What if Inflation-surprise outflow shock unwinds crowded EM local-bond longs?
An upside EM inflation surprise forces foreigners to dump local bonds, spiking yields and depreciating currencies as the disinflation trade is unwound abruptly.
how we built this number — every step
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.
What it would mean
If this plays out, it is a risk-off shock. An upside EM inflation surprise forces foreigners to dump local bonds, spiking yields and depreciating currencies as the disinflation trade is unwound abruptly. The trigger decomposes into signed root‑shocks — EM currencies ▼ · FX carry appetite ▼ · Credit spreads ▲ · Inflation surprise ▲ · 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.
| Market | Class | Projected move | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Turkish lira TRY 📈 chart | FX | ▼ -0.9% hist -4.49–+1.27% · other way +0.27% (n=12) |
| 2 | MicroStrategy MSTRon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Equity | ▼ -0.8% hist -5.15–+1.14% · other way +13.43% (n=12) |
| 3 | Indian rupee INR 📈 chart | FX | ▼ -0.7% hist -1.2–+0.08% · other way -0.35% (n=12) |
| 4 | Nasdaq 100 NDXon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Index | ▼ -0.6% hist -1.02–+0.05% · other way +0.45% (n=12) |
| 5 | Solana SOLon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Crypto | ▼ -0.6% hist -7.09–+2.88% · other way -2.88% (n=9) |
| 6 | Bitcoin BTCon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Crypto | ▼ -0.5% hist -6.61–+1.64% · other way +5.05% (n=11) |
| 7 | Hyperliquid (HYPE) HYPEon Hyperliquid | Crypto | ▼ -0.5% model prior · unmeasured |
| 8 | Tech sector XLK 📈 chart | Equity | ▼ -0.6% hist -0.35–-0.18% · other way +0.69% (n=12) |
| 9 | Volatility (VIX) VIXon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Vol | ▲ +0.5% hist -0.08–+0.78% · other way -11.43% (n=12) |
| 10 | Ether ETHon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Crypto | ▼ -0.5% hist -10.39–+1.49% · other way -1.48% (n=10) |
| 11 | Chinese yuan CNY 📈 chart | FX | ▼ -0.4% hist -0.91–+0.1% · other way -0.33% (n=12) |
| 12 | High-yield credit HYG 📈 chart | Rate | ▼ -0.4% hist -0.41–-0.03% · other way +0.04% (n=12) |
| 13 | Aussie dollar AUD 📈 chart | FX | ▼ -0.3% hist -1.31–+0.18% · other way -1.77% (n=12) |
| 14 | S&P 500 SPXon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Index | ▼ -0.3% hist -0.94–+0.28% · other way +0.6% (n=12) |
Probable recommendation
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.
| Asset | History says | Abnormal (20d · 5d) | Hit | n | Confidence | vs cascade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ETH ETH | SHORT | -8.5% · 5d -6.2% | 77% | 19 | 0.39 | ✓ matches cascade |
| ARM ARM | SHORT | -5.4% · 5d -4.6% | 75% | 4 | 0.35 | ✓ matches cascade |
| AUD AUD | SHORT | -1.0% · 5d -0.3% | 68% | 37 | 0.32 | ✓ matches cascade |
| CNY CNY | SHORT | -0.7% · 5d -0.3% | 64% | 37 | 0.27 | ✓ matches cascade |
| Bitcoin BTC | SHORT | -5.7% · 5d -5.1% | 65% | 25 | 0.24 | ✓ matches cascade |
| MSTR MSTR | SHORT | -4.2% · 5d -2.8% | 64% | 38 | 0.23 | ✓ matches cascade |
| SOL SOL | SHORT | -6.5% · 5d -8.7% | 64% | 16 | 0.23 | ✓ matches cascade |
| High-yield credit HYG | SHORT | -0.2% · 5d +0.1% ↺ fades | 61% | 37 | 0.17 | ✓ matches cascade |
| NDX NDX | SHORT | -0.6% · 5d -1.1% | 59% | 39 | 0.16 | ✓ matches cascade |
| TRY TRY | SHORT | -3.8% · 5d -0.1% | 57% | 37 | 0.14 | ✓ matches cascade |
| INR INR | SHORT | -0.8% · 5d +-0.0% | 57% | 37 | 0.13 | ✓ matches cascade |
| 30y yield DGS30 | SHORT | -1bp · 5d -1bp | 56% | 39 | 0.10 | ⚠ differs |
| US dollar DXY | LONG | +0.7% · 5d +0.4% | 56% | 40 | 0.10 | · |
| XLK XLK | SHORT | -0.0% · 5d -0.8% | 55% | 38 | 0.09 | ✓ matches cascade |