ZeroHedge72%

Quant Funds Hammered With Biggest Drawdown Since August 2025 95%

By Tyler Durden63%

7/8/2026, 11:15:11 PM

BS Summary: This article contains 16 faulty reasoning types, including Recency Bias, Ambiguity (Equivocation), and Biased Writer Voice, with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 83.6% saturation with 46 hits. Analysis detected 401 faulty-reasoning hits from 55 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 91.8% and a BS Rank of 95% (1,143 of 21,886 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 94.80% of the article peer group.

The quant rout is getting worse. 
One week ago we warned that quant funds were getting slammed, as they are having a very difficult time adapting to what is increasingly a market that is anything but normal. 
We pointed to the exponential surge in the Kospi... 
Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 72.7%Tyler Durden: 7.7%ZeroHedge: 7.8%Confirmation Bias72.7%This article: 0.0%Tyler Durden: 1.6%ZeroHedge: 1.6%Anchoring Bias0.0%This article: 16.4%Tyler Durden: 4.6%ZeroHedge: 4.6%Availability Heuristic16.4%This article: 0.0%Tyler Durden: 1.1%ZeroHedge: 1.1%Representativeness Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%Tyler Durden: 1.4%ZeroHedge: 1.4%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Tyler Durden: 2.8%ZeroHedge: 2.9%Overconfidence Bias0.0%This article: 32.7%Tyler Durden: 10.8%ZeroHedge: 10.8%Framing Effect32.7%This article: 0.0%Tyler Durden: 0.4%ZeroHedge: 0.4%Loss Aversion0.0%This article: 0.0%Tyler Durden: 0.5%ZeroHedge: 0.5%Status Quo Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Tyler Durden: 0.1%ZeroHedge: 0.1%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Tyler Durden: 2.0%ZeroHedge: 2.1%Optimism Bias0.0%This article: 10.9%Tyler Durden: 3.7%ZeroHedge: 3.8%Pessimism Bias10.9%This article: 83.6%Tyler Durden: 11.1%ZeroHedge: 11.1%Negativity Bias83.6%This article: 0.0%Tyler Durden: 1.4%ZeroHedge: 1.4%Self-Serving Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Tyler Durden: 1.1%ZeroHedge: 1.1%Fundamental Attribution Error0.0%This article: 0.0%Tyler Durden: 0.2%ZeroHedge: 0.2%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Tyler Durden: 1.3%ZeroHedge: 1.3%In-Group Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Tyler Durden: 1.0%ZeroHedge: 1.0%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Tyler Durden: 0.8%ZeroHedge: 0.8%Halo Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Tyler Durden: 0.1%ZeroHedge: 0.1%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Tyler Durden: 0.0%ZeroHedge: 0.0%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 83.6%Tyler Durden: 3.2%ZeroHedge: 3.3%Recency Bias83.6%This article: 56.4%Tyler Durden: 0.4%ZeroHedge: 0.4%Primacy Effect56.4%This article: 0.0%Tyler Durden: 0.0%ZeroHedge: 0.0%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Tyler Durden: 1.4%ZeroHedge: 1.4%Ad Hominem0.0%This article: 0.0%Tyler Durden: 0.6%ZeroHedge: 0.6%Straw Man0.0%This article: 0.0%Tyler Durden: 6.2%ZeroHedge: 6.2%Appeal to Authority0.0%This article: 0.0%Tyler Durden: 2.2%ZeroHedge: 2.3%False Dilemma0.0%This article: 0.0%Tyler Durden: 2.4%ZeroHedge: 2.4%Slippery Slope0.0%This article: 0.0%Tyler Durden: 0.3%ZeroHedge: 0.3%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 67.3%Tyler Durden: 6.7%ZeroHedge: 6.7%Hasty Generalization67.3%This article: 16.4%Tyler Durden: 0.4%ZeroHedge: 0.4%Red Herring16.4%This article: 0.0%Tyler Durden: 0.8%ZeroHedge: 0.8%Bandwagon0.0%This article: 16.4%Tyler Durden: 5.1%ZeroHedge: 5.1%Appeal to Emotion16.4%This article: 0.0%Tyler Durden: 1.5%ZeroHedge: 1.5%Begging the Question0.0%This article: 56.4%Tyler Durden: 5.4%ZeroHedge: 5.4%Post Hoc (False Cause)56.4%This article: 0.0%Tyler Durden: 0.4%ZeroHedge: 0.4%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 0.0%Tyler Durden: 0.7%ZeroHedge: 0.7%Burden of Proof0.0%This article: 0.0%Tyler Durden: 0.1%ZeroHedge: 0.1%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 0.0%Tyler Durden: 0.4%ZeroHedge: 0.4%Composition/Division0.0%This article: 16.4%Tyler Durden: 2.2%ZeroHedge: 2.2%Anecdotal16.4%This article: 0.0%Tyler Durden: 0.1%ZeroHedge: 0.1%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 83.6%Tyler Durden: 2.7%ZeroHedge: 2.7%Ambiguity (Equivocation)83.6%This article: 0.0%Tyler Durden: 0.0%ZeroHedge: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Tyler Durden: 0.1%ZeroHedge: 0.1%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%Tyler Durden: 0.1%ZeroHedge: 0.0%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 0.0%Tyler Durden: 0.1%ZeroHedge: 0.1%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 0.0%Tyler Durden: 0.2%ZeroHedge: 0.2%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 16.4%Tyler Durden: 4.1%ZeroHedge: 4.1%Unattributed Quote16.4%This article: 16.4%Tyler Durden: 1.9%ZeroHedge: 1.9%Quote-first Misdirection16.4%This article: 83.6%Tyler Durden: 11.2%ZeroHedge: 11.2%Biased Writer Voice83.6%This article: 0.0%Tyler Durden: 1.5%ZeroHedge: 1.5%Indoctrination0.0%This article: 0.0%Tyler Durden: 0.5%ZeroHedge: 0.5%Politically Left Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Tyler Durden: 2.8%ZeroHedge: 2.8%Politically Right Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Tyler Durden: 0.9%ZeroHedge: 0.9%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…0.0%

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