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

What if Global oilseed surplus crushes meal and biodiesel-feed prices?

Record soy, rapeseed and sunflower crops swing the oilseed complex into heavy surplus, crushing meal and biodiesel-feedstock prices.

25%
our model probability
over 6–18 months
prediction markets — wisdom of the crowd
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Empirically anchored 25% · 90% range 0–51% · 19 analogues · measured class deflation 44% in 18 mo · 3% held back for the unknown
how we built this number — every step
Measured class rate — deflation ≈0.3895/yr → 44% in 18 mo44%
Analyst prior · editorial share 63% of the class28%
Pooled · weight 76%26%
Crowd — no liquid market
Reserve 3% · no extremizing (×1.0)26%
Published25%

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 mixed shock. Record soy, rapeseed and sunflower crops swing the oilseed complex into heavy surplus, crushing meal and biodiesel-feedstock prices. The trigger decomposes into signed root‑shocks — Corn ▼ · Diesel ▼ · 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.

MarketClassProjected move
1Solana SOLon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCrypto▲ +0.3%
hist -4.33–+6.12% · other way +5.06% (n=9)
2Hyperliquid (HYPE) HYPEon HyperliquidCrypto▲ +0.3%
model prior · unmeasured
3MicroStrategy MSTRon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▲ +0.3%
hist -6.02–+9.99% · other way +0.9% (n=9)
4Ether ETHon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCrypto▲ +0.2%
hist -2.24–+3.79% · other way +0.5% (n=9)
5Nasdaq 100 NDXon Hyperliquid 📈 chartIndex▲ +0.2%
hist -0.09–+0.56% · other way +0.19% (n=9)
6Corn CORNon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCommodity▼ -0.2%
hist -0.97–+2.42% · other way +3.62% (n=9)
7Bitcoin BTCon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCrypto▲ +0.2%
hist -5.93–+7.11% · other way +0.27% (n=9)
8Tech sector XLK 📈 chartEquity▲ +0.1%
hist +0.0–+0.21% · other way -0.01% (n=9)

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): Tech sector +0.1%

Historical precedent — what analogous events actually did

Across 19 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.

Henry Hub natural gas hits a 25-year low amid record US production 2024-11 Waha hub natural gas prices crash to record negative on Permian glut 2024-08 Platinum hits an 11-year high on Chinese jewelry demand and deficit 2025-06 Palladium jumps after US pushes G7 sanctions on Russian metal 2024-10 Niger coup d'etat 2023-07 PJM grid emergency during Winter Storm Elliott 2022-12 European TTF gas hits all-time record high 2022-08 Texas grid failure during Winter Storm Uri 2021-02 Norilsk Nickel Arctic diesel spill 2020-05 WTI crude futures settle negative as demand collapses 2020-04 Silver hits 30-year high as JPMorgan and HSBC face manipulation suits 2010-10 Oil collapses from $147 to the $30s as the GFC craters demand 2008-12 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 Northeast blackout cascading grid failure hits ~55 million 2003-08 Soviet August coup attempt against Gorbachev 1991-08 Volcker Saturday Night Special 1979-10
AssetHistory saysAbnormal (20d · 5d)HitnConfidencevs cascade
CORN CORNLONG+2.3% · 5d +0.1%67%17 0.32⚠ differs
ETH ETHLONG+3.7% · 5d -3.4% ↺ fades68%10 0.26✓ matches cascade
Volatility VIXSHORT-6.0% · 5d -4.0%68%18 0.26·
NDX NDXLONG+0.4% · 5d -0.7% ↺ fades66%18 0.23✓ matches cascade
US dollar DXYLONG+0.4% · 5d -0.3% ↺ fades62%19 0.21·
SOL SOLLONG+6.2% · 5d -8.7% ↺ fades59%10 0.12✓ matches cascade
MSTR MSTRLONG+10.1% · 5d -4.2% ↺ fades50%17 0.00✓ matches cascade
Bitcoin BTCLONG+7.5% · 5d -2.7% ↺ fades50%10 0.00✓ matches cascade
XLK XLKLONG+0.1% · 5d -0.6% ↺ fades47%17 0.00✓ matches cascade
Gold XAUSHORT-0.0% · 5d -0.3%47%17 0.00·
High-yield credit HYGLONG+0.7% · 5d -0.2% ↺ fades34%15 0.00·
10y yield DGS10LONG+13bp · 5d +6bp50%19 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.