Best GE hedge?

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DataCruncher

Want to protect against GE downside....
curious as to what you think is best option....perhaps just use a short S&P ETF.

What do you think?
 
Quote from turkeyneck:

Long GE put? :D
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I sold a bunch of those puts a while back.

Jan 16's

:)

In all honesty I think GE is a good buy for a long term horizon. (ie 10 year outlook)

I have accumulated quite a position the last few months. Thing was selling in the single digits.

The only Financial I feel is a good buy.

Plus its a nice cash cow for collecting call premiums on long positions.
 
I used to trade GE quite a lot; it didn't seem to correlate very well with anything. You could check market-topology.com for some possible ideas. Maybe you could think about using a collar for some/all of the position. If you put on a collar for 50% of the position, you would be somewhat protected and still able to participate if GE starts moving up.
 
I was also looking at XLI, GE is probably the largest holding in that ETF, but due to the large financial component in GE, the correlation probably isn't very good.
 
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I used to trade GE quite a lot; it didn't seem to correlate very well with anything.
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Yahoo finance lists the beta of GE as 1.7. Couldn't I just use that info to calculate the right ratio of short S&P ETF shares to hold in order to hedge GE exposure?
 
Quote from DataCruncher:

Yahoo finance lists the beta of GE as 1.7. Couldn't I just use that info to calculate the right ratio of short S&P ETF shares to hold in order to hedge GE exposure?
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data, i am looking at 1.208 beta on GE, for more update number. Yahoo, and other free sources beta's lookback were more on multi year. FYI
 
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