U.S. Equities - Pattern Day TradingWhat are you trying to hedge?
Right... is there a good book or something on this? I want to learn more.The concept of hedging is based upon the idea of having a cleaner exposure to what you are betting on.
For example, say you think stock A is poised to rally. However, you may think that stocks in general are in a bear market. In this case, you would want to hedge out equity beta, while being long your stock. So you’d go long stock A / short market index.
You can do this with increasing granularity to hedge out sector and factor risks.
Yes — pick up a textbook on investment management and portfolio theory. Fundamentally, the topics you want to study are asset pricing models (capm, apt, fama-French, etc.), and then move onto portfolio management (optimizing risk and return, hedging, etc.Right... is there a good book or something on this? I want to learn more.