What is "Today on the desk"?
A strip at the top of the desk checking every kept study's condition against the newest session its dataset holds, and listing the ones that are firing right now.
It is the one part of this page that is about today rather than about history.
The strip counts, on its right: how many kept conditions are firing, how many are quiet, and how many are unevaluable. Under it, one row per firing study — the instrument, the study's name, its grade, and its banked rates: the signal rate against the baseline, and the gap between them.
Read those rates correctly. They are the study's history, not a prediction. The strip is saying "this condition is true on the latest close, and here is what has happened after it before" — nothing more.
Two honesty markers to watch for:
- as of <date>, in grey, on a dataset that cannot refresh itself. The signal is about that date's close, which is only as current as the last sync.
- as of <date>, in amber, on a dataset that should refresh itself and has fallen behind. That one is a warning that something is wrong.
The strip only exists once you have kept a study that it can read. Before that it takes up no space at all. And when nothing fires it says so as a finding — but only once every dataset has finished loading, because "nothing fires" stated while it is still reading would be a claim it has not finished checking.
The same strip appears on the Dashboard, where it rides the notification carousel.
