🛢 Energy & Commodities risk-off · 0–6 months
A what‑if from the future

What if India extends rice export ban amid election-year inflation?

New Delhi keeps non-basmati rice exports banned to shield domestic prices, removing the world's top rice exporter from the market and spiking Asian rice.

35%
our model probability
over 0–6 months
prediction markets — wisdom of the crowd
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Empirically anchored 35% · 90% range 16–55% · 40 analogues · measured class agriculture 62% in 6 mo · 3% held back for the unknown
how we built this number — every step
Measured class rate — agriculture ≈1.9132/yr → 62% in 6 mo62%
Analyst prior · editorial share 65% of the class40%
Pooled · weight 87%36%
Crowd — no liquid market
Reserve 3% · no extremizing (×1.0)36%
Published35%

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. New Delhi keeps non-basmati rice exports banned to shield domestic prices, removing the world's top rice exporter from the market and spiking Asian rice. The trigger decomposes into signed root‑shocks — EM currencies ▼ · Climate/crop supply ▲ · Food inflation ▲ · Geopolitical 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
1Volatility (VIX) VIXon Hyperliquid 📈 chartVol▲ +1.9%
hist +0.04–+2.46% · other way -4.53% (n=12)
2Nasdaq 100 NDXon Hyperliquid 📈 chartIndex▼ -0.6%
hist -0.47–+0.35% · other way -0.47% (n=12)
3Turkish lira TRY 📈 chartFX▼ -0.4%
hist -1.68–+0.46% · other way -0.75% (n=12)
4Semiconductors SMHon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -0.3%
hist -0.29–+0.1% · other way +1.33% (n=12)
5Indian rupee INR 📈 chartFX▼ -0.3%
hist -1.01–+0.23% · other way -0.37% (n=12)
6S&P 500 SPXon Hyperliquid 📈 chartIndex▼ -0.3%
hist -1.17–+0.37% · other way +1.73% (n=12)
7Tech sector XLK 📈 chartEquity▼ -0.4%
hist -0.36–+0.7% · other way -0.31% (n=12)
8Wheat WHEATon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCommodity▲ +0.2%
hist -1.5–+0.92% · other way -2.15% (n=12)
9Corn CORNon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCommodity▲ +0.2%
hist -1.12–+0.72% · other way -0.6% (n=12)
10Gold XAUon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCommodity▲ +0.2%
hist -0.69–+0.37% · other way -0.07% (n=12)
11Chinese yuan CNY 📈 chartFX▼ -0.2%
hist -0.61–+0.08% · other way -0.58% (n=12)
12Nvidia NVDAon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -0.2%
hist -0.83–+0.27% · other way +2.5% (n=12)
13AMD AMDon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -0.2%
hist -1.09–+0.24% · other way -0.63% (n=12)
14Broadcom AVGOon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -0.2%
hist -1.22–+2.44% · other way -0.79% (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): Turkish lira -0.4% · Indian rupee -0.3% · Tech sector -0.4% · Chinese yuan -0.2%

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.

Gold peaks at $850 1980-01 Gold tops $3,000 for the first time amid tariff and rate-cut fears 2025-03 North Korea sixth nuclear test 2017-09 North Korea 'fire and fury' nuclear scare 2017-08 Egyptian revolution / Mubarak uprising 2011-01 Soviet August coup attempt against Gorbachev 1991-08 Chernobyl disaster 1986-04 Silver Thursday 1980-03 Iran hostage crisis / US freezes Iranian assets 1979-11 Volcker Saturday Night Special 1979-10 1979 Iranian Revolution oil shock 1979-01 Gold tops $4,000 and silver spikes past $50 in historic squeeze 2025-10 Israel strikes Iran — Operation Rising Lion 2025-06 H5N1 bird flu record US egg prices 2025-04 China retaliates to Liberation Day: 34% tariffs + rare-earth controls 2025-04 October 2024 Iranian ballistic-missile attack on Israel 2024-10 Gold tops $2,500 for the first time on Fed rate-cut bets 2024-08 Niger coup d'etat 2023-07 Wagner Group mutiny against the Kremlin 2023-06 August 2022 hot CPI 2022-09 Powell's hawkish 'pain' speech at Jackson Hole 2022-08 Tin hits nominal record on LME above $48,000/t 2022-03 Russia invasion sends wheat to record high 2022-03 Burkina Faso coup d'etat 2022-01 Turkish lira record low on rate cuts 2021-11 Mali coup d'etat 2020-08 Gold closes above $2,000/oz for the first time 2020-08 Saudi-Russia oil price war 2020-03 Chinese yuan breaks 7 per dollar; US names China manipulator 2019-08 IPBES warns ~1 million species face extinction 2019-05 Bitcoin Cash hash war capitulation 2018-11 China retaliates: $50B tariff list incl. soybeans 2018-04 February 2018 hot wage print triggers rate scare 2018-02 OPEC abandons output defense, opting for market share vs US shale 2014-11 Gold futures velocity-logic flash crash 2014-01 Gold all-time peak of $1,921/oz 2011-09 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 US airline stocks plunge ~40% on first trading day after 9/11 2001-09
AssetHistory saysAbnormal (20d · 5d)HitnConfidencevs cascade
CNY CNYSHORT-0.5% · 5d -0.1%66%33 0.31✓ matches cascade
AMD AMDSHORT-0.9% · 5d -0.4%65%36 0.22✓ matches cascade
XLK XLKLONG+0.8% · 5d -0.6% ↺ fades64%33 0.21⚠ differs
TSM TSMSHORT-2.4% · 5d -2.4%64%33 0.21✓ matches cascade
Volatility VIXLONG+1.4% · 5d +5.3%60%34 0.18✓ matches cascade
10y yield DGS10LONG+10bp · 5d +6bp59%40 0.18·
Gold XAUSHORT-0.8% · 5d -0.8%59%33 0.15⚠ differs
INR INRSHORT-0.8% · 5d +0.1% ↺ fades57%32 0.14✓ matches cascade
TRY TRYSHORT-1.4% · 5d +0.8% ↺ fades57%32 0.13✓ matches cascade
NDX NDXLONG+0.6% · 5d -1.0% ↺ fades58%35 0.11⚠ differs
US dollar DXYLONG+0.4% · 5d +0.2%55%40 0.09·
High-yield credit HYGSHORT-0.4% · 5d -0.1%56%32 0.09·
AVGO AVGOLONG+2.5% · 5d -1.6% ↺ fades53%29 0.06⚠ differs
SMH SMHLONG+0.2% · 5d -1.1% ↺ fades51%33 0.02⚠ differs

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.