The jobs wall: JOLTS, unemployment, payrolls, participation, wages, hours, temp employment + jobless claims — every labor-market read tiled at once
The jobs wall: JOLTS, unemployment, payrolls, participation, wages, hours, temp employment + jobless claims — every labor-market read tiled at once
Use it when: Payrolls week, and any time you want to know whether the consumer can keep spending.
Payrolls lands the first Friday at 08:30 ET and is one of the two or three largest scheduled moves of the month for ES and NQ.
The reaction is to the rate path, not to employment. A strong print that pushes cuts further out can sell equities even though the economy just looked healthy - that inversion catches people every cycle.
Same mechanism, more of it. Watch the wage line as closely as the headline count.
Demand context only, and slow.
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.Ctrl+P, which finds it by name.show me payrolls.Add Panel menu.The tell: Falling openings with flat claims is a soft landing. Falling openings with rising claims is not.
1 panel, read straight from the preset definition in the desktop build:
Plus 3 dense sheets — wide tables that carry a whole complex in one upstream call rather than a wall of single-series tiles:
These desks assume the theory. If any of it is unfamiliar, the background reading is on the learn side: