Sentences with phrase «n't hedge the position»

I'm longer term bullish on the large oil ETF and figured I could take another option assignment on it again if my naked puts don't work for me which is why I didn't hedge the position.

Not exact matches

Because hedge funds are not required to report their bond holdings to the SEC (although they do have to report equity positions), we don't know exactly who owns how much of which Puerto Rico bonds.

But that $ 2 billion in long positions only partly tells the story, because in true hedge - fund style, Weschler shorts stocks (positions that do not have to be reported in 13Fs) and also borrows money to leverage the fund's capital.

Though we certainly attempt to limit our risks through diversification, careful hedging, and appropriate position sizes, we do not attempt to «correct» short - term difficulties if we would have to ignore our strategy to do so.»

In my opinion, the Intel complaint does not do a very good job in linking the asserted underperformance of the plan's target date portfolios (TDPs) to specific hedge fund and private equity positions taken by the plan.

Whenever investors or companies have assets or business operations across national borders, they face currency risk if their positions are not hedged.

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.

Shouldn't we worry about our fully - hedged investment position?

So while the Strategic Growth Fund remains fully hedged at present, it's important to recognize that this is not at all a position that I prefer, or that I believe will persist indefinitely.

It's important to recognize that a fully - hedged stance is not a «standard» or even «typical» position for the Strategic Growth Fund.

This isn't something you will want to use often, but it can be a helpful way to hedge positions.

For example, this is from the second paragraph: ``... the fact remains that any entity with sufficient capital behind it can usually move any market in the direction that suits it...» Large financial institutions and hedge funds undoubtedly wish that this were true, but in the real world these entities «come a cropper» when they take big positions that aren't fundamentally justified.

Futures contract positions may not provide an effective hedge because changes in futures contract prices may not track those of the securities they are intended to hedge.

Since this now falls below the regulatory threshold for reporting, we won't know if Mandel's hedge fund firm sold completely out of the name, or if they still hold a small position.

So, it will be interesting to see what Lone Pine does with their various KMI positions in the future and whether or not other major hedge funds continued to hold in Q3.

«They are — I don't want to say a criminal enterprise — but they basically abuse their position and they're very wrong - footed in what they do,» Cooperman said Wednesday at a breakfast hosted by the New York Hedge Fund Roundtable.

You won't be in a good position to hedge going forward without risk of significant loss.

D'Amato hedged: «I don't think her positions are such that she's out of the mainstream.

Not mentioned was the fact that Miranda, the longtime political consultant for Klein and other politicians involved in the press event, was also working for William Ackman, an activist investor whose hedge fund, Pershing Square Capital Management, has «shorted» Herbalife stock — a position that will reap significant rewards if its value plunges.

The foregoing position limits shall not apply to (1) bona fide hedge positions meeting the requirements of Regulation 1.3 (z)(1) of the CFTC and the rules of the Exchange, (2) other positions exempted pursuant to Rule 559.

Why would or wouldn't a market maker hedge it's option positions?

How do option market makers actually hedge their positions so that they do not have a price risk?

«market makers always hedge their positions by buying or selling the underlying assets» - this is not true.

On the other hand, the VIX under - reacted to the fall yesterday, indicating that not enough player reached for puts to hedge their positions.

This «always invested, always hedged» position is established because Swan does not believe that market - timing is a viable, long - term solution.

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-.

As market demand is not driven by individual geographies, many smart investors trade precious metals in order to diversify their portfolio and hedge their positions, even when the markets are down.

The foregoing position limits shall not apply to (1) bona fide hedge positions meeting the requirements of Regulation 1.3 (z)(1) of the CFTC and the rules of the Exchange, and shall not apply to arbitrage positions an inter-commodity spread positions subject to Rule 559.

As market demand is not driven by any individual geography, many smart investors trade precious metals in order to diversify their portfolio and hedge their positions, even when the markets are down.

The fund's short positions are not intended to hedge the portfolio in market downturns, but rather to allow stocks with unfavorable outlooks to contribute to performance.

If your stop - loss and target limit orders are live (effective), then you do not need to hedge your position.

The best trend traders are not the gamblers, they are the casino that wins the money from the traders that are there to simply gamble or hedge a position.

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.

While adding gold as a hedge is important, if things get wonky, a small gold position probably won't do the trick.

A small hedging position in SH, however, won't break the bank in an up market, while still providing much - needed respite in a downturn.

Traders not only will be able to participate in Bitcoin's price increase via long positions in the Bitcoin futures contract, they can also play the short side or hedge against outright Bitcoin positions.

Hedge fund managers may be enthralled with ETFs, but their positions may not jive with the strategies of long term investors.

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The hedge funds that got killed didn't have enough equity to carry their positions through some market chicanery.

Short positions that (partly) hedge my exposure in various special situations are however not visible in this diagram.

This means that, unlike for ETFs, market makers don't need to enter into intraday hedges or adjust their hedges as they buy and sell NextShares positions over the course of the day.

If market makers can not arbitrage differences between an ETF's price and underlying value and can not effectively hedge their intraday fund positions, the ETF can not be expected to trade within a consistently narrow range of underlying value.

In ETF trading, consistently low investor trading costs can not be assured unless market makers have sufficient knowledge of portfolio holdings to enable them to effectively arbitrage differences between an ETF's market price and its underlying portfolio value and to hedge the intraday market risk they assume as they take inventory positions in connection with their market - making activities.

For example, participants who wish to take a speculative or hedging position in the S&P 500 futures contract but can not risk the exposure of that size contract ($ 250 x the S&P 500) can instead use the E-mini S&P 500 futures contract to gain that exposure ($ 50 x the S&P 500 Index).

That in turn allows it to borrow very cheaply (average interest rate 3.6 %), which, along with its massive cash position, allows it to not only continue growing the dividend, but also invest in future growth by acquiring new asset managers in other countries and industries (such as K2 Securities to get into hedge funds).

Admittedly, not hedging the foreign equity positions has not worked out very well in the past few years and you can justifiably hold the opposite view point.

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.

Even if he's got the FOMC position correct, typically the Fed governors come out with a consistent message, and then, they cloak and hedge opinions, in order not to jolt the markets.

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.

This may not technically be a hedge, since the entire position is exited.