📈 Markets & Finance risk-off · 3–10 years
A what‑if from the future

What if IMO carbon rules raise shipping costs and strand non-compliant vessels?

IMO carbon and fuel rules raise shipping costs and strand non-compliant vessels, pressuring shipowner credit and feeding transition costs into global trade prices.

8%
our model probability
over 3–10 years
prediction markets — wisdom of the crowd
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Empirically anchored 8% · 90% range 1–14% · 40 analogues · measured class trade_war 100% in 10 yr · 3% held back for the unknown
how we built this number — every step
Measured class rate — trade_war ≈1.3449/yr → 100% in 10 yr100%
Analyst prior · editorial share 6% of the class6%
Pooled · weight 87%8%
Crowd — no liquid market
Reserve 3% · no extremizing (×1.0)8%
Published8%

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 3–10 years 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. IMO carbon and fuel rules raise shipping costs and strand non-compliant vessels, pressuring shipowner credit and feeding transition costs into global trade prices. The trigger decomposes into signed root‑shocks — Climate/crop supply ▲ · Credit spreads ▲ · Diesel ▲ · Trade tension ▲ — 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
1Nasdaq 100 NDXon Hyperliquid 📈 chartIndex▼ -0.7%
hist -0.38–-0.21% · other way +0.14% (n=12)
2Semiconductors SMHon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -0.6%
hist -0.73–-0.06% · other way +0.43% (n=12)
3TSMC TSMon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -0.5%
hist -2.02–+0.38% · other way +0.3% (n=12)
4Wheat WHEATon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCommodity▲ +0.5%
hist -0.27–+1.19% · other way -0.63% (n=12)
5Corn CORNon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCommodity▲ +0.4%
hist -0.16–+1.09% · other way -0.49% (n=12)
6Nvidia NVDAon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -0.5%
hist -0.55–+0.53% · other way -2.35% (n=12)
7Alibaba BABAon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -0.4%
hist -0.31–+0.02% · other way -2.47% (n=10)
8Tech sector XLK 📈 chartEquity▼ -0.4%
hist -0.38–+0.11% · other way +0.08% (n=12)
9AMD AMDon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -0.4%
hist -0.26–-0.12% · other way -2.57% (n=12)
10Broadcom AVGOon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -0.4%
hist -0.54–+0.51% · other way +0.62% (n=12)
11Micron MUon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -0.4%
hist -1.73–+0.6% · other way +1.2% (n=12)
12Marvell MRVLon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -0.4%
hist -0.54–+0.51% · other way +3.1% (n=12)
13MicroStrategy MSTRon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -0.3%
hist -1.99–+0.47% · other way +20.8% (n=12)
14ASML ASMLon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -0.3%
hist -2.16–+0.81% · other way -4.02% (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): Tech sector -0.4% · High-yield credit -0.3% · Financials -0.2% · Chinese yuan -0.2% · JPMorgan -0.2%

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.

Gold tops $3,000 for the first time amid tariff and rate-cut fears 2025-03 Chernobyl disaster 1986-04 Silver Thursday 1980-03 Gold peaks at $850 1980-01 1979 Iranian Revolution oil shock 1979-01 Gold tops $4,000 and silver spikes past $50 in historic squeeze 2025-10 Trump's 50% copper tariff sends Comex copper to a record 2025-07 H5N1 bird flu record US egg prices 2025-04 China retaliates to Liberation Day: 34% tariffs + rare-earth controls 2025-04 Henry Hub natural gas falls to an all-time inflation-adjusted low on record output 2024-11 Gold tops $2,500 for the first time on Fed rate-cut bets 2024-08 India slashes gold import duty from 15% to 6% in 2024 budget 2024-07 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 August 2022 hot CPI 2022-09 Powell's hawkish 'pain' speech at Jackson Hole 2022-08 Germany agrees Uniper bailout 2022-07 Kaisa Group offshore default 2021-12 Turkish lira record low on rate cuts 2021-11 European gas crisis intraday record spike 2021-10 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 WTI crude futures settle negative as demand collapses 2020-04 Chinese yuan breaks 7 per dollar; US names China manipulator 2019-08 IPBES warns ~1 million species face extinction 2019-05 China retaliates: $50B tariff list incl. soybeans 2018-04 February 2018 hot wage print triggers rate scare 2018-02 North Korea sixth nuclear test 2017-09 North Korea 'fire and fury' nuclear scare 2017-08 Mexican peso crash on Trump 2016 win 2016-11 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
AssetHistory saysAbnormal (20d · 5d)HitnConfidencevs cascade
INTC INTCSHORT-5.5% · 5d -2.6%72%38 0.39✓ matches cascade
QCOM QCOMSHORT-4.1% · 5d -2.8%73%36 0.33✓ matches cascade
CNY CNYSHORT-0.5% · 5d -0.2%64%36 0.28✓ matches cascade
TSM TSMSHORT-1.6% · 5d -2.5%64%36 0.23✓ matches cascade
MSTR MSTRSHORT-1.7% · 5d -1.8%63%36 0.21✓ matches cascade
JPM JPMSHORT-1.1% · 5d -0.6%63%38 0.21✓ matches cascade
CORN CORNLONG+0.8% · 5d -1.0% ↺ fades62%36 0.20✓ matches cascade
High-yield credit HYGSHORT-0.2% · 5d +0.1% ↺ fades60%36 0.16✓ matches cascade
US dollar DXYLONG+0.4% · 5d +0.0%56%40 0.11·
NDX NDXLONG+0.0% · 5d -1.2% ↺ fades54%37 0.06⚠ differs
SMH SMHSHORT-0.3% · 5d -1.2%53%36 0.06✓ matches cascade
10y yield DGS10LONG+3bp · 5d +0bp53%40 0.06·
XLF XLFSHORT-0.1% · 5d -0.1%52%36 0.04✓ matches cascade
NVDA NVDALONG+0.8% · 5d -3.2% ↺ fades52%36 0.03⚠ 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.