🛢 Energy & Commodities mixed · 3–10 years
A what‑if from the future

What if concentrated graphite anode supply constrains EV-battery output?

Concentrated synthetic- and natural-graphite anode supply constrains EV-battery output under an acceleration path, pressuring cell-maker costs and timelines.

8%
our model probability
over 3–10 years
prediction markets — wisdom of the crowd
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Empirically anchored 8% · 90% range 1–15% · 37 analogues · measured class trade_war 100% in 10 yr · 3% held back for the unknown
how we built this number — every step
Measured class rate — trade_war ≈1.3449/yr → 100% in 10 yr100%
Analyst prior · editorial share 6% of the class6%
Pooled · weight 86%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 3–10 years 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. Concentrated synthetic- and natural-graphite anode supply constrains EV-battery output under an acceleration path, pressuring cell-maker costs and timelines. The trigger decomposes into signed root‑shocks — Climate/crop supply ▲ · Industrial demand ▲ · Inflation surprise ▲ · Trade tension ▲ — 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
1Semiconductors SMHon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -0.9%
hist -0.54–-0.25% · other way +1.17% (n=12)
2Nasdaq 100 NDXon Hyperliquid 📈 chartIndex▼ -0.8%
hist -0.58–-0.02% · other way +1.25% (n=12)
3Nvidia NVDAon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -0.8%
hist -0.84–-0.11% · other way +6.78% (n=12)
4TSMC TSMon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -0.8%
hist -2.78–+0.54% · other way +2.93% (n=12)
5AMD AMDon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -0.6%
hist -0.96–+1.05% · other way +5.2% (n=12)
6Broadcom AVGOon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -0.6%
hist -0.98–+1.16% · other way -1.23% (n=10)
7Micron MUon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -0.6%
hist -1.89–+0.53% · other way +6.1% (n=12)
8Marvell MRVLon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -0.6%
hist -1.16–+2.06% · other way +10.41% (n=12)
9Alibaba BABAon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -0.6%
hist -2.48–+0.82% · other way -1.7% (n=9)
10ASML ASMLon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -0.6%
hist -2.21–+0.72% · other way -0.31% (n=12)
11Tech sector XLK 📈 chartEquity▼ -0.6%
hist -0.4–+0.38% · other way +1.94% (n=12)
12Wheat WHEATon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCommodity▲ +0.5%
hist -0.22–+0.33% · other way +0.06% (n=12)
13Chinese yuan CNY 📈 chartFX▼ -0.4%
hist -0.68–+0.01% · other way -0.2% (n=11)
14Corn CORNon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCommodity▲ +0.4%
hist -0.79–+0.71% · other way +1.35% (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): Tech sector -0.6% · Chinese yuan -0.4% · Freeport (copper) +0.3% · Aussie dollar -0.2% · 30y Treasury yield +1bp · 10y Treasury yield +1bp

Historical precedent — what analogous events actually did

Across 37 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.

Gold tops $3,000 for the first time amid tariff and rate-cut fears 2025-03 Chernobyl disaster 1986-04 Silver Thursday 1980-03 Gold peaks at $850 1980-01 1979 Iranian Revolution oil shock 1979-01 Gold tops $4,000 and silver spikes past $50 in historic squeeze 2025-10 Trump's 50% copper tariff sends Comex copper to a record 2025-07 H5N1 bird flu record US egg prices 2025-04 China retaliates to Liberation Day: 34% tariffs + rare-earth controls 2025-04 Gold tops $2,500 for the first time on Fed rate-cut bets 2024-08 India slashes gold import duty from 15% to 6% in 2024 budget 2024-07 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 Gold closes above $2,000/oz for the first time 2020-08 Chinese yuan breaks 7 per dollar; US names China manipulator 2019-08 IPBES warns ~1 million species face extinction 2019-05 China retaliates: $50B tariff list incl. soybeans 2018-04 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 Mexican peso crash on Trump 2016 win 2016-11 Gold futures velocity-logic flash crash 2014-01 Gold all-time peak of $1,921/oz 2011-09 Egyptian revolution / Mubarak uprising 2011-01 Crude oil all-time high 2008-07 2008 global rice / food price crisis peak 2008-04 2008 global rice crisis: Thai benchmark tops $1,000/ton 2008-04 Soviet August coup attempt against Gorbachev 1991-08 Iran hostage crisis / US freezes Iranian assets 1979-11 Volcker Saturday Night Special 1979-10 Three Mile Island partial meltdown 1979-03 Iranian Revolution oil shock 1978-12 Argentina Rodrigazo shock 1975-06 1974 sugar price spike to record 65+ cents 1974-11 Nixon Shock 1971-08 Smoot-Hawley clears the US House 1929-05
AssetHistory saysAbnormal (20d · 5d)HitnConfidencevs cascade
INTC INTCSHORT-4.3% · 5d -2.6%72%27 0.40✓ matches cascade
CNY CNYSHORT-0.4% · 5d -0.1%67%24 0.33✓ matches cascade
FCX FCXSHORT-3.8% · 5d -1.3%63%24 0.21⚠ differs
TSM TSMSHORT-2.2% · 5d -2.6%63%24 0.19✓ matches cascade
QCOM QCOMSHORT-2.3% · 5d -2.8%63%24 0.19✓ matches cascade
XLK XLKLONG+0.6% · 5d -1.0% ↺ fades61%24 0.17⚠ differs
WHEAT WHEATSHORT-0.4% · 5d -2.5%59%24 0.17⚠ differs
BABA BABASHORT-2.1% · 5d -3.4%57%18 0.12✓ matches cascade
EURUSD EURUSDSHORT-0.8% · 5d +0.0% ↺ fades57%24 0.12✓ matches cascade
MRVL MRVLLONG+2.3% · 5d -1.1% ↺ fades57%24 0.11⚠ differs
Gold XAUSHORT-0.9% · 5d -0.6%53%24 0.06·
SMH SMHLONG+0.1% · 5d -1.1% ↺ fades53%24 0.05⚠ differs
NDX NDXLONG+0.3% · 5d -1.0% ↺ fades54%26 0.05⚠ differs
Volatility VIXLONG+2.2% · 5d +5.6%53%25 0.05·

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.