📈 Markets & Finance risk-off · 1–3 years
A what‑if from the future

What if sovereign wealth funds with concentrated US tech exposure sell to rebalance after AI losses?

Sovereign wealth funds with concentrated US-tech exposure post large losses in an AI correction, forcing rebalancing sales that deepen the global equity decline.

9%
our model probability
over 1–3 years
prediction markets — wisdom of the crowd
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Empirically anchored 9% · 90% range 1–16% · 40 analogues · measured class vol_spike 89% in 3 yr · 3% held back for the unknown
how we built this number — every step
Measured class rate — vol_spike ≈0.7371/yr → 89% in 3 yr89%
Analyst prior · editorial share 8% of the class7%
Pooled · weight 87%9%
Crowd — no liquid market
Reserve 3% · no extremizing (×1.0)9%
Published9%

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. Sovereign wealth funds with concentrated US-tech exposure post large losses in an AI correction, forcing rebalancing sales that deepen the global equity decline. The trigger decomposes into signed root‑shocks — Volatility (VIX) ▲ · AI capex ▼ · Financial conditions ▲ · 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
1Nvidia NVDAon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -1.2%
hist -1.09–+0.36% · other way +4.24% (n=12)
2Solana SOLon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCrypto▼ -1.0%
hist -19.03–+0.93% · other way -18.52% (n=10)
3MicroStrategy MSTRon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -1.1%
hist -1.46–-0.02% · other way +9.23% (n=12)
4Volatility (VIX) VIXon Hyperliquid 📈 chartVol▲ +0.9%
hist +0.33–+0.58% · other way -4.69% (n=12)
5Broadcom AVGOon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -0.9%
hist -1.31–+3.01% · other way +6.77% (n=12)
6Micron MUon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -0.9%
hist -0.62–-0.13% · other way -0.67% (n=12)
7Nasdaq 100 NDXon Hyperliquid 📈 chartIndex▼ -0.8%
hist -0.67–+0.1% · other way +0.24% (n=12)
8Hyperliquid (HYPE) HYPEon HyperliquidCrypto▼ -0.8%
model prior · unmeasured
9Ether ETHon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCrypto▼ -0.8%
hist -9.9–+1.78% · other way -0.75% (n=10)
10Semiconductors SMHon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -0.7%
hist -0.68–+0.69% · other way +1.99% (n=12)
11Bitcoin BTCon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCrypto▼ -0.6%
hist -2.91–+0.74% · other way +2.89% (n=11)
12AMD AMDon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -0.5%
hist -0.89–+1.06% · other way -2.37% (n=12)
13TSMC TSMon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -0.5%
hist -0.53–-0.08% · other way +2.14% (n=12)
14Marvell MRVLon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -0.5%
hist -1.03–+1.35% · other way +0.42% (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% · 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.

Israel strikes Iran — Operation Rising Lion 2025-06 TSMC slumps as DeepSeek roils AI-chip demand assumptions 2025-02 Micron's weak FQ2 guidance sparks a sharp December selloff 2024-12 ASML bookings-miss crash 2024-10 VIX third-highest spike on record 2024-08 Megacap AI-capex doubt selloff 2024-07 Trump 'Taiwan should pay for defense' chip selloff 2024-07 First Republic Bank seized and sold to JPMorgan 2023-05 Regional-bank panic deepens after Signature seizure 2023-03 Netflix subscriber-loss crash 2022-04 Meta 2022-02 Kaisa Group offshore default 2021-12 Evergrande debt crisis - global selloff 2021-09 Didi removed from China app stores after NYSE IPO 2021-07 COVID-19 fourth circuit breaker 2020-03 Saudi-Russia oil price war 2020-03 Worst Christmas Eve selloff on record 2018-12 Nvidia crypto-glut guidance crash 2018-11 February 2018 hot wage print triggers rate scare 2018-02 North Korea 'fire and fury' nuclear scare 2017-08 August 24, 2015 ETF flash crash 2015-08 HYG record outflows in 2014 high-yield rout 2014-10 Mt. Gox collapse 2014-02 Mt. Gox halts withdrawals 2014-02 Cyprus deposit bail-in 2013-03 Spain requests EUR100bn bank bailout 2012-06 SEC approves Limit Up-Limit Down plan and revised market-wide circuit breakers 2012-05 Bankia nationalised in Spain's banking crisis 2012-05 US-downgrade Black Monday equity rout and VIX spike to 48 2011-08 Portugal requests EU-IMF bailout 2011-04 Egyptian revolution / Mubarak uprising 2011-01 Greece first EU/IMF bailout 2010-05 Greece requests EU/IMF bailout 2010-04 Anglo Irish Bank nationalisation 2009-01 VIX record intraday high of 89.53 2008-10 Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac conservatorship 2008-09 IndyMac Bank seized by the Office of Thrift Supervision 2008-07 Northern Rock bank run 2007-09 American Home Mortgage bankruptcy 2007-08 Bear Stearns freezes redemptions on subprime hedge funds 2007-06
AssetHistory saysAbnormal (20d · 5d)HitnConfidencevs cascade
SOL SOLSHORT-14.5% · 5d -7.0%100%14 0.65✓ matches cascade
ETH ETHSHORT-8.2% · 5d -4.5%73%19 0.35✓ matches cascade
AVGO AVGOLONG+3.1% · 5d -1.0% ↺ fades62%33 0.23⚠ differs
Gold XAULONG+1.2% · 5d +0.2%59%40 0.17·
Bitcoin BTCSHORT-2.4% · 5d -2.3%60%22 0.16✓ matches cascade
US dollar DXYLONG+0.5% · 5d +0.2%59%40 0.15·
MSTR MSTRSHORT-0.8% · 5d -2.2%59%40 0.14✓ matches cascade
SMH SMHLONG+1.0% · 5d -0.3% ↺ fades56%40 0.11⚠ differs
INTC INTCLONG+0.5% · 5d -0.8% ↺ fades56%40 0.11⚠ differs
QCOM QCOMSHORT-2.2% · 5d -2.0%55%40 0.07✓ matches cascade
ASML ASMLSHORT-1.2% · 5d -2.5%54%40 0.06✓ matches cascade
High-yield credit HYGSHORT-0.1% · 5d -0.1%53%40 0.04✓ matches cascade
TSM TSMSHORT-0.2% · 5d -1.2%51%40 0.02✓ matches cascade
NVDA NVDALONG+0.9% · 5d -2.3% ↺ fades44%40 0.00⚠ 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.