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Portfolio Hedging using VIX Calls Explained

When the VIX is low, the negative correlation of the highly volatile VIX to the S&P 500 index makes it possible to use VIX

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Option strategies

Hedging Strategies — One of the basic reasons investors (especially institutions that manage large funds) use Options is for hedging purposes. Imagine that you’ve

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Option Hedging

By Born to Sell. on January 9th, 2012, 11:03 am in Options Hedging is when you take a position to protect against losses in

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Jonathan Chevreau How to use ETFs to hedge against interest rate hikes

Fixed-income investors through most of the six years since the financial crisis hit have obsessed about the prospect of rising interest rates and their

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Invest Like Top Hedge Funds with This Outperforming ETF ETF News And Commentary

In the ETF industry, investors generally group ETFs into one of two categories; passively managed or actively managed. Passive funds follow indexes, while active

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How does shorting the S P 500 ETF as a hedge against a stock market crash compare to precious

Posted on 07 June 2014 with 1 comment from readers You dont need to be a professional investor to appreciate that the S&P 500

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How (and When) To Use Sector ETFs To Hedge

Stay Connected In our new book, Buy & Hedge: The Five Iron Rules for Investing Over the Long-Term . Jay Pestrichelli and I advocate

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Hedging your equity portfolio with a stock index option

QUESTION: How can you save time and money in hedging your equity portfolio? ANSWER: Find an appropriate proxy index and hedge in one market

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Hedge Volatility in Your Portfolio with These Alternative ETFs ETF News And Commentary

It surely is hard to predict market behavior. At the start of December, the major indices of the U.S. stock market were sitting at