It was a jittery Friday — tech slid, volatility ticked up, and a lot of unsettling news landed at once, from a surprise FAA flight halt to fresh tensions in the Middle East.

The dip-buyers held up best. The two most active versions of that strategy are sitting on solid gains for the experiment overall, quietly collecting profits as positions hit their targets — including a small win on Johnson & Johnson today. The day trader churned through a busy slate of short-term bets and came out modestly ahead, which is about as good as that strategy ever manages. On the losing side, the trader betting against the market with inverse funds had another rough session, closing a string of small losers; that approach has struggled badly all year. The gold-silver ratio strategy is quietly having its worst stretch in the whole experiment, caught on the wrong side of a silver slide that deepened again today.

For a Friday carrying this much noise — earnings signals, geopolitical flare-ups, bond jitters — the portfolio held together reasonably well, even if it's still running below where it started.