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Hedging is a technique used to reduce or fully mitigate a risk exposure. Hedging is a commonplace practice in business, finance, investment management, and even everyday life. In a financial setting, ...

Hedging with options is a lot like car insurance. Stocks crash, cars crash and then the insurance bails them out, minus the premiums they pay. Three popular options strategies can be leveraged for ...

James Chen, CMT is an expert trader, investment adviser, and global market strategist. Somer G. Anderson is CPA, doctor of accounting, and an accounting and finance professor who has been working in ...

Investors have aggressively sold contracts expiring within zero to five days, including ETF overwrite strategies, bank quant ...

Every investor loves to talk about profits, but the best traders talk about protection. That’s the heart of hedging: managing ...

AF: Why have bank treasuries increased inquiries into hedge accounting? AJ: One of the key reasons for this has been the increase in the interest rate over the last few years. Bank treasuries are ...

In an environment of global inflation and rising interest rates, advisors and investors should be aware of how changes in currency exchange rates can affect their international investments. A recent ...

The producer would have experienced a $5000 additional cost if he did not buy futures contracts. The net result of this hedge is that the producer has eliminated the potential loss in profits by ...

1. Producer buys Platinum futures at $205. Assume spot price increases in 8 months to $280/ounce. And the price of the contract has increased to $325/ounce. One contract represents 50 ounces. 2.