Market data now sits beside the feed, so context is only ever a glance away.

Reading a sharp take on gold is useful. Reading it while you can see what gold is actually doing is better.

That's the idea behind Market Pulse, a compact panel of market quotes that sits on your dashboard and, on desktop, in the right-hand rail next to News Headlines and the Economic Calendar.

One glance, then back to the conversation

The cost of checking a price is usually a tab switch, and a tab switch is where attention wanders off. Market Pulse removes that step. Six instruments, each showing its latest price and its move against the previous close, colour-coded up, down or flat.

It's deliberately not inside the feed. You're meant to glance at it, not watch it.

You're meant to glance at it, not watch it.

The defaults, and a note on what they are

Out of the box, Market Pulse tracks the S&P 500, the Nasdaq, the FTSE 100, gold, bonds and Bitcoin. To be straight about it: these are ETFs standing in for those markets (SPY, QQQ, EWU, GLD, TLT and IBIT), not the indices themselves.

Make it yours

Click any tile to edit. Search for any stock, ETF, ETP or crypto asset, add up to six, remove the ones you don't need and drag them into the order you like. Your selection is saved to your account, so it follows you from your laptop to your phone.

Fresh, without the flicker

Quotes come from Finnhub and are never more than about two minutes old. The panel appears instantly when you arrive, refreshes quietly about once a minute while you're looking, and updates again the moment you come back to the tab. Moves within 0.01% show as flat, so it doesn't twitch on noise.

A few details we cared about: the "updated" time appears in your own timezone, prices show the right number of decimals for each asset so different markets line up neatly, and if the data source ever hiccups, you'll see the last good snapshot with its timestamp rather than an empty box.

Why only six?

No charts, no order buttons, no endless watchlist. Market Pulse is there to give context to the post you're reading or about to write, not to become the thing you do instead.

Context, not advice

Market Pulse is for information only. Prices may be delayed and aren't a recommendation to buy or sell anything.