Look up: hedging

1. Hedging
   A strategy designed to reduce investment risk using call options, put options, short selling, or futures contracts. A hedge can help lock in existing profits. Its purpose is to reduce the volatility of a portfolio, by reducing the risk of loss.
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2. Hedging
   Is the process of protecting a position. It is the placement of a position to offset an exposed cash or physical market position. Also, see Risk Management.
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3. Hedging
   Hedging is the process of protecting oneself against risk. For example, a company who owes money to an overseas company may want to hedge against the risk that the exchange rate moves against them. They could do this by taking out a future contract for foreign exchange. In other words they agree to buy now at a fixed price in the future.
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4. Hedging
   Is buying one security and selling another in order to reduce risk. A perfect hedge produces a riskless portfolio.
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5. Hedging
   Action taken to protect the value of a portfolio against a change in market prices. It is usually used to reduce, minimise, or eliminate risk although similar techniques can also be used to speculate in a market.
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6. Hedging
   Method of reducing different types of financial risks.
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7. Hedging
   A strategy employed in the futures, options and warrants markets to reduce... <a target=_blank href='http://www.finance-glossary.com/terms/hedging.htm?id=676&ginPtrCode=00000&PopupMode=false' title='Read full definition of hedging'>more</a>
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8. hedging
   Protecting against the risk of losses in one investment by taking up other investment positions that will reduce the risk run by the first commitment. This can mean investing in opposite positions in the same or equivalent stock or markets using complicated packages of futures and options. Though sp...
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9. hedging
   Insuring against price fluctuations by taking equal and opposite positions in two different markets, eg in futures and cash markets.
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10. Hedging
    A strategy designed to reduce investment risk using call options, put options, short-selling, or futures contracts. A hedge can help lock in profits. Its purpose is to reduce the volatility of a portfolio by reducing the risk of loss.
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11. Hedging
    • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Hedge
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12. hedging
    method of reducing the risk of loss caused by price fluctuation. It consists of the purchase or sale of equal quantities of the same or very similar ... [3 related articles]
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13. Hedging
    Investment strategy used in order to reduce the risk in a portfolio, involving the use of call options, put options, futures, and short selling. Discover What It`s Like to Live Easy With EquiTrend
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14. Hedging
    A strategy designed to reduce investment risk using call options
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15. Hedging
    A mechanism to avoid the risk of a decline in the future market of a commodity, usually by entering into futures markets.
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16. hedging
    hedging, in commerce, method by which traders use two counterbalancing investment strategies so as to minimize any losses caused by price fluctuations. It is generally used by traders on the commodities market. Typically, hedging involves a trader contracting to buy or sell one particular good at th...
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17. Hedging
    Taking a buy or sell position in futures market. Opposite to a position held in the cash/spot market to minimise the risk of financial loss from an adverse price change
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18. Hedging
    The use of derivative instruments to protect against price risk.
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19. Hedging
    The use of derivative instruments to protect against price risk.
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20. Hedging
    The use of derivative instruments to protect against price risk.
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21. Hedging
    A strategy employed in a futures market to reduce risk. Hedging is used to reduce the risk of loss through adverse movements in interest rates, equity markets, share prices or currency rates. It has become an accepted risk management tool.
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22. Hedging
    offsetting the risk of an adverse price movement by taking the opposing position. For example, if you own a stock which you expect to fall, you could sell it in a futures contract for a price set now.
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23. Hedging
    A bet made by a cautious bookie on a horse on which he has accepted large bets
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24. Hedging
    Is the process of protecting a position. It is the placement of a position to offset an exposed cash or physical market position.
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25. Hedging
    The establishment of an opposite position on a futures market or by means of options from that held and priced in the physical commodity. Without hedging, the physical position would be at risk of price fluctuations.
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