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| Figure/Metric | Value | Source | Significance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Last TEDPIX Close | 3,652,000 points | TSE / Seeking Alpha | The baseline for the ±7% reopening range calculation. |
| Structural Floor (-7%) | 3,396,360 points | TSE Rule 23 | The maximum possible aggregate daily decline for the index. |
| Structural Ceiling (+7%) | 3,907,640 points | TSE Rule 23 | The maximum possible aggregate daily gain for the index. |
| April Reopening Change | -2.1% | Country Data / News | Historical precedent for first-day performance after suspension. |
| IRR/USD Exchange Rate | ~1,319,000 | Macrobond | Represents massive currency devaluation (official/spot premium). |
| 2026 GDP Growth (Est.) | -6.1% | IMF (April 2026) | Drastic downward revision due to conflict and blockade. |
| Hormuz Closure Impact | 80% persistence | Polymarket | High probability of continued export/import disruption. |
The Tehran Stock Exchange (TSE) has a history of high volatility and frequent regulatory intervention. In January 2026, the TEDPIX reached an all-time high of 4,481,000 points before a massive 450,000-point crash occurred over just four days as regional tensions escalated. Following the outbreak of war on February 28, 2026, the market was suspended under Article 23. A brief reopening in April 2026 saw the index fall to 2,922,101 points (a 20% drop from its peak) with near-universal negative breadth. The index managed a recovery to 3,652,000 points by early May before the current nine-trading-day suspension was enacted. This pattern of suspension and reopening is a standard crisis-management tool used by the Iranian Securities and Exchange Organization (SEO) to prevent ‘emotional trading’ and manage liquidity during periods of extreme national stress.
My analysis for the TEDPIX close on May 19, 2026, is centered on the interaction between structural market rules and extreme macroeconomic distress. The Tehran Stock Exchange operates under Rule 23, which imposes a ±7% daily price limit on individual stocks. This rule effectively bounds the aggregate index movement for any single day. Given that the last verified pre-shutdown close was 3,652,000 points, the structural floor for the reopening day is 3,396,360 points.
Historical context provides a vital baseline: during the April 2026 reopening after a two-month suspension, the index fell 2.1% on the first day, with more than 99% of stocks closing in the negative. This occurred even though the macroeconomic climate then was arguably less stressed than it is now. Since that time, the Iranian rial has depreciated by approximately 18% against the USD, and the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz has intensified, with prediction markets suggesting an 80% probability that the blockade persists. This blockade has severely crippled oil exports, with JPMorgan estimating revenue losses at $150 million per day. Furthermore, major industrial constituents of the index, such as Mobarakeh Steel and Khuzestan Steel, have suffered physical damage from military strikes, reducing their operational capacity and intrinsic value.
I weighted the likelihood of a ‘limit-down’ scenario heavily. In such a scenario, the vast majority of constituents hit their -7% floor, and the index is mechanically dragged toward the 3,396,360 level. However, because the index is market-capitalization-weighted, the final value may rest slightly above the absolute floor if state-linked entities or large-cap exporters (who may benefit nominally from rial depreciation) receive targeted support or exhibit relative resilience. The Securities and Exchange Organization (SEO) has a Market Development Fund intended for such stabilization, but reporting from the April reopening indicated that authorities allowed that decline to happen without significant intervention. Given the current fiscal strain, the government may again prioritize capital preservation over supporting equity prices.
In constructing the forecast, I placed the highest probability mass in the lower half of the permissible range. The most likely outcome reflects a market that is largely ‘frozen’ at the lower price limits. I also accounted for a smaller possibility of a ‘muddle-through’ scenario where aggressive state intervention or positive rumors regarding ceasefire negotiations prevent a total collapse, keeping the index closer to 3,600,000. Overall, the preponderance of evidence—currency collapse, active war, infrastructure damage, and failed negotiations—points to a sharp, structural decline toward the lower bound.
Question: will the Tehran Stock Exchange index (TEDPIX, last pre-shutdown close 3,652,000) finish reopening day between 3,396,360 and 3,652,000 on May 19, 2026? Both forecasters agree a large downward pressure is very likely after an ~80-day suspension due to the US–Iran war, but they expect the Securities and Exchange Organization (SEO) to intervene by tightening daily price limits as it has in prior crises. That intervention most likely produces a modest first-day fall of about 1–2% (to roughly 3,615,000–3,579,000), with one forecaster assigning the single largest probability (~40%) to a ~2% drop. There is also a meaningful chance of a ~3% move or the structural ±5–7% limits being used (which could push the index down to the stated range minimum of 3,396,360), and a small probability of either unlimited downside (wider/no limits) or state support keeping the market flat/positive. The teams mainly agree on the direction and the likelihood of tightened limits; they differ only in the precise probability weights and in explicitly modeling a uniform distribution for partial limit hits or liquidity interventions.
Forecast: Probability distribution:
The resolving value is the TEDPIX close on the first full (or officially published partial) trading day after the Article 23 suspension is lifted, expected 2026-05-19. The last pre-suspension close is 3,652,000, and the effective first-day move is typically constrained by microstructure and (normally) ±7% per-stock limits; additionally, if the true close would fall outside the configured ±7% range, the question’s resolution is explicitly clamped to the nearest bound, so the resolving value should lie within the range.
Across the four analyst distributions, the implied median is tightly clustered around ~3.57M (about a 2%–3% drop), with disagreement mainly about tail width: Forecaster 2 is relatively bearish and narrow; Forecaster 1 is noticeably more optimistic on the upside tail; Forecasters 3–4 are in between, with 3 assigning more left-tail risk. I think a modest down day remains the base case (pent-up selling/war headline risk on reopening), but the nominal support from rial depreciation/inflation hedging and likely stabilization efforts argue against extreme downside being very likely. I therefore center the median near the group average (~3.57M) while keeping meaningful (but not dominant) probability in both tails, reflecting headline and intervention uncertainty on a single reopening session.
An amateur forecast would often (a) anchor mechanically on the last close (3,652,000), (b) assume a symmetric ±7% range without considering reopening dynamics, or (c) overreact to war headlines and pile probability near the lower limit. This forecast instead triangulates multiple calibrated analyst distributions, uses the April reopening as a behavioral precedent for a controlled (not maximum) first-day move, and preserves uncertainty in both directions (policy support vs. panic selling) without becoming overconfident about a single-day close.
Forecast rationale (numeric):
— Iteration 1 — Across the forecasts, the shared view is that TEDPIX is likely to open and close lower on 5/19/2026, with the main downside drivers being:
A major reference point is the April 2026 reopening, when the index fell only about 2.1% despite extreme breadth weakness. That precedent is used to argue that structural market rules and policy management can moderate the initial move.
The forecasts diverge mostly on how severe the drop will be:
The collective reasoning points to a bearish reopening with a skewed downside distribution, where the most likely outcome is a noticeable but mechanically constrained decline, and the lower clamp remains a significant tail risk.
— Iteration 2 — The forecasts are broadly aligned on a bearish reopening for TEDPIX, with the index expected to close below the pre-shutdown level of 3,652,000. The main reasoning pattern is that macro and geopolitical stress dominates: an active war, sharp rial weakness, and accumulated selling pressure during the shutdown all point to significant downside. At the same time, the expected move is not a full crash because of structural market protections, especially the ±7% daily limit, which caps the most extreme downside.
The collective view is that TEDPIX will likely close lower, probably moderately to sharply lower, but within a range constrained by market limits and index composition. The dominant logic is war-driven selling pressure plus currency weakness, tempered by mechanical downside caps and possible policy support.
— Iteration 3 — Across the forecasts, the core expectation is a negative reopening for TEDPIX after the suspension, with the index likely closing below the last pre-shutdown level of 3,652,000. The reasoning is broadly consistent:
The shared view is that TEDPIX is likely to open weak and close lower, with the most plausible outcome being a moderate one-day decline rather than a collapse. However, the forecasts also emphasize nontrivial downside tail risk if wartime panic selling dominates and support mechanisms prove insufficient.
Macroeconomic Context and Investor Sentiment The rationales unanimously agree that the prevailing geopolitical environment—marked by escalating conflict, threats to critical export infrastructure, and a prolonged market suspension—will trigger extreme panic upon reopening. Despite massive depreciation of the Iranian rial (which traditionally spurs an equity rally as an inflation hedge), acute wartime fears will override this dynamic. Forecasters anticipate a desperate rush for liquidity as investors attempt to flee into safe-haven assets, resulting in immense, market-wide “sell queues” with virtually zero organic buying interest.
Structural Mechanisms and Regulatory Intervention Because natural free-market price discovery would lead to a catastrophic crash, all rationales emphasize that the closing index value will be artificially dictated by the Iranian Securities and Exchange Organization (SEO). Forecasters highlight three primary administrative levers that will constrain the index:
Historical Base Rates Ultimately, the forecasters align by relying on the strong historical base rates of recent, similar crisis reopenings. During past systemic shocks, the combination of narrowed price bands, the Base Volume dampener, and targeted stock suspensions consistently produced a tightly managed, structurally muted decline. The consensus assumes the SEO will utilize this exact regulatory playbook, yielding an official index outcome that reflects state-mandated containment rather than natural market equilibrium.
Question: What will the TEDPIX (Tehran Stock Exchange main index) close at on 5/19/2026? Final Prediction: Probability distribution:
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Forecaster 1: Probability distribution:
Forecaster 2: Probability distribution:
Forecaster 3: Probability distribution:
The research summarizes that the Tehran Stock Exchange (TEDPIX) closed at 3,652,000 points on May 16, 2026 and that the exchange will reopen on May 19, 2026 after a 9-day Article 23 suspension. No prediction markets were found for this specific question (searches on Metaculus, Manifold, and Polymarket). The most directly comparable precedent is April 2026’s reopening, when TEDPIX fell 2.1% on day one (closing at 2,922,101) with 99%+ of stocks negative and no significant government intervention. Current macro and war-related conditions are described as materially worse than in April: ongoing conflict, stalled peace talks, major strikes on industrial facilities (including ~70% of steel industry damage), 1–2 million newly unemployed, an ~18% further rial depreciation since April 7, and IMF-estimated inflation near 70% for 2026. Structural constraints (±7% daily individual-stock limits) and uncertain government intervention are highlighted as key market limits/uncertainties.
Quantitatively, the report frames the ±7% daily price limits as setting a numeric question range of 3,396,360 to 3,907,640. Using April’s −2.1% precedent and worse current conditions, it identifies a “high probability zone” of −3% to −5% (3,469,600–3,542,400), a pessimistic −5% to −7% range (3,396,360–3,469,600), a moderate −1% to −3% range (3,542,400–3,615,520), and an optimistic 0% to +2% range (3,652,000–3,725,040) which would likely require government intervention. Key uncertainties listed are whether authorities will intervene, the transparency/timing of damage disclosures, and any peace-process developments; limitations include market opacity, no real-time price discovery during the closure, and absence of prediction-market price signals.
Sources referenced in the research (no verbatim URLs were provided in the text): Metaculus; Manifold; Polymarket; Iran International; International Monetary Fund (IMF); Tehran Stock Exchange / Securities and Exchange Organization of Iran (SEO); National Development Fund (Iran); various market and news reports cited in the research (numbered references [1], [4], [5], [6], [9], [11], [13], [14], [15], [21], [24] as used in the document).
The Tehran Stock Exchange is scheduled to reopen on May 19, 2026, following a 9-day Article 23 suspension. The last pre-shutdown close was 3,652,000 points (verified May 16, 2026) [background]. The question’s numeric range is 3,396,360 to 3,907,640 (±7% of last close), reflecting the ±7% daily price limits on individual stocks.
No prediction markets found for this specific question. Searches for TEDPIX forecasts on Metaculus, Manifold, and Polymarket yielded no results.
The most directly comparable event occurred in April 2026, when TSE reopened after the initial war-related closure:
Given April’s -2.1% under better conditions, and current conditions being materially worse:
The most relevant base rate is April 2026’s -2.1% first-day performance, but current conditions are materially worse: ongoing war, no peace deal, 18% additional currency depreciation, 15%+ of market cap directly damaged, and 1-2 million newly unemployed. Without government intervention (which was absent in April), a -3% to -5% decline appears most probable, placing the close in the 3,470,000 to 3,540,000 range. The ±7% structural limits provide a floor around 3,396,360. Key wild card: potential emergency government intervention to prevent market collapse.
Conditioning on no annulment, I accept most of the critic’s Round 5 adjustment. The main reason is that the stale-reference-price risk has become central rather than peripheral. Trading Economics still presents 3,652,000 as the latest/actual TEDPIX value but describes it as having been reached on February 24, 2026, while separately showing the page as updated May 17. That makes it plausible that the forecast should treat 3.652M as a stale or at least incompletely price-discovered mark, not a clean May pre-shutdown equilibrium. (tradingeconomics.com)
I also agree that the “9-day closure” framing may understate latent pressure. Iran International’s April reopening analysis described trading as suspended for nearly two months, with millions of retail investors unable to move assets, and warned of sell queues, fund redemptions, weak disclosure, and damaged firms. That pushes me toward more near-floor mass than my prior distribution. (iranintl.com)
The “full resumption” language is also slightly bearish. Recent IRNA/Reuters-derived reporting says the reopening is expected Tuesday and framed it as the full resumption of all capital-market sectors, while also saying the suspension was meant to protect assets, prevent panic-driven trades, and improve pricing conditions. So I now put less weight on clean symbol-exclusion/staged-reopening upside scenarios, though still enough weight on administrative management to keep the median away from the floor. (devdiscourse.com)
Where I still disagree with the critic is making the lower band too close to central. The June 2025 analogue remains important: after a 12-day conflict, over 99% of listed companies fell and massive sell queues formed, but TEDPIX closed down only 2.1%. That suggests the official index close can be heavily damped by price limits, lack of trades, targeted support, and market microstructure even when the order book is awful. (iranintl.com)
My updated mixture is now:
Net: I move the median down from 3.539M to 3.534M, thicken the lower tail near the range floor, and trim the strong-positive upper tail.
Updated prediction:
Percentile 0.1: 3396360.1
Percentile 1: 3396361
Percentile 5: 3399500
Percentile 10: 3411000
Percentile 20: 3447000
Percentile 30: 3480000
Percentile 40: 3509000
Percentile 50: 3534000
Percentile 60: 3561000
Percentile 70: 3591000
Percentile 80: 3625000
Percentile 90: 3674000
Percentile 95: 3722000
Percentile 99: 3838000
Percentile 99.9: 3907639
I accept much of the critic’s challenge. The biggest correction is conditioning on non-annulment / actual reopening: if the situation is truly disorderly, SEO has tools to delay, phase, halt names, tighten limits, or support key weights rather than allow a clean market-clearing crash. Recent reporting still says authorities intend to reopen on May 19, with the stated aim of preventing panic-driven trading and improving pricing conditions, and another report notes possible gradual reopening / continued suspension of heavily affected industrial names. (dawn.com)
I also now put more weight on the fact that the April reopening had extremely negative breadth yet only printed -2.1%. That is strong evidence that TEDPIX’s first-day close can be cushioned by market structure, stale/managed prices, halts, index-weight composition, or support. Iran International’s prior reopening analysis explicitly noted that tools such as targeted liquidity, tighter limits, sales restrictions, and market-maker intervention can manage short-term reopening risk, even if they do not solve the underlying confidence problem. (iranintl.com)
That said, I do not fully adopt the critic’s higher median. I still think the first qualifying close is more likely below the April-analogue level than above it: conditions remain poor, investors have been locked in again, damaged/export-heavy sectors matter, and a reopening may be used by trapped holders and funds as an exit opportunity. The “inflation hedge” and “managed print” arguments are real, but they are partly offset by the fact that local investors may prefer hard currency/gold/real assets over equities after repeated closures.
So I’m moving materially upward from my previous median 3.524M to 3.565M, very close to an April-like decline but still slightly more bearish than the critic’s 3.575M. I’m also fattening the right tail: I now assign roughly 20% probability to a flat-or-positive print, versus much less before. Lower-bound risk remains meaningful but not dominant, because the worse the crash risk, the more likely the authorities are to alter the reopening mechanics.
Conditioned on the question not being annulled, my updated distribution is:
Updated prediction:
Percentile 0.1: 3397200
Percentile 1: 3408000
Percentile 5: 3432000
Percentile 10: 3459000
Percentile 20: 3493000
Percentile 30: 3522000
Percentile 40: 3545000
Percentile 50: 3565000
Percentile 60: 3588000
Percentile 70: 3620000
Percentile 80: 3660000
Percentile 90: 3730000
Percentile 95: 3800000
Percentile 99: 3880000
Percentile 99.9: 3906500
Conditioning on non-annulment.
I think the critic’s core objection is valid: this is not mainly a one-day “fair value of Iranian equities” question. It is an official TEDPIX close in a market with price limits, possible halts, opaque official discretion, and a government/regulator with a strong incentive to avoid a visibly disastrous reopening. Reuters/IRNA reporting says the suspension was explicitly intended to protect shareholder assets, prevent panic-driven trading, and allow more transparent pricing, while officials described the reopening as a full resumption of capital-market sectors. That makes the reopening print partly a policy/market-microstructure variable. (tbsnews.net)
I also accept the critic’s point that April’s -2.1% reopening should not be used only as a bearish base rate. The fact that extremely negative breadth did not translate into a near-limit index fall is evidence for damping mechanisms: index-heavy names supported, stale closing prices, halts, price-limit queues, or composition effects. Iran International’s April analysis explicitly discussed phased reopening, leaving damaged steel/petrochemical names closed, and tools such as tighter price limits, sales restrictions, targeted liquidity, and market-maker intervention. (iranintl.com)
That said, I still defend a negative median. The macro/geopolitical backdrop is still poor: AP reported that Trump rejected Iran’s latest response as “totally unacceptable,” calling it another setback in a standoff affecting shipping and energy markets. (apnews.com) Also, Iran International’s analysis emphasized the risk of investors using reopening as an exit opportunity, fund redemptions producing sell queues, and structural weakness accelerating the crisis cycle. (iranintl.com) So I do not want to move all the way to a neutral/flat center.
The Trading Economics data-coherence issue also argues for wider uncertainty: its page shows TEDPIX at 3,652,000, but describes that figure as reached on February 24, 2026, while also giving bearish model forecasts; I treat the prompt’s last-close definition as controlling, but this reinforces that public data are noisy and should not justify a narrow distribution. (id.tradingeconomics.com)
My main update: I now put the median closer to a controlled red print than to a fundamental capitulation. I move from 3.548m to 3.565m, about -2.4% from 3.652m. I also raise the implied probability of a close above the prior 3.652m to roughly 18–20%, because a flat/green official close is quite plausible under intervention, selective halts, tighter mechanics, inflation-hedge demand, or a favorable headline. I keep a real left tail near the floor because if selling pressure is allowed to hit index-heavy stocks, the reopening could still be ugly.
Updated prediction:
Percentile 0.1: 3396360.5
Percentile 1: 3399000
Percentile 5: 3424000
Percentile 10: 3454000
Percentile 20: 3498000
Percentile 30: 3526000
Percentile 40: 3547000
Percentile 50: 3565000
Percentile 60: 3587000
Percentile 70: 3614000
Percentile 80: 3648000
Percentile 90: 3708000
Percentile 95: 3775000
Percentile 99: 3865000
Percentile 99.9: 3907200
Agent Forecast (numeric, confidence: medium)
Base Rate: Closest analogs: Egypt EGX 2011 (2-month closure, -16% first day, no comparable price limits); Greece ASE 2015 (5-week closure, -23% first day, no comparable price limits). Iranian ±7% daily individual-stock limits cap the structural floor at 3,396,360. Trading Economics macro model forecasts ~-8% by end of Q2 2026, consistent with multi-week gradual repricing. Combined with active Central Bank bank-support authorization (announced May 17), modal day-one decline estimated at -3% to -4%, with ~30% probability of clustering near the -7% structural floor (magnet effect) and ~16% probability of flat/positive given government stabilization measures.
Initial Reasoning:
Key Uncertainties:
Evidence Sources (12):
Grounding Facts (passed to reviewers):
Draft: 3496360-3548240: 22.0%, 3548240-3600120: 22.0%, 3396360-3496360: 20.0%, 3600120-3652000: 17.0%, 3652000-3703880: 9.0%
Reviewer Panel:
Reviewer (reasoning)
The draft forecast leans heavily on one‐sided sell‐pressure arguments and caps downside at the ±7% limit without examining historical reopenings or potential limit‐widening by regulators. It also underweights the liquidity injection from mandated bank purchases and omits key base rates from prior TSE suspensions of similar length. Finally, the probability bins are allocated without anchoring to any empirical distribution of past first‐day returns.
Objections:
Reviewer (calibration)
The forecast appears to understate the significant downside pressure from 80 days of accumulated sell orders, severe economic contraction, and persistent geopolitical instability, despite the Central Bank’s intervention. It misinterprets high inflation as a potential bullish factor for equities in this crisis context and overstates the stabilizing effect of the Strait of Hormuz reopening while ignoring its ongoing disruptions. The strong magnet of the -7% daily price limit upon reopening seems insufficiently accounted for.
Objections:
Reviewer (fact-checker)
2 factual error(s). 4 unsupported claim(s). Verdict: minor_issues
Unsupported claims:
Objections:
Adjustment Rationale:
Shifted ~8% probability mass from the middle bins (3548240-3652000) into the lowest valid bin (3396360-3496360) because the calibration reviewer correctly identified that the ±7% individual-stock price limit acts as a magnet for sell orders during high-pressure reopenings — historical analogs (Egypt 2011, Greece 2015) show first-day clustering at the maximum permitted decline when limits exist. Also added a small probability bump at 3807640-3907640 to reflect the reasoning reviewer’s valid point that aggressive bank buying under Central Bank capital-adequacy exemptions could produce an upside outcome rather than merely dampen decline. Removed the framing of inflation as bullish — in a crisis with -6.1% GDP and 68.9% inflation, this is distress, not a nominal equity hedge. Held firm on the question interpretation (first reopening after 80-day closure) and on the central scenario (decline of -2% to -5% modal). Final distribution: 50% probability mass in the -7% to -3% range (3396360-3548240), 32% in the -3% to 0% range (3548240-3652000), 16% positive, 2% below the limit (would require SEO emergency rule change). Modal close estimate ~3,500,000-3,540,000 (roughly -3% to -4%), reflecting heavy sell pressure mitigated but not reversed by Central Bank bank-support authorization.
forecast_sdk | 616.6s | research $1.1508 + reviewers $0.0109 + reconcile $0.1910 = $1.3526
Extracted Percentile Values: {0.1: 3390000, 1.0: 3430000, 5.0: 3475000, 10.0: 3505000, 15.0: 3525000, 20.0: 3540000, 25.0: 3550000, 30.0: 3560000, 35.0: 3570000, 40.0: 3578000, 45.0: 3585000, 46.0: 3587000, 47.0: 3590000, 48.0: 3593000, 49.0: 3596000, 50.0: 3600000, 51.0: 3604000, 52.0: 3608000, 53.0: 3612000, 54.0: 3617000, 55.0: 3622000, 60.0: 3640000, 65.0: 3658000, 70.0: 3678000, 75.0: 3700000, 80.0: 3725000, 85.0: 3755000, 90.0: 3790000, 95.0: 3840000, 99.0: 3890000, 99.9: 3912000}
Model’s Answer:
The Tehran Stock Exchange will reopen on May 19, 2026 after a 9-day Article 23 suspension. The last pre-shutdown TEDPIX close was 3,652,000 points. The resolution range is bounded by the structural ±7% daily price limits at 3,396,360 (floor) and 3,907,640 (ceiling).
The most relevant historical analogue is the April 2026 reopening after the late-February war shutdown:
Factors suggesting downside pressure:
Factors potentially limiting downside:
Assumption 1: April reopening behavior is a valid template (~80% confidence)
Assumption 2: No major war escalation or de-escalation before May 19 (~85% confidence)
Assumption 3: ±7% price limits remain unchanged (~90% confidence)
Low outcome scenario (near 3,396,360): Would require most major stocks hitting -7% limits simultaneously, which the April precedent suggests is unlikely even under stress. Probability: ~2%
High outcome scenario (near 3,907,640): Would require broad-based buying pressure or aggressive stabilization fund intervention. Given war conditions and lack of announced support, this is quite unlikely. Probability: ~1%
Central case: Expect a decline of 1.5% to 2.5%, centered around 3,570,000-3,590,000, consistent with April analogy but possibly slightly worse given extended war conditions and continued FX pressure.
The distribution has a modest negative skew reflecting the bearish macro backdrop while acknowledging that structural limits and institutional presence constrain extreme moves.
Percentile .1: 3390000 Percentile 1: 3430000 Percentile 5: 3475000 Percentile 10: 3505000 Percentile 15: 3525000 Percentile 20: 3540000 Percentile 25: 3550000 Percentile 30: 3560000 Percentile 35: 3570000 Percentile 40: 3578000 Percentile 45: 3585000 Percentile 46: 3587000 Percentile 47: 3590000 Percentile 48: 3593000 Percentile 49: 3596000 Percentile 50: 3600000 Percentile 51: 3604000 Percentile 52: 3608000 Percentile 53: 3612000 Percentile 54: 3617000 Percentile 55: 3622000 Percentile 60: 3640000 Percentile 65: 3658000 Percentile 70: 3678000 Percentile 75: 3700000 Percentile 80: 3725000 Percentile 85: 3755000 Percentile 90: 3790000 Percentile 95: 3840000 Percentile 99: 3890000 Percentile 99.9: 3912000
I forecast the first reopening-day TEDPIX close at about 3.51 million points, with the median at 3,513,000 and the distribution tilted toward a 3% to 6% loss from the 3,652,000 reference close.
Iran says the Tehran market will reopen on Tuesday, May 19, 2026 after the wartime suspension; Reuters, citing IRNA, reported on May 16, 2026 that Hamid Yari of the Securities and Exchange Organization said the restart would cover “all capital market sectors” (Reuters via TBS News, May 16, 2026). I used 3,652,000 as the anchor because it is the question’s stated last pre-shutdown close and because Trading Economics also shows TEDPIX at 3,652,000, with a previous value of 3,618,000 and daily coverage from 2014 to 2026 (Trading Economics, accessed May 17, 2026).
The key uncertainty is not whether the broad tape is weak. It is how much weakness the official index is allowed to print on day one. The question’s configured range is 3,396,360 to 3,907,640, equal to ±7% around 3,652,000. Single-stock limits, possible symbol suspensions, market-maker activity, and stabilization-fund buying can all keep TEDPIX away from a simple limit-down result.
The best historical backbone is the prior wartime reopening. On June 28, 2025, after the 12-day Israel-Iran war closure, TEDPIX closed at 2,922,101, down 62,503 points or 2.1%, while more than 99% of listed stocks were negative early in the session and sell orders reportedly reached 350 trillion rials (Iran International, June 28, 2025). IranWire later described officials as having tried to contain the crash by closing the market for nine days and limiting daily price changes to 3% (IranWire, June 30, 2025). That analogue says a red reopening is the base case, but not a mechanical -7% index close.
The April 2026 setup also points down. Iran International reported on April 23, 2026 that trading had been suspended for nearly two months, that officials were preparing a phased restart, and that directly damaged steel and petrochemical firms might remain closed at first (Iran International, April 23, 2026). The same report warned of a backlog of sell orders and said reopening damaged companies could trigger sharp drops (Iran International, April 23, 2026). The May 16 Reuters/IRNA wording is more aggressive than that earlier phased plan because it says all sectors will resume (Reuters via TBS News, May 16, 2026). I read that as increasing day-one downside risk.
The macro context is still bad for confidence. The rial traded at about 1.83 million per dollar on May 2, 2026 and around 1.87 million per dollar on May 3, 2026 in open-market reporting (Iran International, May 2, 2026; Iran International, May 3, 2026). AP reported on May 12, 2026 that the Iran war’s closure of the Strait of Hormuz had choked bunker-fuel supply and that such shortages tend to feed quickly into shipping costs (AP, May 12, 2026). Fortune reported on May 11, 2026 that Deutsche Bank’s Jim Reid said markets would remain on a “knife-edge” as long as Hormuz stayed closed (Fortune, May 11, 2026). These facts make a clean relief rally unlikely.
There is a real support channel. The National Development Fund has previously supplied or planned funds for capital-market stabilization, including a $510 million support allocation reported in 2021 and a $60 million deposit plan reported in 2024 (Tehran Times, December 2021; Tehran Times, June 2024). I do not treat that as enough to erase the sell backlog. I do treat it as a reason not to put most mass at the lower bound.
My model is a mixture over the first-day return (r=\frac{\text{close}}{3{,}652{,}000}-1). I used four states: 30% managed, April-like decline with mean -2.2% and 0.9 percentage-point standard deviation; 42% heavy sell-backlog with mean -4.5% and 1.1 pp standard deviation; 18% near-limit panic with mean -6.3% and 0.6 pp standard deviation; and 10% relief or nominal rial-hedge buying with mean +0.4% and 1.7 pp standard deviation. This gives a mean close of 3,518,921, a median of 3,512,786, a 10th-90th percentile range of 3,419,282 to 3,619,297, a 6% chance of a flat-or-up close, and a 16% chance of a loss of at least 6%.
The obvious read is “war plus reopening means limit down.” The better read is that breadth and TEDPIX can diverge. In the 2025 analogue, more than 99% of stocks were negative, yet TEDPIX fell only 2.1% on the first session (Iran International, June 28, 2025). TEDPIX is a weighted index, and the official reopening can be shaped by price bands, suspended symbols, state-linked buyers, and market makers.
The other non-obvious point is that rial weakness is not purely bearish for a nominal rial equity index. Exporters, hard-asset firms, and inventory-heavy companies can look like currency hedges. That is why I leave a right tail. But the first qualifying session is mostly a liquidity event: trapped sellers get a chance to exit before the inflation-hedge story can dominate.
I could not verify the official TSE English market-summary page before resolution; the site did not yield a usable public page in this research window. Trading Economics confirms the 3,652,000 level, but it labels the value as a February 24, 2026 print rather than an early-May print, so I treat it as level confirmation rather than a clean official close history (Trading Economics, accessed May 17, 2026). The largest missing inputs are the reopening order book, final SEO price-limit instructions, exact sector or symbol eligibility, and any stabilization-fund purchase mandate. Those inputs could move the close by several percentage points.
Median forecast: 3,555,276
Market reopening timeline unclear but likely early May. The exchange closed Feb 28 and was planning to reopen in mid-to-late April, but confirmation of actual reopening is limited. If it did reopen to ~3.65M as reported, it was then briefly re-suspended—making the current closure only ~9 trading days rather than an extended shutdown.
Shorter closure duration is moderately bullish. The initial 79-day closure in early 2026 saw sharp declines on reopening. A 9-day re-suspension suggests less accumulated selling pressure and that the market has already partially absorbed war-damage shocks.
Macro headwinds persist. The rial has weakened ~18% since early April, war conditions remain unresolved, and inflation pressures continue. War-damaged companies represent roughly 1 trillion tomans in market cap. Expert commentary warns of high selling pressure upon reopening.
Standard trading limits remain in place. No announcement of widened or tightened price limits was found; ±7% daily limits should apply.
High uncertainty on fundamentals. Key facts—exact reopening date, current market sentiment, depth of foreign exchange reserves—remain unconfirmed. Confidence is low.
Forecast reflects balanced view. The median sits between more bullish and bearish scenarios, acknowledging both the shorter closure duration (supportive) and ongoing macro deterioration (headwind).
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Rationale: Summary The Tehran Stock Exchange (TSE) is reopening on May 19, 2026, after a 9-day forced suspension amid an active conflict and deteriorating macroeconomic conditions. The most probable outcome is a moderate decline from the last pre-shutdown close of 3,652,000 points. The market faces a severe backlog of sell orders, driven by the failure of the April 7 ceasefire and elevated regional risks, including higher Strait of Hormuz shipping costs. However, a catastrophic drop on the first day is structurally and practically constrained. First, individual stocks are subject to a strict ±7% daily price limit. Second, the TSE’s base volume rules dictate that if there is mass panic selling with no buyers, low traded volumes will prevent the official index from registering the maximum permitted drop. This dynamic was perfectly illustrated during the April reopening, where 99% of stocks were negative, but the index only fell 2.1%. Balancing this downside pressure is a massive 18% depreciation of the Iranian rial against the US dollar since early April, which strongly incentivizes domestic investors to purchase equities as an inflation hedge. The median estimate of 3,555,000 points anticipates a roughly 2.7% drop, accounting for slightly more severe conditions than the April reopening but firmly capped by structural market illiquidity.
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Best estimate: 3510000.0.
I am forecasting the resolved value on the first qualifying reopening day, not an unconstrained “fair value.” Reuters, citing Iran’s IRNA and SEO official Hamid Yari, reported on May 16, 2026 that Iran plans to reopen the stock market on Tuesday, May 19, with full resumption of capital-market sectors. But Reuters reported on May 12 that talks to end the war were showing no progress and that the April 7 ceasefire could be in danger, so I keep a modest delay/renewed-conflict risk in the left tail. (tbsnews.net)
The most useful recent base-rate analog I found is June 28, 2025: after nine days of closure following the 12-day Israel-Iran conflict, TEDPIX fell 2.1% to 2,922,101 and more than 99% of stocks were red. That analog says two things. First, reopening days can be sharply negative. Second, the official day-one close can still be much less negative than underlying sentiment because price limits and official stabilization tools slow price discovery. Iran International’s April 23, 2026 analysis similarly noted that authorities can use tighter price limits, sales restrictions, targeted liquidity injections, and market-maker intervention around reopening. (v1.iranintl.com)
The present case looks materially worse than that analog. Iran International described nearly two months of closure, major uncertainty over negotiations, and a risk that investors and funds would treat reopening as an exit opportunity, producing heavy sell queues. Trading Economics still listed the last official TEDPIX close at 3,652,000 and, as of May 7, 2026, its model expected the index around 3.274 million by quarter-end. I do not take that model literally, but it is directionally consistent with a reopening print that is meaningfully below the pre-shutdown close and plausibly below the contract’s lower bound on an unconstrained basis. (iranintl.com)
So I model four latent scenarios and then clamp them to the contract range [3396360.0, 3907640.0]: 22% supported reopen (mean 3620000, sd 40000), 45% orderly selloff (mean 3520000, sd 50000), 30% stressed selloff / delay / deeper repricing (mean 3350000, sd 80000), and 3% upside relief/support squeeze (mean 3880000, sd 60000). Those weights give a latent mean of 3501800.0; relative to the last official close of 3652000, that is about a 4.1% decline. The implied probability mass that resolves at the lower clamp is about 21.9%, while the upper-clamp mass is about 1.0%, so my practical center for the resolved close is about 3.51 million. (tradingeconomics.com)
In plain language: my base case is a moderately negative reopening, not an automatic floor-hit. The distribution is intentionally left-skewed because the long suspension, ongoing war risk, and likely pent-up selling make a limit-like down move much more plausible than a strong relief rally, while still leaving a small chance that intervention plus the mere fact of reopening supports a flatter or even positive first print. (tbsnews.net)
I start from the last observed pre-suspension level, not from the client’s framing. Trading Economics still showed TEDPIX at 3,652,000 on February 24, 2026 as its latest observation as of May 17, 2026, and also showed the January 2026 all-time high at 4,481,000. That gives a clean anchor for the reopening-day forecast. (tradingeconomics.com)
The best recent reopening analogue I found is the June 28, 2025 wartime reopening after a nine-day shutdown. Mehr reported that the Tehran Stock Exchange reopened after nine days, and Iran International reported that on that first day the main index fell 62,503 points, or 2.1%, to 2,922,101, with more than 99% of listed companies down. That is an important base rate: Tehran can reopen into a broad liquidation wave, but the first printed close can still be a low-single-digit decline rather than an immediate free-fall. (en.mehrnews.com)
However, the 2026 setup looks worse than that 2025 base rate. Before the February 28 war even began, Iran International reported that more than 107.8 trillion rials of retail money had exited the market over 24 trading sessions; between January 8 and February 21 the benchmark index fell 15%; and analysts described even positive fluctuations as opportunities to exit rather than evidence of renewed confidence. That tells me the pre-closure market was already fragile and politically driven. (iranintl.com)
The macro backdrop also deteriorated during the closure. Reuters reported on April 29 that the rial hit a record 1,810,000 per U.S. dollar, reflecting war-driven demand for hard currency; Reuters also described U.S.-Iran talks as stalled on May 11 with the Strait of Hormuz virtually closed; and by May 15 Reuters said roughly 30 vessels had crossed since Wednesday evening, still far below the roughly 140 daily crossings typical before the war. So the environment into which stocks are reopening is still stressed, only partially normalized, and highly headline-sensitive. (investing.com)
That said, I do not expect to use the client’s full ±7% range as the likely trading envelope. Iran International’s April 23 reopening analysis said authorities had tools such as tighter price limits, sales restrictions, targeted liquidity injections, and market-maker intervention to spread the shock. Separately, Tehran Times reported in November 2025 that the normal daily price band was ±3%, while Iran International described the June 2025 reopening as occurring under a normal 5% band. Because that administrative regime has clearly changed over time, I treat the question’s ±7% numeric range mainly as the resolution clamp, not as the most likely real first-day move. (iranintl.com)
The freshest direct signal is Reuters via IRNA on May 16-17: Hamid Yari said the market will reopen on Tuesday, May 19, and that all capital-market sectors will fully resume. That matters in two directions. Full-sector resumption raises the amount of pent-up sell pressure that can show up immediately, but it also suggests authorities believe they can manage the first session rather than needing a narrower phased reopening. (tbsnews.net)
Putting those pieces together, I modeled a three-part continuous mixture plus small point masses at the clamp boundaries. My continuous scenarios are: a disorderly but administratively capped selloff centered near 3.535 million; a managed negative reopen centered near 3.588 million; and a flatter/support-driven scenario centered near 3.654 million. I then add 3.0% probability to the lower clamp and 0.5% to the upper clamp for emergency-rule tail cases. The weighted mean of that distribution is 3,562,715.5. In words: I expect a decline of about 2.45% from the last close—somewhat worse than the June 2025 reopening analogue because the 2026 pre-reopen backdrop is weaker, but still far short of a true crash because the first session is likely to be compressed by administrative controls and official support. (tbsnews.net)
So my practical central forecast is about 3.56 million. Most of my probability mass sits in the roughly 3.50 million to 3.64 million region, with a thinner right tail from policy support plus inflation-pass-through into nominal equity values, and a smaller but real left-tail/clamp risk if reopening is interpreted mainly as an exit window or if authorities alter the rules on the day. (iranintl.com)
My forecast is centered at 3,615,691. The first thing I adjust for is data quality: Trading Economics still shows TEDPIX at 3,652,000 and says that figure corresponds to February 24, while TGJU’s history page and another Iranian market-data page both show a fresher 2026-05-06 TEDPIX reading of 3,713,955.87 and a 2026-02-28 close of 3,692,894.23. So I anchor the forecast closer to 3.714 million than to 3.652 million, while still respecting the question’s fixed numeric range. Relative to the fresher 3,713,955.87 anchor, the configured lower and upper bounds are about -8.55% and +5.22% away, respectively, which makes the range noticeably asymmetric around the freshest observable level. (tradingeconomics.com)
The macro backdrop into the reopening is clearly negative. Reuters reported on May 16 that talks on ending the war had been on hold since the prior week, the U.S. blockade was still being enforced, 78 commercial ships had been redirected, and Brent was around $109. Reuters also reported on April 30 that Iran faced dire economic problems and that the rial had dropped 15% over recent days. That combination argues against a clean relief rally and toward net selling pressure on the first full reopening session. (investing.com)
There are, however, important dampeners on downside. Reuters/IRNA says the market is expected to reopen on Tuesday and that this reopening should bring a full resumption of capital-market sectors. Iran also has a capital market stabilization mechanism backed by National Development Fund money, and Iran International notes that policymakers can lean on tighter price limits, sales restrictions, targeted liquidity injections and market-maker intervention. Those tools should not erase selling pressure, but they do make an outright collapse on day one less likely. (tbsnews.net)
A further caveat is market microstructure. Late-2025 Tehran Times reporting said ordinary stock price moves in Iran’s capital market were limited to ±3% daily, not ±7%. Because this market question’s range is fixed at ±7% around a stale 3,652,000 anchor, I treat the effective upside tail as fairly thin unless authorities explicitly widen limits; conversely, I keep a small left-tail mass at the lower clamp in case emergency rules or a delayed first qualifying day produce a worse-than-expected official print. (tehrantimes.com)
My numeric model is a four-part mixture: 15% ‘stabilized/flat-up’ around 3.770 million, 60% ‘mild down’ around 3.625 million, 22% ‘deeper sell-queue’ around 3.515 million, and 3% at the lower clamp. This is intentionally left-skewed because stalled diplomacy and reopening sell pressure look more likely than a strong positive surprise, but it still leaves room for intervention and inflation-hedge buying to cushion the tape. (investing.com)
The weighted scenario mean is 3,615,690.8, so my central forecast is 3,615,691. That is about -2.65% versus the fresher 2026-05-06 TEDPIX level and about -0.99% versus the stale 3,652,000 Trading Economics anchor. If the first qualifying trading day is delayed beyond Tuesday, I would read that as a slightly more adverse signal for risk sentiment; that inference is one reason the CDF is broader on the left than on the right. (tgju.org)
As of May 16, 2026, Reuters, citing IRNA and SEO deputy supervisor Hamid Yari, reported that Iran’s stock market would reopen on Tuesday, May 19, and that all capital-market sectors would resume. I therefore treat May 19 as the base reopening date; because the question resolves on the first qualifying reopen if there is a last-minute delay, I handle that residual delay risk mainly as extra downside tail rather than as a different central estimate. (dawn.com)
For the level anchor, Trading Economics lists TEDPIX at 3652000 points on February 24, 2026, up 0.94% on the day, and also shows a January 2026 all-time high of 4481000. That means the market entered the suspension below its peak but still at a historically elevated nominal level; in my judgment, that combination matters because severe currency weakness can keep the nominal index from fully reflecting the deterioration in real fundamentals. Reuters reported on April 29 that the rial had already fallen to a record 1810000 per U.S. dollar. (tradingeconomics.com)
The best direct reopening analog I found is June 28, 2025: after a nine-day wartime closure, TEDPIX fell 62503 points, or 2.1%, to 2922101, with more than 99% of listed companies in negative territory. For the current episode, Iran International argues that reopening can create a heavy backlog of sell orders, that investors may treat the reopen as an exit opportunity, and that targeted liquidity injections and market-maker intervention can only manage, not remove, the shock. Reuters also reported on May 12 that the Iran ceasefire was “on life support,” which makes a risk-off reopen more likely than a relief rally. (iranintl.com)
I do not expect a full-scale collapse on the print. The World Bank says Iran’s Capital Market Stabilization Fund can intervene through direct asset trades and is backed by the SEO and the National Development Fund; Reuters’ May 16 report says the exchange closure was explicitly intended to prevent panic-driven trading and improve pricing conditions before reopening; and TSE’s December 2025 reform eliminated the base-volume mechanism, which should improve price discovery on the first day back. Those factors support some bid and some official cushioning, even if they do not eliminate downside pressure. (documents1.worldbank.org)
My point estimate is 3575100.0. That is about 2.11% below 3652000, very close to the 2025 wartime-reopen analog, but with a deliberately left-skewed distribution because the current geopolitical backdrop still looks worse than normal. In my mixture model, there is roughly a 35% chance of an orderly supported reopen near flat to -1%, a 40% chance of a standard stressed reopen around -2% to -3%, a 20% chance of a disorderly selloff around -4% to -6%, and a 5% chance of a support-driven relief day. That gives a median around 3577000, an approximate 80% interval of 3468000 to 3668000, about a 16% chance of finishing above the last tracked close, and a small point mass at the lower bound once the question’s clamp-to-range rule is applied. (tradingeconomics.com)
Official reporting on May 16, 2026 said Iran would reopen its stock market on Tuesday, May 19, after the wartime suspension. SEO official Hamid Yari said the closure had been meant to protect shareholders, prevent panic trading, and allow more transparent pricing; Reuters carried the same announcement via IRNA. (fnnews.com)
The last observed TEDPIX close before the shutdown was 3,652,000 on February 24, 2026. Trading Economics also says the index had already fallen 8.95% over the prior month, after reaching an all-time high of 4,481,000 in January 2026, and its macro model points to 3,359,840 by quarter-end. I do not use that quarter-end forecast directly for the day-one reopening print, but it is a useful downside anchor. (tradingeconomics.com)
The structure of the reopening argues for downside pressure, but probably not a pure crash. Iran International reported that during the planned phased reopening only companies not directly damaged by the war would resume at first, while some steel and petrochemical names could stay shut. Newsquawk separately summarized the SEO chair as saying reopening required minimum disclosure conditions, including at least half of listed companies being able to disclose information. That combination implies pent-up sell pressure, uneven index composition, and poorer-than-normal price discovery on the first session. (iranintl.com)
The macro backdrop is clearly negative. Reuters reported on April 29 that the rial fell to 1,810,000 per U.S. dollar, about 15% in two days, while Howden Re wrote that March war-risk premiums for Hormuz transits had jumped from roughly 0.10-0.125% of vessel value pre-conflict to 2-3%, with Middle East-Asia spot shipping rates nearly tripling. Those are the kind of shocks that hurt near-term earnings visibility and investor confidence. At the same time, rial weakness can support nominal equity prices in Iran because stocks can behave as a partial inflation hedge. (sg.finance.yahoo.com)
There is also a stabilizing counterforce. The World Bank notes that Iran injected IRR10 trillion from the National Development Fund into the Capital Market Stabilization Fund in 2023/24, and says the fund can intervene directly in the stock market; Tehran Times separately reported in August 2025 that stabilization and development funds would remain active to help balance the market. That makes a managed reopening with state support materially more likely than a free-fall. (documents1.worldbank.org)
One important caveat is that an accessible November 2025 Tehran Times report said ordinary stock price movements were then restricted to a daily range of positive or negative 3%, not 7%. If that rule was still in force on May 17, 2026, the question’s numeric clamp is much wider than the likely realized first-day move. Because I could not independently verify the exact active limit on the eve of reopening, I treat the true day-one distribution as concentrated well inside the asked range, with most mass between about 3.50 million and 3.70 million. (tehrantimes.com)
I therefore use a three-regime mixture as an explicit forecasting model: 45% probability of a managed but weak reopening centered on -1.2%; 35% probability of a more disorderly selloff centered on -3.2%; and 20% probability of a relief/inflation-hedge bounce centered on +1.0%. That produces a mean forecast of 3,598,680.8, with roughly a 78.9% chance of closing below the last pre-shutdown close of 3,652,000. In words: I expect a down day, but not an extreme gap to the clamp floor unless the authorities deliberately allow a much harsher reopening than the reporting above suggests. (tradingeconomics.com)