5 October – 11 Oct 2026
A weekly note about the work, not the winnings: the events the platform navigated, the trades it chose not to take and why, and what improved. Performance belongs on the strategy pages, measured properly — this page is about the assistant doing its job.
The week it navigated
8 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 — USD S&P Global Services PMI · USD ISM Non-Manufacturing PMI · USD ISM Non-Manufacturing Prices Paid
- Wednesday — USD EIA Crude Oil Stocks Change · USD 10-Year Note Auction
- Thursday — GBP BoE Governor Bailey Speech · USD Initial Jobless Claims · USD 30-Year Bond Auction
The trades it didn't take
Restraint is most of the job. 917 times this week a guard looked at an otherwise-valid entry and said no:
| 247× | declined new positions into the weekend gap |
| 208× | shadow |
| 122× | made strategies wait after a stop-out before trading the same ground again |
| 96× | stopped a second strategy taking a bet another strategy already held |
| 75× | skipped entries while a pair's spread was abnormally wide |
| 74× | held entries while trading was paused or at its overall position limit |
| 29× | held entries around scheduled high-impact releases |
| 28× | stood aside where a pair was busier than that strategy is set to trade |
| 27× | spread ceiling |
| 5× | refused trades that would have concentrated too much of the account in one currency |
| 3× | held back entries where a pair already had its allowed number of positions |
| 2× | event spike guard |
| 1× | small account guard |
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
- 0.9.505 · Weak strategies move to shadow on their own; every strategy has an entry setting (desktop)
- 0.9.504 · A guardian halt now holds for 24 hours; adaptive sizing steps back up more slowly (desktop)
- 0.9.503 · Adaptive sizing: strategies trade smaller after a run of losses, and recover (desktop)
- 0.9.502 · Economic calendar results arrive in full again (desktop)
- 0.9.501 · Today's closed profit is now counted on the day it was banked (desktop)
- 2.5.11 · Turning a strategy off: you choose what happens to its open trades (mobile)
- 0.9.500 · Turning a strategy off: you choose what happens to its open trades (desktop)
Full plain-English notes for every release appear in the app the moment it updates.
SentryQ is built to be an assistant, not a slot machine — observant, restrained, and improving in the open. This page is generated each Monday from the platform's own records: activity counts, calendar entries and release titles. Nothing here is a performance claim, a forecast, or advice.