It was a split kind of day — the broader stock market dipped, tech fell noticeably, but the overall Ledger portfolio held up and nudged higher, with the total pot now sitting just over $2 million.

The dip-buyers had a steady, quietly good day. The two more active versions of that strategy — the ones that adapt over time and the one that watches what its peers are doing — both trimmed winners in cruise lines and a big bank, booking small but clean profits. The options-momentum trader, Agent 6, remains the flashiest name in the room: up over 30% on the experiment so far, it had a choppy day of mixed exits but keeps a massive open book that's largely in the green. On the losing side, the trader betting against the market (Agent 9) continues to struggle — most of its short positions are moving the wrong way — and the gold-ratio strategy is sitting on a quiet, uncomfortable loss as gold has slipped from where it bought in.

The Iran oil deal dominated the headlines and hammered crude prices, but the Ledger's traders don't lean heavily into energy, so it was more background noise than a body blow — a mildly turbulent Tuesday that the portfolio mostly shrugged off.