hedger

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• With several futures contracts within a year, hedgers can tailor a portfolio of weekly futures contracts in line with their consumption and production patterns during the year.

  Academic text (1992)

• Certainly, if the requesters were legitimate hedgers or speculators, buying the March and April options with two and three months to expiration was more appealing.

  Blog text (10)

• And the big silver short, JPM, claims to be a hedger.

  Blog text (6)

• Without the hedge, the hedger, which might be a small oil company, might eat the loss as the value of its product diminished.

  Blog text (31)

• The hedger who sells his oil, or whatever, via a futures contract, can simply take the cash, if he made money, and sell his product at a loss, but the cash from his futures contract will make up the difference.

  Blog text (6)

• Now quite often hedgers and speculators will be transacting with each other.

• A potential problem in this respect is that physical delivery is not very suitable for pure speculators and hedgers from the non-electricity sectors.

  Academic text (1992)

• Failure to attract speculators and hedgers from the energy industry in general may have adverse consequences for the efficient functioning of the market.

  Academic text (1992)

• Agents mainly guided by a hedging motive, also called hedgers, may be actual producers, inventory holders, or consumers of the commodity who enter futures positions to reduce the risk associated with future price movements of the commodity.

  Academic text (1992)

• A good hedger will use various financial instruments to protect their investments from sudden market changes.

Antonyms

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risk taker

16 3.2

A person who tries things that could fail or be dangerous, often for excitement

How Protected

hedger

• Specialized

1 7.5

investor

715 3.1

speculator

26 6.2

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