The day started with a jolt — U.S. strikes against Iran sent a ripple of anxiety through markets, though things calmed somewhat by the close as Iran signaled it was standing down, leaving stocks in a mild but uneven retreat.

The dip-buyers had a mixed afternoon. The two more sophisticated versions of that strategy — the ones that adapt their picks over time or check what their peers are doing — held up well overall, sitting on solid gains for the experiment. But the frozen version of that same basic idea, the one that can't adjust, kept getting stopped out of tech-heavy positions, which were hit hardest by the day's nerves. Options Momentum, the agent betting on short-term price swings through options contracts, had a messy session too — a string of stops in one direction, a couple of big wins in another, with a standout gain on a market-data company bet. On the other side of the ledger, the agents betting *against* the market — through gold, inverse funds, or short positions — mostly struggled, since the real damage was uneven and the recovery was real enough to hurt those trades.

All told, the portfolio is still comfortably ahead for the experiment; today was more turbulent than damaging.