Murray Dawes

Murray Dawes is the Editor of Alpha Wave Trader and contributing Editor at Money Morning. He was one of five, from 5,000 applicants, chosen for a graduate position with the Swiss Banking Corporation — now part of banking giant UBS. The bosses quickly cottoned on to his potential and pushed him up the ranks as a futures broker on the floors of the Sydney Futures Exchange. Murray later broke out on his own, and developed custom trading systems to trade leveraged financial instruments like futures. Due to his success, Murray became the ‘hired gun’ trader for Australia’s rich and famous. Today, Murray runs a trading service through Port Phillip Publishing to help everyday Aussie investors use his advanced trading methods.

Election Upset to Drive Rally

Stocks that may come under selling pressure are gas stocks that may have benefited from an expansion of the Northern Gas pipeline as promised by Labor, and diagnostic imaging companies that ran hard ahead of the election on expectations of a Labor win.

Ducks Line Up for a Correction

The fact that we had a slight false break of all-time highs is an added incentive to hunt for opportunities to make some money on a correction. The market had rallied strongly on the back of the Fed rescuing the market with interest rate cuts and expectations that the US and China would ink a trade deal.

Hold on to Your Hats

Trump may be rattling sabres during negotiations by tweeting that he will be raising tariffs this Friday. Who knows if it will actually happen, but it is a concrete sign that negotiations aren’t going as well as everyone was hoping.

A Trading Model in Action

Technical analysis is just a map for yourself in an unstructured environment. It is a map of human emotion as it reflects the mistakes made by countless traders as they are shaken out of their positions across different time frames.

Fortescue Metals Group Share Price Dips 5%

Fortescue Metals Group Ltd [ASX:FMG] has slumped 5% to $7.24 in late trading on Friday, 26 April 2019, giving up more gains after hitting a decade high of $8.24 last week. Fortescue has been on a strong bull run over the last few months on the back of a spike in iron ore prices...

Solving the East Coast Gas Shortage

The east coast gas shortage is going to fester unless some large decisions are made one way or the other to ameliorate the situation. Opening up the potentially world-class Beetaloo Basin in the Northern Territory makes sense.

Traders’ Mistakes Provide Opportunity

This week we will really get stuck into some of the theory so that any of my future articles about potential opportunities make complete sense to you. Let’s revisit the widening distribution that I began explaining to you last week and delve a bit deeper into it.
Money Morning Australia