Geopolitical risk: how do you model something unquantifiable?

Conflicts, sanctions and supply shocks don't fit spreadsheets, but they dominate currency moves when they hit. Traders cope with scenario thinking: what would a disruption do to oil, to havens, to specific pairs — before it happens.

Geopolitical risk: how do you model something unquantifiable? — bid-ask spread diagram
The bid-ask spread on a currency pair

How do you prepare?

  • the scenarios you've mapped in advance
  • how you size positions when geopolitics heats up
  • the event that reshaped your model
Geopolitical risk: how do you model something unquantifiable? — risk-reward diagram
A risk-reward ratio of 1 to 2

The safe-haven guide and oil guide cover the two classic channels.

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