23 July – 29 Jul 2026

The week it navigated

10 high-impact scheduled events crossed the calendar this week. Around each one, entries were held in the guard window and exposed positions were secured before the print — the routine that runs whether or not anyone is watching.

• Thursday — EUR ECB Deposit Facility Rate Decision · EUR ECB Interest Rate Decision · USD Initial Jobless Claims · EUR ECB Monetary Policy Press Conference
• Friday — USD New Home Sales
• Monday — USD Durable Goods Orders m/m
• Tuesday — USD CB Consumer Confidence Index
• Wednesday — USD EIA Crude Oil Stocks Change · USD Fed Interest Rate Decision · USD FOMC Press Conference

The trades it didn't take

Restraint is most of the job. 186 times this week a guard looked at an otherwise-valid entry and said no:

41×	held back entries where a pair already had its allowed number of positions
39×	refused trades that would have concentrated too much of the account in one currency
36×	kept the total amount at risk across open trades inside its budget
18×	stood aside where a pair was busier than that strategy is set to trade
13×	held entries while trading was paused or at its overall position limit
11×	skipped entries while a pair's spread was abnormally wide
10×	made strategies wait after a stop-out before trading the same ground again
7×	benched pairs that were on a losing streak
6×	held entries where the broker had started rejecting orders
3×	held entries around scheduled high-impact releases
2×	stopped a second strategy taking a bet another strategy already held

Counts across the whole fleet. Every refusal is recorded and replayed later against what the market did, so the guards are priced rather than presumed — the method is written up in what our own risk guards actually cost.

What shipped

67 updates reached the desktop and mobile apps this week — automatic, small, and each with plain-English notes. The most recent:

• 0.9.175 · Your chart now covers the same stretch of market as your broker's (desktop)
• 0.9.174 · Pending orders now show on the chart, and the dealing controls move where you want them (desktop)
• 0.9.173 · The Trading Desk chart now reads like a dealing screen (desktop)
• 0.9.172 · Fixed: adding money to your account could close your open trades (desktop)
• 0.9.171 · The weekend guard is now two switches, and we've measured what each one costs (desktop)
• 0.9.170 · Two strategies retired — the library is seven, and every one of them earns its place (desktop)
• 0.9.169 · We published the wrong numbers for four strategies. Here are the right ones (desktop)
• 2.0.29 · Chart conversations, and an app that keeps up (mobile)
• 2.0.28 · Shared charts, and steadier conversations (mobile)
• 0.9.168 · An order that hasn't filled no longer blocks the pair (desktop)

…and 57 more.

Full plain-English notes for every release appear in the app the moment it updates.