⚔ Geopolitics mixed · 0–6 months
A what‑if from the future

What if Wheat gaps lower on a surprise corridor deal?

An unexpected Black Sea agreement releases stored Ukrainian and Russian grain onto the market, gapping Chicago wheat sharply lower on the supply surge.

10%
our model probability
over 0–6 months
prediction markets — wisdom of the crowd
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Empirically anchored 10% · 90% range 0–28% · 10 analogues · measured class deflation 18% in 6 mo · 3% held back for the unknown
how we built this number — every step
Measured class rate — deflation ≈0.3895/yr → 18% in 6 mo18%
Analyst prior · editorial share 68% of the class12%
Pooled · weight 62%10%
Crowd — no liquid market
Reserve 3% · no extremizing (×1.0)10%
Published10%

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. An unexpected Black Sea agreement releases stored Ukrainian and Russian grain onto the market, gapping Chicago wheat sharply lower on the supply surge. The trigger decomposes into signed root‑shocks — Corn ▼ · Wheat ▼ · Food inflation ▼ — 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
1Wheat WHEATon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCommodity▼ -0.6%
hist -5.98–+2.67% · other way -1.54% (n=12)
2Corn CORNon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCommodity▼ -0.3%
hist -0.89–+0.5% · other way -1.22% (n=12)

Probable recommendation

If the scenario above plays out, the probable cross‑asset positioning → a scenario‑conditional read, not personalized investment advice
Long
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.

Historical precedent — what analogous events actually did

Across 10 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.

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AssetHistory saysAbnormal (20d · 5d)HitnConfidencevs cascade
WHEAT WHEATSHORT-5.5% · 5d -0.4%78%9 0.51✓ matches cascade
Volatility VIXSHORT-5.6% · 5d -5.4%80%10 0.37·
Bitcoin BTCSHORT-5.5% · 5d -1.8%71%7 0.34·
Gold XAULONG+2.4% · 5d -1.1% ↺ fades67%9 0.30·
High-yield credit HYGLONG+0.2% · 5d -0.0% ↺ fades71%7 0.27·
US dollar DXYLONG+0.8% · 5d +0.1%60%10 0.17·
CORN CORNLONG+0.8% · 5d +0.9%44%9 0.00⚠ differs
10y yield DGS10LONG+4bp · 5d +4bp50%10 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.