Showing posts with label Hedging. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hedging. Show all posts

Monday, January 5, 2009

How To Grow Your Own Summer Hedging

Most hedge plants bought in the UK each year are bare-rooted. These have many advantages over those grown in pots, but all their size, strength and low cost cannot overcome two huge shortcomings.

Not all hedging stock can be successfully planted when bare-rooted, irrespective of the time of year. Secondly, if you want to plant in the summer months (April - September) you have no choice but to use container grown hedges.

So, if the planners are on your back in May, if a car mows down your treasured yew hedge while on its way to (or more likely from) Glastonbury in June or if you suddenly fall out with a neighbour in July and want to blot them out, you turn to potted hedge plants. They cost more, but they fill a gap in more ways than one.

You should be able to find most of the likely suspects in containers from a specialist supplier. Garden centres have many uses (I am going to spend several hundred pounds in one tomorrow) but selling relatively large numbers of the same plant is not one of them. You do not need variety (which is what a good garden centre should provide), instead you need consistent size and quality and you want to buy plants or container grown hedges that have been grown specifically to develop into bushy hedges.

The list of plants you may want to consider would include - in alphabetical order - beech, box, escallonia, griselinia, holly, hornbeam, laurel, photinia, privet, viburnum and yew. All of these are either evergreen or hold their leaves through the winter. All grow extremely well in containers, unlike many of the more normal bare-root subjects which hate having their roots constrained. All enjoy being planted in the relatively warm soils of June - September and they all establish well from potted hedging.

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Tuesday, December 30, 2008

Is There Such A Thing As Hedging in the Forex Market

For those who are not familiar with the Forex market, the word “hedging” could mean absolutely nothing. However, those who are regular traders know that there are many ways to use this term in trading. Most of the time when you hear this phrase it means that you are trying to reduce your risk in trading. It is something that everyone who plans to invest should know about. It is a technique that can protect your investments to some degree.

While hedging is a popular trading term, it is also one that seems a little mysterious. It is much like an insurance plan. When you hedge, you insure yourself in case a negative event may occur. This does not mean that when a negative event occurs you will come out of it completely unaffected. It only means that if you properly hedge yourself, you won’t experience a huge impact. Think of it like your auto insurance. You purchase it in case something bad happens. It does not prevent bad things from happening, but if they do, you are able to recover a lot better than if you were uninsured.

Anyone who is involved in trading can learn to hedge. From huge corporations to small individual investors, hedging is something that is widely practiced. The manner in which they do this involves using market instruments to offset the risk of any negative movement in price. The easiest way to do this is to hedge an investment with another investment. For example, the way most people would deal with this is to invest in two different things with negative correlations. This is still costly to some people; however, the protection you get from doing this is well worth the cost most of the time. When you begin learning more about hedging, you start to understand why not many people completely know what it is all about. The techniques used to hedge are done by using derivatives. These are complicated instruments of finance and most often only used by seasoned investors.

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