What if Texas grid fails again in winter freeze (Uri redux)?
A severe Arctic outbreak knocks out ERCOT generation as in Winter Storm Uri, spiking power and gas prices, causing blackout deaths and large liability and insured losses.
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 severe Arctic outbreak knocks out ERCOT generation as in Winter Storm Uri, spiking power and gas prices, causing blackout deaths and large liability and insured losses. The trigger decomposes into signed root‑shocks — Natural gas ▲ · Climate/crop supply ▲ · 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 | Natural gas NGon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Commodity | ▲ +0.6% hist -0.07–+0.91% · other way +8.67% (n=11) |
| 2 | Solana SOLon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Crypto | ▼ -0.5% hist -5.86–+6.7% · other way +0.5% (n=10) |
| 3 | Wheat WHEATon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Commodity | ▲ +0.5% hist -0.35–+0.36% · other way -0.49% (n=11) |
| 4 | Corn CORNon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Commodity | ▲ +0.5% hist -0.52–+3.19% · other way -1.39% (n=11) |
| 5 | Hyperliquid (HYPE) HYPEon Hyperliquid | Crypto | ▼ -0.4% model prior · unmeasured |
| 6 | MicroStrategy MSTRon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Equity | ▼ -0.4% hist -0.42–+0.25% · other way +24.45% (n=11) |
| 7 | Ether ETHon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Crypto | ▼ -0.4% hist -2.91–+3.6% · other way +5.96% (n=10) |
| 8 | Nasdaq 100 NDXon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Index | ▼ -0.3% hist -0.31–+0.49% · other way -0.09% (n=11) |
| 9 | Semiconductors SMHon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Equity | ▼ -0.3% hist -0.18–+0.13% · other way +2.11% (n=11) |
| 10 | Volatility (VIX) VIXon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Vol | ▲ +0.3% hist -1.26–+3.6% · other way -3.27% (n=11) |
| 11 | Bitcoin BTCon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Crypto | ▼ -0.2% hist -3.91–+4.93% · other way +5.98% (n=10) |
| 12 | Tech sector XLK 📈 chart | Equity | ▼ -0.2% hist -0.27–+0.34% · other way -0.19% (n=11) |
| 13 | Nvidia NVDAon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Equity | ▼ -0.2% hist -2.47–+1.13% · other way +2.35% (n=11) |
| 14 | S&P 500 SPXon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Index | ▼ -0.1% hist -0.25–+0.45% · other way -1.85% (n=12) |
Probable recommendation
Historical precedent — what analogous events actually did
Across 32 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CORN CORN | LONG | +2.6% · 5d -0.5% ↺ fades | 68% | 25 | 0.35 | ✓ matches cascade |
| WHEAT WHEAT | SHORT | -0.6% · 5d -1.9% | 60% | 25 | 0.19 | ⚠ differs |
| NDX NDX | LONG | +0.6% · 5d -0.8% ↺ fades | 62% | 27 | 0.19 | ⚠ differs |
| SMH SMH | LONG | +0.2% · 5d -0.4% ↺ fades | 60% | 25 | 0.17 | ⚠ differs |
| ETH ETH | LONG | +4.1% · 5d -1.8% ↺ fades | 58% | 12 | 0.13 | ⚠ differs |
| SPX SPX | LONG | +0.5% · 5d +0.3% | 58% | 32 | 0.13 | ⚠ differs |
| Volatility VIX | LONG | +3.2% · 5d -0.7% ↺ fades | 58% | 26 | 0.12 | ✓ matches cascade |
| Gold XAU | LONG | +0.1% · 5d -0.3% ↺ fades | 56% | 25 | 0.12 | · |
| XLK XLK | LONG | +0.4% · 5d -0.7% ↺ fades | 56% | 25 | 0.10 | ⚠ differs |
| SOL SOL | LONG | +7.6% · 5d -5.7% ↺ fades | 55% | 11 | 0.07 | ⚠ differs |
| High-yield credit HYG | LONG | +0.6% · 5d -0.1% ↺ fades | 52% | 23 | 0.04 | · |
| MSTR MSTR | LONG | +0.5% · 5d -3.4% ↺ fades | 52% | 25 | 0.03 | ⚠ differs |
| NG NG | LONG | +0.6% · 5d -2.3% ↺ fades | 48% | 25 | 0.00 | ✓ matches cascade |
| Bitcoin BTC | LONG | +5.4% · 5d -0.6% ↺ fades | 43% | 14 | 0.00 | ⚠ differs |