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Event risk guard

Builds a blackout window around high-impact releases the user supplies (CPI, FOMC, NFP, EIA crude inventories) and gives a go, reduce, or stand-aside call for each planned trade. Use when the user asks whether a trade sits on an economic release. Advisory only. It does not place trades.

Turn a calendar the user already has into a blackout table, then call each planned trade. This is advisory. It does not place, modify, or close a trade, and it is not investment advice.

Steps

  1. Take the calendar from the user. Required columns are name and release_utc. impact and symbols may be blank. If the minutes before and after the release are missing, ask. Do not invent a window or a release time.
  2. Run python3 scripts/blackout_table.py on that file with --before and --after. The fixture is assets/sample.csv, and it is not a live calendar.
  3. Treat a row as high-impact when the script prints watched=yes. That flag is on for CPI, FOMC, NFP, and EIA crude inventories, and for any row the user marked high. A watched=no row stays in the table and does not drive a call.
  4. For each planned trade, compare the entry time with the watched blackouts whose symbols include that trade. USD covers pairs and dollar products the user said are dollar trades. crude covers the oil symbols they named. If symbols is not stated, do not guess the market.
  5. Call the trade. Stand-aside when the entry time is inside a matching watched blackout, or when the symbols were not stated. Reduce when the entry is outside every matching blackout but the user did not name a stop. Go only when the entry is outside every matching blackout and a stop is named. Check the call against the printed start and end. Do not send an order.

Example

User: Use assets/sample.csv with 15 minutes before and 15 after. Planned trade: buy EURUSD at 2026-11-13T13:20:00Z with a stop. Do not send an order.

Agent: The script prints rows=5. CPI is watched, blackout 2026-11-13T13:15:00Z to 2026-11-13T13:45:00Z, symbols USD. The EURUSD entry sits inside that window. Call: stand-aside. Consumer confidence is watched=no and does not change the call. No order is sent.

Boundaries

Do not fetch a calendar, invent a release, or widen a window the user set. Do not turn a go call into an order. A go call is not a forecast.

References

News blackouts are the same idea as the news line on prop-firm-rule-check: a time the user already decided not to trade. This skill builds the window table. It does not look up a firm's current rule.

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