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  • Gold Hedging: Up Close And Personal  [View article]
    Those aren't prices; they're hedge ratios.


    On Dec 02 08:48 AM ArchDukeFerdinand wrote:

    > The prices quoted on some of these gold stock is totally inaccurate.
    >
    > NG is selling for .55 cents and AGT is around .13 cents.
    Dec 02 23:53 pm |Rating: +1 0 |Link to Comment
  • Gold Hedging: Up Close And Personal  [View article]
    Selling and rebuying is market timing itself. The hedge dampens volatility which preserves capital.


    On Dec 01 09:32 PM Smarty_Pants wrote:

    > I can never understand why I would want to hedge one stock with another
    > under the presumption they will offset each other. This is essentially
    > a variation on market timing because in order to take advantage of
    > the expected gold rally you have to know when to remove the hedge
    > (as gold starts a bull run).
    >
    > Why not just sell your gold stock and wait for the point where you
    > would otherwise remove the hedge and buy the stock back again? Is
    > this not equivalent to a pure hedge?
    Dec 01 23:57 pm |Rating: +1 0 |Link to Comment
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