🏛 Central Banks & Macro risk-off · 0–6 months
A what‑if from the future

What if Nigeria's naira re-floats as the official-parallel gap reopens?

Dollar scarcity forces Nigeria into another naira adjustment, widening the FX gap and pressuring reserves until oil receipts or portfolio inflows return.

18%
our model probability
over 0–6 months
prediction markets — wisdom of the crowd
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Empirically anchored 18% · 90% range 0–38% · 40 analogues · measured class monetary_order 76% in 6 mo · 3% held back for the unknown
how we built this number — every step
Measured class rate — monetary_order ≈2.8549/yr → 76% in 6 mo76%
Analyst prior · editorial share 26% of the class20%
Pooled · weight 87%19%
Crowd — no liquid market
Reserve 3% · no extremizing (×1.0)19%
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 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. Dollar scarcity forces Nigeria into another naira adjustment, widening the FX gap and pressuring reserves until oil receipts or portfolio inflows return. The trigger decomposes into signed root‑shocks — EM currencies ▼ · Credit spreads ▲ · Dollar/reserve confidence ▲ · 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
1MicroStrategy MSTRon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -2.8%
hist -2.97–+1.76% · other way +31.52% (n=12)
2Bitcoin BTCon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCrypto▼ -1.6%
hist -7.15–+1.48% · other way +7.89% (n=11)
3Solana SOLon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCrypto▼ -1.4%
hist -2.85–+0.57% · other way -5.05% (n=11)
4Turkish lira TRY 📈 chartFX▼ -1.3%
hist -0.96–-0.23% · other way -0.75% (n=12)
5Gold XAUon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCommodity▼ -1.2%
hist -0.83–+0.09% · other way +0.48% (n=12)
6Indian rupee INR 📈 chartFX▼ -1.1%
hist -1.08–-0.18% · other way -0.66% (n=12)
7Brent crude BRENTon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCommodity▲ +1.2%
hist -3.69–+0.96% · other way -3.03% (n=12)
8Hyperliquid (HYPE) HYPEon HyperliquidCrypto▼ -1.0%
model prior · unmeasured
9Coinbase COINon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -1.0%
hist -3.55–+9.5% · other way +24.04% (n=11)
10Ether ETHon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCrypto▼ -0.9%
hist -5.95–+1.31% · other way +5.06% (n=11)
11WTI crude CLon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCommodity▲ +0.9%
hist -4.23–+1.2% · other way -2.43% (n=12)
12US dollar (DXY) DXYon Hyperliquid 📈 chartFX▲ +0.7%
hist -0.03–+1.01% · other way +1.06% (n=12)
13Chinese yuan CNY 📈 chartFX▼ -0.6%
hist -0.95–+0.03% · other way -0.58% (n=12)
14Energy sector XLEon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▲ +0.7%
hist -1.42–+0.79% · other way -1.28% (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 cash hedge.
Also moves (not yet on Hyperliquid): Turkish lira -1.3% · Indian rupee -1.1% · Chinese yuan -0.6% · High-yield credit -0.6% · ExxonMobil +0.5% · United Airlines -0.5%

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 Iranian Revolution oil shock 1978-12 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 First Republic Bank seized and sold to JPMorgan 2023-05 Regional-bank panic deepens after Signature seizure 2023-03 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 Kaisa Group offshore default 2021-12 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 HYG record outflows in 2014 high-yield rout 2014-10 Mt. Gox collapse 2014-02 Mt. Gox halts withdrawals 2014-02 Cyprus deposit bail-in 2013-03 Spain requests EUR100bn bank bailout 2012-06 Bankia nationalised in Spain's banking crisis 2012-05 Portugal requests EU-IMF bailout 2011-04 Libya civil war halts output and lifts Brent above $100 2011-02 Egyptian revolution / Mubarak uprising 2011-01 Greece first EU/IMF bailout 2010-05 Greece requests EU/IMF bailout 2010-04 Anglo Irish Bank nationalisation 2009-01 Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac conservatorship 2008-09 IndyMac Bank seized by the Office of Thrift Supervision 2008-07
AssetHistory saysAbnormal (20d · 5d)HitnConfidencevs cascade
COIN COINLONG+9.1% · 5d +4.8%75%15 0.42⚠ differs
BRENT BRENTSHORT-3.4% · 5d -1.6%72%37 0.38⚠ differs
CL CLSHORT-3.9% · 5d -1.9%69%37 0.31⚠ differs
High-yield credit HYGSHORT-0.7% · 5d -0.1%69%37 0.30✓ matches cascade
DAL DALLONG+3.5% · 5d -0.1% ↺ fades63%37 0.24⚠ differs
AUD AUDSHORT-1.1% · 5d -0.0%64%37 0.24✓ matches cascade
Bitcoin BTCSHORT-5.8% · 5d -4.2%63%24 0.22✓ matches cascade
ETH ETHSHORT-4.9% · 5d -3.6%65%20 0.22✓ matches cascade
US dollar DXYLONG+0.6% · 5d +0.2%61%40 0.20✓ matches cascade
XLE XLESHORT-1.6% · 5d -1.5%60%37 0.19⚠ differs
USDJPY USDJPYLONG+1.0% · 5d -0.1% ↺ fades59%37 0.17✓ matches cascade
XOM XOMSHORT-0.6% · 5d -1.0%59%40 0.16⚠ differs
CNY CNYSHORT-0.6% · 5d -0.1%58%37 0.15✓ matches cascade
GBPUSD GBPUSDSHORT-0.5% · 5d -0.2%59%37 0.15✓ 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.