Maggie Lake Talking Markets Episode 96: What's Next For Financials? With Dean Christians.
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Oct 21, 2025 Dean Christians, founder and lead strategist at Turning Point Market Research, joins to unpack the current market landscape, particularly the financial sector. He highlights potential early warning signs from banks, suggesting that the strong market rally may hide underlying risks. Dean elaborates on historical patterns of financial weakness preceding crises and discusses his innovative risk-off composite for identifying exposure risks. He also advises caution with tech sectors post-earnings and explains why significant market rotations aren't imminent.
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Quantitative History-Backed Market Research
- Dean Christians uses quantitative, evidence-based technical analysis with a historical database back to the 1920s to assess market patterns.
- That long-term context lets him compare current breadth and credit signals to nearly a century of bull and bear cycles.
Financials Signal Credit Stress Early
- Financials often flash early warnings of credit problems and can precede broader market trouble.
- Dean flags short-to-medium-term breadth damage in financials despite the overall S&P uptrend.
Watch Relative Lows In Financials
- Monitor relative strength and counts of 252-day lows for financials to detect emerging credit issues.
- Use these signals to consider trimming exposure or raising cash if they tick higher in clusters.