The CFIN Journal

Updates, milestones & research

A timeline of what we shipped, when, and to which part of CFIN — Iris, the website, the app and admin.

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Project Iris · 12 updates Website · 36 updates App · 20 updates Admin · 3 updates

October 2026

October 2026

7 updates Project Iris 7

Project Iris Milestone Every Project Iris update, 23 September to 4 October Twenty-one updates in twelve days, each listed at the moment it went live, with what changed for the trades Project Iris places. CFIN Team Oct 04, 2026 8 min read

Project Iris Research How we check every Iris change, before and after it goes live Eight steps from a rule to a live change, live alarms around the clock, and the two occasions it went wrong. CFIN Team Oct 04, 2026 6 min read

Project Iris New feature Entries and recovery legs: what changed in Project Iris When a trade may open, how deep a recovery ladder can go, four recovery fixes, and FX range trades redrawn. CFIN Team Oct 04, 2026 6 min read

Project Iris New feature Before major news: how Iris tightens step by step As a high-impact release approaches, stops tighten gradually. Several events at once tighten more, market opens count more lightly, and no trade is ever closed just because news is coming. CFIN Team Oct 02, 2026 5 min read

Project Iris New feature How a stop moves on a winning trade Break-even, trailing, why a brief spread spike is ignored, and why a break-even stop is never undone. CFIN Team Oct 02, 2026 6 min read

Project Iris New feature How Iris sizes a new trade: one allowance, three family shares Gold, indices and FX each have their own starting share of one daily allowance. A starting share, not a reservation, and smaller only when less is left. CFIN Team Oct 02, 2026 7 min read

Project Iris New feature The Iris Ring: your assistant's new face CFIN's in-app chat assistant now has a simple avatar built from our logo ring, the Iris Ring, shown only in chat and AI-assisted support replies. CFIN Team Oct 01, 2026 2 min read

September 2026

September 2026

5 updates Project Iris 5

Project Iris Research Recovery logic, explained simply When a position moves against it, Project Iris uses a structured recovery process — here's what that means in plain terms, without the specifics. CFIN Team Sep 21, 2026 2 min read

Project Iris Research Risk guard stages: how Project Iris manages exposure Project Iris includes a dedicated safety layer that enforces your account's risk limits independently of the trading decisions themselves. CFIN Team Sep 21, 2026 2 min read

Project Iris Research Inside Project Iris: how the engine thinks in stages A high-level look at how Project Iris approaches managing a trading account, described in stages rather than in technical detail. CFIN Team Sep 21, 2026 2 min read

Project Iris Weekly update Why we renamed our trading engine A closer look at why Project Green became Project Iris, and what stayed exactly the same. CFIN Team Sep 20, 2026 2 min read

Project Iris Milestone From Project Green to Project Iris: a new name for our engine CFIN's trading engine, previously known internally as Project Green, is now called Project Iris. Here's what the rename means. CFIN Team Sep 20, 2026 2 min read

July 2026

July 2026

2 updates Project Iris 2

Project Iris Research How Project Green reads market structure A plain-language look at how the Project Green engine reads market regime and clears a set of risk guards before it ever opens a trade. CFIN Research Jul 04, 2026 3 min read

Project Iris Milestone The Transition from Amber to Green: Why We Rebuilt the Execution Pipeline Why monolithic MQL5 code on MetaTrader 5 could no longer scale, and how decoupling execution into an asynchronous Python engine laid the groundwork for Project Iris. CFIN Core Architecture Jul 02, 2026 2 min read

June 2026

June 2026

1 update Project Iris 1

Project Iris Research From single-pair EA to multi-market portfolio: lessons from Project Amber What running correlated currency baskets taught us about hidden exposure, with a short example of how to see it, and what later engines kept from it. CFIN Quantitative Research Jun 20, 2026 3 min read

May 2026

May 2026

1 update Project Iris 1

Project Iris Milestone The Amber days: inside CFIN's original algorithmic foundation A short look back at Project Amber, CFIN's first MQL5 Expert Advisor: how it was built, what it checked on every tick, and what later engines kept from it. CFIN Engineering Team May 15, 2026 1 min read