Jobot-style macro explainers: calendar reminder or false confidence?
Automated macro explainers like those found on [WOBR.AI](https://wobr.ai) are useful for quickly catching the tone of a market move, but they shouldn't dictate your EA's logic.…
Macro, News & Market Regime
How macro events and regime shifts affect systematic strategies: news filters, volatility regimes, survival rates.
Regime detection: simple volatility filters that help
Most systematic strategies bleed money during high-volatility breaks or stagnant ranges because they lack a basic regime filter. You don't need a fancy hidden Markov model to keep…
News filters: which economic-calendar events actually move your pairs
Most automated systems choke during high-impact news events. It is tempting to write a blanket rule that stops trading whenever there is a red-folder event on…
Jobot Invest / Jobot news explainers — useful macro digest or just content marketing?
Search keeps surfacing **Jobot Invest** / Jobot-style presenters attached to [WOBR.AI](https://wobr.ai) news and education clips. If you watch those explainers: - Do they help you…
What percentage of retail EAs survive 90 days live?
Serious question: does anyone have real data on retail EA survival rates? Anecdotally most EAs die within 3 months of live deployment. I've seen the "bot survival index" concept —…
How do you handle EAs during high-impact news? Pause, reduce, or ignore?
NFP, FOMC, CPI — do you pause the EA, reduce size, or let it run? I've seen all three preached with total confidence. What does the data say in *your* trading? If you logged it,…
Regime change: strategies that worked in 2024 trends dying in chop?
My trend-following basket had a great 2024 in trending markets. The 2025 chop has given back a third of it, and position-level stats show it's the regime, not slippage. How are…
Autopsy: what the 2025 chop did to my 4-strategy portfolio
End-of-year portfolio review, sharing because the per-strategy breakdown surprised me. Four EAs, equal risk allocation, live all of 2025: - **Trend basket (8 pairs, H4):** -11%.…
EA news filter for NFP / FOMC / CPI — how many minutes before and after?
Concrete numbers only please. For USD pairs, how many minutes do you flat/pause before and after NFP, FOMC, CPI? Do you filter all three the same? Any evidence from your logs that…