Tech had a strong day — the Nasdaq-heavy index jumped about 2.5% — while the broader market was quietly positive and gold slipped a little.

The traders who wait for stocks to dip and then buy in had a good week to look back on: both the evolving and peer-aware versions of that strategy are sitting on gains above 6–7%, and today's rising tide helped many of their holdings drift higher. On the options side, Agent 6 — which bets on price momentum using options contracts — remains the standout of the whole experiment, now up nearly 24% overall with a wide spread of active positions. On the losing end, the gold strategy is quietly hurting: gold fell again today, and that agent is now down nearly 11% since it started, sitting in a single position that keeps moving the wrong way. The bearish traders — those betting stocks would fall — had another rough go of it as markets climbed.

For a Friday with some genuine geopolitical noise in the background, the portfolio held together well, and the overall experiment is now up about 1.7% from where it started.