ZeroHedge⁠70%

Fastest and Deepest Tech MoMo Sell-Off in History ⁠90%

By The Market Ear⁠77%

7/18/2026, 12:15:57 PM

BS Summary: This article contains 16 faulty reasoning types, including Availability Heuristic, Confirmation Bias, and Unattributed Quote, with Recency Bias as the most egregious example at 36.3% saturation with 49 hits. Analysis detected 340 faulty-reasoning hits from 135 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 83.5% and a BS Rank of ⁠90% (2,180 of 21,196 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 89.70% of the article peer group.

Momentum has become the dominant factor behind AI-era leadership. 
When that factor unwinds, it affects everything from semiconductors and hedge funds to index volatility and market liquidity. 
These seven charts show the fastest tech momentum unwind on record, record gaps between single-stock and index volatility, and positioning that suggests the story may not be over. 
No predictions—just the chart evidence. 
We “are now 17 business days into the selloff, with MoMo -28% peak-to-trough. 
The move is already both faster and deeper than the median historical Momentum drawdown, which has been -22% over 33 business days since 1999. 
This is the worst Momentum drawdown since the Dec 2022 to Feb 2023 episode, which reached -29%." 
Source: Bloomberg 
Source: MS QDS 
Source: GS Prime 
Source: GIR 
Source: JPM PI 
Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 27.4%The Market Ear: 12.1%ZeroHedge: 7.6%Confirmation Bias27.4%This article: 9.6%The Market Ear: 5.4%ZeroHedge: 1.7%Anchoring Bias9.6%This article: 33.3%The Market Ear: 5.1%ZeroHedge: 4.5%Availability Heuristic33.3%This article: 17.8%The Market Ear: 3.5%ZeroHedge: 1.1%Representativeness Heuristic17.8%This article: 0.0%The Market Ear: 0.0%ZeroHedge: 1.3%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%The Market Ear: 3.0%ZeroHedge: 2.9%Overconfidence Bias0.0%This article: 3.7%The Market Ear: 12.5%ZeroHedge: 10.8%Framing Effect3.7%This article: 9.6%The Market Ear: 0.9%ZeroHedge: 0.4%Loss Aversion9.6%This article: 0.0%The Market Ear: 1.2%ZeroHedge: 0.5%Status Quo Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%The Market Ear: 0.0%ZeroHedge: 0.1%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%The Market Ear: 5.6%ZeroHedge: 2.1%Optimism Bias0.0%This article: 20.7%The Market Ear: 8.9%ZeroHedge: 3.7%Pessimism Bias20.7%This article: 18.5%The Market Ear: 9.7%ZeroHedge: 11.1%Negativity Bias18.5%This article: 0.0%The Market Ear: 0.0%ZeroHedge: 1.4%Self-Serving Bias0.0%This article: 6.7%The Market Ear: 0.6%ZeroHedge: 1.1%Fundamental Attribution Error6.7%This article: 0.0%The Market Ear: 0.0%ZeroHedge: 0.1%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%The Market Ear: 0.0%ZeroHedge: 1.2%In-Group Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%The Market Ear: 0.0%ZeroHedge: 0.9%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%The Market Ear: 0.0%ZeroHedge: 0.8%Halo Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%The Market Ear: 0.0%ZeroHedge: 0.1%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%The Market Ear: 0.0%ZeroHedge: 0.0%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 36.3%The Market Ear: 14.6%ZeroHedge: 3.3%Recency Bias36.3%This article: 0.0%The Market Ear: 0.0%ZeroHedge: 0.4%Primacy Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%The Market Ear: 0.0%ZeroHedge: 0.0%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%The Market Ear: 0.0%ZeroHedge: 1.3%Ad Hominem0.0%This article: 0.0%The Market Ear: 0.0%ZeroHedge: 0.5%Straw Man0.0%This article: 9.6%The Market Ear: 4.3%ZeroHedge: 6.4%Appeal to Authority9.6%This article: 0.0%The Market Ear: 1.7%ZeroHedge: 2.2%False Dilemma0.0%This article: 0.0%The Market Ear: 0.0%ZeroHedge: 2.4%Slippery Slope0.0%This article: 0.0%The Market Ear: 1.7%ZeroHedge: 0.3%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 0.0%The Market Ear: 13.6%ZeroHedge: 6.7%Hasty Generalization0.0%This article: 0.0%The Market Ear: 0.1%ZeroHedge: 0.4%Red Herring0.0%This article: 0.0%The Market Ear: 0.8%ZeroHedge: 0.7%Bandwagon0.0%This article: 0.0%The Market Ear: 0.8%ZeroHedge: 5.2%Appeal to Emotion0.0%This article: 0.0%The Market Ear: 2.4%ZeroHedge: 1.5%Begging the Question0.0%This article: 13.3%The Market Ear: 6.7%ZeroHedge: 5.4%Post Hoc (False Cause)13.3%This article: 0.0%The Market Ear: 0.0%ZeroHedge: 0.3%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 3.7%The Market Ear: 0.4%ZeroHedge: 0.7%Burden of Proof3.7%This article: 0.0%The Market Ear: 0.0%ZeroHedge: 0.1%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 0.0%The Market Ear: 1.3%ZeroHedge: 0.4%Composition/Division0.0%This article: 0.0%The Market Ear: 0.0%ZeroHedge: 2.2%Anecdotal0.0%This article: 0.0%The Market Ear: 0.0%ZeroHedge: 0.1%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 0.0%The Market Ear: 6.6%ZeroHedge: 2.7%Ambiguity (Equivocation)0.0%This article: 0.0%The Market Ear: 0.0%ZeroHedge: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%The Market Ear: 0.0%ZeroHedge: 0.1%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%The Market Ear: 0.0%ZeroHedge: 0.0%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 0.0%The Market Ear: 0.0%ZeroHedge: 0.1%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 0.0%The Market Ear: 0.0%ZeroHedge: 0.2%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 22.2%The Market Ear: 5.0%ZeroHedge: 4.1%Unattributed Quote22.2%This article: 9.6%The Market Ear: 1.9%ZeroHedge: 1.9%Quote-first Misdirection9.6%This article: 9.6%The Market Ear: 5.8%ZeroHedge: 10.6%Biased Writer Voice9.6%This article: 0.0%The Market Ear: 0.0%ZeroHedge: 1.4%Indoctrination0.0%This article: 0.0%The Market Ear: 0.0%ZeroHedge: 0.5%Politically Left Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%The Market Ear: 0.0%ZeroHedge: 2.7%Politically Right Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%The Market Ear: 0.2%ZeroHedge: 1.0%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…0.0%

135 words analyzed.

Speakers

5speakers9.6%attributed speech122writer words
Voice mapSelect a segment to jump to its words
Writer's voice • 8 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 9 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 18 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 28 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 5 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 13 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 24 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 17 words • 100.0% coverageBloomberg • 2 words • 0.0% coverageMS QDS • 3 words • 0.0% coverageGS Prime • 3 words • 0.0% coverageGIR • 2 words • 0.0% coverageJPM PI • 3 words • 0.0% coverage
Selected voice

GS Prime

100%flagged-word coverage
3 attributed words23% of attributed speech100% writer coverage
0%12.5%25.0%Unattributed Quote-24.6 ptsWriter: 24.6%GS Prime: 0.0%0.0%Quote-first Misdirection-10.7 ptsWriter: 10.7%GS Prime: 0.0%0.0%Biased Writer Voice-10.7 ptsWriter: 10.7%GS Prime: 0.0%0.0%

Attribution is sentence-level. Pattern percentages are calculated only from words assigned to that voice.

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Analysis

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