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Graham Buck

Graham Buck has been a financial journalist for more than 20 years and has contributed to and edited a variety of titles, most recently as managing editor of the corporate treasury website GTNews. He has written regularly on insurance and reinsurance, risk management and pensions. His earlier career included several years with a major insurance group and with a broker, where he specialised in directors’ and officers’ (D&O) liability cover for corporates

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Commodities trading
A wider world of commodity trading

Commodities trading tends to be dominated by fluctuations in the price of gold and crude oil, but the global economy runs on a much wider spectrum of commodities. Many more of them are being added to the capital.com app service.

Graham Buck19:31, 21 April 2018
Ichimoku Kinko Hyo
Ichimoku Kinko Hyo: what it is and how to use it

Translating as ‘a glance at a chart in equilibrium’, the Japanese indicator combines several strategies in a single one that traders can use to determine momentum, support and resistance.

Graham Buck11:05, 16 March 2018
Shorting an asset
Signals used to short an asset

What are the most common signals in today’s markets that an asset could be shorted? How important is the market’s main gauge of volatility, the VIX, and is its influence growing or shrinking?

Graham Buck16:07, 14 February 2018
Data privacy
Data privacy: 2018’s technology and regulatory focus

With the introduction of Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) now four months away, protecting sensitive data against increasingly sophisticated hackers has become a business priority.

Graham Buck09:55, 19 January 2018
catalytic converter
Platinum, palladium and the carmakers

Since the mid-1970s, demand for platinum and palladium has been boosted by their use for catalytic converters in vehicles. Could the advent of the electric car see these precious metals lose their lustre?

Graham Buck08:38, 11 January 2018
Tax havens
Everything you ever wanted to know about tax havens

Revelations on how wealthy individuals and major multinationals exploit the benefits of low and zero-tax havens may prove the catalyst for a major clampdown.

Graham Buck14:56, 18 December 2017
commodities
Commodity trading: which markets are rising, by how much and why?

Given the geopolitical shocks of the past 18 months, you’d expect 2017 to prove a bumper year for commodity prices. Yet while most have moved higher, often the picture has been more one of recovery rather than boom.

Graham Buck13:26, 20 November 2017

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