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A Market Reversal Is Inevitable | Chance Finucane, Oxbow Advisors ​

July 16, 2026

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The Inevitable Reversal

In the second quarter of this year, the semiconductor industry posted the best quarterly performance in its history. Over the past 14 months, the semiconductor index has appreciated by more than 230% — a move that has only happened one other time: the last 14 months of the dot-com bubble. Meanwhile, momentum stocks have outperformed minimum volatility stocks by more than at any point in the last 30 years. As Chance Finucane, Chief Investment Officer of Oxbow Advisors, puts it: "When there's greed involved and a potential bubble, as long as people want to keep chasing prices higher and keep talking themselves into it further, it can keep going. But the reversal of this trend of the last few years — and it's accelerated even more in the last few months — the reversal is inevitable."

The Case for Playing Defense

Finucane and his firm are not trying to call the exact top. They acknowledge the AI trade could run another six months, a year, or even two. But the data points they track suggest the environment has become dangerously speculative. In June alone, the semiconductor index moved up or down by more than 5% on roughly half the trading days. "Do you actually think the value of these big businesses is changing by more than 5% on an every-other-day basis?" Finucane asks. "Anybody would rationally say no."

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What you'll learn

  • 1 (01:00) **Opening Thesis: A Reversal is Inevitable** - Chance Finucane, CIO of Oxbow Advisors, joins Adam to discuss the current speculative fervor in markets, particularly the AI trade, and argues a major reversal is inevitable.
  • 2 (04:01) **Evidence of Extreme Speculation** - Chance presents data showing the AI trade is as extreme as the dot-com bubble.
  • 3 (08:08) **The "Inevitable" Mean Reversion** - Adam and Chance discuss charts showing extreme overshoots in momentum and semiconductors.
  • 4 (11:24) **Strategy: Rotating to Unloved Areas** - Oxbow is not just building cash; they are actively rotating into sectors that will benefit when money leaves the AI trade.
  • 5 (14:29) **The "Trim and Add" Philosophy** - Chance details their active management strategy of trimming winners and adding to positions after significant pullbacks.
  • 6 (17:16) **Signs of a Late-Stage Mania** - The extreme volatility in mega-cap stocks (e.g., IBM down 25% in a day) is a key indicator of a speculative late-stage market.
  • 7 (19:41) **The Micron Example: A Two-Thirds Drop** - Chance uses Micron as a case study for the extreme cyclicality and downside risk in the AI trade.

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Show Notes

A market reversal is inevitable at this point.So cautions high net worth money manager Chance Finucane of Oxbow Advisors.

He explains why in today's video, as well as how he and the team at Oxbow are positioning client capital right now.

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