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Hedging is a strategy for risk management employed by investors in order to moderate their level of risk. Hedging involves the adoption of an investment position or decision that is contrary to one’s primary investment strategy. This is to offset the potential risk of one’s primary investment failing to return a substantial profit, or worse yet, returning a substantial loss instead. Hedging thus allows the investor to place a limitation upon his or her potential losses, but because it is based on investing "in the opposite direction" from one’s primary investment, it also entails a limitation on potential gains. A gambler at the roulette wheel, in which a ball lands on red or black, offers an example of hedging by placing a one hundred dollar bet on black and an additional twenty dollar bet on red. This guarantees that at a minimum, the gambler will receive the profits of the twenty dollar bet. |
