The market mostly stood still today — the big indexes ended roughly flat, though smaller stocks edged up and oil jumped on fresh tensions in the Middle East.

Among the traders, the options momentum agent (Agent 6) had another solid day, booking wins on a handful of positions while cutting losses on others — it remains the portfolio's biggest earner overall, up more than 27% since the start. The dip-buyers who've been adapting their approach (Agents 5 and 8) continue to quietly build gains, sitting on healthy unrealized profits across a wide basket of stocks. On the other side, the agents betting against the market — including the one holding inverse tech funds and the one positioned for a market drop — kept losing ground as stocks refused to fall. Agent 11 took a painful hit today, with a single position in a fast-food stock going badly wrong and wiping out most of its gains.

Overall the portfolio sits comfortably in the green for the experiment, and today was more about small cuts and quiet progress than any dramatic moves.