🛢 Energy & Commodities risk-off · 1–3 years
A what‑if from the future

What if Indonesian and Myanmar tin supply disruptions spike electronics solder costs?

Indonesian/Myanmar tin supply disruption tightens the market for electronics solder, spiking LME tin and exposing semiconductor and electronics assembly to a thin-market critical-input squeeze.

12%
our model probability
over 1–3 years
prediction markets — wisdom of the crowd
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Empirically anchored 12% · 90% range 0–24% · 40 analogues · measured class supply_chain 46% in 3 yr · 3% held back for the unknown
how we built this number — every step
Measured class rate — supply_chain ≈0.2052/yr → 46% in 3 yr46%
Analyst prior · editorial share 22% of the class10%
Pooled · weight 87%12%
Crowd — no liquid market
Reserve 3% · no extremizing (×1.0)12%
Published12%

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.

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What it would mean

If this plays out, it is a risk-off shock. Indonesian/Myanmar tin supply disruption tightens the market for electronics solder, spiking LME tin and exposing semiconductor and electronics assembly to a thin-market critical-input squeeze. The trigger decomposes into signed root‑shocks — Geopolitical risk ▲ · Industrial demand ▲ · Inflation surprise ▲ · Semiconductor supply risk ▲ — 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
1Volatility (VIX) VIXon Hyperliquid 📈 chartVol▲ +3.7%
hist -0.35–+6.93% · other way -6.78% (n=12)
2TSMC TSMon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -1.2%
hist -2.79–+0.28% · other way -0.69% (n=12)
3Nasdaq 100 NDXon Hyperliquid 📈 chartIndex▼ -1.4%
hist -0.89–-0.4% · other way +0.35% (n=12)
4Nvidia NVDAon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -1.1%
hist -1.68–+0.07% · other way +4.39% (n=12)
5Semiconductors SMHon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -1.0%
hist -0.67–-0.25% · other way -0.2% (n=12)
6ASML ASMLon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -0.8%
hist -2.38–+0.65% · other way -5.14% (n=12)
7Tech sector XLK 📈 chartEquity▼ -0.9%
hist -0.65–-0.03% · other way +0.76% (n=12)
8S&P 500 SPXon Hyperliquid 📈 chartIndex▼ -0.7%
hist -2.15–+0.52% · other way +2.22% (n=12)
9AMD AMDon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -0.7%
hist -0.98–+0.02% · other way -2.52% (n=12)
10Broadcom AVGOon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -0.7%
hist -1.15–+1.47% · other way -0.24% (n=12)
11Micron MUon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -0.7%
hist -0.51–+0.12% · other way -5.31% (n=12)
12Marvell MRVLon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -0.7%
hist -1.27–+1.73% · other way -0.46% (n=12)
13Freeport (copper) FCX 📈 chartEquity▲ +0.4%
hist -2.62–+1.02% · other way -0.95% (n=12)
14Qualcomm QCOMon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -0.5%
hist -2.54–+0.85% · other way -4.5% (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 gold hedge.
Also moves (not yet on Hyperliquid): Tech sector -0.9% · Freeport (copper) +0.4% · High-yield credit -0.4% · Lockheed +0.3% · Northrop +0.2% · Financials -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.

Gold peaks at $850 1980-01 Gold tops $3,000 for the first time amid tariff and rate-cut fears 2025-03 North Korea sixth nuclear test 2017-09 North Korea 'fire and fury' nuclear scare 2017-08 Egyptian revolution / Mubarak uprising 2011-01 Soviet August coup attempt against Gorbachev 1991-08 Silver Thursday 1980-03 Iran hostage crisis / US freezes Iranian assets 1979-11 Volcker Saturday Night Special 1979-10 1979 Iranian Revolution oil shock 1979-01 Gold tops $4,000 and silver spikes past $50 in historic squeeze 2025-10 Israel strikes Iran — Operation Rising Lion 2025-06 China retaliates to Liberation Day: 34% tariffs + rare-earth controls 2025-04 TSMC slumps as DeepSeek roils AI-chip demand assumptions 2025-02 Micron's weak FQ2 guidance sparks a sharp December selloff 2024-12 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 Megacap AI-capex doubt selloff 2024-07 Trump 'Taiwan should pay for defense' chip selloff 2024-07 Niger coup d'etat 2023-07 Wagner Group mutiny against the Kremlin 2023-06 August 2022 hot CPI 2022-09 Powell's hawkish 'pain' speech at Jackson Hole 2022-08 Netflix subscriber-loss crash 2022-04 Tin hits nominal record on LME above $48,000/t 2022-03 Meta 2022-02 Burkina Faso coup d'etat 2022-01 Turkish lira record low on rate cuts 2021-11 Didi removed from China app stores after NYSE IPO 2021-07 Mali coup d'etat 2020-08 Gold closes above $2,000/oz for the first time 2020-08 Saudi-Russia oil price war 2020-03 Chinese yuan breaks 7 per dollar; US names China manipulator 2019-08 Huawei added to Entity List + ICT executive order 2019-05 Nvidia crypto-glut guidance crash 2018-11 February 2018 hot wage print triggers rate scare 2018-02 OPEC abandons output defense, opting for market share vs US shale 2014-11 Gold futures velocity-logic flash crash 2014-01 Gold all-time peak of $1,921/oz 2011-09
AssetHistory saysAbnormal (20d · 5d)HitnConfidencevs cascade
Volatility VIXLONG+4.7% · 5d +5.8%67%35 0.29✓ matches cascade
ETH ETHSHORT-6.2% · 5d -5.4%67%28 0.24✓ matches cascade
TSM TSMSHORT-2.0% · 5d -2.1%65%34 0.23✓ matches cascade
XCU XCUSHORT-1.4% · 5d -1.2%64%34 0.23⚠ differs
AMD AMDSHORT-0.6% · 5d -1.2%64%36 0.21✓ matches cascade
Bitcoin BTCSHORT-3.5% · 5d -3.4%63%31 0.21✓ matches cascade
FCX FCXSHORT-2.6% · 5d -2.7%62%34 0.20⚠ differs
INTC INTCSHORT-2.5% · 5d -2.1%60%36 0.18✓ matches cascade
MSTR MSTRLONG+2.7% · 5d -2.1% ↺ fades58%34 0.13⚠ differs
SOL SOLSHORT-2.2% · 5d -6.7%60%23 0.13✓ matches cascade
NOC NOCLONG+1.0% · 5d -0.1% ↺ fades56%35 0.11✓ matches cascade
NVDA NVDASHORT-1.0% · 5d -3.4%56%34 0.07✓ matches cascade
XLK XLKLONG+0.3% · 5d -0.7% ↺ fades54%34 0.06⚠ differs
SPX SPXSHORT-1.7% · 5d -0.9%53%40 0.06✓ 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.