⚔ Geopolitics risk-off · 0–6 months
A what‑if from the future

What if Hezbollah opens a full northern front on Israel?

Hezbollah escalates to sustained deep-strike barrages on northern Israel, forcing a major Israeli ground operation into Lebanon and spiking the regional war premium.

9%
our model probability
over 0–6 months
prediction markets — wisdom of the crowd
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Empirically anchored 9% · 90% range 0–19% · 40 analogues · measured class vol_spike 31% in 6 mo · 3% held back for the unknown
how we built this number — every step
Measured class rate — vol_spike ≈0.7371/yr → 31% in 6 mo31%
Analyst prior · editorial share 32% of the class10%
Pooled · weight 87%10%
Crowd — no liquid market
Reserve 3% · no extremizing (×1.0)10%
Published9%

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. Hezbollah escalates to sustained deep-strike barrages on northern Israel, forcing a major Israeli ground operation into Lebanon and spiking the regional war premium. The trigger decomposes into signed root‑shocks — Volatility (VIX) ▲ · Defense spending ▲ · Geopolitical risk ▲ · Oil supply risk ▲ · 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
1Volatility (VIX) VIXon Hyperliquid 📈 chartVol▲ +9.6%
hist +2.77–+6.24% · other way -0.36% (n=12)
2Nasdaq 100 NDXon Hyperliquid 📈 chartIndex▼ -3.9%
hist -1.97–-1.08% · other way -0.34% (n=12)
3Tech sector XLK 📈 chartEquity▼ -2.6%
hist -1.65–-0.57% · other way -0.15% (n=12)
4S&P 500 SPXon Hyperliquid 📈 chartIndex▼ -2.1%
hist -1.16–-0.58% · other way +1.22% (n=12)
5MicroStrategy MSTRon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -2.1%
hist -2.11–+1.07% · other way +31.53% (n=12)
6Brent crude BRENTon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCommodity▲ +1.8%
hist -0.23–+1.44% · other way -3.03% (n=12)
7Semiconductors SMHon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -1.8%
hist -1.17–-0.24% · other way +1.95% (n=12)
8Solana SOLon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCrypto▼ -1.6%
hist -1.38–-0.43% · other way -3.0% (n=12)
9Lockheed LMT 📈 chartEquity▲ +1.5%
hist -0.51–+3.62% · other way -3.83% (n=12)
10WTI crude CLon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCommodity▲ +1.4%
hist -1.87–+1.36% · other way -2.56% (n=12)
11Northrop NOC 📈 chartEquity▲ +1.4%
hist -0.28–+2.84% · other way -1.69% (n=12)
12Hyperliquid (HYPE) HYPEon HyperliquidCrypto▼ -1.3%
model prior · unmeasured
13Ether ETHon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCrypto▼ -1.2%
hist -4.24–+0.87% · other way +5.29% (n=12)
14Bitcoin BTCon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCrypto▼ -1.2%
hist -3.16–+0.8% · other way +7.71% (n=12)

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 gold hedge.
Also moves (not yet on Hyperliquid): Tech sector -2.6% · Lockheed +1.5% · Northrop +1.4% · High-yield credit -1.0% · United Airlines -0.9% · Financials -0.7%

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.

Israel strikes Iran — Operation Rising Lion 2025-06 OPEC abandons output defense, opting for market share vs US shale 2014-11 China retaliates to Liberation Day: 34% tariffs + rare-earth controls 2025-04 October 2024 Iranian ballistic-missile attack on Israel 2024-10 Hezbollah pager and device explosions across Lebanon 2024-09 Saudi-Russia oil price war 2020-03 North Korea 'fire and fury' nuclear scare 2017-08 Egyptian revolution / Mubarak uprising 2011-01 Operation Desert Storm begins 1991-01 1986 oil price collapse 1986-02 Iran hostage crisis / US freezes Iranian assets 1979-11 Operation Sindoor: India strikes Pakistan after Pahalgam attack 2025-05 Gold tops $3,000 for the first time amid tariff and rate-cut fears 2025-03 VIX third-highest spike on record 2024-08 Trump 'Taiwan should pay for defense' chip selloff 2024-07 April 2024 Iranian drone-and-missile barrage on Israel 2024-04 Ukrainian drone strikes hit Russian refineries, lifting crude and gasoline 2024-03 Niger coup d'etat 2023-07 Wagner Group mutiny against the Kremlin 2023-06 ExxonMobil posts most profitable year for any US oil company 2023-01 China fires ballistic missiles into Japan's EEZ during Taiwan drills 2022-08 US-led 240-million-barrel SPR release answers the Ukraine spike 2022-03 Houthi drone-and-missile strike on Aramco's Jeddah depot 2022-03 Houthi drone-and-missile attack on Abu Dhabi oil sites lifts Brent to 7-year high 2022-01 Evergrande debt crisis - global selloff 2021-09 COVID-19 fourth circuit breaker 2020-03 Abqaiq-Khurais strike triggers the biggest Brent spike on record 2019-09 Chinese yuan breaks 7 per dollar; US names China manipulator 2019-08 Houthi drones strike Saudi East-West crude pipeline 2019-05 India's Balakot airstrike inside Pakistan 2019-02 Pulwama attack ignites India-Pakistan crisis 2019-02 Worst Christmas Eve selloff on record 2018-12 Bitcoin Cash hash war capitulation 2018-11 Turkish lira crisis 2018-08 February 2018 hot wage print triggers rate scare 2018-02 North Korea sixth nuclear test 2017-09 Saudi riyal forward points spike on de-peg fears 2016-01 China-led global 'Black Monday' rout 2015-08 Thailand 2014 military coup 2014-05 SEC approves Limit Up-Limit Down plan and revised market-wide circuit breakers 2012-05
AssetHistory saysAbnormal (20d · 5d)HitnConfidencevs cascade
COIN COINLONG+9.2% · 5d +4.3%71%18 0.37⚠ differs
MRVL MRVLSHORT-1.0% · 5d -1.6%67%37 0.26✓ matches cascade
10y yield DGS10LONG+3bp · 5d +6bp66%40 0.26✓ matches cascade
MU MUSHORT-1.8% · 5d -2.7%64%39 0.22✓ matches cascade
INR INRSHORT-0.4% · 5d +0.1% ↺ fades64%37 0.22✓ matches cascade
NOC NOCLONG+2.0% · 5d -0.3% ↺ fades63%39 0.21✓ matches cascade
NDX NDXSHORT-0.1% · 5d -0.7%63%39 0.20✓ matches cascade
ETH ETHSHORT-3.4% · 5d -2.8%62%29 0.18✓ matches cascade
LMT LMTLONG+2.6% · 5d -0.1% ↺ fades61%40 0.17✓ matches cascade
AVGO AVGOLONG+2.5% · 5d -1.4% ↺ fades60%37 0.17⚠ differs
CL CLSHORT-2.4% · 5d -1.1%60%37 0.16⚠ differs
QCOM QCOMSHORT-2.8% · 5d -2.2%61%37 0.16✓ matches cascade
TRY TRYSHORT-0.7% · 5d +1.2% ↺ fades60%37 0.16✓ matches cascade
INTC INTCSHORT-2.8% · 5d -1.2%59%39 0.15✓ 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.