19 October – 25 Oct 2026

The week it navigated

6 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 GDP y/y
• Wednesday — GBP CPI y/y · GBP BoE Governor Bailey Speech · USD EIA Crude Oil Stocks Change · EUR ECB President Lagarde Speech
• Thursday — USD Initial Jobless Claims

The trades it didn't take

Restraint is most of the job. 2418 times this week a guard looked at an otherwise-valid entry and said no:

790×	shadow
496×	held entries while trading was paused or at its overall position limit
267×	spread ceiling
252×	declined new positions into the weekend gap
173×	skipped entries while a pair's spread was abnormally wide
171×	made strategies wait after a stop-out before trading the same ground again
85×	stopped a second strategy taking a bet another strategy already held
68×	held back entries where a pair already had its allowed number of positions
46×	held entries around scheduled high-impact releases
24×	stood aside where a pair was busier than that strategy is set to trade
24×	stack full
11×	held entries where the broker had started rejecting orders
7×	kept the total amount at risk across open trades inside its budget
4×	event spike 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

• 0.9.513 · New, experimental: ETH, XRP, ADA and BCH Range (desktop)
• 0.9.512 · Security update (desktop)
• 0.9.511 · Security update (desktop)
• 0.9.510 · Runs on .NET 10 (desktop)
• 0.9.509 · A clearer record of strategy changes (desktop)

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