🏛 Central Banks & Macro risk-on · 6–18 months
A what‑if from the future

What if Mild winter and full storage sink TTF to EUR20?

A warm winter leaves EU gas storage brimming into spring, collapsing Dutch TTF toward EUR20/MWh, easing European headline inflation and lifting energy-intensive industrials.

18%
our model probability
over 6–18 months
prediction markets — wisdom of the crowd
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Empirically anchored 18% · 90% range 1–35% · 40 analogues · measured class deflation 44% in 18 mo · 3% held back for the unknown
how we built this number — every step
Measured class rate — deflation ≈0.3895/yr → 44% in 18 mo44%
Analyst prior · editorial share 41% of the class18%
Pooled · weight 87%18%
Crowd — no liquid market
Reserve 3% · no extremizing (×1.0)18%
Published18%

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 6–18 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-on shock. A warm winter leaves EU gas storage brimming into spring, collapsing Dutch TTF toward EUR20/MWh, easing European headline inflation and lifting energy-intensive industrials. The trigger decomposes into signed root‑shocks — European energy ▼ · Inflation expectations ▼ · 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
1Solana SOLon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCrypto▲ +0.6%
hist -3.14–+1.43% · other way +1.98% (n=6)
2Hyperliquid (HYPE) HYPEon HyperliquidCrypto▲ +0.5%
model prior · unmeasured
3Ether ETHon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCrypto▲ +0.4%
hist +0.13–+0.31% · other way +3.31% (n=7)
4MicroStrategy MSTRon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▲ +0.4%
hist -4.38–+14.33% · other way -1.17% (n=10)
5Nasdaq 100 NDXon Hyperliquid 📈 chartIndex▲ +0.3%
hist -0.37–+0.31% · other way +0.17% (n=11)
6EUR/USD EURUSDon Hyperliquid 📈 chartFX▲ +0.3%
hist -0.22–+0.32% · other way -0.64% (n=10)
7Volatility (VIX) VIXon Hyperliquid 📈 chartVol▼ -0.3%
hist -0.37–+0.62% · other way -5.06% (n=10)
8Tech sector XLK 📈 chartEquity▲ +0.3%
hist -0.91–+0.31% · other way +0.84% (n=10)
9Bitcoin BTCon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCrypto▲ +0.2%
hist -0.97–+2.24% · other way +1.14% (n=9)
1030y Treasury yield DGS30 📈 chartRate▼ -2bp
hist -2.99–+14.07% · other way -14.0% (n=12)
11S&P 500 SPXon Hyperliquid 📈 chartIndex▲ +0.1%
hist -0.24–+2.14% · other way -2.26% (n=12)
12Coinbase COINon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▲ +0.2%
hist -3.37–+11.1% · other way +12.65% (n=5)
13Semiconductors SMHon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▲ +0.2%
hist -0.15–+0.19% · other way +0.05% (n=10)
1410y Treasury yield DGS10 📈 chartRate▼ -2bp
hist -4.01–+17.03% · other way -17.4% (n=12)

Probable recommendation

If the scenario above plays out, the probable cross‑asset positioning → a scenario‑conditional read, not personalized investment advice
For a common-man portfolio: A typical stock-heavy portfolio should benefit. Stay invested; you can lean modestly into the beneficiaries below.
Also moves (not yet on Hyperliquid): Tech sector +0.3% · 30y Treasury yield -2bp · 10y Treasury yield -2bp

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.

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AssetHistory saysAbnormal (20d · 5d)HitnConfidencevs cascade
SPX SPXLONG+1.7% · 5d +0.8%74%40 0.45✓ matches cascade
30y yield DGS30LONG+12bp · 5d +4bp72%40 0.35⚠ differs
10y yield DGS10LONG+15bp · 5d +5bp70%40 0.32⚠ differs
High-yield credit HYGSHORT-0.5% · 5d -0.2%71%38 0.30·
XLK XLKSHORT-0.9% · 5d -1.0%68%39 0.28⚠ differs
COIN COINLONG+10.0% · 5d +1.4%62%38 0.23✓ matches cascade
MSTR MSTRLONG+12.8% · 5d -2.8% ↺ fades61%39 0.22✓ matches cascade
Gold XAUSHORT-0.2% · 5d -1.0%59%39 0.16·
SOL SOLSHORT-3.2% · 5d -7.7%60%38 0.13⚠ differs
Volatility VIXLONG+0.7% · 5d -3.1% ↺ fades59%40 0.13⚠ differs
NDX NDXSHORT-0.5% · 5d -0.9%59%40 0.12⚠ differs
ETH ETHLONG+0.1% · 5d -3.3% ↺ fades48%38 0.00✓ matches cascade
EURUSD EURUSDSHORT-0.4% · 5d -0.4%50%38 0.00⚠ differs
Bitcoin BTCLONG+2.1% · 5d -3.1% ↺ fades50%38 0.00✓ 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.