A common security technique used in the financial industry is long/short-investment technology. Futures and futures contracts are a means of hedge against the risk of unfavourable market movements. Commodity markets originally developed in the 19th century, but over the past 50 years a large global commodity market has developed to cover the risks that threaten financial markets. Tracker coverage is a pre-purhase approach in which the open position is reduced as the due date is near. Cobertura, en finanzas, (in inglés hedging o hedge) se llama al conjunto de operaciones dirigidas a anular o reducir el riesgo de un activo o pasivo financiero en posesién de una empresa o de un particular. Los fondos creados con este fin se denominan fondos de cobertura o hedge funds. A common way to hedge against risk is to purchase insurance to protect against financial losses due to property damage or accidental loss, personal injury or loss of life. Lo mes seguro es que como traders o inversores nunca utilicéis una cobertura o hedging, pero creo que es bueno saber c`mo funciona y tener presente que es una alternativa mes a protegerse en situaciones desfavorables. The government futures markets were created in the 19th century[2] to allow transparent, standardized and efficient coverage of agricultural commodity prices; since then, they have expanded into futures contracts to cover fluctuations in energy, precious metals, foreign currencies and interest rates. En cierto modo hacer hedging no es demasiado diferente de cuando hacemos una operacién de seguro. Por ejemplo, el seguro del coche por robo. Queremos protegernos de un evento que puede acabar pasando y que no podemos controlar (que nos roben el coche) de forma que si sucede no perdamos el valor invertido en el mismo. Individual prices are influenced by long-term price developments in the wholesale trade.
A specific backup corridor around the predefined tracker curve is allowed and a fraction of the open positions decreases as the due date approaches. Due to the uncertainty of future supply and demand fluctuations and the price risk imposed on the farmer, the farmer may, in this example, use various financial transactions to reduce or hedge his risk.