🏛 Central Banks & Macro risk-on · 6–18 months
A what‑if from the future

What if Stable BoJ path and reflation pull global funds into Japan?

A credible, gradual normalization plus durable reflation make Japan a relative haven for global allocators; the Nikkei and JPY firm modestly, supporting a constructive global risk tone.

29%
our model probability
over 6–18 months
prediction markets — wisdom of the crowd
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Empirically anchored 29% · 90% range 16–41% · 40 analogues · measured class growth 94% in 18 mo · 3% held back for the unknown
how we built this number — every step
Measured class rate — growth ≈1.8868/yr → 94% in 18 mo94%
Analyst prior · editorial share 32% of the class30%
Pooled · weight 87%30%
Crowd — no liquid market
Reserve 3% · no extremizing (×1.0)30%
Published29%

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 6–18 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 credible, gradual normalization plus durable reflation make Japan a relative haven for global allocators; the Nikkei and JPY firm modestly, supporting a constructive global risk tone. The trigger decomposes into signed root‑shocks — FX carry appetite ▲ · Global growth ▲ · Growth surprise ▲ · 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▲ +0.7%
hist -4.61–+0.88% · other way +24.08% (n=7)
2Hyperliquid (HYPE) HYPEon HyperliquidCrypto▲ +0.6%
model prior · unmeasured
3MicroStrategy MSTRon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▲ +0.6%
hist -7.87–+2.45% · other way +8.76% (n=11)
4Ether ETHon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCrypto▲ +0.5%
hist -7.42–+2.4% · other way +5.0% (n=8)
5Nasdaq 100 NDXon Hyperliquid 📈 chartIndex▲ +0.5%
hist -0.01–+0.64% · other way +1.56% (n=11)
6Bitcoin BTCon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCrypto▲ +0.4%
hist -2.06–+0.97% · other way +5.29% (n=8)
7Volatility (VIX) VIXon Hyperliquid 📈 chartVol▼ -0.4%
hist -0.84–+0.16% · other way -4.71% (n=11)
8Semiconductors SMHon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▲ +0.3%
hist -0.53–+1.61% · other way +0.7% (n=10)
9Tech sector XLK 📈 chartEquity▲ +0.3%
hist -0.23–+0.86% · other way +1.2% (n=11)
10S&P 500 SPXon Hyperliquid 📈 chartIndex▲ +0.2%
hist -0.13–+0.66% · other way +0.03% (n=12)
11Turkish lira TRY 📈 chartFX▲ +0.2%
hist -5.97–+0.94% · other way -0.14% (n=10)
12Nvidia NVDAon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▲ +0.2%
hist -0.24–+0.78% · other way +7.5% (n=11)
13Indian rupee INR 📈 chartFX▲ +0.2%
hist -0.86–+0.35% · other way +0.65% (n=10)
14Coinbase COINon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▲ +0.2%
hist -0.56–+0.37% · other way +4.95% (n=4)

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 +0.3% · Turkish lira +0.2% · Indian rupee +0.2% · Aussie dollar +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.

Nikkei 225 record single-day rebound 2024-08 Nikkei 225 worst single-day crash since 1987 2024-08 Mexico's Sheinbaum landslide + supermajority scare 2024-06 Wagner Group mutiny against the Kremlin 2023-06 Turkish lira hits record low after Erdogan re-election 2023-05 Turkish lira record low on rate cuts 2021-11 Turkey fires central-bank governor Agbal, sparking lira plunge 2021-03 Turkish lira crash 2018-08 Jacob Zuma resigns as president 2018-02 Pravin Gordhan fired in midnight cabinet reshuffle 2017-03 Mexican peso crash on Trump 2016 win 2016-11 August 24, 2015 ETF flash crash 2015-08 Russian ruble 'Black Tuesday' 2014-12 Russia annexation crisis: Moscow market plunge 2014-03 SNB imposes EUR/CHF 1.20 floor 2011-09 EU/IMF EUR750bn rescue weekend 2010-05 2008 global rice crisis: Thai benchmark tops $1,000/ton 2008-04 Turkey lets the lira float 2001-02 Russia GKO default and ruble moratorium 1998-08 Hong Kong defends the peg with sky-high HIBOR 1997-10 Philippines peso float 1997-07 Thai baht float 1997-07 Mexico $50bn international rescue package 1995-01 Mexican peso devaluation / Tequila Crisis 1994-12 Soviet August coup attempt against Gorbachev 1991-08 Louvre Accord 1987-02 Cuban Missile Crisis 1962-10 Japanese yen revisits 160/$ as intervention warnings return 2026-04 US intervention removes Maduro in Venezuela 2026-01 Korean won weakens past 1,480 as outflows persist 2025-12 India RBI growth-pivot rate cut 2025-12 Gold tops $4,000 and silver spikes past $50 in historic squeeze 2025-10 Platinum hits an 11-year high on Chinese jewelry demand and deficit 2025-06 Israel strikes Iran — Operation Rising Lion 2025-06 Bitcoin tops $111,970 for a new all-time high 2025-05 China retaliates to Liberation Day: 34% tariffs + rare-earth controls 2025-04 Turkish lira plunges on arrest of Istanbul mayor Imamoglu 2025-03 Gold tops $3,000 for the first time amid tariff and rate-cut fears 2025-03 Tesla shares crater on DOGE political backlash and Europe sales collapse 2025-03 TSMC slumps as DeepSeek roils AI-chip demand assumptions 2025-02
AssetHistory saysAbnormal (20d · 5d)HitnConfidencevs cascade
TRY TRYSHORT-5.0% · 5d -0.5%72%30 0.43⚠ differs
SOL SOLSHORT-4.0% · 5d -9.2%74%20 0.37⚠ differs
MSTR MSTRSHORT-7.2% · 5d -4.2%65%32 0.24⚠ differs
INR INRSHORT-0.9% · 5d -0.2%62%30 0.23⚠ differs
ETH ETHSHORT-6.9% · 5d -6.7%65%22 0.20⚠ differs
High-yield credit HYGSHORT-0.2% · 5d +0.0% ↺ fades62%30 0.18·
SPX SPXLONG+0.5% · 5d +0.6%58%39 0.15✓ matches cascade
Bitcoin BTCSHORT-2.1% · 5d -3.2%59%26 0.13⚠ differs
AUD AUDSHORT-0.7% · 5d -0.8%57%30 0.13⚠ differs
COIN COINSHORT-0.7% · 5d +0.4% ↺ fades56%19 0.11⚠ differs
SMH SMHLONG+1.4% · 5d -0.6% ↺ fades55%31 0.09✓ matches cascade
XLK XLKLONG+0.7% · 5d -0.5% ↺ fades53%31 0.05✓ matches cascade
10y yield DGS10SHORT-6bp · 5d -1bp52%39 0.03·
NDX NDXLONG+0.3% · 5d -0.6% ↺ fades49%39 0.00✓ 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.