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.
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type ticker, vessel, source, thesis or route
FinancialJuice: Iran's Supreme National Security Council: Based on the MOU with the US, no fees will be charged to ships transiting the Strait of Hormuz for...
02ForexLive · FinancialJuice
03Critical queue or chokepoint language is active. Open proof before trading the headline.
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.
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.
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.
Confirmed and developing items first, with timestamps, tier labels, source names and one-click routes into the working dashboard.
Source tiering, corroboration logic, contradiction handling and proof pages for the claims that matter.
What hit first, what confirmed, what contradicted, and how the relevant market behaved after the alert.
Brent, WTI, gold, DXY, defence, LNG and live price anchors beside geopolitical signals.
Corridor, vessel, aircraft and event-map context built for pinch, pan and fast mobile inspection.
One-hand triage for the queue: action required, proof, market relevance and saved state.
The desk had this eighty-eight seconds before mainstream coverage.
Open the DeskYour 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.
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.
Schedule personal briefings, route them by email or Discord, and keep critical alerts flowing to the surface you actually use when risk is active.
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.
Open the desk, catch the delta, route the briefing, replay the move, and tighten the thesis. That habit is the real product.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Install it, keep the desk synced, and let proof, replay, briefings, and thesis deltas compound between sessions.
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