0%67%6 0.19✓ matches cascade
Gold XAUSHORT-0.8% · 5d -0.5%59%33 0.17✓ matches cascade
SOL SOLLONG+5.1% · 5d -5.0% ↺ fades61%16 0.14⚠ differs
XHB XHBLONG+1.5% · 5d -0.6% ↺ fades57%33 0.14⚠ differs
US dollar DXYLONG+0.6% · 5d +0.3%58%40 0.14✓ matches cascade
XLK XLKLONG+0.7% · 5d -0.5% ↺ fades57%33 0.12⚠ differs
XLF XLFLONG+0.5% · 5d -0.0% ↺ fades53%33 0.06⚠ differs
30y yield DGS30LONG+5bp · 5d +5bp52%39 0.03✓ matches cascade
WHEAT WHEATSHORT-0.1% · 5d -1.4%51%33 0.03⚠ 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.