27 July – 2 Aug 2026

The week it navigated

19 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.

• 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
• Thursday — EUR Consumer Price Expectations · GBP BoE Interest Rate Decision · USD Core PCE Price Index m/m · USD Core PCE Price Index y/y · USD GDP Sales q/q · USD GDP q/q · USD Initial Jobless Claims · GBP BoE Governor Bailey Speech
• Friday — JPY Tokyo CPI excl. Food and Energy y/y · JPY Retail Sales m/m · JPY BoJ Interest Rate Decision · JPY BoJ Press Conference · EUR CPI y/y · USD MNI Chicago Business Barometer

The trades it didn't take

Restraint is most of the job. 608 times this week a guard looked at an otherwise-valid entry and said no:

134×	held entries while trading was paused or at its overall position limit
113×	kept the total amount at risk across open trades inside its budget
79×	made strategies wait after a stop-out before trading the same ground again
72×	held entries where the broker had started rejecting orders
53×	held back entries where a pair already had its allowed number of positions
52×	refused trades that would have concentrated too much of the account in one currency
45×	stood aside where a pair was busier than that strategy is set to trade
21×	skipped entries while a pair's spread was abnormally wide
17×	stopped a second strategy taking a bet another strategy already held
10×	withdrew waiting orders that would have deepened a currency already at its cap
8×	held entries around scheduled high-impact releases
4×	benched pairs that were on a losing streak

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

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

• 2.5.2 · Your guide knows what time it is where you are (mobile)
• 0.9.197 · Trades land on the right day again (desktop)
• 0.9.196 · Your guide knows what time it is where you are (desktop)
• 2.5.1 · Right faces, and your guide within reach (mobile)
• 2.5.0 · Talk to your guide (mobile)
• 2.4.0 · Charts you can actually work with (mobile)
• 2.3.0 · No more signing in again, and the markets get their own tab (mobile)
• 0.9.195 · Fundamentals for the pair you are looking at (desktop)
• 0.9.194 · Taking money out is no longer mistaken for losing it (desktop)
• 0.9.193 · A clearer answer when an MT5 account is the wrong type (desktop)

…and 58 more.

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