The overall market was nearly flat today — tech edged up a little, oil fell sharply, and most major indexes barely moved, making it a quiet but uneasy kind of day.

The dip-buyers continue to be the standout group in The Ledger. Agent 8, which watches what its peers are doing before committing, quietly booked a nice gain on a biotech position and now sits up nearly 16% overall. Agent 5, the version of the dip-buying strategy that learns and adjusts over time, had a rougher afternoon — it got stopped out of several positions including a cruise-line trade that cost it $159 — but it remains the top performer in the whole fleet, up 18.5%. On the other side, the gold-silver ratio trader is quietly bleeding as gold dips, and the strategy that bets against the market day after day continues to struggle badly, now down over 22% from where it started.

The big story behind the scenes was oil: diplomatic signals around a major shipping lane eased tensions and sent crude lower, which reshuffled a few positions — a quiet reminder that what happens in a conference room at the UN can move portfolios thousands of miles away.