24 August – 30 Aug 2026

The week it navigated

12 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 — USD CB Consumer Confidence Index · USD New Home Sales
• Wednesday — USD Core PCE Price Index m/m · USD Core PCE Price Index y/y · USD Durable Goods Orders m/m · USD GDP Sales q/q · USD GDP q/q · USD EIA Crude Oil Stocks Change
• Thursday — USD Initial Jobless Claims · JPY Tokyo CPI excl. Food and Energy y/y
• Friday — EUR Consumer Price Expectations
• Sunday — JPY Retail Sales m/m

The trades it didn't take

Restraint is most of the job. 826 times this week a guard looked at an otherwise-valid entry and said no:

444×	spread ceiling
184×	stopped a second strategy taking a bet another strategy already held
43×	skipped entries while a pair's spread was abnormally wide
39×	kept the total amount at risk across open trades inside its budget
37×	held entries while trading was paused or at its overall position limit
22×	size skipped
16×	refused trades that would have concentrated too much of the account in one currency
14×	held entries around scheduled high-impact releases
14×	made strategies wait after a stop-out before trading the same ground again
11×	benched pairs that were on a losing streak
1×	withdrew waiting orders that would have deepened a currency already at its cap
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

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

• 0.9.354 · The Machined desk, matched to its design (desktop)
• 0.9.353 · Machined looks like Machined again (desktop)
• 0.9.352 · Candles you can almost pick up, and two desks rebuilt (desktop)
• 0.9.351 · Sharper text, and each theme's chart in its own colours (desktop)
• 0.9.350 · A theme for every look — and a matching Trading Desk (desktop)
• 0.9.349 · The Trading Desk, finished to its reference board (desktop)
• 0.9.348 · Machined, finished to the reference boards (desktop)
• 0.9.347 · Machined returns, tuned to its reference boards (desktop)
• 0.9.346 · Aurora: glass, light and depth become the look (desktop)
• 0.9.345 · The Floating figure now counts your manual trades (desktop)

…and 25 more.

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