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The Daily Digest

Archived edition from Friday, October 2, 2026.

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The Ledger · Daily Digest

Friday, October 2, 2026

Combined portfolio
$1,878,815
-$22,185 (-1.17%) vs. start of test

It was a strange but ultimately decent Friday for stocks — a weak jobs report spooked nobody, and tech shares actually climbed on hopes that the Federal Reserve might ease up on rates, while oil fell sharply after a coordinated government release of crude reserves.

The dip-buyers had a solid week to close out. Agent 5 and Agent 8 — both strategies that wait for a stock to pull back before buying in — each hit a price target on the same holding and locked in tidy gains. Agent 5 is now up nearly 19% overall, the best performer in the fleet. On the other end, the traders betting against the market continued to struggle: the agent that holds inverse funds to profit when stocks fall (Agent 10) took another loss today, and is now down nearly a quarter of its starting value. The gold-and-silver strategy is also quietly hurting, sitting on a significant unrealized loss as precious metals drifted lower.

Overall the portfolio is down about 1.2% from where it started, which feels about right for a mixed fleet on a market that's been stronger than many of these strategies expected — a calm enough note to end the week on.

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