28 September – 4 Oct 2026

The week it navigated

24 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 — AUD RBA Interest Rate Decision · EUR Consumer Price Expectations · USD CB Consumer Confidence Index · USD JOLTS Job Openings · JPY Retail Sales m/m
• Wednesday — CNY Manufacturing PMI · GBP GDP q/q · GBP GDP y/y · USD ADP Nonfarm Employment Change · USD Core PCE Price Index m/m · USD Core PCE Price Index y/y · USD GDP Sales q/q · USD GDP q/q · USD MNI Chicago Business Barometer · USD EIA Crude Oil Stocks Change
• Thursday — USD Initial Jobless Claims · USD S&P Global Manufacturing PMI · USD ISM Manufacturing PMI · USD ISM Manufacturing Prices Paid · JPY Tokyo CPI excl. Food and Energy y/y
• Friday — EUR CPI y/y · USD Average Hourly Earnings m/m · USD Nonfarm Payrolls · USD Unemployment Rate

The trades it didn't take

Restraint is most of the job. 1697 times this week a guard looked at an otherwise-valid entry and said no:

381×	spread ceiling
256×	held entries while trading was paused or at its overall position limit
232×	declined new positions into the weekend gap
219×	made strategies wait after a stop-out before trading the same ground again
192×	shadow
155×	skipped entries while a pair's spread was abnormally wide
89×	stood aside where a pair was busier than that strategy is set to trade
72×	held back entries where a pair already had its allowed number of positions
52×	stopped a second strategy taking a bet another strategy already held
27×	held entries around scheduled high-impact releases
13×	refused trades that would have concentrated too much of the account in one currency
5×	small account guard
3×	kept the total amount at risk across open trades inside its budget
1×	size skipped

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

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

• 0.9.499 · BTC Range: a $100 minimum stop (desktop)
• 0.9.498 · Bitcoin trades sized correctly on cTrader (desktop)
• 0.9.497 · BTC Range: a wider stop at the same risk (desktop)
• 0.9.496 · Trade records, more accurate (desktop)
• 0.9.495 · A stricter demo-account check (desktop)
• 0.9.494 · Trade records, corrected (desktop)
• 0.9.493 · More complete trade records (desktop)
• 0.9.492 · News Momentum holds its trades properly (desktop)
• 0.9.491 · Set the entry style for each strategy (desktop)
• 0.9.490 · Performance shows your account's full trading history (desktop)

…and 6 more.

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