Hedgers

Most big banks, for instance, take bets on prices but are still classified as hedgers because they use futures markets to off-set the risks they face as swaps dealers. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Since they are classified as hedgers, however, they can still apply for exemptions on speculative position limits even though they may be engaged in both hedging and speculative trading. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Most of the physical players (those who deal with concrete energy products) start as hedgers, that is, they trade in order to mitigate the risks they are exposed to. ❋ Unknown (2010)

And there is, AFAICT, a fundamental asymmetry between the "hedgers" and "speculators" in this game, in that the natural hedgers would in general be poorer than the speculators in terms of their actual ownership of assets, and that this is a big problem. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Any proposed change in the margin requirements for speculators wouldn't directly affect "hedgers," such as airlines and farmers who use the futures market to hedge against price risk in their supplies or products. ❋ Unknown (2008)

He had on a pair of large gloves such as hedgers use. ❋ Unknown (2004)

If it doesn't exist, commercial so-called "hedgers", taking short positions in excess of the speculative limits, are committing fraud. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Cardinal Newman's axiom, "It is never worth while to call whity-brown white, for the sake of avoiding scandal"; and Father Faber's own felicitous comment on religious "hedgers," "A moderation which consists in taking immoderate liberties with God is hardly what the ❋ Agnes Repplier (1904)

Physical hedgers have a real stake in agricultural commodities because they grow, harvest, store, transport, market, manufacture, or sell retail food. ❋ Eric Holt Gimenez (2011)

The trading of agricultural commodities in itself is not new and serves an important function amongst physical hedgers because they use it to smooth and plan their operations. ❋ Eric Holt Gimenez (2011)

Volatility is the grist of fund hedging, and government that are slow to respond always create a deficiency for their citizens because foreign hedgers play off the counter cyclity of debt allocation. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The end-user coalition suggests that the MSP term is defined in a way that makes clear it doesn't apply to legitimate hedgers of risk that are neither large, nor interconnected the way dealers are. ❋ Katy Burne (2010)