Naked Position
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Few CEOs or heads of government demonstrate wisdom and courage when investors start buying naked credit default swap (CDS) protection against their company's or country's default.
Naked Position. An investor is said to hold a naked position if he holds only a stock, bond, put, call, etc. If he holds both the underlying asset and a put, call, etc. he is said to have a hedged position.
Naked Position
A securities position that is not protected from market risk in any manner.
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Naked Position
A securities position that is not hedged from market risk. Both the potential gain and the potential risk are greater when a position is naked instead of covered (a covered position is hedged from market risk).
naked position The holding of unhedged securities against market risk. naked put A short put option position, where the writer does not have the corresponding...
The time spread can leave you with a residual naked position that needs to be managed for risk at expiration of the front month option.
This can be influenced by many variable although the total impact is less than the exposure for a naked position. When a hedge is placed, price risk is transformed into basis risk.
 See also: Naked Option, Covered Call, Banks, Mergers, Long position
  
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