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Webby's avatar

I got-11.5 Cumulative Delta and Hedged it with 5 Long underlying, 5 long call deep ITM, 1 short put deep ITM, 1 long call ATM? I get the principle of it I think, but guess there are better combinations to be had when hedging?!

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Webby's avatar

Yes, I got you. Is it also better to have less positions open when hedging to keep on top of things? eg I had 4 different hedges whilst the example you gave me in reply only had 2?

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J Simpson.'s avatar

I'm giving this a try : in your example I get a Delta of -11.5.

To Delta hedge : buy 11 ATM calls, and buy 6 futures.

I don't know if my Delta hedge makes any sense or not.

Just trying to get a feel for this !

I would like to hear more about futures and hedge/Delta hedging.

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WOWEEZOWEE's avatar

ty for the post. to answer your question couldn't you just do nothing since your cumΔ is already 0? here is my work:

S 4x futes = (-4)x(-1) = Δ4

S 3x ATM c = (-3)x(-.5) = Δ1.5

L 6x deepITM p = (6)x(-1)= Δ-6

cumΔ=0

for next post mark me down for hedging w/futures

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yup helps a lot. thanks for responding. i see what i did wrong there.

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