🛢 Energy & Commodities mixed · 1–3 years
A what‑if from the future

What if Hardened Gulf petrochemical hub rides out hurricane?

Flood-hardening and rapid restart at the Gulf Coast chemical and port complex limit disruption from a landfalling storm, keeping feedstock supply and goods prices stable.

19%
our model probability
over 1–3 years
prediction markets — wisdom of the crowd
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Empirically anchored 19% · 90% range 4–35% · 40 analogues · measured class deflation 69% in 3 yr · 3% held back for the unknown
how we built this number — every step
Measured class rate — deflation ≈0.3895/yr → 69% in 3 yr69%
Analyst prior · editorial share 26% of the class18%
Pooled · weight 87%20%
Crowd — no liquid market
Reserve 3% · no extremizing (×1.0)20%
Published19%

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 1–3 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. Flood-hardening and rapid restart at the Gulf Coast chemical and port complex limit disruption from a landfalling storm, keeping feedstock supply and goods prices stable. The trigger decomposes into signed root‑shocks — Climate/crop supply ▼ · Industrial demand ▲ · Inflation surprise ▼ · 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▲ +0.4%
hist -3.33–+1.46% · other way +5.11% (n=6)
2Hyperliquid (HYPE) HYPEon HyperliquidCrypto▲ +0.3%
model prior · unmeasured
3Ether ETHon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCrypto▲ +0.3%
hist -1.11–+2.62% · other way -1.91% (n=6)
4MicroStrategy MSTRon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▲ +0.4%
hist -4.58–+12.61% · other way +1.62% (n=11)
5Nasdaq 100 NDXon Hyperliquid 📈 chartIndex▲ +0.3%
hist -0.34–+0.22% · other way +0.59% (n=12)
6Freeport (copper) FCX 📈 chartEquity▲ +0.2%
hist -0.79–+0.42% · other way -4.36% (n=11)
7Volatility (VIX) VIXon Hyperliquid 📈 chartVol▼ -0.2%
hist -0.61–+0.16% · other way +9.32% (n=11)
8Bitcoin BTCon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCrypto▲ +0.2%
hist -1.88–+3.99% · other way +3.19% (n=8)
9Wheat WHEATon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCommodity▼ -0.2%
hist -2.0–+0.54% · other way -2.71% (n=11)
10Tech sector XLK 📈 chartEquity▲ +0.2%
hist -0.25–+0.2% · other way +1.14% (n=11)
11Corn CORNon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCommodity▼ -0.2%
hist -1.87–+0.74% · other way -0.3% (n=11)
1230y Treasury yield DGS30 📈 chartRate▼ -1bp
hist -3.22–+6.72% · other way -7.8% (n=12)
1310y Treasury yield DGS10 📈 chartRate▼ -1bp
hist -3.86–+6.52% · other way -1.6% (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) +0.2% · Tech sector +0.2% · 30y Treasury yield -1bp · 10y Treasury yield -1bp

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
WHEAT WHEATSHORT-1.7% · 5d -0.8%62%38 0.23✓ matches cascade
NDX NDXSHORT-0.4% · 5d -1.1%64%39 0.19⚠ differs
MSTR MSTRLONG+11.6% · 5d -1.2% ↺ fades58%38 0.15✓ matches cascade
SOL SOLSHORT-3.3% · 5d -6.5%59%35 0.13⚠ differs
30y yield DGS30LONG+7bp · 5d +2bp57%40 0.13⚠ differs
FCX FCXSHORT-0.8% · 5d -2.0%58%38 0.12⚠ differs
XLK XLKSHORT-0.3% · 5d -1.1%58%38 0.12⚠ differs
US dollar DXYLONG+0.2% · 5d +0.2%55%40 0.09·
High-yield credit HYGSHORT-0.1% · 5d +0.1% ↺ fades56%38 0.08·
CORN CORNSHORT-1.7% · 5d -1.9%53%38 0.06✓ matches cascade
10y yield DGS10LONG+7bp · 5d +4bp51%40 0.02⚠ differs
Gold XAUSHORT-0.3% · 5d -1.5%51%38 0.02·
ETH ETHLONG+2.4% · 5d -1.8% ↺ fades46%36 0.00✓ matches cascade
Volatility VIXSHORT-0.5% · 5d -1.3%47%39 0.00✓ 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.