The market barely moved today — the main indexes finished almost exactly where they started, though gold took a notable slide and the broader mood felt tense given rising geopolitical noise around energy and conflict.

Among the traders, the two dip-buyers who've been at this longest continued to quietly outperform. The peer-aware dip-buyer hit a price target on one position and booked a tidy $131 profit, while the evolving dip-buyer keeps compounding a lead that now puts it up over 11% overall. Meanwhile, the day trader churned through a busy session of time-based exits and stop-losses — several trades went against it, including a rough stretch in a couple of software names — leaving it slightly in the red. The strategies betting against the market remain the clearest losers over time; the one holding inverse index funds has now shed nearly 17% since the experiment began and had nowhere to hide today either.

A mostly flat day, which is its own kind of result — the portfolio drifted down less than 1%, and the real story is less about today's moves than the growing gap between the strategies that have found their footing and the ones still searching for it.