17 August – 23 Aug 2026

The week it navigated

5 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.

• Wednesday — EUR ECB President Lagarde Speech · EUR CPI y/y · USD EIA Crude Oil Stocks Change
• Thursday — USD Initial Jobless Claims · USD Philadelphia Fed Manufacturing Index

The trades it didn't take

Restraint is most of the job. 478 times this week a guard looked at an otherwise-valid entry and said no:

161×	spread ceiling
100×	stopped a second strategy taking a bet another strategy already held
81×	held entries while trading was paused or at its overall position limit
62×	kept the total amount at risk across open trades inside its budget
17×	made strategies wait after a stop-out before trading the same ground again
16×	refused trades that would have concentrated too much of the account in one currency
12×	stood aside where a pair was busier than that strategy is set to trade
12×	skipped entries while a pair's spread was abnormally wide
9×	benched pairs that were on a losing streak
6×	withdrew waiting orders that would have deepened a currency already at its cap
1×	held entries around scheduled high-impact releases
1×	refused entries that would have stacked pairs that move together

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

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

• 0.9.320 · The Research Desk now opens by telling you how the session opened (desktop)
• 0.9.319 · Reversal Capture only trades a quiet market now, and closed trades say why they closed (desktop)
• 0.9.318 · Spread-betting accounts now record what each trade paid in spread (desktop)
• 0.9.317 · When a trade is held back, the engine now records why (desktop)
• 0.9.316 · SentryQ Radio — the desk, out loud (desktop)
• 0.9.315 · Research probes no longer queue behind your main book (desktop)
• 0.9.314 · Why good on average can still ruin you (desktop)
• 0.9.313 · A closed market no longer counts against your broker (desktop)
• 0.9.312 · Recording what the news wire was saying when each trade opened (desktop)
• 0.9.311 · Bigger accounts stop being quietly under-traded (desktop)

…and 9 more.

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