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

What if Indonesia nickel-policy spillover lifts stainless and PGM costs?

Shifting Indonesian nickel export and royalty policy tightens nickel units, raising stainless and battery costs and feeding through to the broader metals complex.

10%
our model probability
over 0–6 months
prediction markets — wisdom of the crowd
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Empirically anchored 10% · 90% range 0–23% · 40 analogues · measured class deflation 18% in 6 mo · 3% held back for the unknown
how we built this number — every step
Measured class rate — deflation ≈0.3895/yr → 18% in 6 mo18%
Analyst prior · editorial share 61% of the class11%
Pooled · weight 87%10%
Crowd — no liquid market
Reserve 3% · no extremizing (×1.0)10%
Published10%

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 mixed shock. Shifting Indonesian nickel export and royalty policy tightens nickel units, raising stainless and battery costs and feeding through to the broader metals complex. The trigger decomposes into signed root‑shocks — Clean-energy abundance ▲ · 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▼ -0.6%
hist -0.4–-0.21% · other way -1.27% (n=5)
2Semiconductors SMHon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -0.5%
hist -0.46–-0.12% · other way +1.87% (n=4)
3Alibaba BABAon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -0.4%
hist -1.45–+0.39%
4TSMC TSMon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -0.4%
hist -1.4–+0.42% · other way -1.02% (n=4)
5Nvidia NVDAon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -0.4%
hist -0.68–+0.85% · other way -16.4% (n=4)
6Tech sector XLK 📈 chartEquity▼ -0.3%
hist -0.36–+0.19% · other way +0.15% (n=4)
7Freeport (copper) FCX 📈 chartEquity▲ +0.3%
hist -3.48–+0.87% · other way -11.84% (n=4)
8AMD AMDon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -0.3%
hist -0.46–+0.49% · other way -11.69% (n=5)
9Broadcom AVGOon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -0.3%
hist -0.63–+1.14%
10Micron MUon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -0.3%
hist -3.33–+1.06% · other way -7.33% (n=5)
11Marvell MRVLon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -0.3%
hist -0.81–+3.71% · other way -8.4% (n=4)
12MicroStrategy MSTRon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -0.3%
hist -2.42–+4.82% · other way -6.79% (n=4)
13Energy sector XLEon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -0.2%
hist -2.33–+0.34% · other way -11.23% (n=4)
14ASML ASMLon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -0.3%
hist -2.73–+1.04% · other way +4.37% (n=4)

Probable recommendation

If the scenario above plays out, the probable cross‑asset positioning → a scenario‑conditional read, not personalized investment advice
Long
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): Tech sector -0.3% · Freeport (copper) +0.3% · ExxonMobil -0.2% · 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 tops $3,000 for the first time amid tariff and rate-cut fears 2025-03 Henry Hub natural gas hits a 25-year low amid record US production 2024-11 Waha hub natural gas prices crash to record negative on Permian glut 2024-08 Soviet August coup attempt against Gorbachev 1991-08 Gold tops $4,000 and silver spikes past $50 in historic squeeze 2025-10 Trump's 50% copper tariff sends Comex copper to a record 2025-07 Platinum hits an 11-year high on Chinese jewelry demand and deficit 2025-06 China retaliates to Liberation Day: 34% tariffs + rare-earth controls 2025-04 Palladium jumps after US pushes G7 sanctions on Russian metal 2024-10 Gold tops $2,500 for the first time on Fed rate-cut bets 2024-08 Nikkei 225 record single-day rebound 2024-08 India slashes gold import duty from 15% to 6% in 2024 budget 2024-07 NIF achieves fusion ignition 2022-12 Gold closes above $2,000/oz for the first time 2020-08 WTI crude futures settle negative as demand collapses 2020-04 Saudi-Russia oil price war 2020-03 Chinese yuan breaks 7 per dollar; US names China manipulator 2019-08 North Korea sixth nuclear test 2017-09 North Korea 'fire and fury' nuclear scare 2017-08 Mexican peso crash on Trump 2016 win 2016-11 China rout & circuit-breaker / yuan slide 2016-01 SNB introduces negative interest rates 2014-12 Russian ruble 'Black Tuesday' 2014-12 Gold futures velocity-logic flash crash 2014-01 Gold all-time peak of $1,921/oz 2011-09 Egyptian revolution / Mubarak uprising 2011-01 Silver hits 30-year high as JPMorgan and HSBC face manipulation suits 2010-10 Oil collapses from $147 to the $30s as the GFC craters demand 2008-12 2008 global rice crisis: Thai benchmark tops $1,000/ton 2008-04 Gulf War air campaign begins 1991-01 Chernobyl disaster 1986-04 1986 oil price collapse 1986-02 Silver Thursday 1980-03 Gold peaks at $850 1980-01 Iran hostage crisis / US freezes Iranian assets 1979-11 Volcker Saturday Night Special 1979-10 Three Mile Island partial meltdown 1979-03 1979 Iranian Revolution oil shock 1979-01 Nixon Shock 1971-08 Cuban Missile Crisis 1962-10
AssetHistory saysAbnormal (20d · 5d)HitnConfidencevs cascade
CL CLSHORT-2.7% · 5d -3.2%73%28 0.40✓ matches cascade
XLE XLESHORT-1.9% · 5d -0.9%71%28 0.38✓ matches cascade
BRENT BRENTSHORT-3.2% · 5d -3.4%69%28 0.34✓ matches cascade
CNY CNYSHORT-0.2% · 5d -0.2%68%28 0.34✓ matches cascade
INTC INTCSHORT-3.1% · 5d -1.0%69%33 0.34✓ matches cascade
FCX FCXSHORT-3.1% · 5d -1.0%68%28 0.32⚠ differs
MRVL MRVLLONG+3.2% · 5d -0.2% ↺ fades71%28 0.32⚠ differs
QCOM QCOMSHORT-3.0% · 5d -2.3%69%28 0.28✓ matches cascade
Gold XAULONG+0.8% · 5d -0.5% ↺ fades64%28 0.27·
10y yield DGS10SHORT-4bp · 5d +2bp ↺ fades60%39 0.19·
MU MUSHORT-3.0% · 5d -1.6%59%32 0.16✓ matches cascade
XOM XOMSHORT-1.4% · 5d -0.9%57%39 0.13✓ matches cascade
AVGO AVGOLONG+1.2% · 5d -2.5% ↺ fades56%26 0.11⚠ differs
Volatility VIXSHORT-1.0% · 5d -3.0%56%30 0.11·

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.