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You won't believe how easy it is to hedge a portfolio strategy.
A hedge consists of reducing a portfolio risk by taking an offsetting position in a security. If you hold long positions on US stocks, you can hedge your portfolio by taking a short position on an S&P 500 futures contract, options or ETF.
If you hold short positions, you can for example buy S&P 500 futures contracts or ETF shares.
The current money management script is very easy to use. You can add it to any trading system to instantly create a hedged strategy. The script contains three money management variables:
Security Symbol: This field allows you to enter the security to buy or short in order to hedge your portfolio.
It could be a stock symbol, example: short the stock of a competitor of a company whose stock you hold.
It could be an ETF to hedge a portfolio against market risk and sudden drop in the market. In this case you can buy the Short S&P 500 ETF (SH) or the ProShares Ultrashort S&P 500 (SDS) or short the S&P 500 SPDR (SPY) ETF.
Long or Short Strategy: Specify whether to go long or short the security specified above. Type 1 to take a long position and zero or any other value to take a short position.
Percent of equity to invest: This field gets the percent of equity that will be associated with the hedging strategy. The strategy is rebalanced every month.
Here is how it works:
- At the beginning, the trading system will buy or short a number of shares of the security you specified (Example: SPY) corresponding to the percent of equity defined (Example: 10%)
In long strategy with 100 000$ start capital, the trading system will use 10 000$ to short SPY.
- Each month, the number of shares of the SPY ETF is adjusted based on the percent of equity.
Example: if after a month the portfolio equity becomes equal to 120 000$ and the SPY position remains the same, then the new capital associated with the hedge will be equal to 12.000$ and therefore the trading system will use 2000$ (120 000$ * 10% - 10 000$) to scale-in the SPY position.
