26 October – 1 Nov 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
29 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 — USD Durable Goods Orders m/m · USD CB Consumer Confidence Index · USD New Home Sales · EUR ECB President Lagarde Speech
- Wednesday — NZD RBNZ Interest Rate Decision · GBP Autumn Forecast Statement · CAD BoC Interest Rate Decision · USD EIA Crude Oil Stocks Change · USD Fed Interest Rate Decision · USD FOMC Press Conference
- Thursday — EUR Consumer Price Expectations · USD Core PCE Price Index m/m · USD Core PCE Price Index y/y · USD GDP Sales q/q · USD GDP q/q · USD Initial Jobless Claims · EUR ECB Deposit Facility Rate Decision · EUR ECB Interest Rate Decision · EUR ECB Monetary Policy Press Conference · EUR ECB President Lagarde Speech · JPY Tokyo CPI excl. Food and Energy y/y · JPY Retail Sales m/m
- Friday — JPY BoJ Interest Rate Decision · JPY Tokyo CPI excl. Food and Energy y/y · JPY Retail Sales m/m · JPY BoJ Press Conference · EUR GDP q/q · USD MNI Chicago Business Barometer
- Saturday — CNY Manufacturing PMI
The trades it didn't take
Restraint is most of the job. 2222 times this week a guard looked at an otherwise-valid entry and said no:
| 978× | shadow |
| 276× | held entries while trading was paused or at its overall position limit |
| 260× | skipped entries while a pair's spread was abnormally wide |
| 257× | spread ceiling |
| 108× | made strategies wait after a stop-out before trading the same ground again |
| 85× | held entries around scheduled high-impact releases |
| 61× | declined new positions into the weekend gap |
| 57× | refused trades that would have concentrated too much of the account in one currency |
| 44× | held back entries where a pair already had its allowed number of positions |
| 41× | stopped a second strategy taking a bet another strategy already held |
| 35× | stood aside where a pair was busier than that strategy is set to trade |
| 14× | stack full |
| 4× | withdrew waiting orders that would have deepened a currency already at its cap |
| 2× | 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
- 0.9.514 · Your trade record catches up after an interruption (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.