CPI Day workspace

The inflation-print desk: the CPI components sheet leads with supercore/food/energy tabbed behind, realized-vs-target inflation + market breakevens left over the calendar + surprise index, the chart under the hero, and the Treasury curve over the Gamma Stream ladder right — how the print reprices rates and dealer gamma

Use it when: CPI morning. Load it before the release, not after: half of this desk is about what the market had already priced.

An inflation print moves the front of the curve, and the front of the curve is the discount rate under every index future. That is the whole transmission - the print does not move ES, the repricing does.

• Presets in the menu bar, under the category this desk belongs to — one click applies the whole layout, and a checkmark tracks which one is active.
• Or the command palette on Ctrl+P, which finds it by name.
• Every panel can be re-pointed at another symbol from its own header, and anything the desk does not open is in the Add Panel menu.

• 1. The CPI components sheet first. Headline is the number everyone trades; core is the number the Fed trades. Supercore, food and energy are tabbed behind it for which part of the print did the work.
• 2. Breakevens and the 5Y/5Y forward on the left, BEFORE the print - that is what was already priced, and it is what the surprise gets measured against.
• 3. The calendar and surprise index under them: whether this print continues a run of beats or breaks one. A single surprise is noise; the third one in a row is a trend the Fed reads too.
• 4. The Treasury curve over the Gamma Stream on the right, after the print. The curve tells you the repricing, the gamma ladder tells you whether dealer positioning will damp it or amplify it.

The tell: The move is in the gap between the print and what breakevens had priced, not in the print. An in-line CPI into a market positioned for a miss is a bigger move than a beat everybody saw coming.

8 panels, read straight from the preset definition in the desktop build:

• Central Bank Monitor (60+ banks · speeches)
• Chart
• Economic Calendar
• Economic Surprise Index (actual vs expected)
• Gamma Stream
• Inflation Monitor (CPI/PCE/PPI YoY vs 2% target)
• TIPS Breakeven & Real Yield (inflation-implied)
• Yield Curve (UST 1M..30Y)

Plus 6 dense sheets — wide tables that carry a whole complex in one upstream call rather than a wall of single-series tiles:

• 5Y Inflation Breakeven
• Energy CPI
• Food CPI
• 5Y/5Y Forward Inflation Expectations
• CPI Components
• Supercore Services CPI

These desks assume the theory. If any of it is unfamiliar, the background reading is on the learn side:

• What actually moves ES and NQ

• All workspace presets — how docking, link groups and saved layouts work.
• Panel reference — what each panel shows, column by column.