⚔ Geopolitics mixed · 6–18 months
A what‑if from the future

What if Odesa-port reopening floods the wheat market?

Full Odesa and Pivdennyi throughput returns to pre-war tonnage, adding a structural supply wave that drives Chicago wheat and Matif milling wheat sharply lower.

20%
our model probability
over 6–18 months
prediction markets — wisdom of the crowd
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Empirically anchored 20% · 90% range 0–44% · 10 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 45% of the class20%
Pooled · weight 62%20%
Crowd — no liquid market
Reserve 3% · no extremizing (×1.0)20%
Published20%

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 mixed shock. Full Odesa and Pivdennyi throughput returns to pre-war tonnage, adding a structural supply wave that drives Chicago wheat and Matif milling wheat sharply lower. The trigger decomposes into signed root‑shocks — Corn ▼ · Wheat ▼ · Food inflation ▼ — 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
1Wheat WHEATon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCommodity▼ -0.5%
hist -5.92–+2.7% · other way -1.54% (n=12)
2Corn CORNon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCommodity▼ -0.3%
hist -0.89–+0.5% · other way -1.22% (n=12)

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.

Historical precedent — what analogous events actually did

Across 10 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
WHEAT WHEATSHORT-5.5% · 5d -0.4%78%9 0.51✓ matches cascade
Volatility VIXSHORT-5.6% · 5d -5.4%80%10 0.37·
Bitcoin BTCSHORT-5.5% · 5d -1.8%71%7 0.34·
Gold XAULONG+2.4% · 5d -1.1% ↺ fades67%9 0.30·
High-yield credit HYGLONG+0.2% · 5d -0.0% ↺ fades71%7 0.27·
US dollar DXYLONG+0.8% · 5d +0.1%60%10 0.17·
CORN CORNLONG+0.8% · 5d +0.9%44%9 0.00⚠ differs
10y yield DGS10LONG+4bp · 5d +4bp50%10 0.00·

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.