Volatility Desk workspace

VIX term structure (the curve) + Vol Surface + Vol Cone + Put/Call, with Central Bank speeches + Economic Calendar — the full volatility + macro-event desk

Use it when: When volatility itself is the trade, or when you need to know what an event is already priced to do.

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

• 1. Term structure first — the shape of the curve is the regime.
• 2. Vol surface and vol cone next: the cone tells you where current implied sits against its own history, which the surface alone does not.
• 3. Put/call for positioning, then the central bank and econ calendars for what the curve is bending around.

The tell: An inverted front month with nothing on the calendar is positioning. An inverted front month with a meeting in it is just the event being priced — and it collapses afterwards regardless of outcome.

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

• Central Bank
• Econ Calendar
• Opex
• Put Call Ratio
• Vol Cone
• Vol Surface
• Vol Term

Plus 1 dense sheet — wide tables that carry a whole complex in one upstream call rather than a wall of single-series tiles:

• pin Risk

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

• VIX Term Structure: Contango & Backwardation
• Volatility Skew: How to Read Equity Put Skew

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