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The Live Feed: Tabs, the Impact Slider, and How Items Get Bucketed

The feed is the spine of the desk: a real-time, de-duplicated news stream filtered for what actually moves the US rates and macro tape. Every item is bucketed by subject and scored for market impact, so you can dial the stream from firehose to just-the-movers in a slider. This page covers the tabs, the impact slider, and how items land in a bucket.

De-duplication first

The same story hits a dozen wires within seconds. Helious collapses those into a single item so you read a headline once, not twelve times, and the feed stays legible when news breaks fast. That dedup is what makes the impact filter and the buckets usable: you're filtering a clean stream, not a pile of repeats.

The tabs

The feed splits into subject tabs so you can go straight to your lane: ALL (everything), MOVING (the market-movers only), CB TALK (central-bank and Fed speak), GEO (geopolitics), BONDS (rates and Treasury flow), DATA (economic releases), and CHATTER (the lower-signal color). Every tab is a subset of ALL. An item's subject bucket is assigned once and never rewritten, so a headline doesn't jump categories on you. Use BONDS and DATA as your working tabs on a data morning and CB TALK around FOMC.

The impact slider

Each item is scored for how much it actually moves the market, and the impact slider filters the stream by that score. Slide it up to strip the feed down to genuine movers when you only want the stuff that shifts the curve; slide it down to see the full flow when you're grazing for context. The MOVING tab is the express version of the same idea: the market-moving subset, always on. For how impact and surprise are scored, see the methodology.

How items get bucketed

Bucketing is done per item, not per source, so a wire that mostly carries geopolitics still files a bond-specific headline under BONDS. A junk gate keeps low-value items out of the working tabs, and the subject bucket is locked once assigned so the stream stays stable. Economic releases in the DATA tab link straight through to their full breakdowns: actual vs forecast vs prior plus the standardized surprise z-score, and specific series have their own pages, like CPI, core PCE and nonfarm payrolls.

Working the feed

The feed is where the rest of the desk starts. An auction result, a Fed speaker, or a data miss shows up here first, then you branch to the auction panel, the rates board or the release breakdown for depth. Set your tab, set your impact floor, and let the stream do the triage. See it live on the [desk](/).

FAQ

What do the feed tabs mean?

They split the stream by subject: ALL is everything, MOVING is the market-movers only, CB TALK is central-bank and Fed speak, GEO is geopolitics, BONDS is rates and Treasury flow, DATA is economic releases, and CHATTER is lower-signal color. Every tab is a subset of ALL.

What does the impact slider do?

Every item is scored for how much it moves the market, and the slider filters the feed by that score. Slide it up to keep only genuine movers; slide it down to see the full flow for context.

How is the feed de-duplicated?

The same story crosses many wires within seconds; Helious collapses those into a single item so you read a headline once instead of a dozen times, which keeps the feed legible when news breaks fast.

How is an item assigned to a bucket?

Bucketing is per item, not per source, so a specific bond headline off a mostly-geopolitics wire still files under BONDS. The subject bucket is locked once assigned, so items don't jump categories, and a junk gate keeps low-value items out.

How is the MOVING tab different from the impact slider?

They're the same idea from two angles. The slider lets you set any impact floor on the current tab; MOVING is a dedicated always-on view of the market-moving subset.

Can I read the full economic release from the feed?

Yes. Items in the DATA tab link through to the full breakdown: actual vs forecast vs prior plus the standardized surprise z-score, and major series have their own data pages, such as CPI, core PCE and nonfarm payrolls.
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