🏛 Central Banks & Macro risk-off · 0–6 months
A what‑if from the future

What if Thai baht slump as tourism arrivals miss on China pullback?

A shortfall in Chinese arrivals leaves Thai tourism receipts well below target, undercutting the services surplus and baht; weaker consumption, china-growth-linked demand and EM_FX soften with risk-off.

18%
our model probability
over 0–6 months
prediction markets — wisdom of the crowd
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Empirically anchored 18% · 90% range 7–30% · 40 analogues · measured class china_growth 72% in 6 mo · 3% held back for the unknown
how we built this number — every step
Measured class rate — china_growth ≈2.5597/yr → 72% in 6 mo72%
Analyst prior · editorial share 28% of the class20%
Pooled · weight 87%19%
Crowd — no liquid market
Reserve 3% · no extremizing (×1.0)19%
Published18%

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-off shock. A shortfall in Chinese arrivals leaves Thai tourism receipts well below target, undercutting the services surplus and baht; weaker consumption, china-growth-linked demand and EM_FX soften with risk-off. The trigger decomposes into signed root‑shocks — EM currencies ▼ · China growth ▼ · Consumer spending ▼ · 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▼ -0.4%
hist -17.73–+1.31% · other way -1.0% (n=12)
2Turkish lira TRY 📈 chartFX▼ -0.4%
hist -0.41–-0.04% · other way -0.25% (n=12)
3Hyperliquid (HYPE) HYPEon HyperliquidCrypto▼ -0.3%
model prior · unmeasured
4Freeport (copper) FCX 📈 chartEquity▼ -0.4%
hist -3.65–+1.18% · other way +1.0% (n=12)
5Ether ETHon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCrypto▼ -0.3%
hist -12.35–+1.59% · other way +4.71% (n=12)
6MicroStrategy MSTRon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -0.4%
hist -1.69–+0.57% · other way +24.57% (n=12)
7Chinese yuan CNY 📈 chartFX▼ -0.3%
hist -0.27–-0.07% · other way -0.81% (n=12)
8Copper XCUon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCommodity▼ -0.3%
hist -0.43–+0.0% · other way +2.36% (n=12)
9Indian rupee INR 📈 chartFX▼ -0.3%
hist -0.27–-0.06% · other way -0.09% (n=12)
10Nasdaq 100 NDXon Hyperliquid 📈 chartIndex▼ -0.3%
hist -1.28–+0.27% · other way -0.29% (n=12)
11China internet KWEBon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -0.3%
hist -1.92–+0.42% · other way -0.28% (n=12)
12Aussie dollar AUD 📈 chartFX▼ -0.2%
hist -0.17–-0.07% · other way -0.91% (n=12)
13Alibaba BABAon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -0.2%
hist -0.81–+1.27% · other way -2.98% (n=12)
14Volatility (VIX) VIXon Hyperliquid 📈 chartVol▲ +0.2%
hist -1.4–+0.63% · other way +3.18% (n=12)

Probable recommendation

If the scenario above plays out, the probable cross‑asset positioning → a scenario‑conditional read, not personalized investment advice
Cash / hedgeRaise cash and hold the long hedges above; this scenario is net risk-off.
For a common-man portfolio: A typical stock-heavy portfolio is at risk. Consider trimming equities, raising cash, and a small cash hedge.
Also moves (not yet on Hyperliquid): Turkish lira -0.4% · Freeport (copper) -0.4% · Chinese yuan -0.3% · Indian rupee -0.3% · Aussie dollar -0.2% · Tech sector -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.

China retaliates to Liberation Day: 34% tariffs + rare-earth controls 2025-04 ASML bookings-miss crash 2024-10 Offshore yuan hits a record low 2022-11 China fires ballistic missiles into Japan's EEZ during Taiwan drills 2022-08 Alibaba upsizes buyback to record $25 billion 2022-03 Kaisa Group offshore default 2021-12 Evergrande debt crisis - global selloff 2021-09 Didi removed from China app stores after NYSE IPO 2021-07 Bitcoin May 2021 crash 2021-05 Chinese yuan breaks 7 per dollar; US names China manipulator 2019-08 Apple cuts revenue guidance on China weakness 2019-01 China stock-market circuit-breaker fiasco 2016-01 August 24, 2015 ETF flash crash 2015-08 Shanghai A-share bubble peak / crash begins 2015-06 October 27, 1997 mini-crash 1997-10 Thai baht float 1997-07 Tiananmen Square crackdown 1989-06 Hong Kong Stock Exchange four-day closure after Black Monday 1987-10 Record $19bn crypto liquidation cascade 2025-10 Gold tops $4,000 and silver spikes past $50 in historic squeeze 2025-10 US-China extend tariff truce by another 90 days 2025-08 Israel strikes Iran — Operation Rising Lion 2025-06 US and China agree Geneva tariff truce, slashing rates 2025-05 US bars Nvidia H20 AI-chip exports to China 2025-04 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 DeepSeek shock crushes AI-power utilities Vistra and Constellation 2025-01 Micron's weak FQ2 guidance sparks a sharp December selloff 2024-12 US October 2022 advanced-computing chip rules tighten further 2024-12 October 2024 Iranian ballistic-missile attack on Israel 2024-10 China 'bazooka' stimulus package 2024-09 Gold tops $2,500 for the first time on Fed rate-cut bets 2024-08 China imposes antimony export controls 2024-08 Nikkei 225 record single-day rebound 2024-08 Nikkei 225 worst single-day crash since 1987 2024-08 KOSPI biggest-ever point loss triggers circuit breaker 2024-08 VIX third-highest spike on record 2024-08 Intel's Q2 earnings trigger its worst single-day crash since 1974 2024-08 Megacap AI-capex doubt selloff 2024-07
AssetHistory saysAbnormal (20d · 5d)HitnConfidencevs cascade
SOL SOLSHORT-13.8% · 5d -14.4%80%31 0.43✓ matches cascade
ETH ETHSHORT-10.0% · 5d -9.0%75%33 0.39✓ matches cascade
KWEB KWEBSHORT-1.6% · 5d -1.0%64%36 0.27✓ matches cascade
Gold XAULONG+1.4% · 5d +0.5%64%36 0.22·
NDX NDXSHORT-1.0% · 5d -1.4%63%40 0.21✓ matches cascade
XCU XCUSHORT-0.3% · 5d -1.1%62%36 0.18✓ matches cascade
Bitcoin BTCSHORT-4.5% · 5d -4.3%62%36 0.17✓ matches cascade
Volatility VIXSHORT-1.4% · 5d +0.6% ↺ fades58%38 0.15⚠ differs
FCX FCXSHORT-3.2% · 5d -2.1%58%38 0.14✓ matches cascade
High-yield credit HYGSHORT-0.1% · 5d +0.2% ↺ fades58%36 0.11·
INR INRSHORT-0.1% · 5d +0.1% ↺ fades56%36 0.09✓ matches cascade
US dollar DXYLONG+0.0% · 5d -0.1% ↺ fades54%40 0.07·
MSTR MSTRSHORT-1.4% · 5d -5.5%52%36 0.04✓ matches cascade
TRY TRYSHORT-0.2% · 5d +0.6% ↺ fades52%36 0.03✓ 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.