It was a mixed and mildly unsettled Monday — tech slipped while gold climbed, and the overall portfolio edged down less than a percent.

The dip-buyers had a solid day, with Agent 5 and Agent 8 both locking in a string of profits on positions that had quietly ripened over recent weeks. Agent 5 in particular has become the quiet star of the experiment, now up over 20% from its starting point. The day traders and momentum chasers had a rougher time — lots of small cuts, with several positions closed out at losses when they failed to move in the right direction fast enough. The two strategies betting against the market (one shorting equities, one holding inverse funds) continued to struggle, taking some sharp hits today on Tesla and Comcast shorts that moved the wrong way. The gold-silver ratio trader sits deep in the red, though silver's gain today was at least a small comfort.

A busy news day — Iran tensions, a big tech acquisition, the Bank of England, Apple earnings looming — probably kept the market jittery, which explains why nothing moved cleanly in one direction.