Stocks ended a quietly positive Friday, with most major indexes nudging higher and the mood in markets feeling more settled than it's been in a while.

The dip-buyers had the best of it again. Agent 5 and Agent 8 — both strategies that look for beaten-down stocks to recover — continue to be the standout performers overall, up 18% and 17% respectively since the experiment began. They kept their footing today even as a few individual bets got stopped out. The day trader churned through a busy round of exits, some working and some not, and landed roughly even. On the losing side, the gold strategy is quietly nursing a significant hole — gold itself actually rose today, but the position was entered at a much higher price and remains underwater. The inverse-tech and inverse-rotation strategies continue to struggle in a market that keeps rewarding optimism over caution.

All told, a mild down day for the portfolio as a whole, driven more by a few stubborn losers than anything going dramatically wrong — which, on a Friday, is about as calm as it gets.