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

What if Indonesia copper concentrate export ban strands Grasberg units?

Jakarta enforces a concentrate export ban to force domestic smelting; Grasberg concentrate is stranded, tightening Asian smelter feed and lifting copper.

16%
our model probability
over 0–6 months
prediction markets — wisdom of the crowd
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Empirically anchored 16% · 90% range 1–30% · 23 analogues · measured class trade_war 49% in 6 mo · 3% held back for the unknown
how we built this number — every step
Measured class rate — trade_war ≈1.3449/yr → 49% in 6 mo49%
Analyst prior · editorial share 35% of the class17%
Pooled · weight 79%16%
Crowd — no liquid market
Reserve 3% · no extremizing (×1.0)16%
Published16%

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. Jakarta enforces a concentrate export ban to force domestic smelting; Grasberg concentrate is stranded, tightening Asian smelter feed and lifting copper. The trigger decomposes into signed root‑shocks — Copper ▲ · Industrial demand ▲ · Risk appetite ▼ · Trade tension ▲ — 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
1Nasdaq 100 NDXon Hyperliquid 📈 chartIndex▼ -0.7%
hist -0.58–-0.26% · other way +1.81% (n=11)
2Freeport (copper) FCX 📈 chartEquity▲ +0.6%
hist -4.42–+2.13% · other way +8.32% (n=11)
3Semiconductors SMHon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -0.6%
hist -0.5–-0.24% · other way +2.75% (n=11)
4Copper XCUon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCommodity▲ +0.5%
hist -3.92–+1.85% · other way -0.19% (n=11)
5Alibaba BABAon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -0.4%
hist -1.63–+0.87% · other way -5.17% (n=8)
6Tech sector XLK 📈 chartEquity▼ -0.4%
hist -0.5–+0.1% · other way +2.57% (n=11)
7TSMC TSMon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -0.4%
hist -2.19–+1.15% · other way +4.87% (n=11)
8MicroStrategy MSTRon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -0.3%
hist -0.8–+0.23% · other way +17.3% (n=11)
9Nvidia NVDAon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -0.4%
hist -1.13–+1.16% · other way +10.49% (n=11)
10Solana SOLon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCrypto▼ -0.3%
hist -2.94–+3.0% · other way -8.23% (n=8)
11AMD AMDon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -0.3%
hist -1.05–+1.24% · other way +7.06% (n=11)
12Broadcom AVGOon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -0.3%
hist -1.18–+1.33% · other way +2.05% (n=9)
13Micron MUon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -0.3%
hist -3.22–+1.79% · other way +7.93% (n=11)
14Marvell MRVLon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -0.3%
hist -0.42–+0.15% · other way +12.35% (n=11)

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) +0.6% · Tech sector -0.4% · Chinese yuan -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.

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AssetHistory saysAbnormal (20d · 5d)HitnConfidencevs cascade
INTC INTCSHORT-7.1% · 5d -2.9%89%17 0.73✓ matches cascade
XCU XCUSHORT-4.0% · 5d -0.7%72%14 0.39⚠ differs
FCX FCXSHORT-4.5% · 5d -0.6%72%14 0.37⚠ differs
ETH ETHSHORT-3.9% · 5d -4.5%71%8 0.33✓ matches cascade
CNY CNYSHORT-0.1% · 5d -0.1%66%14 0.29✓ matches cascade
Volatility VIXLONG+9.2% · 5d +0.6%68%15 0.29✓ matches cascade
Gold XAULONG+0.4% · 5d +0.1%66%14 0.28·
QCOM QCOMSHORT-2.8% · 5d -3.2%66%14 0.22✓ matches cascade
US dollar DXYSHORT-0.1% · 5d +0.2% ↺ fades60%22 0.18·
Bitcoin BTCSHORT-2.8% · 5d -1.4%61%11 0.16✓ matches cascade
10y yield DGS10SHORT-5bp · 5d +0bp58%22 0.15·
SOL SOLLONG+3.5% · 5d -5.1% ↺ fades60%7 0.14⚠ differs
AVGO AVGOLONG+1.6% · 5d -2.5% ↺ fades55%14 0.09⚠ differs
XLK XLKLONG+0.3% · 5d -1.2% ↺ fades55%14 0.08⚠ 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.