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](/).