It was a split kind of day — tech bounced back modestly while the broader market drifted, leaving most of our traders somewhere between "fine" and "quietly hurting."

The dip-buyers had a solid afternoon. The evolving version of that strategy locked in gains on a few positions that had finally reached their targets, and it remains the portfolio's standout performer overall, up nearly 20% since the experiment began. The cautious, steady strategies — the low-volatility trader and the pairs trader — did what they always do: not much, in the best way. On the other side, the traders built to profit from falling markets had another rough go. The gold-and-silver ratio strategy continues to be the portfolio's deepest wound, down nearly 19% in total, and the agents betting against tech stocks are sitting on significant losses even as tech showed some life today. Agent 1, which never adjusts its positions no matter what, quietly held its losing spots as usual.

A jobs report that came in stronger than expected, plus some jostling around a big streaming merger, made for a busier-than-average news day — but for our traders, Friday ended much as the week did: uneven, with the patient strategies outpacing the ones making bolder calls.