It was a volatile day in the market overall, but stocks finished solidly higher — the kind of session where the headlines were alarming and the closing prices somehow weren't.

The dip-buyers had a good day. The two stronger versions of that strategy — the ones that have been quietly adapting and learning from each other — both hit profit targets on the same stock, CarMax and TJX, collecting small but clean wins. Their frozen sibling, running the same basic idea but locked into its original settings, clipped losses on Meta and Oracle without much to show for it. The options trader, Agent 6, remains the portfolio's flashiest performer despite a messy day of stops firing in all directions — it's still up over a third since the start. On the losing side, the traders betting *against* the market had a rough one: stocks rising meant the inverse funds they were holding quietly bled, and the gold-ratio strategy is sitting on a painful unrealized loss as gold dipped despite the chaos.

The day's wild card was the US-Iran situation — strikes threatened, then called off, then a truce announced — which whipsawed oil and rattled nerves without ultimately derailing the broader rally.