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2026-09-24
After a priced hike, path risk is the real automation problemThe September FOMC cleared one binary. Flash PMI and hawkish Fed speak then reopened the October path, pushing the 10-year to multi-decade highs while front-end equity vol stayed cheap.
2026-09-16
FOMC week is a session-risk test for automated tradingHot August inflation data, higher rate-hike pricing, and heavier equity-vol hedging made this week a reminder that event risk is also an operations problem.
2026-09-07
Policy is a price, and correlated algos are this week's real riskA week when Fed hike odds repriced in minutes, a CFTC official warned that safeguards lag autonomous markets, and new research showed more capable LLM traders can herd.
2026-08-25
Automating TradingView alerts into MT5 without the usual glue stackHow webhook-driven automation fits algo trading workflows, what usually breaks, and how a cloud sync path differs from local EA-only setups.
2026-08-18
Same-login loops and mirror handoff — the boring bugs that break copy automationWhy Same-Login guards and Mirror Ownership leases exist in cloud MT5 copy trading, and how to operate multi-terminal setups without feedback loops.
2026-08-11
Proportional lots vs fixed lots when automating multi-account riskA practical comparison of fixed and proportional lot modes for automated MT5 copy trading — with a free calculator for the balance-ratio case.