21 September – 27 Sep 2026

The week it navigated

10 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
• Tuesday — EUR ECB President Lagarde Speech
• Wednesday — USD EIA Crude Oil Stocks Change
• Thursday — CHF SNB Interest Rate Decision · CHF SNB News Conference · NOK Norges Bank Press Conference · USD Initial Jobless Claims · USD New Home Sales
• Friday — GBP BoE Governor Bailey Speech · USD Durable Goods Orders m/m

The trades it didn't take

Restraint is most of the job. 621 times this week a guard looked at an otherwise-valid entry and said no:

276×	made strategies wait after a stop-out before trading the same ground again
72×	refused trades that would have concentrated too much of the account in one currency
70×	declined new positions into the weekend gap
53×	skipped entries while a pair's spread was abnormally wide
50×	spread ceiling
23×	stood aside where a pair was busier than that strategy is set to trade
20×	held entries around scheduled high-impact releases
20×	held entries while trading was paused or at its overall position limit
8×	benched pairs that were on a losing streak
8×	shadow
8×	stopped a second strategy taking a bet another strategy already held
5×	kept the total amount at risk across open trades inside its budget
5×	withdrew waiting orders that would have deepened a currency already at its cap
2×	held back entries where a pair already had its allowed number of positions
1×	ack required

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

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

• 2.5.10 · Confirm your accounts from your phone (mobile)
• 0.9.483 · Confirm all your accounts from the app (desktop)
• 0.9.482 · A one-time confirmation for each trading account (desktop)
• 0.9.481 · Fibonacci levels in your own strategies (desktop)
• 0.9.480 · Clearer trade records (desktop)
• 0.9.479 · Build your own strategy from the chart (desktop)
• 0.9.478 · Stretch Fade holds its trades through high-impact news (desktop)
• 0.9.477 · Demo or live: reported reliably for the cTrader desktop app (desktop)
• 0.9.476 · Demo or live: reported reliably for cTrader Open API accounts (desktop)
• 0.9.475 · Chart chat: import a MetaTrader EA or a cTrader cBot (desktop)

…and 14 more.

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