What if Stagflation scare drives gold up but copper down?
Hot inflation alongside slowing growth lifts gold as an inflation hedge while sapping copper's growth-linked demand, decoupling the two metals.
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 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.
What it would mean
If this plays out, it is a risk-off shock. Hot inflation alongside slowing growth lifts gold as an inflation hedge while sapping copper's growth-linked demand, decoupling the two metals. The trigger decomposes into signed root‑shocks — Gold ▲ · Copper ▼ · Inflation surprise ▲ · Recession signal ▲ · 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 | Solana SOLon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Crypto | ▼ -0.7% hist -5.33–+1.73% · other way -0.48% (n=12) |
| 2 | MicroStrategy MSTRon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Equity | ▼ -0.7% hist -1.62–+2.25% · other way +31.9% (n=12) |
| 3 | Nasdaq 100 NDXon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Index | ▼ -0.6% hist -0.76–-0.03% · other way -0.56% (n=12) |
| 4 | Hyperliquid (HYPE) HYPEon Hyperliquid | Crypto | ▼ -0.6% model prior · unmeasured |
| 5 | Ether ETHon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Crypto | ▼ -0.5% hist -4.52–+1.2% · other way +4.46% (n=12) |
| 6 | Volatility (VIX) VIXon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Vol | ▲ +0.5% hist -1.29–+3.84% · other way -1.26% (n=12) |
| 7 | Bitcoin BTCon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Crypto | ▼ -0.4% hist -0.48–+0.41% · other way +7.54% (n=12) |
| 8 | Tech sector XLK 📈 chart | Equity | ▼ -0.4% hist -0.26–-0.12% · other way -0.47% (n=12) |
| 9 | Copper XCUon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Commodity | ▼ -0.3% hist -1.43–+0.18% · other way +2.1% (n=12) |
| 10 | Gold XAUon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Commodity | ▲ +0.3% hist -0.11–+0.64% · other way +0.47% (n=12) |
| 11 | Financials XLF 📈 chart | Equity | ▼ -0.3% hist -0.3–+1.47% · other way +0.24% (n=12) |
| 12 | High-yield credit HYG 📈 chart | Rate | ▼ -0.3% hist -0.32–+0.22% · other way -0.52% (n=12) |
| 13 | Freeport (copper) FCX 📈 chart | Equity | ▼ -0.3% hist -2.0–+0.59% · other way +1.49% (n=12) |
| 14 | S&P 500 SPXon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Index | ▼ -0.2% hist -1.98–+0.8% · other way +1.48% (n=12) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| XLF XLF | LONG | +1.3% · 5d +0.3% | 73% | 33 | 0.39 | ⚠ differs |
| XCU XCU | SHORT | -1.1% · 5d -1.1% | 70% | 33 | 0.32 | ✓ matches cascade |
| ETH ETH | SHORT | -3.9% · 5d -5.2% | 63% | 31 | 0.19 | ✓ matches cascade |
| FCX FCX | SHORT | -1.7% · 5d -1.6% | 59% | 33 | 0.14 | ✓ matches cascade |
| NDX NDX | SHORT | -0.4% · 5d -0.9% | 59% | 34 | 0.13 | ✓ matches cascade |
| Volatility VIX | LONG | +3.4% · 5d +8.7% | 56% | 34 | 0.12 | ✓ matches cascade |
| SOL SOL | SHORT | -4.7% · 5d -6.5% | 58% | 30 | 0.10 | ✓ matches cascade |
| 30y yield DGS30 | LONG | +6bp · 5d +4bp | 55% | 38 | 0.10 | ✓ matches cascade |
| Gold XAU | LONG | +0.5% · 5d -0.7% ↺ fades | 54% | 33 | 0.06 | ✓ matches cascade |
| Bitcoin BTC | LONG | +0.6% · 5d -2.8% ↺ fades | 53% | 32 | 0.04 | ⚠ differs |
| High-yield credit HYG | LONG | +0.4% · 5d +0.3% | 51% | 33 | 0.02 | ⚠ differs |
| SPX SPX | SHORT | -1.8% · 5d -1.3% | 51% | 40 | 0.02 | ✓ matches cascade |
| SMH SMH | LONG | +0.3% · 5d -0.5% ↺ fades | 51% | 33 | 0.02 | ⚠ differs |
| MSTR MSTR | LONG | +2.6% · 5d -1.6% ↺ fades | 46% | 33 | 0.00 | ⚠ differs |