🏛 Central Banks & Macro risk-off · 0–6 months
A what‑if from the future

What if Heatwave power crunch dents India's industrial output?

An extreme heatwave spikes electricity demand and coal stress, forcing load-shedding for industry; output and earnings take a hit and the growth-surprise turns negative for a quarter.

17%
our model probability
over 0–6 months
prediction markets — wisdom of the crowd
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Empirically anchored 17% · 90% range 3–32% · 23 analogues · measured class growth 61% in 6 mo · 3% held back for the unknown
how we built this number — every step
Measured class rate — growth ≈1.8868/yr → 61% in 6 mo61%
Analyst prior · editorial share 29% of the class18%
Pooled · weight 79%18%
Crowd — no liquid market
Reserve 3% · no extremizing (×1.0)18%
Published17%

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 risk-off shock. An extreme heatwave spikes electricity demand and coal stress, forcing load-shedding for industry; output and earnings take a hit and the growth-surprise turns negative for a quarter. The trigger decomposes into signed root‑shocks — Climate/crop supply ▲ · Growth surprise ▼ · Industrial demand ▼ · 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 -4.71–+4.09% · other way -3.07% (n=10)
2MicroStrategy MSTRon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -0.4%
hist -2.03–+0.93% · other way +30.63% (n=11)
3Hyperliquid (HYPE) HYPEon HyperliquidCrypto▼ -0.4%
model prior · unmeasured
4Ether ETHon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCrypto▼ -0.3%
hist -8.21–+8.03% · other way +5.06% (n=10)
5Nasdaq 100 NDXon Hyperliquid 📈 chartIndex▼ -0.3%
hist -0.51–+0.75% · other way -0.38% (n=11)
6Freeport (copper) FCX 📈 chartEquity▼ -0.3%
hist -0.22–-0.09% · other way +0.11% (n=11)
7Bitcoin BTCon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCrypto▼ -0.2%
hist -5.61–+6.35% · other way +6.9% (n=10)
8Wheat WHEATon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCommodity▲ +0.2%
hist -0.28–+0.28% · other way -3.11% (n=11)
9Volatility (VIX) VIXon Hyperliquid 📈 chartVol▲ +0.2%
hist -2.31–+6.06% · other way -0.1% (n=11)
10Corn CORNon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCommodity▲ +0.2%
hist -1.39–+3.24% · other way -2.77% (n=11)
11Tech sector XLK 📈 chartEquity▼ -0.2%
hist -0.55–+0.86% · other way -0.31% (n=11)
12S&P 500 SPXon Hyperliquid 📈 chartIndex▼ -0.1%
hist -0.47–+0.12% · other way -0.18% (n=12)
13Coinbase COINon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -0.2%
hist -9.0–+7.79% · other way +27.62% (n=10)

Probable recommendation

If the scenario above plays out, the probable cross‑asset positioning → a scenario‑conditional read, not personalized investment advice
Cash / hedgeRaise cash and hold the long hedges above; this scenario is net risk-off.
For a common-man portfolio: A typical stock-heavy portfolio is at risk. Consider trimming equities, raising cash, and a small cash hedge.
Also moves (not yet on Hyperliquid): Freeport (copper) -0.3% · Tech sector -0.2%

Historical precedent — what analogous events actually did

Across 23 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.

Chernobyl disaster 1986-04 Gold tops $4,000 and silver spikes past $50 in historic squeeze 2025-10 Gold tops $3,000 for the first time amid tariff and rate-cut fears 2025-03 Gold tops $2,500 for the first time on Fed rate-cut bets 2024-08 Gold closes above $2,000/oz for the first time 2020-08 WTI crude futures settle negative as demand collapses 2020-04 IPBES warns ~1 million species face extinction 2019-05 North Korea sixth nuclear test 2017-09 North Korea 'fire and fury' nuclear scare 2017-08 China-led global 'Black Monday' rout 2015-08 Gold futures velocity-logic flash crash 2014-01 Gold all-time peak of $1,921/oz 2011-09 Egyptian revolution / Mubarak uprising 2011-01 Greek sovereign debt crisis / first EU-IMF bailout 2010-05 Oil collapses from $147 to the $30s as the GFC craters demand 2008-12 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 Silver Thursday 1980-03 Gold peaks at $850 1980-01 Iran hostage crisis / US freezes Iranian assets 1979-11 Three Mile Island partial meltdown 1979-03 1979 Iranian Revolution oil shock 1979-01
AssetHistory saysAbnormal (20d · 5d)HitnConfidencevs cascade
Volatility VIXLONG+5.6% · 5d +4.2%65%17 0.25✓ matches cascade
WHEAT WHEATSHORT-0.4% · 5d -3.4%62%16 0.24⚠ differs
COIN COINSHORT-9.5% · 5d -3.7%67%3 0.24✓ matches cascade
CORN CORNLONG+3.0% · 5d -0.9% ↺ fades62%16 0.23✓ matches cascade
XLK XLKLONG+1.0% · 5d -0.6% ↺ fades62%16 0.21⚠ differs
NDX NDXLONG+0.9% · 5d -0.8% ↺ fades59%18 0.14⚠ differs
Gold XAULONG+0.4% · 5d -0.1% ↺ fades56%16 0.12·
High-yield credit HYGLONG+1.0% · 5d -0.3% ↺ fades56%16 0.12·
FCX FCXSHORT-0.0% · 5d +0.6% ↺ fades56%16 0.10✓ matches cascade
Bitcoin BTCLONG+7.1% · 5d +0.3%56%9 0.10⚠ differs
10y yield DGS10SHORT-4bp · 5d -1bp55%23 0.10·
SPX SPXSHORT-0.4% · 5d +0.1% ↺ fades53%23 0.05✓ matches cascade
SOL SOLLONG+4.7% · 5d -3.5% ↺ fades40%5 0.00⚠ differs
MSTR MSTRSHORT-1.8% · 5d -2.7%44%16 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.