Sentences with phrase «hedge against market losses»

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Against a background of more volatile markets and worries that some of the biggest hedge fund managers are nursing losses this year, many in the audience focused on the smaller, better - performing investors like Oleg Nodelman.

Luckily, market conditions are shaping up to give traders an inexpensive way to hedge against this potential loss, says Goldman Sachs.

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.

It has historically made sense to hedge against market fluctuations based on much less restrictive definitions of market conditions, but at present, the market is in a set of conditions that has almost invariably been followed by deep and abrupt losses, though often only after a further marginal advance over a small number of trading sessions.

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).

The smart players are now looking for a hedge against the market, to guarantee no further losses and to lock in some more profit.

Because of this, we are always hedged to protect against large losses should the market go down.

In short, we are well hedged against the potential for significant market losses, but with the implied volatility on index options fairly low, we've used shorter - term market fluctuations to modify our hedges in a way that better allows for any extension of the market's advance.

I was asked on Quora to answer a question about hedging against losses... How can one hedge against a significant loss in Vanguard's Total Stock market Index Fund?

In neutral and bearish market, a covered call strategy not only provides a hedge against losses but enhances the returns on non-performing assets portfolio.

That is why the DRS always hedges the portfolio against catastrophic market losses.

Annuities offer a hedge against something bad happening to your money, like a huge loss in a stock market collapse.

There are four goals of price stable Smart Coins (bitAssets)-- a relatively reliable solution to predict the future value of a token, a predictable stable price with reduced volatility, hedging against volatile cryptocurrency markets and price action, and a unit of account distinct from assets with capital gains or losses (which has increased tax liability).