What if a PLA blockade of Taiwan halts advanced-chip output and major container traffic?
A PLA blockade or quarantine of Taiwan halts the bulk of advanced-chip output and a major share of container traffic, the supply-shock tail at the heart of the BoE 2025 BCST geopolitical exercise.
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. A PLA blockade or quarantine of Taiwan halts the bulk of advanced-chip output and a major share of container traffic, the supply-shock tail at the heart of the BoE 2025 BCST geopolitical exercise. The trigger decomposes into signed root‑shocks — Volatility (VIX) ▲ · Geopolitical risk ▲ · Risk appetite ▼ · Semiconductor supply risk ▲ · 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.
| Market | Class | Projected move | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Volatility (VIX) VIXon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Vol | ▲ +12.8% hist +4.08–+7.11% · other way -1.95% (n=12) |
| 2 | Nasdaq 100 NDXon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Index | ▼ -7.1% hist -3.63–-1.99% · other way -0.12% (n=12) |
| 3 | Semiconductors SMHon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Equity | ▼ -5.0% hist -3.03–-1.63% · other way +0.99% (n=12) |
| 4 | TSMC TSMon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Equity | ▼ -5.0% hist -4.47–-0.92% · other way +1.17% (n=12) |
| 5 | Nvidia NVDAon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Equity | ▼ -4.7% hist -3.28–-0.93% · other way +3.31% (n=12) |
| 6 | Tech sector XLK 📈 chart | Equity | ▼ -4.9% hist -2.78–-1.67% · other way +0.3% (n=12) |
| 7 | ASML ASMLon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Equity | ▼ -3.5% hist -3.51–-0.66% · other way -1.38% (n=12) |
| 8 | S&P 500 SPXon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Index | ▼ -3.1% hist -2.21–-1.03% · other way +1.39% (n=12) |
| 9 | AMD AMDon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Equity | ▼ -3.4% hist -2.59–-0.12% · other way -2.76% (n=12) |
| 10 | Broadcom AVGOon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Equity | ▼ -3.4% hist -2.33–+0.16% · other way +5.2% (n=12) |
| 11 | Micron MUon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Equity | ▼ -3.4% hist -2.11–-1.21% · other way -2.25% (n=12) |
| 12 | Marvell MRVLon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Equity | ▼ -3.4% hist -2.89–-0.73% · other way -0.68% (n=12) |
| 13 | MicroStrategy MSTRon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Equity | ▼ -3.3% hist -2.67–+0.08% · other way +7.5% (n=12) |
| 14 | Solana SOLon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Crypto | ▼ -2.8% hist -7.39–+1.39% · other way -17.09% (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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ETH ETH | SHORT | -5.5% · 5d -6.2% | 70% | 30 | 0.31 | ✓ matches cascade |
| QCOM QCOM | SHORT | -3.7% · 5d -2.6% | 67% | 39 | 0.25 | ✓ matches cascade |
| RTX RTX | SHORT | -0.5% · 5d -0.5% | 64% | 39 | 0.25 | ⚠ differs |
| TRY TRY | SHORT | -1.0% · 5d +0.7% ↺ fades | 65% | 39 | 0.24 | ✓ matches cascade |
| NVDA NVDA | SHORT | -1.1% · 5d -2.5% | 67% | 39 | 0.23 | ✓ matches cascade |
| 10y yield DGS10 | LONG | +1bp · 5d +4bp | 64% | 39 | 0.23 | · |
| KRW KRW | LONG | +0.1% · 5d -0.2% ↺ fades | 62% | 39 | 0.20 | ⚠ differs |
| NDX NDX | SHORT | -0.2% · 5d -0.9% | 63% | 39 | 0.19 | ✓ matches cascade |
| Gold XAU | LONG | +1.4% · 5d -0.4% ↺ fades | 61% | 39 | 0.19 | ✓ matches cascade |
| INR INR | SHORT | -0.5% · 5d +0.1% ↺ fades | 62% | 39 | 0.19 | ✓ matches cascade |
| XCU XCU | SHORT | -0.3% · 5d -0.8% | 61% | 39 | 0.18 | ✓ matches cascade |
| CL CL | SHORT | -1.5% · 5d -1.4% | 61% | 39 | 0.18 | ✓ matches cascade |
| CNY CNY | SHORT | -0.4% · 5d -0.3% | 58% | 39 | 0.16 | ✓ matches cascade |
| SOL SOL | SHORT | -5.5% · 5d -7.9% | 61% | 19 | 0.14 | ✓ matches cascade |