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Energy, macro, sanctions, chips, shipping and conflict signals, cross-checked against market tape. 198 cited sources on a 120-second cycle. No single-source confirmation.

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MAJOR SIGNALS · ACTION QUEUE

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ACT 0VERIFY 1PRICE 1FADE 0
PRICE CHECKA direct kinetic exchange between Iran and Israel occurs within 14 days.1 Iran-Israel kinetic feed items in 24h. Top: "The IRGC Ground Force's Quds Headquarters announced the arrest of eight armed militants it said were linked to terrorist groups during a series of special..."Proof 43% thesis · 5 signals · 3 independent sources · window closes 19 AugMarket Gold +0.36%
Proof43Market80Speed70
BZ=FGC=F^VIX^GSPC
Confirms 1 Iran-Israel kinetic feed items in 24h. Top: "The IRGC Ground Force's Quds Headquarters announced the arrest of eight armed militants it said were linked to terrorist groups during a series of special..."Invalidates No tier-1 OSINT confirmed cross-border strike inside 14 days.Score 87 · highVERIFY BREAKHormuz tanker transit volume falls more than 20 percent over the next 7 days.Hormuz corridor pressure score 31 (n/a)Proof 38% thesis · 5 signals · 3 independent sources · window closes 12 AugMarket Gold +0.36%
Proof38Market80Speed70
BZ=FCL=FGC=F^VIX
Confirms Hormuz corridor pressure score 31 (n/a)Invalidates Hormuz corridor tanker count remains above the 7 day baseline.Score 87 · high
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Live 120s cycle 198 named source profiles 2 source minimum UTC desk clock
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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
198sources monitored120scycle · healthy60slead time target0critical / last hour33hormuz pressure2source min · before alert
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Brent / WTIBZ=FCL=FOpen →LNG / tankersNG=FOpen →Iran / GulfBZ=FGC=FOpen →Defence primesLMTRTXNOCOpen →Europe macro / rates^FTSE^GDAXI^TNXOpen →Sanctions / shippingBZ=FOpen →
Alert → proof → market tape → desk call No single-source confirmation
Proof up front · live scorecard · receipts
3open claims being graded live1closed outcomes on the ledger0%hit rate · 1 misses kept publicCase fileTrump postpones Iran strikes, Brent reverses 12 percent in 90 minutesFull source chain, corroboration gap, market receipt →
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.

Replay Archive · Reconstructed with receipts

Proof is published only when the receipt trail reconciles.

Source timestampIndependent confirmationMarket observation

STEP 01
Source receipt
First-seen time, source link and original publication context are retained.
STEP 02
Verification chain
Independent confirmations and contradictions remain attached to the same event record.
STEP 03
Market receipt
The market observation, time window and any missing data are explicit before a case file is published.

One case file is published with its misses, contradictions and market receipt. More tapes open as their evidence clears.

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Headlines tracked · 24h
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across 198 curated sources
Critical alerts · 24h
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flagged by the desk
Brent Crude · live
$79.64
+0.24%
Gold · live
$4320.70
+0.36%
Desk snapshot Updated UTC
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 and the live scorecard make the desk inspectable. One public replay is promoted now; each additional tape opens only when source timing, confirmation and market observations reconcile.

Proof pages · live scorecard · reconciled replay archive

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

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Architecture

What runs under the desk, no hand-waving.

SRC

198 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

Provider-dependent AIS vessel context via AISStream WebSocket.

Strait of Hormuz corridor monitoring when vessels broadcast, 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.

Provider-dependent quotes are cross-checked where a licensed provider is configured. Commodity prices are validated across available observations; if sources disagree by >5%, the desk flags the discrepancy rather than presenting false precision. 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.

Market quotes are provider-dependent and their freshness is shown beside the observation. This is not a replacement for a Bloomberg Terminal's tick feed or an execution-grade price service; it is context for geopolitical event trading.

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 freshness depends on the provider and is shown in the desk. A headline is normally assessed on the next successful source sweep; upstream availability and processing can add delay.

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, a live scorecard, thesis deltas, scheduled briefings, and mobile critical mode arranged as one operating loop instead of scattered tools. Public replays open only after their receipts reconcile, so the archive cannot imply evidence that has not cleared review.

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.

Coverage

While you were sleeping, we were watching.

198 cited sources across two live theatres, swept every 120 seconds. Every signal scored, corroborated and time-stamped before it reaches your screen.

Theatre 01

Russia & Ukraine

Bosphorus corridor · Black Sea + Russian naval traffic
Kyiv Independent Ukraine General Staff DeepState Rybar Russia MoD TASS Meduza Moscow Times Ukraine Weapons Tracker

Moves: NatGas · Gold · EUR/USD · DXY · Defence primes (LMT, RTX, BA.L)

Theatre 02

Iran & the Gulf

Hormuz · Bab el-Mandeb · Suez chokepoint monitors
Tasnim News Fars News Press TV IRNA Iran International Times of Israel Al Jazeera

Moves: Brent · WTI · LNG flows · Gold · Tanker rates

Wire Services

Reuters force-posture wire, AP News, BBC and Guardian desks feeding both theatres on one tape.

Financial Squawk & Research

FinancialJuice real-time squawk beside Seeking Alpha energy and commodities research and EIA daily data.

OSINT & Telegram

Frontline Telegram channels scraped and auto-translated in real time, tiered on the NATO Admiralty scale before they score.

Reads in-region English Arabic Farsi Russian Ukrainian Turkish Built to be read from inside the regions it covers: Kyiv, the Baltics, the Gulf, and every desk in between.
198 cited sources on one desk
24/7 monitoring on a 120-second sweep
2× source confirmation before confidence
60s critical alert lead-time target
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