FOMC Day workspace

The Fed-decision desk: the full US rates sheet leads, central-bank speeches + the regulatory wire left over the calendar, the chart under the hero, and the Treasury curve (curve spreads + effective funds rate tabbed) over the funding plumbing (SOFR/QT, net liquidity tabbed) over the Gamma Stream right

Use it when: Decision day, from the statement through the press conference. Also useful the morning after, when the curve has finished arguing with itself.

The decision is almost never the trade - it is priced weeks ahead in the funds futures. What moves index futures is the statement language and the curve's answer to it.

• 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 US rates sheet leads, with the effective funds rate tabbed behind it. Where policy actually IS, before anyone tells you where it is going.
• 2. Central-bank speeches and the regulatory wire on the left, over the calendar. The speech tape is what changes between meetings; the wire is where the plumbing decisions surface.
• 3. The Treasury curve and its spreads on the right, through the statement. This is the read - the front end prices the decision, the long end prices the belief.
• 4. Funding and net liquidity last, and only when the plumbing is the story: SOFR misbehaving or the balance sheet moving matters more to a tape than a twenty-five basis point decision does.

The tell: A decision that lands exactly as priced and still moves the curve means the STATEMENT changed something. That is the session worth trading; the decision itself usually is not.

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

• Central Bank Monitor (60+ banks · speeches)
• Chart
• Economic Calendar
• Funding & Repo Monitor (SOFR/SOMA/QT)
• Gamma Stream
• Net Liquidity (Fed B/S − TGA − RRP)
• Regulatory Wire (rules + filings + enforcement)
• Yield Curve (UST 1M..30Y)
• Yield Spreads (rolling)

Plus 2 dense sheets — wide tables that carry a whole complex in one upstream call rather than a wall of single-series tiles:

• Effective Federal Funds Rate (EFFR)
• Rates & Curve Table

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.