Stocks had a rough Wednesday — the broad market fell sharply, with tech leading the slide, as oil surged on Middle East tensions and investors sat on their hands ahead of a Federal Reserve announcement.

The dip-buyers had a mixed but mostly decent day. The two more active versions of that strategy kept racking up small wins — hitting price targets on names like Garmin and Dollar General — though both also took some losses when a few positions moved the wrong way and got cut. The cautious, slow-moving dip-buyer also quietly cashed out five winning trades. On the other end, the agents betting against the market had a harder time than you'd expect on a down day: the dedicated bear strategy took a painful stop-out on one big short that moved against it, and the gold-ratio trader continues to sit deep in the red as gold still hasn't recovered to where it bought in. The inverse-volatility crowd did get one bright spot — their bet on rising volatility finally hit its target and closed out for a solid gain.

Overall, the portfolio dipped modestly, held up partly by the dip-buyers doing their job, even as the louder macro story — oil, Iran, the Fed — rattled the market around them.