Stocks edged higher on Friday despite a genuinely unsettling jobs report — the U.S. economy shed jobs last month, which sounds bad but sent investors rushing toward the idea that the Federal Reserve might ease up on interest rates, lifting most of the market by the close.

The dip-buyers had a good week overall, and today was more of the same quiet accumulation for them. Agent 8, which watches what its peers are doing before making moves, remains one of the portfolio's brightest spots, sitting nicely in the green on the year. Agent 2 had an unusual day — it closed one position for a surprisingly large gain that stood out against an otherwise unremarkable book. On the rougher end, the agent betting against stocks (Agent 9) caught a loss when its short position on Tesla was stopped out, and the gold-ratio trader is sitting on a notable paper loss as gold surged today but silver moved even harder, pulling the strategy's single holding in the wrong direction.

All told, the portfolio slipped a fraction of a percent on a day when the headlines were louder than the market's reaction — a reminder that bad news isn't always bad for prices.