Risk Monitor workspace

The risk-on/risk-off board: a vol-curve hero with positioning, rates + credit left, breadth + sector + FX leadership right, and stress + recession composite gauges below — read the regime at a glance

Use it when: Start of the week, or any morning the tape has changed character and you want to know whether it is risk-on before you size anything.

This is the desk that answers whether to be long index futures at all, and whether ES or NQ is the better way to express it.

• 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 risk monitor.
• Every panel can be re-pointed at another symbol from its own header, and anything missing is one add <name> away.

• 1. Sector rotation first — is the top half of the one-month ranking cyclical or defensive? That single read is the regime.
• 2. Vol term structure next. Contango is the resting state; an inverted front month says the market is paying for protection right now.
• 3. Put/call for confirmation, then the stress and recession gauges for whether this is positioning or something structural.

The tell: Cyclicals leading with the curve in contango is a healthy tape. Defensives leading with the front month bid is the pair you actually care about — it usually shows up before the index does.

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

• Currency Strength
• Financial Stress
• Market Internals
• Put Call Ratio
• Recession
• Sector Rotation
• Vol Term

Plus 6 dense sheets — wide tables that carry a whole complex in one upstream call rather than a wall of single-series tiles:

• auctions Table
• fund Leverage Table
• liquidity Table
• positioning Table
• rates Table
• stress Table

These desks assume the theory. If any of it is unfamiliar, the background reading is on the learn side:

• The economic cycle wheel: how sector leadership rotates
• ETFs for the economic cycle: the full sector map

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