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Closing Bell

Trader Education Series: Buy and Sell Pivots

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By Murray Dawes, Friday, 26 December 2025

If you have enjoyed Murray’s Closing Bell videos but need help to understand the theory behind his analysis, then this video series is for you. This second instalment looks at how prices change direction using buy and sell pivots. The secret to their use is combining them with Murray’s theory of how ranges and trends develop. That’s what you will learn today.

Welcome to the second instalment of this three-part Trader Education Series.

If you missed Part One, you can catch up here.

In today’s video you will learn how markets change direction.

When entering trades you want entry signals that aren’t lagging.

If you use moving averages, for example, you will often find you’re late to the party and prices have moved a long way before you get the signal.

If you can work out where prices often change direction and have a repeatable process to know when the odds are high that prices may have changed direction, you’re on the way to a solid trading plan.

Buy and sell pivots are worth nothing on their own because there are so many false signals, especially at smaller timeframes.

But when you step out to the weekly and monthly charts, there’s less noise, and higher odds of success.

Combine that with knowledge of how trends and ranges develop, and you are well on your way to a money making system.

In the final instalment next week we delve into trend following and combine everything you have learned over the previous three weeks into a unified whole.

So enjoy lesson two on pivots and be sure to give us a ‘like’ on YouTube if your trading knowledge is heading in the right direction.

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Regards,

Murray Dawes,
Retirement Trader, International Stock Trader and
Murray’s Trading Room

All advice is general advice and has not taken into account your personal circumstances.

Please seek independent financial advice regarding your own situation, or if in doubt about the suitability of an investment.

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Murray Dawes is our resident expert trader and portfolio manager. He is a former Sydney Futures Exchange floor trader who went on to design custom trading systems and strategies for ultra-wealthy clients (including one of Australia’s richest families). Today, his mission is to help ordinary Aussie investors make profitable investments, while expertly managing risk.

He uses his proprietary system for his more conversative and longer-term-focused service Retirement Trader…and then applies the same system to the ultra-speculative end of the Australian market in Fat Tail Microcaps (this service is strictly limited and via invitation only).

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