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Energy, macro, sanctions, chips, shipping and conflict signals, cross-checked against market tape. 199 cited sources on a 120-second cycle. No single-source confirmation.

MAJOR SIGNALS · ACTION QUEUE

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Actionable means a ranked workflow: verify, price-check, hedge-check, or stand down. It is not an automatic trade recommendation.
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ID Terminal Guide toolbar / command line / function area
01 Active Panel loaded context
ID <GO> type ticker, vessel, source, thesis or route
Stop Go Market Search Panel
02 Functions decision surfaces
WIRE Critical wire confirmed and developing items, ranked by actionability
PROOF Receipts source tier, corroboration, contradiction and lag
TAPE Market read Brent, gold, DXY, LNG, defence and vol beside the claim
MAP Chokepoints vessels, aircraft, sanctions and corridor pressure
REPLAY Audit trail what moved first, what confirmed, what faded
BOOK My desk watchlist, thesis, unresolved claims and last read
199sources monitored120scycle · healthy60slead time target4critical / last hour58hormuz pressure2source min · before alert
DESK LOOP · LIVE RECEIPTSOpen working desk →
Single-source Telegram never becomes confirmed.Contradictions stay visible, not hidden.UTC timestamps are preserved.Market impact is evidence, not advice.
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Alert → proof → market tape → desk call No single-source confirmation
Desk Rules

Specific beats smooth. The desk shows receipts or it stays quiet.

01

Two-source threshold before confidence.

Telegram, state media, wires and OSINT do not carry the same weight. Single-source claims stay labelled until another source or market signal corroborates them.

02

Contradictions stay on screen.

If Tasnim denies what a US source says, that does not get hidden under a clean summary. It becomes a contested state with both receipts visible.

03

Market relevance is attached, not implied.

Brent, WTI, gold, DXY, defence names, LNG and corridor risk sit beside the headline. The desk records the impact trail without pretending to be investment advice.

Desk Modules

Working surfaces traders can keep open all session.

ALT 1

Critical Wire

Confirmed and developing items first, with timestamps, tier labels, source names and one-click routes into the working dashboard.

ALT 2

Source Proof

Source tiering, corroboration logic, contradiction handling and proof pages for the claims that matter.

ALT 3

Replay Tape

What hit first, what confirmed, what contradicted, and how the relevant market behaved after the alert.

ALT 4

Market Tape

Brent, WTI, gold, DXY, defence, LNG and live price anchors beside geopolitical signals.

ALT 5

Map Ops

Corridor, vessel, aircraft and event-map context built for pinch, pan and fast mobile inspection.

ALT 6

Mobile Critical

One-hand triage for the queue: action required, proof, market relevance and saved state.

Case File · 23 March 2026

Trump postpones Iran strikes. Brent moves 12% in ninety minutes.

11:05:32 GMT
FinancialJuice1st
"Trump: instructed to postpone all military strikes against Iran."
11:05:55 GMT
FinancialJuiceConfirmed
US and Iran have had "very good and productive conversations."
11:06:12 GMT
Intel DeskCritical
Critical alert fired. Portfolio impact flagged: LNG, SHEL, Brent direct exposure.
11:07:00 GMT
ForexLive+88s
Article published: "Big turn in markets as Trump delivers another TACO moment."
11:08:22 GMT
FinancialJuice+170s
Talks with Iran to continue through the week.
11:11:25 GMT
Wire Services+353s
Traders pare ECB and BoE rate expectations. Fewer than three hikes priced for 2026.
11:55:30 GMT
Tasnim (Iran)Contradicts
Iran denies talks. "There have been no talks, there are no talks. Psychological warfare."

The desk had this eighty-eight seconds before mainstream coverage.

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Operating Loop

The desk gets harder to replace once it becomes your workflow.

Resume where you left off. Step 01

Your watchlists, thesis notes, filters, layout, install preferences, and routing settings now follow the account. The desk feels continuous instead of resetting every time you switch devices.

Synced desk state · thesis deltas · persistent layout
Carry the desk in critical mode. Step 02

Install Intel Desk like an app, collapse into a high-signal mobile operating mode, and keep only the changes that matter when the story is moving faster than the trading day.

Installable PWA · mobile critical mode · one-hand triage
Push the desk outward before you forget to check it. Step 03

Schedule personal briefings, route them by email or Discord, and keep critical alerts flowing to the surface you actually use when risk is active.

Scheduled briefings · outbound routing · alert delivery
Audit the read with receipts. Step 04

Proof pages, replay archive, and scorecard turn the desk into something you can verify. You can see what hit first, what confirmed, and whether the workflow deserved trust.

Proof pages · replay archive · scorecard loop

Open the desk, catch the delta, route the briefing, replay the move, and tighten the thesis. That habit is the real product.

Architecture

What runs under the desk, no hand-waving.

SRC

199 named sources, tiered A/B/C/D.

Every feed has a NATO Admiralty-style reliability rating. Tier A (wire agencies, official gov) gets highest-confidence weight. Tier D (monitored, low reliability) is labelled but never drives a desk alert alone. Full list at /sources.

AIS

Real-time AIS vessel tracking via AISStream WebSocket.

Strait of Hormuz corridor monitoring with transit direction inference, floating storage detection, and OFAC SDN screening against the US Treasury sanctions list. Not a map widget — the desk computes a corridor pressure index from traffic volume, AIS gaps, and news cluster intensity.

MKT

Multi-source market data with cross-validation.

Yahoo Finance v7 quotes → v8 spark fallback → chart API → Twelve Data cross-check. Commodity prices are validated across providers; if sources disagree by >5%, the desk flags it and picks the consensus. Brent, WTI, gold, natgas, heating oil, silver, plus a customisable equity/FX watchlist.

SIG

Signal correlation, not just aggregation.

Feed items are cross-referenced against market tape. The desk tracks narrative velocity (how fast a story propagates across sources), detects when multiple independent sources report the same event, and attaches the market move that happened in the same window.

Known Limitations

What the desk does not do yet.

ACLED conflict events depend on upstream API availability.

When ACLED data is delayed, the conflict event layer on the map shows GDELT and FIRMS fire hotspot data instead. This is a known gap.

Market data is delayed, not real-time tick-by-tick.

Yahoo Finance quotes update on a 10-second poll. Finnhub streams are near-real-time for US equities. This is not a replacement for a Bloomberg Terminal's tick feed. It is fast enough for geopolitical event trading context.

Sentiment scoring is pattern-based, not ML.

Feed sentiment is keyword and source-weight derived, not a transformer model. It works for high-signal geopolitical events. It will miss nuance in ambiguous diplomatic language.

Single operator, early access, things break.

This is a one-person project in active development. Sources go stale, APIs change, upstream services go down. The /status page shows what is working right now. Bug reports welcome.

FAQ

Questions the desk actually gets.

No. Intel Desk is an intelligence aggregation tool. It surfaces publicly available information and scores it for sentiment. It does not provide financial advice, trading recommendations, or any form of regulated investment guidance. Always do your own research.

Feeds refresh every 120 seconds. Market data streams in real time via Finnhub. From a headline being published to appearing on the desk is typically inside the next source sweep, with direct squawk and streaming integrations faster where upstreams support it.

Yes. Add and remove tickers directly on the dashboard. US equities, London-listed stocks, European tickers, commodities, FX pairs and indices are all supported, and those watchlists now sync to your account so the same desk follows you across devices.

Traditional financial terminals are general-purpose. Intel Desk is purpose-built for conflict-driven energy and defence intelligence, with proof pages, replay archive, scorecard, thesis deltas, scheduled briefings, and mobile critical mode arranged as one operating loop instead of scattered tools.

Yes. Install Intel Desk as a PWA, switch into critical mode, and keep a tighter mobile surface for fast checks, alert triage, and briefing handoff when you are away from the main desk.

Built by an active energy and macro trader. The desk grew out of a personal workflow: tracking Iran, Hormuz shipping, IRGC signals, and OPEC-adjacent moves using twelve browser tabs. The methodology page documents how it works and why sources are tiered the way they are.

Keep a live desk on hand, not a tab you forget.

Install it, keep the desk synced, and let proof, replay, briefings, and thesis deltas compound between sessions.

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