Notes are short. Two paragraphs, sometimes three. They show up when something on the screen warrants a sentence — a print that doesn’t match the narrative, a structure that’s been holding for longer than it should, a level that the order book keeps defending. Not a thesis. Not a recommendation. Just the observation, with enough context to be useful a week later.
If a note grows into something that needs charts, math, or a position frame, it gets promoted to Research. Most don’t. Most are the kind of thing that, in a previous era, would have been a one-line comment scribbled in the margin of a Bloomberg printout. The point of writing them down is to make them findable later — and to force the discipline of saying what’s actually happening, not what should be happening.
What notes are not: market recaps, news summaries, predictions, calls. Recaps live on News, which pulls Bloomberg’s morning print directly. Predictions don’t live here at all.