Despite a lot of noise in the world — escalating tensions in the Middle East and fresh trade friction with Canada — the stock market had a genuinely good day, with tech stocks in particular bouncing back strongly.

The dip-buyers were the clearest winners. Both versions of that strategy are now sitting comfortably above where they started, and today they locked in some tidy gains — Home Depot hit their target price in two separate portfolios. The agent that chases stocks near their 52-week highs also had a solid, quiet day. On the other side, the traders betting *against* the market continued to struggle; the one holding inverse funds has now lost nearly a fifth of its starting money, and today it got stopped out of a volatility position that just kept falling the wrong way. The gold-and-silver ratio strategy is also deep in the red, sitting on a big loss in gold that hasn't recovered.

All told, the fleet as a whole is down about 1.4% from the start — a modest deficit driven mostly by a handful of strategies that were built for a falling market, in a market that keeps not falling.