31 August – 6 Sep 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 — CNY Manufacturing PMI · USD MNI Chicago Business Barometer
• Tuesday — EUR CPI y/y · USD S&P Global Manufacturing PMI · USD ISM Manufacturing PMI · USD ISM Manufacturing Prices Paid · USD JOLTS Job Openings
• Wednesday — NZD RBNZ Interest Rate Decision · USD ADP Nonfarm Employment Change · CAD BoC Interest Rate Decision · USD EIA Crude Oil Stocks Change
• Thursday — USD Initial Jobless Claims · USD S&P Global Services PMI · USD ISM Non-Manufacturing PMI · USD ISM Non-Manufacturing Prices Paid
• Friday — GBP BoE Governor Bailey Speech · USD Average Hourly Earnings m/m · USD Nonfarm Payrolls · USD Unemployment Rate

The trades it didn't take

Restraint is most of the job. 581 times this week a guard looked at an otherwise-valid entry and said no:

286×	spread ceiling
62×	held entries while trading was paused or at its overall position limit
57×	made strategies wait after a stop-out before trading the same ground again
46×	stopped a second strategy taking a bet another strategy already held
33×	kept the total amount at risk across open trades inside its budget
32×	benched pairs that were on a losing streak
24×	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
9×	refused trades that would have concentrated too much of the account in one currency
3×	withdrew waiting orders that would have deepened a currency already at its cap
3×	refused entries that would have stacked pairs that move together
2×	held entries where the broker had started rejecting orders
1×	small account guard
1×	size skipped
1×	held entries around scheduled high-impact releases

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

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

• 2.5.9 · Voice conversation: a tidier sheet (mobile)
• 2.5.8 · Your guide on every tab, a live voice conversation, and the cTrader account picker fixed (mobile)
• 0.9.393 · One voice, however many windows you have open (desktop)
• 0.9.392 · Voice: the guide no longer hears itself (desktop)
• 0.9.391 · Your guide can now drive the platform and work the chart with you (desktop)
• 0.9.390 · Hands-free by default, and your guide says good morning (desktop)
• 0.9.389 · Voice: the guide now waits for words, not noise (desktop)
• 0.9.388 · Hands-free: say your guide's name and it answers (desktop)
• 0.9.387 · Voice conversation: a tidier panel and clearer messages (desktop)
• 0.9.386 · Your guide, always on screen — and a live voice conversation behind it (desktop)

…and 33 more.

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