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

What if Record canola-and-rapeseed crop eases the global oilseed squeeze?

Bumper Canadian, EU and Australian rapeseed/canola harvests rebuild oilseed stocks, dragging vegoil and biodiesel-feedstock prices lower.

24%
our model probability
over 6–18 months
prediction markets — wisdom of the crowd
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Empirically anchored 24% · 90% range 0–48% · 21 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 59% of the class26%
Pooled · weight 78%25%
Crowd — no liquid market
Reserve 3% · no extremizing (×1.0)25%
Published24%

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. Bumper Canadian, EU and Australian rapeseed/canola harvests rebuild oilseed stocks, dragging vegoil and biodiesel-feedstock prices lower. The trigger decomposes into signed root‑shocks — Climate/crop supply ▼ · Diesel ▼ · Food inflation ▼ · 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
1Wheat WHEATon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCommodity▼ -0.4%
hist -0.5–+0.4% · other way +2.93% (n=8)
2Corn CORNon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCommodity▼ -0.3%
hist -1.03–+2.97% · other way +1.33% (n=8)
3Solana SOLon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCrypto▲ +0.2%
hist -4.39–+6.02% · other way -1.87% (n=8)
4MicroStrategy MSTRon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▲ +0.2%
hist -4.62–+8.74% · other way +3.8% (n=8)
5Nasdaq 100 NDXon Hyperliquid 📈 chartIndex▲ +0.2%
hist -0.1–+0.55% · other way -0.07% (n=9)
6Hyperliquid (HYPE) HYPEon HyperliquidCrypto▲ +0.2%
model prior · unmeasured

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: 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 21 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
CORN CORNLONG+2.8% · 5d -0.4% ↺ fades65%19 0.29⚠ differs
Volatility VIXSHORT-5.1% · 5d -2.9%67%20 0.24·
NDX NDXLONG+0.4% · 5d -0.7% ↺ fades64%20 0.21✓ matches cascade
US dollar DXYLONG+0.4% · 5d -0.3% ↺ fades61%21 0.19·
SOL SOLLONG+6.2% · 5d -8.7% ↺ fades59%10 0.12✓ matches cascade
Bitcoin BTCLONG+10.6% · 5d -1.7% ↺ fades54%11 0.07·
WHEAT WHEATLONG+0.6% · 5d -0.6% ↺ fades38%19 0.00⚠ differs
MSTR MSTRLONG+8.6% · 5d -3.6% ↺ fades50%19 0.00✓ matches cascade
Gold XAUSHORT-0.3% · 5d -0.5%47%19 0.00·
High-yield credit HYGLONG+0.7% · 5d -0.1% ↺ fades42%17 0.00·
10y yield DGS10LONG+11bp · 5d +5bp50%21 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.