⚔ Geopolitics risk-off · 6–18 months
A what‑if from the future

What if Rosatom fuel sanctions tighten European nuclear supply?

Sanctions on Russian enriched-uranium and reactor-fuel deliveries strain European and US nuclear utilities, lifting uranium prices and the energy-security premium.

14%
our model probability
over 6–18 months
prediction markets — wisdom of the crowd
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Empirically anchored 14% · 90% range 0–29% · 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 32% of the class14%
Pooled · weight 87%15%
Crowd — no liquid market
Reserve 3% · no extremizing (×1.0)15%
Published14%

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-off shock. Sanctions on Russian enriched-uranium and reactor-fuel deliveries strain European and US nuclear utilities, lifting uranium prices and the energy-security premium. The trigger decomposes into signed root‑shocks — Clean-energy abundance ▼ · European energy ▲ · Geopolitical 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
1Volatility (VIX) VIXon Hyperliquid 📈 chartVol▲ +5.1%
hist +1.06–+3.57% · other way +5.33% (n=11)
2Nasdaq 100 NDXon Hyperliquid 📈 chartIndex▼ -2.1%
hist -1.37–-0.44% · other way -1.83% (n=12)
3Tech sector XLK 📈 chartEquity▼ -1.4%
hist -0.85–-0.44% · other way -1.06% (n=11)
4S&P 500 SPXon Hyperliquid 📈 chartIndex▼ -1.1%
hist -0.74–-0.37% · other way +1.9% (n=12)
5Solana SOLon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCrypto▼ -0.9%
hist -2.55–+4.34% · other way +2.24% (n=11)
6Semiconductors SMHon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -0.9%
hist -1.04–-0.1% · other way -0.61% (n=11)
7MicroStrategy MSTRon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -0.9%
hist -2.11–+2.95% · other way +18.91% (n=11)
8Hyperliquid (HYPE) HYPEon HyperliquidCrypto▼ -0.7%
model prior · unmeasured
9Ether ETHon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCrypto▼ -0.6%
hist -1.7–+0.42% · other way +10.78% (n=11)
10Nvidia NVDAon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -0.7%
hist -3.91–+0.47% · other way -0.59% (n=11)
11Gold XAUon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCommodity▲ +0.5%
hist +0.09–+0.52% · other way +1.61% (n=11)
12Bitcoin BTCon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCrypto▼ -0.5%
hist -0.67–-0.01% · other way +8.02% (n=11)
13High-yield credit HYG 📈 chartRate▼ -0.6%
hist -0.9–+0.05% · other way -0.1% (n=11)
14Energy sector XLEon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▲ +0.5%
hist -0.07–+0.8% · other way +0.49% (n=11)

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 gold hedge.
Also moves (not yet on Hyperliquid): Tech sector -1.4% · High-yield credit -0.6% · ExxonMobil +0.4% · Financials -0.4% · Lockheed +0.4% · Northrop +0.3%

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.

Saudi-Russia oil price war 2020-03 Gulf War air campaign begins 1991-01 1986 oil price collapse 1986-02 Israel strikes Iran — Operation Rising Lion 2025-06 Henry Hub natural gas hits a 25-year low amid record US production 2024-11 October 2024 Iranian ballistic-missile attack on Israel 2024-10 Waha hub natural gas prices crash to record negative on Permian glut 2024-08 Ukrainian drone strikes hit Russian refineries, lifting crude and gasoline 2024-03 OPEC abandons output defense, opting for market share vs US shale 2014-11 Iraq invasion 2003 relief rally 2003-03 OPEC and non-OPEC Vienna pact ends the 1998 price war 1999-03 Soviet August coup attempt against Gorbachev 1991-08 Iran hostage crisis / US freezes Iranian assets 1979-11 Cuban Missile Crisis 1962-10 US intervention removes Maduro in Venezuela 2026-01 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 Nikkei 225 record single-day rebound 2024-08 April 2024 Iranian drone-and-missile barrage on Israel 2024-04 Gabon coup d'etat 2023-08 Niger coup d'etat 2023-07 Wagner Group mutiny against the Kremlin 2023-06 ExxonMobil posts most profitable year for any US oil company 2023-01 NIF achieves fusion ignition 2022-12 Nord Stream pipeline sabotage 2022-09 European TTF gas hits all-time record high 2022-08 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 Myanmar military coup 2021-02 WTI crude futures settle negative as demand collapses 2020-04 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 China rout & circuit-breaker / yuan slide 2016-01 SNB introduces negative interest rates 2014-12
AssetHistory saysAbnormal (20d · 5d)HitnConfidencevs cascade
NVDA NVDASHORT-3.0% · 5d -4.9%72%35 0.35✓ matches cascade
CL CLSHORT-2.8% · 5d -2.6%68%34 0.33⚠ differs
QCOM QCOMSHORT-2.1% · 5d -1.6%70%35 0.33✓ matches cascade
AMD AMDSHORT-1.6% · 5d -1.8%66%38 0.25✓ matches cascade
NDX NDXSHORT-0.4% · 5d -0.7%66%38 0.24✓ matches cascade
LMT LMTLONG+2.3% · 5d -0.0% ↺ fades62%39 0.19✓ matches cascade
INTC INTCSHORT-2.0% · 5d -0.3%60%38 0.19✓ matches cascade
COIN COINLONG+6.7% · 5d +1.6%60%21 0.17⚠ differs
JPM JPMLONG+2.8% · 5d -0.2% ↺ fades58%38 0.16⚠ differs
MU MUSHORT-1.7% · 5d -3.6%59%38 0.15✓ matches cascade
BRENT BRENTSHORT-1.7% · 5d -2.0%58%33 0.14⚠ differs
NOC NOCLONG+1.6% · 5d +0.5%58%38 0.14✓ matches cascade
ASML ASMLSHORT-1.6% · 5d -2.3%59%35 0.13✓ matches cascade
EURUSD EURUSDSHORT-0.6% · 5d -0.2%58%33 0.13✓ 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.