Tech stocks had a good day — the kind where the big growth names quietly marched higher while most everything else sat still or slipped a little.

The traders who buy into dips and wait patiently had another solid showing. The two more sophisticated dip-buyers are now up 8–9% for the experiment overall, and their holdings in industrials, healthcare, and tech kept drifting in the right direction. The options momentum trader — Agent 6, who bets on short-term price surges using options contracts — is still the portfolio's star at up 25%, though today brought a wave of positions being closed out, many at small losses, as its automatic stop-losses fired across a wide range of names. Meanwhile, the strategies built around caution or pessimism continued to struggle. The gold-ratio trader is sitting on a painful 15% loss as gold drifted sideways, and the agent that bets against the market using inverse funds took two more hits today and is down 12% overall.

It was a reasonably good day for the portfolio as a whole — nearly a full percent gained — but the quiet gains masked a lot of churn underneath, and the experiment's weaker strategies are falling further behind.