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Practical case: how to hedge a stock drop without selling it

Scenario: you hold $5,000 in real Nvidia shares via Binance (Nest Trading). The company’s report is coming out in a week, and you want to protect yourself from a possible crash—yet you don’t want to sell the position (capital gains taxes, long-term plan).

Solution — Binance TradFi hedging instruments without selling the underlying asset:

🔹 NVDA equity perpetual — open a short position with modest leverage in an amount that covers part of the risk. It trades 24/7, so the hedge works even over the weekend before the report.
🔹 Or a put option — buy an NVDA put option (physically backed contract), fixing the maximum loss at the option premium value—an even more precise tool than a perpetual for one-off risks like a “report.”

What happens next:
— If the stock falls after the report → the profit from the short/option partially offsets the decline in the value of the actual shares.
— If the stock rises → you only lose the option premium (or a small amount on the perpetual), while your underlying stock position grows.

Key advantage: everything happens in a single account.

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