2 November – 8 Nov 2026

The week it navigated

20 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 ISM Manufacturing PMI · USD ISM Manufacturing Prices Paid
• Tuesday — AUD RBA Interest Rate Decision · USD JOLTS Job Openings · NZD Employment Change q/q
• Wednesday — NZD Employment Change q/q · EUR CPI y/y · USD ADP Nonfarm Employment Change · USD S&P Global Services PMI · USD ISM Non-Manufacturing PMI · USD ISM Non-Manufacturing Prices Paid · USD EIA Crude Oil Stocks Change
• Thursday — GBP BoE Interest Rate Decision · USD Initial Jobless Claims · GBP BoE Governor Bailey Speech · CAD BoC Governor Macklem Speech · EUR ECB President Lagarde Speech
• Friday — USD Average Hourly Earnings m/m · USD Nonfarm Payrolls · USD Unemployment Rate

The trades it didn't take

Restraint is most of the job. 2436 times this week a guard looked at an otherwise-valid entry and said no:

1029×	shadow
363×	held entries while trading was paused or at its overall position limit
278×	declined new positions into the weekend gap
195×	skipped entries while a pair's spread was abnormally wide
178×	spread ceiling
84×	stopped a second strategy taking a bet another strategy already held
77×	made strategies wait after a stop-out before trading the same ground again
54×	held entries around scheduled high-impact releases
49×	refused trades that would have concentrated too much of the account in one currency
44×	stood aside where a pair was busier than that strategy is set to trade
32×	small account guard
22×	kept the total amount at risk across open trades inside its budget
12×	held back entries where a pair already had its allowed number of positions
8×	size skipped
6×	withdrew waiting orders that would have deepened a currency already at its cap
3×	event spike guard
2×	lot size unknown

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

• 0.9.518 · A new Risk tab: where your open positions' risk sits (desktop)
• 0.9.517 · EMA Scanner V4 now trades without the platform's other limits (desktop)
• 0.9.516 · EMA Scanner V4 is no longer held back by the exposure limits (desktop)
• 0.9.515 · New: EMA Scanner V4, switched on for every account (desktop)

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