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• HEDGING
  
  Hedging is an investment technique designed to offset, or neutralize, a potential loss on one investment by purchasing a second investment that you expect to perform in the opposite way. For example, you might sell short one stock, expecting its price to drop. At the same time, you would buy a call option on the same stock as insurance against a large increase in value.
  
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