⚔ Geopolitics risk-on · 1–3 years
A what‑if from the future

What if Ukraine transit deal keeps some Russian gas flowing?

A negotiated transit arrangement preserves limited Russian gas flows to Central Europe under a ceasefire, capping TTF and easing the EU energy-security premium.

15%
our model probability
over 1–3 years
prediction markets — wisdom of the crowd
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Empirically anchored 15% · 90% range 6–23% · 40 analogues · measured class energy 99% in 3 yr · 3% held back for the unknown
how we built this number — every step
Measured class rate — energy ≈1.4869/yr → 99% in 3 yr99%
Analyst prior · editorial share 14% of the class14%
Pooled · weight 87%15%
Crowd — no liquid market
Reserve 3% · no extremizing (×1.0)15%
Published15%

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-on shock. A negotiated transit arrangement preserves limited Russian gas flows to Central Europe under a ceasefire, capping TTF and easing the EU energy-security premium. The trigger decomposes into signed root‑shocks — European energy ▼ · Geopolitical risk ▼ · 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
1Volatility (VIX) VIXon Hyperliquid 📈 chartVol▼ -3.9%
hist -2.44–-0.16% · other way -0.95% (n=12)
2Nasdaq 100 NDXon Hyperliquid 📈 chartIndex▲ +1.6%
hist -0.16–+0.84% · other way -0.27% (n=12)
3Tech sector XLK 📈 chartEquity▲ +1.1%
hist -0.68–+0.46% · other way +-0.0% (n=12)
4S&P 500 SPXon Hyperliquid 📈 chartIndex▲ +0.8%
hist -0.06–+2.25% · other way +0.74% (n=12)
5MicroStrategy MSTRon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▲ +0.7%
hist -4.28–+13.23% · other way +5.58% (n=12)
6Solana SOLon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCrypto▲ +0.6%
hist -4.46–+1.74% · other way +9.99% (n=9)
7Semiconductors SMHon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▲ +0.7%
hist +0.07–+0.46% · other way -0.9% (n=12)
8Hyperliquid (HYPE) HYPEon HyperliquidCrypto▲ +0.5%
model prior · unmeasured
9Ether ETHon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCrypto▲ +0.5%
hist -0.02–+0.66% · other way +2.47% (n=9)
10Nvidia NVDAon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▲ +0.5%
hist -0.21–+1.15% · other way -1.86% (n=12)
11Bitcoin BTCon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCrypto▲ +0.4%
hist -0.46–+1.46% · other way +11.39% (n=9)
12High-yield credit HYG 📈 chartRate▲ +0.4%
hist -0.4–+0.17% · other way +0.93% (n=11)
13Gold XAUon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCommodity▼ -0.4%
hist -0.29–-0.1% · other way +1.33% (n=12)
14EUR/USD EURUSDon Hyperliquid 📈 chartFX▲ +0.3%
hist +0.01–+0.22% · other way +0.65% (n=11)

Probable recommendation

If the scenario above plays out, the probable cross‑asset positioning → a scenario‑conditional read, not personalized investment advice
For a common-man portfolio: A typical stock-heavy portfolio should benefit. Stay invested; you can lean modestly into the beneficiaries below.
Also moves (not yet on Hyperliquid): Tech sector +1.1% · High-yield credit +0.4% · Lockheed -0.3% · Financials +0.2% · Northrop -0.2% · JPMorgan +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.

Ukrainian drone strikes hit Russian refineries, lifting crude and gasoline 2024-03 European TTF gas hits all-time record high 2022-08 Iraq invasion 2003 relief rally 2003-03 Operation Desert Storm begins 1991-01 US intervention removes Maduro in Venezuela 2026-01 India RBI growth-pivot rate cut 2025-12 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 Iberian Peninsula total blackout 2025-04 DeepSeek shock crushes AI-power utilities Vistra and Constellation 2025-01 Russian gas transit through Ukraine ends 2025-01 Nasdaq Composite first close above 20000 2024-12 Henry Hub natural gas falls to an all-time inflation-adjusted low on record output 2024-11 S&P 500 first close above 6000 2024-11 Palladium jumps after US pushes G7 sanctions on Russian metal 2024-10 October 2024 Iranian ballistic-missile attack on Israel 2024-10 Constellation-Microsoft Three Mile Island restart powers AI-utility trade 2024-09 Hezbollah pager and device explosions across Lebanon 2024-09 Nikkei 225 record single-day rebound 2024-08 Alphabet announces its first-ever dividend 2024-04 April 2024 Iranian drone-and-missile barrage on Israel 2024-04 S&P 500 first close above 5000 2024-02 Neuralink implants its first human brain-computer interface 2024-01 Biden administration pauses US LNG export approvals 2024-01 Nifty 50 first crosses 20000 2023-09 LK-99 room-temperature superconductor claim 2023-07 Nifty 50 first crosses 19000 2023-06 Saudi Arabia adds a unilateral 1 million bpd voluntary cut 2023-06 Strong May 2023 jobs report jolts yields higher 2023-06 Nvidia AI-guidance blowout ignites the automation/AI capex wave 2023-05 Nigeria fuel subsidy removal 2023-05 Surprise OPEC+ voluntary cut jolts crude higher 2023-04 OPEC+ announces surprise voluntary cut of ~1.16 million bpd 2023-04 OpenAI releases GPT-4 2023-03 ExxonMobil posts most profitable year for any US oil company 2023-01 PJM grid emergency during Winter Storm Elliott 2022-12 EU agrees gas price-cap mechanism 2022-12 NIF achieves fusion ignition 2022-12 OPEC+ cuts output 2 million bpd despite US pressure 2022-10
AssetHistory saysAbnormal (20d · 5d)HitnConfidencevs cascade
JPM JPMLONG+4.8% · 5d +0.4%82%40 0.59✓ matches cascade
SPX SPXLONG+1.6% · 5d +0.4%75%40 0.46✓ matches cascade
10y yield DGS10LONG+15bp · 5d +6bp73%40 0.38·
QCOM QCOMSHORT-3.6% · 5d -2.9%74%39 0.36⚠ differs
High-yield credit HYGSHORT-0.5% · 5d -0.1%75%38 0.35⚠ differs
XLK XLKSHORT-0.9% · 5d -1.1%71%39 0.33⚠ differs
INTC INTCSHORT-3.7% · 5d -2.2%68%40 0.33⚠ differs
XLF XLFLONG+0.6% · 5d -0.0% ↺ fades67%39 0.26✓ matches cascade
MRVL MRVLSHORT-2.3% · 5d -4.3%67%39 0.25⚠ differs
COIN COINLONG+9.4% · 5d +1.5%62%38 0.24✓ matches cascade
ASML ASMLSHORT-2.6% · 5d -2.1%64%39 0.22⚠ differs
NDX NDXSHORT-0.7% · 5d -1.0%64%40 0.19⚠ differs
MSTR MSTRLONG+11.9% · 5d -1.7% ↺ fades60%39 0.18✓ matches cascade
LMT LMTSHORT-1.4% · 5d -0.4%61%40 0.18✓ 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.