Inflation workspace

CPI on one sheet, headline to the components: food, energy, shelter, core goods and services, transport, education + recreation — the full BLS breakdown

Use it when: CPI day, or whenever the headline number and the market reaction disagree.

CPI is a scheduled volatility event for both index futures - 08:30 ET - and the reaction is never to the headline. It is to what the print does to the expected path of rates.

• Preset strip under the menu bar — one click applies the whole layout. A checkmark tracks which preset is active.
• Or ask for it: show me the inflation.
• Every panel can be re-pointed at another symbol from its own header, and anything missing is one add <name> away.

• 1. Headline first, then core, then the split between goods and services.
• 2. Shelter on its own — it lags and it dominates the core services print.
• 3. Transport, education and recreation last; they are where surprises actually come from.

The tell: Headline cooling on energy with core services still firm is the version that does not change policy. That distinction is the whole sheet.

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:

• inflation Board

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.