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

What if US antimony mine restart breaks the import dependence?

A reopened domestic antimony mine and roaster in Idaho supplies US munitions and flame-retardant needs, easing exposure to Chinese export controls and calming prices.

24%
our model probability
over 1–3 years
prediction markets — wisdom of the crowd
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Empirically anchored 24% · 90% range 6–42% · 40 analogues · measured class deflation 69% in 3 yr · 3% held back for the unknown
how we built this number — every step
Measured class rate — deflation ≈0.3895/yr → 69% in 3 yr69%
Analyst prior · editorial share 35% of the class24%
Pooled · weight 87%25%
Crowd — no liquid market
Reserve 3% · no extremizing (×1.0)25%
Published24%

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 mixed shock. A reopened domestic antimony mine and roaster in Idaho supplies US munitions and flame-retardant needs, easing exposure to Chinese export controls and calming prices. The trigger decomposes into signed root‑shocks — Clean-energy abundance ▲ · Defense spending ▲ · Industrial demand ▲ · 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
1Lockheed LMT 📈 chartEquity▲ +0.5%
hist +0.17–+0.29% · other way -0.08% (n=12)
2Northrop NOC 📈 chartEquity▲ +0.5%
hist -0.69–+0.36% · other way -0.19% (n=8)
3RTX RTXon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▲ +0.4%
hist -1.55–+0.86% · other way -0.21% (n=12)
4Solana SOLon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCrypto▲ +0.3%
hist -0.16–+0.34% · other way -6.28% (n=7)
5Freeport (copper) FCX 📈 chartEquity▲ +0.3%
hist -0.73–+1.95% · other way +0.39% (n=7)
6Hyperliquid (HYPE) HYPEon HyperliquidCrypto▲ +0.3%
model prior · unmeasured
7MicroStrategy MSTRon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▲ +0.3%
hist -3.98–+8.66% · other way -10.12% (n=7)
8Energy sector XLEon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -0.2%
hist -0.74–+0.2% · other way +0.68% (n=7)
9Ether ETHon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCrypto▲ +0.2%
hist -0.84–+2.09% · other way -3.09% (n=7)
10Nasdaq 100 NDXon Hyperliquid 📈 chartIndex▲ +0.2%
hist +0.04–+0.21% · other way -1.5% (n=8)
11Brent crude BRENTon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCommodity▼ -0.2%
hist -2.06–+0.79% · other way -1.42% (n=7)
12ExxonMobil XOM 📈 chartEquity▼ -0.2%
hist -0.25–-0.01% · other way +1.59% (n=12)
13WTI crude CLon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCommodity▼ -0.2%
hist -2.19–+0.77% · other way -3.37% (n=7)
14Bitcoin BTCon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCrypto▲ +0.2%
hist -1.21–+3.97% · other way -5.9% (n=7)

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: 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): Lockheed +0.5% · Northrop +0.5% · Freeport (copper) +0.3% · ExxonMobil -0.2% · Tech sector +0.1%

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.

Henry Hub natural gas hits a 25-year low amid record US production 2024-11 Waha hub natural gas prices crash to record negative on Permian glut 2024-08 Soviet August coup attempt against Gorbachev 1991-08 Gulf War air campaign begins 1991-01 Platinum hits an 11-year high on Chinese jewelry demand and deficit 2025-06 Israel strikes Iran — Operation Rising Lion 2025-06 Operation Sindoor: India strikes Pakistan after Pahalgam attack 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 Palladium jumps after US pushes G7 sanctions on Russian metal 2024-10 Israel kills Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in Beirut strike 2024-09 Hezbollah pager and device explosions across Lebanon 2024-09 Ukrainian drone strikes hit Russian refineries, lifting crude and gasoline 2024-03 RTX takes $3B charge on Pratt & Whitney GTF engine flaw 2023-09 Niger coup d'etat 2023-07 NIF achieves fusion ignition 2022-12 Tin hits nominal record on LME above $48,000/t 2022-03 Burkina Faso coup d'etat 2022-01 Mali coup d'etat 2020-08 WTI crude futures settle negative as demand collapses 2020-04 Saudi-Russia oil price war 2020-03 India's Balakot airstrike inside Pakistan 2019-02 Pulwama attack ignites India-Pakistan crisis 2019-02 North Korea sixth nuclear test 2017-09 North Korea 'fire and fury' nuclear scare 2017-08 OPEC abandons output defense, opting for market share vs US shale 2014-11 Egyptian revolution / Mubarak uprising 2011-01 Silver hits 30-year high as JPMorgan and HSBC face manipulation suits 2010-10 Oil collapses from $147 to the $30s as the GFC craters demand 2008-12 Iraq invasion 2003 relief rally 2003-03 2001 Indian Parliament attack 2001-12 Kargil War begins 1999-05 OPEC and non-OPEC Vienna pact ends the 1998 price war 1999-03 Hong Kong HKMA market intervention against speculators 1998-08 Third Taiwan Strait Crisis 1996-03 Black Wednesday / ERM crisis 1992-09 1986 oil price collapse 1986-02 Gold peaks at $850 1980-01 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan 1979-12 Iran hostage crisis / US freezes Iranian assets 1979-11
AssetHistory saysAbnormal (20d · 5d)HitnConfidencevs cascade
High-yield credit HYGSHORT-0.2% · 5d -0.4%66%27 0.30·
NOC NOCSHORT-0.8% · 5d -0.8%65%37 0.27⚠ differs
US dollar DXYLONG+0.0% · 5d +0.1%63%40 0.22·
Bitcoin BTCLONG+3.5% · 5d -3.4% ↺ fades62%24 0.19✓ matches cascade
LMT LMTSHORT-0.0% · 5d -0.8%58%40 0.13⚠ differs
10y yield DGS10LONG+11bp · 5d +8bp57%40 0.13·
RTX RTXSHORT-1.7% · 5d -1.5%56%40 0.12⚠ differs
CL CLSHORT-2.0% · 5d -2.4%57%29 0.12✓ matches cascade
XCU XCUSHORT-1.0% · 5d -1.1%55%29 0.09⚠ differs
SOL SOLSHORT-0.3% · 5d -8.2%55%18 0.07⚠ differs
BRENT BRENTSHORT-1.9% · 5d -2.2%54%27 0.06✓ matches cascade
MSTR MSTRLONG+8.3% · 5d -3.8% ↺ fades52%32 0.03✓ matches cascade
XLE XLESHORT-0.6% · 5d -0.7%52%31 0.03✓ matches cascade
ETH ETHLONG+1.9% · 5d -3.4% ↺ fades52%21 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.