🛢 Energy & Commodities risk-on · 6–18 months
A what‑if from the future

What if a renewed Saudi-Russia quota split triggers a competitive supply surge that collapses prices?

A renewed Saudi-Russia disagreement over quotas, as in 2020, fractures OPEC+ output discipline and triggers a competitive supply surge that collapses prices.

9%
our model probability
over 6–18 months
prediction markets — wisdom of the crowd
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Empirically anchored 9% · 90% range 0–20% · 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 18% of the class8%
Pooled · weight 87%10%
Crowd — no liquid market
Reserve 3% · no extremizing (×1.0)10%
Published9%

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 renewed Saudi-Russia disagreement over quotas, as in 2020, fractures OPEC+ output discipline and triggers a competitive supply surge that collapses prices. The trigger decomposes into signed root‑shocks — Credit spreads ▲ · Oil demand ▼ · 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
1Brent crude BRENTon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCommodity▼ -4.2%
hist -4.85–-0.33% · other way -0.45% (n=11)
2WTI crude CLon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCommodity▼ -3.6%
hist -2.77–-0.78% · other way -0.29% (n=11)
3Energy sector XLEon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -2.5%
hist -2.57–-0.31% · other way +1.32% (n=11)
4United Airlines UAL 📈 chartEquity▲ +2.1%
hist -1.89–+6.67% · other way +8.63% (n=11)
5ExxonMobil XOM 📈 chartEquity▼ -1.8%
hist -1.99–-0.18% · other way +0.2% (n=12)
6Chevron CVX 📈 chartEquity▼ -1.6%
hist -1.93–-0.09% · other way +0.97% (n=12)
7Delta DAL 📈 chartEquity▲ +1.8%
hist -1.16–+5.71% · other way +6.81% (n=11)
8Tech sector XLK 📈 chartEquity▲ +0.6%
hist -0.11–+0.99% · other way -0.37% (n=11)
9Gold XAUon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCommodity▲ +0.7%
hist -0.15–+1.42% · other way -0.9% (n=11)
1030y Treasury yield DGS30 📈 chartRate▼ -7bp
hist -7.28–-0.99% · other way +21.7% (n=12)
11Nasdaq 100 NDXon Hyperliquid 📈 chartIndex▲ +0.4%
hist -0.09–+0.86% · other way +0.16% (n=11)
1210y Treasury yield DGS10 📈 chartRate▼ -6bp
hist -7.62–-0.33% · other way +27.8% (n=12)
13Arm ARMon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▲ +0.3%
hist -4.59–+5.01% · other way -6.29% (n=5)
14US dollar (DXY) DXYon Hyperliquid 📈 chartFX▼ -0.3%
hist -0.34–+0.59% · other way +1.53% (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): United Airlines +2.1% · ExxonMobil -1.8% · Chevron -1.6% · Delta +1.8% · Tech sector +0.6% · 30y Treasury yield -7bp

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.

Henry Hub natural gas hits a 25-year low amid record US production 2024-11 Waha hub natural gas prices crash to record negative on Permian glut 2024-08 WTI crude futures settle negative as demand collapses 2020-04 Oil collapses from $147 to the $30s as the GFC craters demand 2008-12 Greece first EU/IMF bailout 2010-05 Northern Rock bank run 2007-09 Gold tops $4,000 and silver spikes past $50 in historic squeeze 2025-10 Gold tops $3,000 for the first time amid tariff and rate-cut fears 2025-03 Gold tops $2,500 for the first time on Fed rate-cut bets 2024-08 Niger coup d'etat 2023-07 First Republic Bank seized and sold to JPMorgan 2023-05 Regional-bank panic deepens after Signature seizure 2023-03 PJM grid emergency during Winter Storm Elliott 2022-12 Germany agrees Uniper bailout 2022-07 Kaisa Group offshore default 2021-12 Texas grid failure during Winter Storm Uri 2021-02 Gold closes above $2,000/oz for the first time 2020-08 Norilsk Nickel Arctic diesel spill 2020-05 Saudi-Russia oil price war 2020-03 North Korea sixth nuclear test 2017-09 North Korea 'fire and fury' nuclear scare 2017-08 China rout & circuit-breaker / yuan slide 2016-01 China-led global 'Black Monday' rout 2015-08 SNB introduces negative interest rates 2014-12 Russian ruble 'Black Tuesday' 2014-12 HYG record outflows in 2014 high-yield rout 2014-10 Mt. Gox collapse 2014-02 Mt. Gox halts withdrawals 2014-02 Gold futures velocity-logic flash crash 2014-01 Cyprus deposit bail-in 2013-03 Spain requests EUR100bn bank bailout 2012-06 Bankia nationalised in Spain's banking crisis 2012-05 Gold all-time peak of $1,921/oz 2011-09 Portugal requests EU-IMF bailout 2011-04 Egyptian revolution / Mubarak uprising 2011-01 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 Henry Hub natural gas spot price peaks during 2008 commodity boom 2008-07
AssetHistory saysAbnormal (20d · 5d)HitnConfidencevs cascade
BRENT BRENTSHORT-2.6% · 5d -2.1%66%40 0.29✓ matches cascade
XLF XLFSHORT-1.0% · 5d -1.1%64%40 0.26✓ matches cascade
Bitcoin BTCSHORT-0.3% · 5d -3.1%65%23 0.26·
EURUSD EURUSDSHORT-0.8% · 5d -0.1%61%40 0.22⚠ differs
USDJPY USDJPYSHORT-0.3% · 5d -0.4%64%40 0.22✓ matches cascade
US dollar DXYLONG+0.7% · 5d +0.1%61%40 0.20⚠ differs
DAL DALLONG+4.4% · 5d +0.8%59%40 0.18✓ matches cascade
Gold XAULONG+1.0% · 5d +0.0%59%40 0.18✓ matches cascade
XLE XLESHORT-1.2% · 5d -0.3%59%40 0.17✓ matches cascade
10y yield DGS10SHORT-4bp · 5d +1bp ↺ fades61%40 0.17✓ matches cascade
CL CLSHORT-0.8% · 5d -1.7%59%40 0.16✓ matches cascade
SOL SOLSHORT-0.2% · 5d -9.4%61%15 0.16⚠ differs
NDX NDXLONG+0.6% · 5d -0.9% ↺ fades59%40 0.15✓ matches cascade
GBPUSD GBPUSDSHORT-0.5% · 5d +0.0% ↺ fades57%40 0.12⚠ differs

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.