Geopolitical stress layers
Operational map
The page is ordered by practical sensitivity. Oil and broader stress layers are placed above FX and metals,
because the first operational question in a shock is usually whether energy, volatility, logistics, and credit have started to move.
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Energy
Spot-style live oil board, official Brent and WTI spot charts, and Brent-WTI spread.
Volatility
VIX as the direct fear gauge when tension becomes broad market stress.
Logistics
Baltic Dry Index as the freight and real-economy transmission layer.
Credit
High-yield spread and Treasury yields as systemic and risk-off confirmation.
FX and metals
Exchange rates and precious metals remain below because they are confirmatory layers here.
Official public Brent and WTI spot charts retained
Gold/silver comparison popup suppressor added
True physical spot still tends to be public only as delayed or daily data
Embeds replace blocked raw cross-origin fetches
Oil spot reality check
Highest-priority layer
This section tries to show spot crude in the most reliable browser-safe way available in a single HTML page:
fast spot-style references for immediate movement, official daily Brent and WTI spot series for public confirmation,
and the Brent-minus-WTI spread for geopolitical premium.
Official Brent spot (daily)
Public daily Brent spot series from EIA via FRED.
Official WTI spot (daily)
Public daily WTI spot series from EIA via FRED.
How to read this oil block
Fast screen
The live board is for quick directional movement and intraday monitoring.
Official public spot
The Brent and WTI charts are the public spot confirmation layer, useful when headlines claim spot is outrunning futures.
Practical limitation
True physical spot is rarely exposed as a fully live, browser-readable public feed. In a backend-free page, official public spot is normally daily or delayed.
Broader stress cross-checks
Mixed sources
This block enriches the page beyond TradingView: VIX, broad dollar, Treasury yields, and high-yield spread from FRED;
Baltic Dry Index from TradingView; Bitcoin from CoinGecko.
VIX
Equity fear and near-term volatility expectations.
Broad dollar index
Trade-weighted broad U.S. dollar index outside the main FX board.
High-yield spread
Credit stress and financial transmission risk.
U.S. 10Y yield
Long-end Treasury safety demand and macro repricing.
U.S. 2Y yield
Front-end policy sensitivity and risk repricing.
Reading guide
Early tension
Oil rises first, especially Brent and seaborne barrels.
Risk-off confirmation
Gold rises, the dollar strengthens, and yields can fall as safety demand increases.
Crisis phase
VIX spikes, credit spreads widen, and freight indicators matter more because the shock is moving into the real economy.
Exchange-rate pressure board
Placed lower by design
Broad USD index remains out of this section. The main FX board stays focused on USD/KRW, USD/CNY, and USD/JPY,
and it is intentionally placed below oil and broader stress signals.
Gold: spot, China, and New York
FX-adjusted comparison retained
The left panel keeps the raw context. The right panel keeps the FX-adjusted New York-minus-China view.
A best-effort page-side dismissor is installed for the specific TradingView notice that sometimes appears on this panel.
Silver: spot, China, and New York
FX-adjusted comparison retained
The silver panel applies the same logic: New York silver is compared against the China leg only after converting the China quotation into USD.
The same best-effort page-side dismissor is installed here as well.