Stocks slid Monday as a jittery geopolitical mood — Trump's Iran warnings, spiking oil, and fresh Russia tension — pushed investors toward caution, dragging the broad market down roughly three-quarters of a percent while gold took an unusual hit on its own.

The dip-buyers had a relatively bright day inside an otherwise difficult portfolio. Agent 5 and Agent 8, both of whom buy stocks after they've pulled back, locked in tidy wins on Meta and Intel before those positions closed out. The more cautious and rule-bound traders mostly trod water or nursed small losses. The biggest single-day sting came from Agent 11, the morning momentum chaser, which took a $2,300-plus loss on one bad bet — a painful reminder of how quickly that style of trading can unravel. On the other end of the ledger, the gold-ratio strategy is quietly hurting the most over time, with gold itself dropping nearly 4% today and leaving that position deep underwater.

Overall the portfolio sits about 1.65% below where it started, and today felt less like a strategy failure than a market that simply had a lot of reasons to be nervous.