Sentences with phrase «more hedge positions»

There could be structural differences in margin debt — more hedge positions — so the charts could be misleading, but they could be an indication of rising risk.

Not exact matches

John Khoury, founder and managing partner of the $ 2.7 billion Long Pond Capital hedge fund, revealed a long position in U.S. homebuilder D.R. Horton Inc, which he said should rise as more millennials age into the first - time home buyer market.

But more and more of the hedged positions are expiring, so the 15 percent figure will fall even further.

Hedge funds» net long position on Brent hit an all - time high of more than 584,000 contracts recently, according to ICE Futures Europe and reported by Bloomberg.

We continue to be well - hedged, but are open to a more constructive position if the market can recruit favorable trend uniformity.

Our silver position is less about our view of silver and more of a macro hedge.

In the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey, which knocked off more than 20 percent of U.S. refinery capacity in the peak of refinery shutdowns, hedge funds are betting on a rise in fuel prices and have boosted their net long positions on U.S. gasoline and diesel to highs not seen for years.

See the March 6, 2006 comment (Cost of Hedging) and the April 18, 2005 comment (How Hedging Works) for more detail on the mechanics of a hedged investment position.

«As the market climbs to new highs, investors are paying more attention to the short side of their books and making sure they have sufficient hedging positions of either ETFs or beta stocks to recoup long - side losses if the market drops,» Dusaniwsky says.

This course of action is reasonably forecast - free: if the market advances, our current position in call options is sufficient to gradually mute more than half of our hedges.

Comey was the general counsel for Lockheed Martin Corp. from when he stopped serving as Deputy Attorney General in 2005 to 2010, and then he was counsel for Connecticut - based hedge fund Bridgewater Associates from 2010 to 2013, both lucrative positions with his last year at Lockheed Martin alone earning him more than $ 6 million.

We can take a more focused position on the likely path of inflation by hedging out the bond - like characteristics or by using inflation swaps directly.

More impressive, Icahn claims his portfolio has largely been hedged in the last few years — his stock holdings offset by large short positions of the S&P 500 Index.

For more portfolio activity out of Tom Brown's hedge fund, we recently saw they filed a Form 4 on shares of Taylor Capital Group (TAYC) and we've also covered some other position updates as well.

«Each period, whether a day, a month, a year or longer, represents an infinite number of possible learning opportunities, revealing more and more about correlations, hedging, law, regulation, culture, sizing positions, trading versus holding, activism, bankruptcy law and practice, government action and political impacts on investing, organizational realities and growth, as well as the kind of personal characteristics that are required to do this job well.»

In this case the corporate bond portfolio may rise less (or decline more) in value than the hedge offered by the short treasury position.

«This victory gives the IDC more clout and is, at the very least, a hedge to put themselves in a comfortable position following the general when we'll know what sort of coalition will have to be put together for them to remain in power,» Thies said.

A person owning or controlling more than 10,000 contracts net long or net short in all contract months combined shall provide, in a timely fashion, upon request by the Exchange, information regarding the nature of the position, trading strategy, and hedging information if applicable.

Instead of being fearful of losing your money when trading, embrace the control you have on each trade; a trader has complete control over the risk management of every trade via stop losses and position sizing, [and for more advanced traders, derivatives and hedging mechanisms (not discussed here)-RSB-.

When prime brokers lend less to hedge funds, or do so on more punitive terms, managers often have less money to invest and may even sell some positions to raise cash.

I'll continue to hedge a lot of my positions until I think we're moving more safely into a bull market.

I suspect that the Mini Short Certificates are relatively cheap because they are targeted towards retail investors, and RBS does not have a need to hedge their short position and borrow shares if they sell more long certificates then short certificates.

Specific strategies for reducing or «hedging» market exposure may include buying put options on individual stocks or stock indices, writing covered call options on stocks which the Fund owns or call options on stock indices, or establishing short futures positions or option combinations (such as simultaneously writing call options and purchasing put options) on one or more stock indices considered by the investment manager to be correlated with the Fund's portfolio.

During periods of market drawdowns or corrections, it is helpful to ask yourself if «now» is the time to either hedge or sell your long positions or if further patience is warranted until further confirmation of a more significant drawdown.

I can't tell you how many times at meetings at the hedge fund we had tough discussion on position sizing, more frequently on short positions.

As long as some portion of an investor's portfolio is in foreign stocks, evidence suggests that those stocks should not be currency - hedged for three reasons: (1) Currency unhedged portfolios are not much more volatile than currency - hedged ones (and less volatile for US markets) and (2) Currency hedging appears to add about 1 % extra cost and (3) Some currency unhedged positions reduce overall portfolio volatility.

The EMH, and more particularly the Capital Asset Pricing Model with which it is associated, also underpin the Black - Scholes options pricing model, variants on which have been used to value and hedge options positions in all markets since its invention in 1973.

The position amounts to less than 1 % of assets, and most of the day - to - day fluctuation in the Fund tends to be attributable to differences in the performance of the stocks held by the Fund and the indices we use to hedge, but we expect the higher - strike put options to fortify our defense against the risk of indiscriminate selling should the market encounter more than a moderate amount of weakness.

Now that you know about hedging, there are more and even better ways to hedge your positions.

More advanced planning strategies of divesting a concentrated equity position may include the gifting of stock to a family member or charity, establishing a charitable trust, or using options or hedging strategies to shift single stock risk.

When a hedge fund manager increases or decreases a position by a large amount in relation to their current position, it's a more significant move and shows a strong belief, furthermore if a hedge fund have a large portion of their portfolio allocated to a stock it also shows a strong belief that the value will go up.

The investing strategy being referred to here is a so - called «long - short» approach in which long and short positions are taken in various stocks to try to hedge exposure to the broader market which makes gains more associated with solid stocking picking.

The portfolio manager of the AlphaNorth Partners Fund (hedge fund), and the AlphaNorth Growth Fund and AlphaNorth Resource Fund (mutual funds), noted that while short positions are a relatively small part of the firm's strategy, they are being used more these days.

Market makers may or may not hedge client positions with other counterparties or in the underlying market (see «Questions to ask the CFD provider» for more about «hedging»).

The aim of diversification and hedging is to avoid commitment to a single outcome by taking multiple and often opposite positions, or, as the Cambridge Dictionary puts it, «to protect yourself against loss by supporting more than one possible result».

Since hedging reduces the need to «churn» positions (what investors lose on one position they make on another), a more liquid derivatives market could partially calm bitcoin volatility.

The parallelism between the price movements of the two cryptocurrencies has led many to take the position that Litecoin is nothing more than a Bitcoin hedge, albeit with lesser downside risks.

Similarly, offering institutional investors an opportunity to hedge their positions will mean that more of them will feel comfortable investing in Bitcoin.