⚔ Geopolitics risk-off · 1–3 years
A what‑if from the future

What if a Latin American resource dispute disrupts commodity supply?

A regional dispute over Latin-American oil, water or mineral resources (e.g. Guyana/Venezuela) disrupts commodity supply and foreign-investment plans.

6%
our model probability
over 1–3 years
prediction markets — wisdom of the crowd
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Empirically anchored 6% · 90% range 0–12% · 40 analogues · measured class oil_supply 100% in 3 yr · 3% held back for the unknown
how we built this number — every step
Measured class rate — oil_supply ≈5.0917/yr → 100% in 3 yr100%
Analyst prior · editorial share 5% of the class5%
Pooled · weight 87%6%
Crowd — no liquid market
Reserve 3% · no extremizing (×1.0)6%
Published6%

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 1–3 years 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. A regional dispute over Latin-American oil, water or mineral resources (e.g. Guyana/Venezuela) disrupts commodity supply and foreign-investment plans. The trigger decomposes into signed root‑shocks — EM currencies ▼ · 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▲ +7.9%
hist +1.0–+7.55% · other way -0.36% (n=12)
2Nasdaq 100 NDXon Hyperliquid 📈 chartIndex▼ -3.2%
hist -1.89–-0.61% · other way -0.34% (n=12)
3Brent crude BRENTon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCommodity▲ +2.4%
hist -0.85–+1.68% · other way -3.03% (n=12)
4Tech sector XLK 📈 chartEquity▼ -2.4%
hist -1.41–-0.65% · other way -0.15% (n=12)
5WTI crude CLon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCommodity▲ +2.0%
hist -5.03–+1.54% · other way -2.56% (n=12)
6S&P 500 SPXon Hyperliquid 📈 chartIndex▼ -1.8%
hist -1.26–-0.6% · other way +1.22% (n=12)
7MicroStrategy MSTRon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -1.7%
hist -2.96–+3.87% · other way +31.53% (n=12)
8Semiconductors SMHon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -1.5%
hist -1.12–-0.42% · other way +1.95% (n=12)
9Solana SOLon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCrypto▼ -1.3%
hist -1.87–+1.05% · other way -3.0% (n=12)
10Energy sector XLEon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▲ +1.4%
hist -0.3–+0.9% · other way -1.36% (n=12)
11Hyperliquid (HYPE) HYPEon HyperliquidCrypto▼ -1.1%
model prior · unmeasured
12Bitcoin BTCon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCrypto▼ -1.1%
hist -6.36–+1.63% · other way +7.71% (n=12)
13Ether ETHon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCrypto▼ -1.0%
hist -5.43–+1.69% · other way +5.29% (n=12)
14Nvidia NVDAon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -1.1%
hist -2.6–+0.33% · other way +3.19% (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 -2.4% · United Airlines -1.2% · ExxonMobil +1.0% · Turkish lira -0.7% · High-yield credit -0.8% · Chevron +0.9%

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 October 2024 Iranian ballistic-missile attack on Israel 2024-10 Saudi-Russia oil price war 2020-03 OPEC abandons output defense, opting for market share vs US shale 2014-11 1986 oil price collapse 1986-02 Iran hostage crisis / US freezes Iranian assets 1979-11 China retaliates to Liberation Day: 34% tariffs + rare-earth controls 2025-04 Gold tops $3,000 for the first time amid tariff and rate-cut fears 2025-03 Hezbollah pager and device explosions across Lebanon 2024-09 April 2024 Iranian drone-and-missile barrage on Israel 2024-04 Ukrainian drone strikes hit Russian refineries, lifting crude and gasoline 2024-03 Wagner Group mutiny against the Kremlin 2023-06 ExxonMobil posts most profitable year for any US oil company 2023-01 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 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 Bitcoin Cash hash war capitulation 2018-11 North Korea sixth nuclear test 2017-09 North Korea 'fire and fury' nuclear scare 2017-08 Libya civil war halts output and lifts Brent above $100 2011-02 Egyptian revolution / Mubarak uprising 2011-01 2006 Lebanon War oil spike 2006-07 Iraq invasion 2003 relief rally 2003-03 US airline stocks plunge ~40% on first trading day after 9/11 2001-09 OPEC and non-OPEC Vienna pact ends the 1998 price war 1999-03 Hong Kong defends the peg with sky-high HIBOR 1997-10 Soviet August coup attempt against Gorbachev 1991-08 Operation Desert Storm begins 1991-01 Tiananmen Square crackdown 1989-06 1986 oil price collapse bottoms below $10 a barrel 1986-07 Anwar Sadat assassinated 1981-10 Reagan assassination attempt 1981-03 Iran-Iraq War outbreak 1980-09 Second oil shock peaks as crude tops $39 a barrel 1980-04 Gold peaks at $850 1980-01 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan 1979-12 1979 Iranian Revolution oil shock 1979-01
AssetHistory saysAbnormal (20d · 5d)HitnConfidencevs cascade
COIN COINLONG+12.0% · 5d +3.5%77%12 0.47⚠ differs
CL CLSHORT-4.9% · 5d -2.6%70%25 0.36⚠ differs
CNY CNYSHORT-0.6% · 5d -0.1%69%25 0.36✓ matches cascade
NDX NDXSHORT-0.6% · 5d -0.9%72%32 0.34✓ matches cascade
MU MUSHORT-4.2% · 5d -4.8%70%32 0.31✓ matches cascade
MRVL MRVLSHORT-1.2% · 5d -3.4%70%25 0.30✓ matches cascade
INTC INTCSHORT-3.6% · 5d -2.3%68%36 0.30✓ matches cascade
Volatility VIXLONG+3.6% · 5d +4.5%66%29 0.29✓ matches cascade
AMD AMDSHORT-1.3% · 5d -0.8%69%36 0.29✓ matches cascade
ETH ETHSHORT-4.6% · 5d -3.9%65%17 0.21✓ matches cascade
NVDA NVDASHORT-1.9% · 5d -4.8%62%26 0.21✓ matches cascade
SOL SOLLONG+1.8% · 5d -5.2% ↺ fades65%12 0.19⚠ differs
High-yield credit HYGSHORT-0.6% · 5d -0.1%62%22 0.19✓ matches cascade
LMT LMTLONG+3.4% · 5d +0.7%60%40 0.19✓ 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.