⚔ Geopolitics risk-on · 0–6 months
A what‑if from the future

What if Soybeans rally as China resumes US buying?

A trade thaw brings large Chinese soybean and ag purchases back to US farmers, lifting CORN/soy complex and easing farm-belt stress as a goodwill down-payment.

32%
our model probability
over 0–6 months
prediction markets — wisdom of the crowd
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Empirically anchored 32% · 90% range 15–48% · 40 analogues · measured class geo_deescalation 61% in 6 mo · 3% held back for the unknown
how we built this number — every step
Measured class rate — geo_deescalation ≈1.8868/yr → 61% in 6 mo61%
Analyst prior · editorial share 57% of the class35%
Pooled · weight 87%32%
Crowd — no liquid market
Reserve 3% · no extremizing (×1.0)32%
Published32%

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 risk-on shock. A trade thaw brings large Chinese soybean and ag purchases back to US farmers, lifting CORN/soy complex and easing farm-belt stress as a goodwill down-payment. The trigger decomposes into signed root‑shocks — Corn ▲ · Food inflation ▲ · 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▲ +1.5%
hist -0.21–+1.11% · other way +0.41% (n=12)
2Semiconductors SMHon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▲ +1.2%
hist +0.13–+1.42% · other way +1.13% (n=12)
3Tech sector XLK 📈 chartEquity▲ +1.0%
hist -0.26–+0.6% · other way +0.76% (n=12)
4Nvidia NVDAon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▲ +1.0%
hist -0.13–+0.73% · other way -0.78% (n=12)
5TSMC TSMon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▲ +1.0%
hist -0.51–+2.33% · other way +0.44% (n=12)
6Alibaba BABAon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▲ +0.8%
hist -0.3–+0.56% · other way -2.0% (n=12)
7Solana SOLon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCrypto▲ +0.7%
hist -2.32–+1.43% · other way +7.69% (n=5)
8AMD AMDon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▲ +0.8%
hist -1.6–+0.78% · other way -0.14% (n=12)
9Broadcom AVGOon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▲ +0.8%
hist -0.05–+1.17% · other way +3.11% (n=12)
10Micron MUon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▲ +0.8%
hist -0.17–+1.47% · other way -1.79% (n=12)
11Marvell MRVLon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▲ +0.8%
hist +0.1–+0.87% · other way +2.68% (n=12)
12ASML ASMLon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▲ +0.8%
hist -0.5–+0.62% · other way -1.48% (n=12)
13Hyperliquid (HYPE) HYPEon HyperliquidCrypto▲ +0.6%
model prior · unmeasured
14MicroStrategy MSTRon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▲ +0.7%
hist -3.86–+8.53% · other way +9.78% (n=12)

Probable recommendation

If the scenario above plays out, the probable cross‑asset positioning → a scenario‑conditional read, not personalized investment advice
For a common-man portfolio: A typical stock-heavy portfolio should benefit. Stay invested; you can lean modestly into the beneficiaries below.
Also moves (not yet on Hyperliquid): Tech sector +1.0% · Chinese yuan +0.6% · Aussie dollar +0.3% · High-yield credit +0.2% · Freeport (copper) +0.2% · Turkish lira +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.

Nasdaq Composite first close above 20000 2024-12 Bank of England's first post-pandemic rate hike 2021-12 Bank of Japan Kuroda QQE 'bazooka' 2013-04 Volcker Saturday Night Special 1979-10 Iranian rial slides to a new record low 2025-12 India RBI growth-pivot rate cut 2025-12 Platinum hits an 11-year high on Chinese jewelry demand and deficit 2025-06 Bitcoin tops $111,970 for a new all-time high 2025-05 H5N1 bird flu record US egg prices 2025-04 Henry Hub natural gas falls to an all-time inflation-adjusted low on record output 2024-11 S&P 500 first close above 6000 2024-11 Palladium jumps after US pushes G7 sanctions on Russian metal 2024-10 Nikkei 225 record single-day rebound 2024-08 Homebuilders rally as cool June CPI fuels rate-cut bets 2024-07 USD/JPY hits a 38-year high before a CPI-driven intervention 2024-07 Alphabet announces its first-ever dividend 2024-04 Ukrainian drone strikes hit Russian refineries, lifting crude and gasoline 2024-03 Hot January CPI delays Fed-cut hopes 2024-02 S&P 500 first close above 5000 2024-02 Neuralink implants its first human brain-computer interface 2024-01 Nifty 50 first crosses 20000 2023-09 LK-99 room-temperature superconductor claim 2023-07 Nifty 50 first crosses 19000 2023-06 Strong May 2023 jobs report jolts yields higher 2023-06 Nvidia AI-guidance blowout ignites the automation/AI capex wave 2023-05 OpenAI releases GPT-4 2023-03 NIF achieves fusion ignition 2022-12 Cool October 2022 CPI sparks huge bond-and-bank rally 2022-11 Hot September 2022 CPI sends yields and curve to cycle extremes 2022-10 August 2022 hot CPI 2022-09 Powell's hawkish 'pain' speech at Jackson Hole 2022-08 European TTF gas hits all-time record high 2022-08 Inflation Reduction Act signed into law 2022-08 June 2022 CPI prints 9.1% 2022-07 May 2022 US CPI sends S&P into a bear market 2022-06 Sri Lanka suspends external debt payments 2022-04 Fed retires 'transitory' 2021-11 Turkish lira record low on rate cuts 2021-11 October 2021 US CPI shock 2021-11 European gas crisis intraday record spike 2021-10
AssetHistory saysAbnormal (20d · 5d)HitnConfidencevs cascade
QCOM QCOMSHORT-2.5% · 5d -2.0%71%39 0.31⚠ differs
INTC INTCSHORT-3.0% · 5d -1.8%67%39 0.30⚠ differs
10y yield DGS10LONG+15bp · 5d +7bp66%40 0.28·
KWEB KWEBSHORT-1.3% · 5d -0.2%65%38 0.25⚠ differs
AMD AMDSHORT-1.8% · 5d -2.2%64%39 0.23⚠ differs
CNY CNYSHORT-0.6% · 5d -0.2%62%39 0.23⚠ differs
XLK XLKSHORT-0.6% · 5d -0.8%62%39 0.18⚠ differs
EURUSD EURUSDLONG+0.1% · 5d +0.0%62%39 0.18✓ matches cascade
BABA BABASHORT-0.6% · 5d -1.1%57%38 0.13⚠ differs
ASML ASMLSHORT-0.8% · 5d -2.2%57%39 0.12⚠ differs
High-yield credit HYGSHORT+-0.0% · 5d +0.0% ↺ fades57%39 0.10⚠ differs
MU MULONG+1.0% · 5d -2.1% ↺ fades55%39 0.08✓ matches cascade
NDX NDXSHORT-0.8% · 5d -1.0%55%39 0.07⚠ differs
NVDA NVDASHORT-0.5% · 5d -3.1%55%39 0.07⚠ 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.