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

What if Thai baht spikes on safe-haven gold-and-tourism inflow squeeze?

Simultaneous gold-haven demand and a tourism-season inflow surge drive a disorderly baht spike, hurting exporters and prompting BoT smoothing; XAU strength and EM_FX rise while export risk appetite cools.

8%
our model probability
over 0–6 months
prediction markets — wisdom of the crowd
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Empirically anchored 8% · 90% range 0–17% · 40 analogues · measured class recession 62% in 6 mo · 3% held back for the unknown
how we built this number — every step
Measured class rate — recession ≈1.9335/yr → 62% in 6 mo62%
Analyst prior · editorial share 13% of the class8%
Pooled · weight 87%8%
Crowd — no liquid market
Reserve 3% · no extremizing (×1.0)8%
Published8%

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 mixed shock. Simultaneous gold-haven demand and a tourism-season inflow surge drive a disorderly baht spike, hurting exporters and prompting BoT smoothing; XAU strength and EM_FX rise while export risk appetite cools. The trigger decomposes into signed root‑shocks — EM currencies ▲ · Gold ▲ · Global growth ▼ · 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
1Gold XAUon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCommodity▲ +0.4%
hist +0.04–+0.47%
2Turkish lira TRY 📈 chartFX▲ +0.4%
hist -0.23–+0.31%
3Indian rupee INR 📈 chartFX▲ +0.3%
hist -0.29–+0.19%
4Chinese yuan CNY 📈 chartFX▲ +0.2%
hist -0.13–+0.12%

Probable recommendation

If the scenario above plays out, the probable cross‑asset positioning → a scenario‑conditional read, not personalized investment advice
Short
For a common-man portfolio: Mixed for a typical portfolio — the move is more about rotation than direction. Favour the winners over the losers below rather than net exposure.
Also moves (not yet on Hyperliquid): Turkish lira +0.4% · Indian rupee +0.3% · Chinese yuan +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.

Nikkei 225 record single-day rebound 2024-08 August 24, 2015 ETF flash crash 2015-08 Greece first EU/IMF bailout 2010-05 2008 global rice crisis: Thai benchmark tops $1,000/ton 2008-04 Fed surprise inter-meeting cut 2001-01 Soviet August coup attempt against Gorbachev 1991-08 Cuban Missile Crisis 1962-10 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 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 Micron's weak FQ2 guidance sparks a sharp December selloff 2024-12 Nasdaq Composite first close above 20000 2024-12 S&P 500 first close above 6000 2024-11 Palladium jumps after US pushes G7 sanctions on Russian metal 2024-10 ASML bookings-miss crash 2024-10 October 2024 Iranian ballistic-missile attack on Israel 2024-10 Gold tops $2,500 for the first time on Fed rate-cut bets 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 Weak July 2024 jobs report triggers Sahm-rule growth scare 2024-08 Intel's Q2 earnings trigger its worst single-day crash since 1974 2024-08 Megacap AI-capex doubt selloff 2024-07 Trump 'Taiwan should pay for defense' chip selloff 2024-07 India's Modi loses single-party majority 2024-06 Mexico's Sheinbaum landslide + supermajority scare 2024-06 Alphabet announces its first-ever dividend 2024-04 Ukrainian drone strikes hit Russian refineries, lifting crude and gasoline 2024-03 S&P 500 first close above 5000 2024-02 Neuralink implants its first human brain-computer interface 2024-01 Nifty 50 first crosses 20000 2023-09 LK-99 room-temperature superconductor claim 2023-07 Nifty 50 first crosses 19000 2023-06 Wagner Group mutiny against the Kremlin 2023-06
AssetHistory saysAbnormal (20d · 5d)HitnConfidencevs cascade
INR INRSHORT-0.4% · 5d +0.1% ↺ fades67%37 0.25⚠ differs
CNY CNYSHORT-0.2% · 5d -0.2%62%37 0.22⚠ differs
10y yield DGS10LONG+6bp · 5d +5bp63%39 0.21·
High-yield credit HYGSHORT-0.1% · 5d +0.1% ↺ fades59%37 0.13·
TRY TRYSHORT-0.4% · 5d +1.1% ↺ fades56%37 0.09⚠ differs
Bitcoin BTCSHORT-0.2% · 5d -2.7%56%35 0.08·
Gold XAULONG+0.2% · 5d -0.9% ↺ fades54%38 0.06✓ matches cascade
Volatility VIXLONG+0.6% · 5d -0.9% ↺ fades53%39 0.06·
US dollar DXYLONG+0.1% · 5d +0.2%49%39 0.00·

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.