long hedge

long hedge definition - finance
A strategy in which futures contracts are purchased in order to protect against price changes in a cash commodity. A hedge is a trading strategy that creates a position in the futures or options market that is designed to protect against price changes in the underlying commodity or futures or options instrument. See also hedge.

Webster's New World Finance and Investment Dictionary Copyright © 2003 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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