10 August – 16 Aug 2026

The week it navigated

16 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.

• Tuesday — AUD RBA Interest Rate Decision · USD Existing Home Sales · JPY BoJ L Money Stock y/y
• Wednesday — USD CPI · USD CPI m/m · USD CPI y/y · USD Core CPI m/m · USD Core CPI n.s.a. m/m · USD EIA Crude Oil Stocks Change · USD 10-Year Note Auction
• Thursday — USD Initial Jobless Claims · USD PPI m/m · USD 30-Year Bond Auction
• Friday — USD Core Retail Sales m/m · USD Retail Sales m/m
• Sunday — JPY GDP q/q

The trades it didn't take

Restraint is most of the job. 519 times this week a guard looked at an otherwise-valid entry and said no:

201×	spread ceiling
128×	kept the total amount at risk across open trades inside its budget
94×	held entries while trading was paused or at its overall position limit
43×	refused trades that would have concentrated too much of the account in one currency
21×	made strategies wait after a stop-out before trading the same ground again
13×	stopped a second strategy taking a bet another strategy already held
8×	held entries around scheduled high-impact releases
6×	skipped entries while a pair's spread was abnormally wide
4×	withdrew waiting orders that would have deepened a currency already at its cap
1×	held back entries where a pair already had its allowed number of positions

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

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

• 2.5.4 · Daily Editorials on your phone (mobile)
• 0.9.301 · A hardening fix for the community centre (desktop)
• 0.9.300 · Measuring what your stops actually cost (desktop)
• 0.9.299 · SentryQ Daily Editorials (desktop)
• 0.9.298 · See what the options market is paying for movement (desktop)
• 0.9.297 · Switch cTrader accounts freely (desktop)
• 0.9.296 · A midnight accounting bug that dressed losses up as withdrawals (desktop)
• 0.9.295 · See the option expiries the market is watching (desktop)
• 0.9.294 · Pairs no longer vanish quietly from the Trading Desk (desktop)
• 0.9.293 · Every open trade now tells you where it sits against the data (desktop)

…and 19 more.

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