🛢 Energy & Commodities mixed · 0–6 months
A what‑if from the future

What if Germany's nuclear phase-out deepens energy price spikes and curtailment risk in a supply squeeze?

Germany's completed nuclear phase-out leaves it more reliant on gas and imported power during a supply squeeze, deepening price spikes and curtailment risk.

6%
our model probability
over 0–6 months
prediction markets — wisdom of the crowd
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Empirically anchored 6% · 90% range 0–14% · 26 analogues · measured class energy 52% in 6 mo · 3% held back for the unknown
how we built this number — every step
Measured class rate — energy ≈1.4869/yr → 52% in 6 mo52%
Analyst prior · editorial share 10% of the class5%
Pooled · weight 81%6%
Crowd — no liquid market
Reserve 3% · no extremizing (×1.0)6%
Published6%

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 0–6 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 mixed shock. Germany's completed nuclear phase-out leaves it more reliant on gas and imported power during a supply squeeze, deepening price spikes and curtailment risk. The trigger decomposes into signed root‑shocks — Natural gas ▲ · European energy ▲ · Industrial demand ▼ · Inflation surprise ▲ — 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▲ +0.6%
hist -12.28–+5.16% · other way +8.78% (n=12)
2Freeport (copper) FCX 📈 chartEquity▼ -0.4%
hist -1.7–+2.27% · other way +6.98% (n=12)
3EUR/USD EURUSDon Hyperliquid 📈 chartFX▼ -0.4%
hist -1.52–+0.51% · other way +0.7% (n=12)
4Copper XCUon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCommodity▼ -0.2%
hist -1.05–+1.26% · other way -0.9% (n=12)
530y Treasury yield DGS30 📈 chartRate▲ +2bp
hist -5.76–+15.28% · other way +2.4% (n=12)
6Gold XAUon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCommodity▼ -0.1%
hist -1.77–+0.92% · other way +2.54% (n=12)
710y Treasury yield DGS10 📈 chartRate▲ +2bp
hist -3.25–+8.46% · 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
For a common-man portfolio: Mixed for a typical portfolio — the move is more about rotation than direction. Favour the winners over the losers below rather than net exposure.
Also moves (not yet on Hyperliquid): Freeport (copper) -0.4% · 30y Treasury yield +2bp · 10y Treasury yield +2bp

Historical precedent — what analogous events actually did

Across 26 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.

PJM grid emergency during Winter Storm Elliott 2022-12 Texas grid failure during Winter Storm Uri 2021-02 Northeast blackout cascading grid failure hits ~55 million 2003-08 1979 Iranian Revolution oil shock 1979-01 Henry Hub natural gas falls to an all-time inflation-adjusted low on record output 2024-11 Niger coup d'etat 2023-07 European gas crisis intraday record spike 2021-10 California rolling blackouts during a record heatwave 2020-08 Norilsk Nickel Arctic diesel spill 2020-05 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 Amaranth Advisors natural-gas blowup 2006-09 1990-91 recession onset 1990-07 Argentina hyperinflation peak / Alfonsin early handover 1989-07 Silver Thursday 1980-03 Gold peaks at $850 1980-01 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan 1979-12 Iran hostage crisis / US freezes Iranian assets 1979-11 Volcker Saturday Night Special 1979-10 Iranian Revolution oil shock 1978-12 1973-75 recession onset 1973-11 Nixon Shock 1971-08
AssetHistory saysAbnormal (20d · 5d)HitnConfidencevs cascade
NG NGSHORT-11.9% · 5d -4.8%70%15 0.37⚠ differs
EURUSD EURUSDSHORT-1.2% · 5d +0.1% ↺ fades63%14 0.24✓ matches cascade
High-yield credit HYGSHORT-0.3% · 5d +-0.0%61%13 0.15·
FCX FCXLONG+2.6% · 5d +1.5%58%15 0.14⚠ differs
Gold XAUSHORT-1.7% · 5d -0.6%58%15 0.14✓ matches cascade
US dollar DXYLONG+0.4% · 5d +0.1%57%26 0.12·
30y yield DGS30LONG+14bp · 5d +8bp54%24 0.07✓ matches cascade
Volatility VIXSHORT-1.6% · 5d -1.8%54%16 0.06·
XCU XCULONG+1.5% · 5d -0.1% ↺ fades52%15 0.03⚠ differs
10y yield DGS10LONG+7bp · 5d +6bp48%26 0.00✓ matches cascade
Bitcoin BTCLONG+1.6% · 5d +1.9%38%7 0.00·

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.