Don’t blame the dummies, blame the machines.

If you are looking for the reason for a massive sell-off of tanker stocks last week amid record earnings reports, the real culprits might be algorithms and quantitative trading rather than “dumb” retail money, a leading analyst told TradeWinds.

Michael Webber of Webber Research & Advisory begged to ­differ with a take by analyst-investor J Mintzmyer of Value Investor’s Edge in a TradeWinds article on 8 May.