What if South African rail-and-port failure throttles PGM and coal exports?
Chronic Transnet rail and port dysfunction strands South African platinum, chrome and coal at the mine gate, tightening seaborne PGM supply.
how we built this number — every step
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.
What it would mean
If this plays out, it is a risk-off shock. Chronic Transnet rail and port dysfunction strands South African platinum, chrome and coal at the mine gate, tightening seaborne PGM supply. The trigger decomposes into signed root‑shocks — European energy ▲ · Geopolitical risk ▲ · Industrial demand ▲ · 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.
| Market | Class | Projected move | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Volatility (VIX) VIXon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Vol | ▲ +2.5% hist -0.26–+5.34% · other way -10.39% (n=11) |
| 2 | Nasdaq 100 NDXon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Index | ▼ -0.9% hist -0.81–-0.17% · other way +1.42% (n=11) |
| 3 | S&P 500 SPXon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Index | ▼ -0.5% hist -0.47–-0.14% · other way +0.43% (n=12) |
| 4 | Tech sector XLK 📈 chart | Equity | ▼ -0.6% hist -0.36–-0.05% · other way +1.9% (n=11) |
| 5 | MicroStrategy MSTRon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Equity | ▼ -0.5% hist -1.56–+3.13% · other way +20.17% (n=11) |
| 6 | Freeport (copper) FCX 📈 chart | Equity | ▲ +0.3% hist +0.12–+0.22% · other way +7.97% (n=11) |
| 7 | Gold XAUon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Commodity | ▲ +0.3% hist +0.03–+0.34% · other way +0.53% (n=11) |
| 8 | Bitcoin BTCon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Crypto | ▼ -0.2% hist -2.55–+0.7% · other way +10.48% (n=8) |
| 9 | Hyperliquid (HYPE) HYPEon Hyperliquid | Crypto | ▼ -0.2% model prior · unmeasured |
| 10 | Semiconductors SMHon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Equity | ▼ -0.3% hist -0.31–-0.08% · other way +1.45% (n=11) |
| 11 | Solana SOLon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Crypto | ▼ -0.2% hist -3.07–+7.46% · other way -1.59% (n=8) |
| 12 | Ether ETHon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Crypto | ▼ -0.2% hist -2.56–+0.98% · other way +6.04% (n=8) |
| 13 | Coinbase COINon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Equity | ▼ -0.2% hist -2.29–+6.71% · other way +27.55% (n=7) |
| 14 | Nvidia NVDAon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Equity | ▼ -0.3% hist -1.35–+0.41% · other way +6.4% (n=11) |
Probable recommendation
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.
| Asset | History says | Abnormal (20d · 5d) | Hit | n | Confidence | vs cascade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Volatility VIX | LONG | +3.7% · 5d +1.9% | 70% | 35 | 0.34 | ✓ matches cascade |
| AMD AMD | SHORT | -1.3% · 5d -1.5% | 66% | 36 | 0.25 | ✓ matches cascade |
| 10y yield DGS10 | LONG | +15bp · 5d +8bp | 61% | 40 | 0.22 | · |
| Bitcoin BTC | SHORT | -2.2% · 5d -3.7% | 62% | 33 | 0.20 | ✓ matches cascade |
| COIN COIN | LONG | +6.2% · 5d +0.3% | 61% | 20 | 0.19 | ⚠ differs |
| MRVL MRVL | SHORT | -0.9% · 5d -2.8% | 62% | 34 | 0.18 | ✓ matches cascade |
| High-yield credit HYG | SHORT | -0.6% · 5d -0.2% | 60% | 34 | 0.15 | ✓ matches cascade |
| NDX NDX | SHORT | -0.3% · 5d -1.1% | 59% | 36 | 0.14 | ✓ matches cascade |
| TSM TSM | SHORT | -1.6% · 5d -2.9% | 58% | 34 | 0.14 | ✓ matches cascade |
| SOL SOL | LONG | +7.1% · 5d -4.8% ↺ fades | 57% | 25 | 0.11 | ⚠ differs |
| QCOM QCOM | SHORT | -2.4% · 5d -2.9% | 57% | 34 | 0.10 | ✓ matches cascade |
| MSTR MSTR | LONG | +3.2% · 5d -3.4% ↺ fades | 56% | 34 | 0.09 | ⚠ differs |
| NVDA NVDA | SHORT | -1.1% · 5d -4.8% | 56% | 34 | 0.09 | ✓ matches cascade |
| ETH ETH | SHORT | -2.3% · 5d -3.1% | 55% | 30 | 0.08 | ✓ matches cascade |