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

The feed is a live news stream, de-duplicated and cut down to what moves the US rates and macro tape. Every item arrives with a subject bucket and a score for how much it moves the market. The slider reads that score, so you can leave the feed running as a firehose or push it up until only the movers are left.

Every story shows up once

The same story hits a dozen wires within seconds. Helious collapses those into a single item, so you read the headline once instead of twelve times and the feed is still legible when news is breaking fast. That de-duplication is also what makes the tabs and the impact filter worth anything, because both are sorting real stories rather than copies of one story.

The tabs

Tabs split the stream by subject so you can go straight to your lane. ALL is the whole feed, and every other tab is a slice of it. MOVING keeps the market-movers and nothing else. CB TALK is central-bank and Fed speak, GEO is geopolitics, BONDS covers rates and Treasury flow, DATA is economic releases, and CHATTER is the lower-signal color. An item's subject bucket is assigned once and never rewritten, so a headline never moves tabs on you. On a data morning that means working out of BONDS and DATA, then switching to CB TALK around FOMC.

The impact slider

Each item carries a score for how much it moves the market, and the slider sets the floor. Push it up and the feed thins out to the headlines that shift the curve. Pull it down and you get the full flow, which is what you want when you are reading for context. MOVING is that same filter with the floor already set for you. It is a fixed view of the market-movers and it is always on. The methodology page covers how impact and surprise get scored.

Which bucket an item lands in

Bucketing runs per item, not per source. A wire that mostly carries geopolitics can still file a bond-specific headline under BONDS. A junk gate keeps low-value items out of the working tabs, and once a subject bucket is assigned it is locked, so the stream stays stable. Releases in the DATA tab link straight through to the full breakdown, where you get the actual, the forecast and the prior plus the standardized surprise z-score. The bigger series have pages of their own, like CPI, core PCE and nonfarm payrolls.

Working the feed

Most of what you do here starts in the feed. An auction result, a Fed speaker or a data miss lands in it first, and from there you branch out to the auction panel, the rates board or the release breakdown for the depth. Pick a tab, set the impact floor, and what is left is the part you are working on. The feed runs live on the [desk](/).

FAQ

What do the feed tabs mean?

They split the stream by subject. ALL is the whole feed and every other tab is a slice of it. MOVING keeps 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 the lower-signal color.

What does the impact slider do?

Every item carries a score for how much it moves the market. The slider sets the minimum score an item needs before it shows up, so pushing it up leaves you with the genuine movers and pulling it down gives you the full flow for context.

How is the feed de-duplicated?

The same story crosses many wires within seconds, and Helious collapses those into a single item. You read the headline once instead of a dozen times, and the feed is still legible when news is breaking fast.

How is an item assigned to a bucket?

Per item, not per source, so a specific bond headline off a mostly-geopolitics wire still files under BONDS. Once the subject bucket is assigned it is locked, so items do not jump categories, and a junk gate keeps low-value items out.

How is the MOVING tab different from the impact slider?

They do the same job from two angles. The slider lets you set any impact floor on whichever tab you are in. MOVING is a fixed view of the market-movers and it is always on.

Can I read the full economic release from the feed?

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