Stocks had a solid day overall, with the broad market climbing and the tech-heavy indexes leading the way — the kind of day that feels like a sigh of relief after recent choppiness.

The dip-buyers had a good one. The evolving version of that strategy has quietly become the top performer in the whole experiment, up over 11% from the start, and it added two more wins today. Its peer-aware cousin and the frozen version both closed positions at their targets too, cashing in on names that had recovered nicely from earlier lows. The day trader also had a decent session, hitting targets on a few chip-related names that caught the tech rally. On the other side, the strategies betting against the market continued to hurt — the inverse rotator took two more losses as volatility collapsed and the market moved the wrong way, and it's now down more than 20% overall. The gold-silver play remains the portfolio's deepest wound.

A strong market day helped some traders, reminded others why fading a rally is painful, and left the overall experiment still below where it started — a reminder that being right about direction isn't the whole game.