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New Podcast: Why Hedging Is the Answer for Portfolios | Can Hedgers Buy Markets Lower?

This week you may notice some adjustments within portfolios as the ZEGA traders look to rebalance a bit by reinvesting some avoided losses. Typically, we have several tranches or expirations on at a time. As those move towards maturity, we roll them forward to a future expiration. The benefit of having these dates spread apart is the ability to monetize hedges via reinvesting avoided losses.

Users of our Buy and Hedge Retirement strategy know that the portfolio is made up of long call options that own a notional amount of the S&P 500 index, and yield producing positions which is currently in fixed income.

Jay Pestrichelli is back to join Derek Moore to talk about the recent blowups in Crypto and review some contrarian picks that worked and didn’t work.

After much speculation, its confirmed, we officially entered a bear market closing below 20% from the January 3rd top earlier this year.

Jay Pestrichelli and Derek Moore are back to discuss what asset classes have the best real, after inflation returns historically. Plus, is bad news good news around economic releases as it pertains to chances the Fed can’t raise rates as much?