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Strategies & Market Trends : Hedging Strategies; How to Hedge Unrealised Gains -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: Gordon Hodgson who wrote (5)12/26/1999 11:14:00 AM
From: OX  Respond to of 26
 
Writing calls doesn't seem like a good hedge to me. There's only so much downside protection and if the underlying rallies, you're capped. For certain strategies, I do like to write options however.
Buying (OTM) calls is a hedge in itself.

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