🏛 Central Banks & Macro risk-off · 1–3 years
A what‑if from the future

What if global trade fragmentation durably reduces throughput at Singapore's port and refining complex?

Global trade fragmentation and friend-shoring durably reduce throughput at Singapore's port and refining complex, structurally lowering trade-linked credit demand and growth.

10%
our model probability
over 1–3 years
prediction markets — wisdom of the crowd
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Empirically anchored 10% · 90% range 1–19% · 27 analogues · measured class trade_war 98% in 3 yr · 3% held back for the unknown
how we built this number — every step
Measured class rate — trade_war ≈1.3449/yr → 98% in 3 yr98%
Analyst prior · editorial share 8% of the class8%
Pooled · weight 82%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 1–3 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. Global trade fragmentation and friend-shoring durably reduce throughput at Singapore's port and refining complex, structurally lowering trade-linked credit demand and growth. The trigger decomposes into signed root‑shocks — Industrial demand ▼ · Recession signal ▲ · Risk appetite ▼ · 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▼ -2.4%
hist -1.63–-0.55% · other way -0.38% (n=11)
2Semiconductors SMHon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -1.9%
hist -1.32–+-0.0% · other way +2.87% (n=11)
3Tech sector XLK 📈 chartEquity▼ -1.7%
hist -1.17–+0.04% · other way -0.31% (n=11)
4Nvidia NVDAon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -1.6%
hist -1.74–+1.55% · other way +5.24% (n=11)
5TSMC TSMon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -1.5%
hist -1.79–-0.16% · other way +2.69% (n=11)
6Solana SOLon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCrypto▼ -1.3%
hist -3.24–+1.44% · other way -3.07% (n=10)
7MicroStrategy MSTRon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -1.4%
hist -1.55–-0.23% · other way +30.63% (n=11)
8AMD AMDon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -1.2%
hist -1.52–+1.28% · other way -1.4% (n=11)
9Broadcom AVGOon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -1.2%
hist -1.75–+1.72% · other way +2.33% (n=11)
10Micron MUon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -1.2%
hist -1.15–+0.82% · other way +1.6% (n=11)
11Marvell MRVLon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -1.2%
hist -1.22–-0.28% · other way +3.24% (n=11)
12Alibaba BABAon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -1.1%
hist -2.59–+0.66% · other way -4.19% (n=10)
13Hyperliquid (HYPE) HYPEon HyperliquidCrypto▼ -1.1%
model prior · unmeasured
14ASML ASMLon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -1.1%
hist -2.35–+0.44% · other way -1.86% (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 cash hedge.
Also moves (not yet on Hyperliquid): Tech sector -1.7% · Chinese yuan -0.8% · Freeport (copper) -0.8% · Financials -0.5% · High-yield credit -0.5% · Aussie dollar -0.4%

Historical precedent — what analogous events actually did

Across 27 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
INTC INTCSHORT-5.1% · 5d -2.0%77%21 0.49✓ matches cascade
XCU XCUSHORT-3.5% · 5d -0.7%73%18 0.39✓ matches cascade
TRY TRYSHORT-1.4% · 5d +0.6% ↺ fades73%18 0.33✓ matches cascade
Gold XAULONG+1.0% · 5d +0.4%68%18 0.33·
XPT XPTSHORT-2.1% · 5d +0.1% ↺ fades68%18 0.29✓ matches cascade
XLF XLFSHORT-0.6% · 5d -0.0%65%18 0.26✓ matches cascade
JPM JPMSHORT-1.9% · 5d -1.1%65%21 0.26✓ matches cascade
ETH ETHSHORT-1.8% · 5d -3.6%63%9 0.21✓ matches cascade
10y yield DGS10SHORT-5bp · 5d 0bp60%26 0.20·
QCOM QCOMSHORT-2.1% · 5d -2.5%62%18 0.17✓ matches cascade
COIN COINSHORT-9.1% · 5d -1.2%62%6 0.17✓ matches cascade
XLK XLKLONG+0.7% · 5d -0.9% ↺ fades59%18 0.16⚠ differs
SMH SMHLONG+0.7% · 5d -0.5% ↺ fades59%18 0.15⚠ differs
Volatility VIXLONG+4.5% · 5d +2.5%59%19 0.15✓ 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.