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The CBOE is still waiting for regulatory approval on the move, the report said, which would provide institutional investors with an avenue to hedge against volatility in the fast - growing cryptocurrency markets.

Underpinned by elastic algorithm - controlled monetary policy, the team behind USDX Protocol stated that the system will ensure that / USDY will never stray too far from its pegged value, thus safeguarding against volatility in price, which is a major issue for cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin.

Fixed income investments can assist investors by providing a stable stream of income to a total portfolio and helping to diversify against volatility in more growth oriented investments such as shares.

Meanwhile, trade in other alternative assets — such as fine art, wine and potentially, RVs — is less liquid, but has been favored by some as a hedge against volatility in the markets.

Not exact matches

The debut of the first futures contract on an established exchange was relatively orderly, in contrast to expectations of high volatility and traders short selling, or betting against, bitcoin.

That implies trades that had profited in the past, including betting against volatility, are unlikely to continue to work, they said.

The stock market's slump that month prompted the largest one - day spike in the Cboe Volatility Index (known as the VIX), as traders who had bought products designed to profit off a subdued VIX hedged against further losses.

On Monday, Cramer wanted investors to keep an eye on the risky, leveraged funds that enable traders to bet against volatility, defined as the amount of uncertainty in the size and direction of changes in the market and most commonly tracked by the CBOE Volatility Indevolatility, defined as the amount of uncertainty in the size and direction of changes in the market and most commonly tracked by the CBOE Volatility IndeVolatility Index, or VIX.

Many experts caution investors against playing the sector short - term, as those often unpredictable cyclical highs and lows can increase volatility in a portfolio.

Not only are health stocks seen as a good hedge against market volatility, interest in the category is growing among consumers.

Wilmot runs through a bunch of investment strategies that might see renewed interest in light of these financial conditions, ranging from equity funds that offer some sort of hedge against volatility to big - data - driven quant funds.

But that volatility, as Ghosh likes to note, is the upside of the integrated nature of the company, which gives it a continued hedge against the differential in world oil prices through its downstream and midstream assets — on the midstream side, Husky operates a 2,000 - kilometre crude - oil pipeline system, and its downstream operations include upgrading and refining crude oil, and marketing gasoline, diesel, jet fuel, asphalt and ethanol in Canada and the United States.

While diversification does not ensure a profit or guarantee against loss, a lack of diversification may result in heightened volatility of your portfolio value.

While diversification does not ensure a profit or guarantee against loss, a lack of diversification may result in heightened volatility of the value of your portfolio.

Uncertainty about the U.S. presidential race in the near term may produce periods of volatility for the U.S. dollar, yet RBC maintains that the U.S. currency will post modest gains against the Euro, Canadian dollar and sterling as markets look for a U.S. Federal Reserve policy rate increase in the first half of 2017.

Having a higher weighting in bonds and a lower weighting in stocks has, in the past, lowered the volatility in your portfolio while also providing some downside protection against large losses.

Factom will be using Tether as a hedging mechanism against Bitcoin's infamous volatility in the company's upcoming sale of its Factom software.

The hybrid indexes control volatility in fixed indexed annuities, but some say that FIAs inherently protect against volatility already.

As calm markets pushed volatility to record lows, some strategies increasingly accepted bets against calm markets in order to fund equity positions.

Anyway, what the article takes an awful long time getting around to — after twice saying the question they pose isn't so outlandish or premature and that the recent volatility shows how jittery people are AND pointing out that the tax plan and increased spending «boxed» the economy into a corner against the chance for stimulus in case we have a recession — is this: It's going to be hard on people.

But there is another reason to maintain a position in gold: Historically, it has been a cheap and effective hedge against equity volatility.

The company wants to give these people the ability to hedge against the bitcoin volatility and use the efficient payment network to transact with the assets in new ways.

The Strategic Growth Fund remains fully hedged, with the same «staggered strike» position we had at the 2007 peak, which strengthens our defense against potential market losses by raising the strike prices of our defensive put options, at a cost of just over 1 % of assets in additional put premium (which is relatively inexpensive with the CBOE volatility index currently at about 17).

Oil - related revenue has dwindled since 2015 as a period of low prices reduced interest from producers and consumers in financial instruments that offer protection against price volatility, said Amrit Shahani, research director at Coalition.

We live with considerable uncertainty about the sustainability of the pattern of relatively low risk premia and reduction in the cost of insurance against future macroeconomic and financial volatility.

by Silvio Cascione, Sumanta Dey and Vuyani Ndaba (Reuters)- The U.S. dollar is likely to set new records against emerging market currencies this year, although its climb may be slower than in 2015 and possibly hampered by more frequent bouts of volatility, a Reuters poll suggested.

Michael Hasenstab: I think what's interesting about the volatility we are seeing related to the political polarization in the United States and Europe is that it's juxtaposed against a very different dynamic happening in emerging markets.

Since then, developments in implied volatilities of currencies against the US dollar have been mixed.

After strengthening during the summer's market volatility, the single currency fell against the US dollar in October, providing a useful tailwind for eurozone exporters.

What happens to my funds if the volatility and liquidity risks move against Abra, causing in worst case Abra to go bankrupt?

Furthermore, weakness of the euro and the British pound against the US dollar, combined with market volatility caused by ongoing geopolitical uncertainty, presents managers with additional stock - picking opportunities in the region.

Concerns that a possible rise in inflation in the United States could lead the Fed to increase the pace of interest rate hikes has caused nerves on Wall Street, and American investment products that bet against volatility seem to have contributed to Monday's stock rout.

As the fund is designed to be a hedge against market declines and rising volatility, Cambria expects the fund to produce negative returns in the most years with rising markets or declining volatility.

If anything, the first few weeks of the year have served as a valuable reminder that investing in public markets is inherently volatile and that our main defense against that volatility is to diversify our risk exposures by owning a variety of asset classes and risk factors.

As pension funds, hedge funds and mutual funds recovered from the crisis, traders, portfolio managers and treasurers said in interviews with Global Finance that their exposure to derivatives is actually increasing as a means of hedging against further volatility in the markets.

This consolidation in the lithium industry is set to be the next investment theme as a vertical integration strategy offers the most opportunity and allows a hedge against commodity cycles and macro volatility.

Against this background, we think that the divergences in the monetary policies of the major economies are likely to become more apparent, which could increase pressure on some central banks and magnify market volatility.

However, locking in a portion of gains and instituting stop loss orders is a tactic I am employing to protect against the increased volatility across markets globally.

Scrambling to hedge their positions against further losses, investors bid up the prices of options, leading to the surge in the VIX, a gauge that measures the implied volatility of near - term S&P 500 index options.

For dairy producers and transformers as well as industrial consumers of dairy products, the use of derivatives provides significant benefits in mitigating against price volatility.

As we build our sector - leading asset bases and new factories — the nutritional powders, consumer cheeses and the beverages plant — when they all come online in the next two to three years, they will deliver the ultimate prize, which is an effective shield [against global price volatility].»

He noted CBN's periodic intervention in the forex market reduced exchange rate volatility over the last two quarters of 2017 and businesses showed improved liquidity of forex and stability of naira against the dollar.

The government had by this point built up large reserves of foreign exchange to buffer against potential volatility, reduced annual inflation from 31 per cent in 2004 to 7,5 per cent a decade later, and established of a sovereign wealth fund to help diversify the economy.

The Times newspaper reports today that the pound has fallen against the Euro, despite the recovery in Britain's manufacturing sector, and sterling volatility is now higher than before any major poll since 2000.

We all want stability, which in financial terms means illiquidity [Editor's Note: «Illiquidity» refers to assets not easily transferred to currency, a property that can protect against» volatility» — rapid, radical swings in value].

«Alternative fuels offer the potential, if not to lower the price [of petroleum - derived fuels], at least to provide a hedge in the future against their future growth or, put differently, their volatility,» says technologist Douglas Kirkpatrick, DARPA's program manager for alternative fuels efforts.

They think it's the volatility in American politics at this time, with the «birthers» wanting President Barack Obama's birth certificate and then all sorts of people coming out of the woodwork to contest the upcoming elections against him.

But operating in California means hedging against volatility — unpredictable actions by the state and federal governments — so the district has built a 10 percent reserve.

In most instances of higher volatility, gold provides a hedge against not only equity risk but credit as well.

Regardless of rate increases, fixed income should remain a consideration in investor portfolios to help act as a bulwark against equity volatility.