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

What if Gulf storm wrecks LNG export terminals: NG whipsaws?

Hurricane damage to Gulf Coast LNG export trains traps gas onshore, collapsing Henry Hub briefly then spiking TTF abroad as US export capacity is knocked offline.

12%
our model probability
over 6–18 months
prediction markets — wisdom of the crowd
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Empirically anchored 12% · 90% range 3–20% · 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 12% of the class11%
Pooled · weight 87%12%
Crowd — no liquid market
Reserve 3% · no extremizing (×1.0)12%
Published12%

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. Hurricane damage to Gulf Coast LNG export trains traps gas onshore, collapsing Henry Hub briefly then spiking TTF abroad as US export capacity is knocked offline. The trigger decomposes into signed root‑shocks — Natural gas ▲ · Climate/crop supply ▲ · European energy ▲ · Oil supply risk ▲ — 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
1Brent crude BRENTon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCommodity▲ +1.8%
hist +0.26–+1.3% · other way +0.07% (n=11)
2WTI crude CLon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCommodity▲ +1.5%
hist -0.76–+1.35% · other way +3.54% (n=11)
3Energy sector XLEon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▲ +1.1%
hist +0.03–+1.38% · other way +1.28% (n=11)
4United Airlines UAL 📈 chartEquity▼ -0.9%
hist -2.71–+7.58% · other way +6.82% (n=11)
5ExxonMobil XOM 📈 chartEquity▲ +0.8%
hist -0.47–+2.07% · other way -1.24% (n=12)
6Natural gas NGon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCommodity▲ +0.6%
hist -1.94–+1.13% · other way +7.41% (n=11)
7Chevron CVX 📈 chartEquity▲ +0.7%
hist -0.25–+1.58% · other way +0.38% (n=12)
8Delta DAL 📈 chartEquity▼ -0.8%
hist -1.49–+4.6% · other way +6.43% (n=11)
9Wheat WHEATon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCommodity▲ +0.5%
hist -1.58–+1.17% · other way +2.48% (n=11)
10Corn CORNon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCommodity▲ +0.5%
hist +0.06–+0.51% · other way +2.98% (n=11)
11EUR/USD EURUSDon Hyperliquid 📈 chartFX▼ -0.3%
hist -0.6–+0.06% · other way -0.02% (n=11)
1230y Treasury yield DGS30 📈 chartRate▲ +2bp
hist -5.03–+19.1% · other way +18.5% (n=12)
13Gold XAUon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCommodity▼ -0.2%
hist -0.14–-0.05% · other way +0.73% (n=11)
1410y Treasury yield DGS10 📈 chartRate▲ +2bp
hist -4.71–+22.03% · other way +21.4% (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): United Airlines -0.9% · ExxonMobil +0.8% · Chevron +0.7% · Delta -0.8% · 30y Treasury yield +2bp · 10y Treasury yield +2bp

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.

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AssetHistory saysAbnormal (20d · 5d)HitnConfidencevs cascade
Volatility VIXLONG+4.0% · 5d +2.1%72%34 0.37·
10y yield DGS10LONG+18bp · 5d +8bp66%40 0.31✓ matches cascade
DAL DALLONG+4.3% · 5d +0.8%65%33 0.28⚠ differs
30y yield DGS30LONG+16bp · 5d +8bp62%40 0.23✓ matches cascade
UAL UALLONG+7.2% · 5d +1.0%63%33 0.22⚠ differs
High-yield credit HYGSHORT-0.8% · 5d -0.2%64%33 0.22·
Bitcoin BTCSHORT-1.2% · 5d -3.1%61%32 0.17·
CVX CVXLONG+1.1% · 5d +0.7%58%40 0.15✓ matches cascade
NDX NDXSHORT-0.3% · 5d -1.1%60%36 0.14✓ matches cascade
NG NGSHORT-2.1% · 5d -1.6%56%33 0.11⚠ differs
CORN CORNLONG+0.2% · 5d -0.6% ↺ fades56%33 0.10✓ matches cascade
US dollar DXYLONG+0.3% · 5d +0.1%56%40 0.10·
Gold XAUSHORT-0.0% · 5d -0.7%55%33 0.08✓ matches cascade
XOM XOMLONG+1.6% · 5d +0.5%54%40 0.07✓ 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.