NFP Day workspace

The jobs-Friday desk: the labor-market sheet leads with payrolls/unemployment/wages/JOLTS tabbed behind, weekly claims left over the calendar + surprise index, the chart under the hero, and the Treasury curve over the dollar board over the Gamma Stream right

Use it when: The first Friday, before 07:30 CT. Load it early - claims and the surprise index are the context you want in place before the print lands.

Jobs Friday is a rates event wearing a labour-market costume. The payroll number matters to index futures because of what it does to the curve, and wages matter more than the headline.

• 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 labour-market sheet first, with payrolls, unemployment, wages and JOLTS tabbed behind it. Read wages before the headline, whatever order they are announced in.
• 2. Weekly jobless claims on the left. Claims are the highest-frequency labour data there is - if they have been drifting for a month, a surprise payroll number is less of a surprise than it looks.
• 3. The calendar and surprise index underneath, for whether the data has been running hot or cold into this print.
• 4. The Treasury curve over the dollar board over the Gamma Stream on the right. Curve for the repricing, dollar for the confirmation, gamma for whether the index move gets damped or amplified.

The tell: A strong headline with soft wages and a weak headline with hot wages both happen, and they trade in opposite directions from what the first alert says. When those two disagree, the wage number wins.

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

• Chart
• FX Strength Meter (USD/EUR/...)
• Economic Calendar
• Economic Surprise Index (actual vs expected)
• Gamma Stream
• Jobless Claims (weekly initial + continuing)
• Yield Curve (UST 1M..30Y)

Plus 5 dense sheets — wide tables that carry a whole complex in one upstream call rather than a wall of single-series tiles:

• Hourly Earnings
• Labor Turnover
• Labor Market Table
• Nonfarm Payrolls
• Unemployment Rate

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.