14 September – 20 Sep 2026

The week it navigated

15 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 — EUR ECB President Lagarde Speech
• Wednesday — GBP CPI y/y · USD Core Retail Sales m/m · USD Retail Sales m/m · USD EIA Crude Oil Stocks Change · EUR ECB President Lagarde Speech · USD Fed Interest Rate Decision · USD FOMC Press Conference
• Thursday — EUR CPI y/y · GBP BoE Interest Rate Decision · USD Initial Jobless Claims · USD Philadelphia Fed Manufacturing Index
• Friday — JPY BoJ Interest Rate Decision · JPY BoJ Press Conference · EUR ECB President Lagarde Speech

The trades it didn't take

Restraint is most of the job. 701 times this week a guard looked at an otherwise-valid entry and said no:

255×	spread ceiling
159×	made strategies wait after a stop-out before trading the same ground again
58×	stopped a second strategy taking a bet another strategy already held
55×	held entries while trading was paused or at its overall position limit
48×	stood aside where a pair was busier than that strategy is set to trade
46×	refused trades that would have concentrated too much of the account in one currency
42×	skipped entries while a pair's spread was abnormally wide
19×	kept the total amount at risk across open trades inside its budget
14×	benched pairs that were on a losing streak
4×	held entries around scheduled high-impact releases
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

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

• 0.9.460 · Bitcoin on cTrader: the readings now match the orders (desktop)
• 0.9.459 · Stretch Fade keeps its winners, and four record-keeping fixes (desktop)
• 0.9.458 · Click any link in the graph to see why it is there (desktop)
• 0.9.457 · A knowledge graph you can pull apart and read whole (desktop)
• 0.9.456 · A clearer globe, with the detail that appears as you zoom in (desktop)
• 0.9.455 · Orders appear at once, and the globe stops hiding what it has (desktop)
• 0.9.454 · Measuring the entry setting properly (desktop)
• 0.9.453 · The globe stops hiding the small countries (desktop)
• 0.9.452 · Listen to the place you are reading about (desktop)
• 0.9.451 · World: energy, money and the towns behind the news (desktop)

…and 13 more.

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