Hedging offsets risks of individual investments already owned.
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Strategic hedging allows Clients to hold onto their investments while eliminating the risks of future losses from those investments. Just like your home owner's insurance protects your home - now you can protect your investments.
A short or a derivative are the instruments used to hedge an investment. There are a broad variety of choices now available to all investors to hedge investments.
Options and/or futures are the primary choices used to hedge positions. Options and futures can also be used to leverage a position.
Lastly, the reason to hedge is to control volatility - which can threaten a portfolio's positive returns. Volatility is an investment's daily up and down movements - investment losses are what we are hedging against.