🛢 Energy & Commodities mixed · 0–6 months
A what‑if from the future

What if Simultaneous refinery and LNG outages spike US gas and cracks?

Overlapping Gulf-coast refinery and LNG-terminal outages from a single storm spike product cracks while temporarily stranding feedgas, creating a rare split where cracks rise as Henry Hub dips.

10%
our model probability
over 0–6 months
prediction markets — wisdom of the crowd
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Empirically anchored 10% · 90% range 0–22% · 40 analogues · measured class deflation 18% in 6 mo · 3% held back for the unknown
how we built this number — every step
Measured class rate — deflation ≈0.3895/yr → 18% in 6 mo18%
Analyst prior · editorial share 56% of the class10%
Pooled · weight 87%10%
Crowd — no liquid market
Reserve 3% · no extremizing (×1.0)10%
Published10%

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 0–6 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. Overlapping Gulf-coast refinery and LNG-terminal outages from a single storm spike product cracks while temporarily stranding feedgas, creating a rare split where cracks rise as Henry Hub dips. The trigger decomposes into signed root‑shocks — Natural gas ▼ · Diesel ▲ · European energy ▲ · Gasoline ▲ · 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
1Solana SOLon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCrypto▼ -0.3%
hist -1.54–+2.89% · other way +0.7% (n=11)
2Hyperliquid (HYPE) HYPEon HyperliquidCrypto▼ -0.3%
model prior · unmeasured
3MicroStrategy MSTRon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -0.3%
hist -2.02–+3.86% · other way +25.67% (n=12)
4Ether ETHon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCrypto▼ -0.2%
hist -1.02–+0.35% · other way +8.54% (n=11)
5Nasdaq 100 NDXon Hyperliquid 📈 chartIndex▼ -0.2%
hist -0.27–+0.36% · other way -0.15% (n=12)
6Natural gas NGon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCommodity▼ -0.2%
hist -6.97–+0.87% · other way +5.33% (n=12)
7Bitcoin BTCon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCrypto▼ -0.2%
hist -0.53–+0.83% · other way +7.64% (n=11)
8Tech sector XLK 📈 chartEquity▼ -0.1%
hist -0.32–+0.56% · other way -0.28% (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.
Also moves (not yet on Hyperliquid): Tech sector -0.1%

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 1979 Iranian Revolution oil shock 1979-01 WTI crude futures settle negative as demand collapses 2020-04 Saudi-Russia oil price war 2020-03 Oil collapses from $147 to the $30s as the GFC craters demand 2008-12 1986 oil price collapse 1986-02 Silver Thursday 1980-03 Gold peaks at $850 1980-01 Iran hostage crisis / US freezes Iranian assets 1979-11 Iranian Revolution oil shock 1978-12 US intervention removes Maduro in Venezuela 2026-01 Gold tops $4,000 and silver spikes past $50 in historic squeeze 2025-10 Israel strikes Iran — Operation Rising Lion 2025-06 Gold tops $3,000 for the first time amid tariff and rate-cut fears 2025-03 Henry Hub natural gas falls to an all-time inflation-adjusted low on record output 2024-11 October 2024 Iranian ballistic-missile attack on Israel 2024-10 Gold tops $2,500 for the first time on Fed rate-cut bets 2024-08 Niger coup d'etat 2023-07 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 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 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 China rout & circuit-breaker / yuan slide 2016-01 SNB introduces negative interest rates 2014-12 Russian ruble 'Black Tuesday' 2014-12 OPEC abandons output defense, opting for market share vs US shale 2014-11 Gold futures velocity-logic flash crash 2014-01 Gold all-time peak of $1,921/oz 2011-09 Egyptian revolution / Mubarak uprising 2011-01 OPEC's largest-ever cut answers the 2008 demand collapse 2008-12 Crude oil all-time high 2008-07 Crude oil all-time high 2008-07
AssetHistory saysAbnormal (20d · 5d)HitnConfidencevs cascade
NG NGSHORT-5.6% · 5d -3.6%73%34 0.45✓ matches cascade
10y yield DGS10SHORT-4bp · 5d +4bp ↺ fades63%40 0.24·
US dollar DXYLONG+0.5% · 5d +0.3%57%40 0.14·
NDX NDXLONG+0.5% · 5d -0.9% ↺ fades56%35 0.10⚠ differs
XLK XLKLONG+0.6% · 5d -0.8% ↺ fades56%34 0.10⚠ differs
SOL SOLLONG+3.0% · 5d -7.5% ↺ fades56%19 0.08⚠ differs
MSTR MSTRLONG+3.9% · 5d -3.4% ↺ fades52%34 0.03⚠ differs
ETH ETHSHORT-0.9% · 5d -4.5%48%21 0.00✓ matches cascade
Bitcoin BTCLONG+0.9% · 5d -3.1% ↺ fades38%27 0.00⚠ differs
Gold XAULONG+0.0% · 5d -0.7% ↺ fades48%34 0.00·
Volatility VIXSHORT-2.2% · 5d +2.9% ↺ fades49%34 0.00·
High-yield credit HYGLONG+0.8% · 5d +0.2%44%34 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.