Current Account workspace

External balance — current account, % of GDP, for the same economies as the debt + fiscal boards, row for row; the third leg of the sovereign trio, IMF WEO

Use it when: When a currency is under pressure and you want to know whether the problem is structural or a positioning squeeze.

Annual, revised, and never a trade on its own. It explains why a currency is fragile; the FX boards show you when.

• 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. Deficit countries first - they need foreign inflows every year just to stand still.
• 2. The same rows on the debt and fiscal boards, since the three together are the actual picture.
• 3. Surplus countries as the mirror: they export capital, and their currencies behave differently in a risk-off week.

The tell: A current-account deficit funded by portfolio flows rather than direct investment is the fragile combination. Direct investment does not leave in a week; portfolio money does.

This desk is built from dense sheet panels rather than individual tiles — see below.

Plus 1 dense sheet — wide tables that carry a whole complex in one upstream call rather than a wall of single-series tiles:

• Current Account / GDP

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