Price hedging definition

Price hedging means using futures contracts or options to guard against unfavorable price changes.

Examples of Price hedging in a sentence

  • Allowance transactions shall include vintage trades and emission for emission trades.20.17(10) Allowance futures or option contracts.a. Price hedging.

  • The gains and losses from allowance transac- tions shall be passed through the energy adjustment as specified in rule 20.9(476).20.17(10) Allowance futures contracts.a. Price hedging.

  • Price hedging for onward sale takes place in consultation with the train operators and the full loss or gain related to the hedging is included in the price they pay for train operating power.

  • Price hedging via long term purchase contracts should beconsidered when assessing wholesale market price impacts.

  • The selection of the Agency’s procurement strategy is driven by the following challenges: • Price hedging: the Agency ought to find the best compromise between hedging against adverse price movements and retaining the flexibility to respond to rapidly changing market conditions• Load hedging: the accuracy of load forecasts increases as time to delivery decreases particularly with regard to switching risk.

  • Price hedging via long term purchase contracts should be considered when assessingwholesale market price impacts.

  • Price hedging will be implemented when market exposure increases significantly.

  • Price hedging has been used in the oil and gas industry, as well as many other commodity businesses, for decades.

  • Price hedging in the Energy businessEURm 2012/13 2011/12 Nominal volumes Fair values Nominal volumes Fair values Purchases The sensitivity of measurement to market prices is discussed below.

  • Price hedging is already used by larger operators in developed and developing countries for tradable commodities (in the United States, the Chicago Mercantile Exchange Group has been a pioneer institution).

Related to Price hedging

  • Hedge or “hedging” means a strategy used to offset or reduce the risk associated with an investment or a group of investments.

  • Swap means, any agreement, contract, or transaction that constitutes a “swap” within the meaning of Section 1a(47) of the Commodity Exchange Act.

  • Forward Contract means, for each Forward, the contract evidencing such Forward between the Company and the Forward Purchaser, which shall be comprised of the Master Forward Confirmation and the related “Supplemental Confirmation” (as defined in the Master Forward Confirmation) for such Forward.

  • Futures Contract means a Financial Futures Contract and/or Stock Index Futures Contracts.