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Buying hedge

Buying Futures to Hedge against the sale of a Cash commodity. An investor might use a Buying hedge if he/she expects to Buy a certain amount of the commodity in the future, but is worried about price fluctuations. He/she will Buy a futures Contract in Order to be able to Buy the commodity at a fixed price later. also called Long hedge.

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