07/16/2019
Some examples of Hedging with us:
Dealers use our Tornado Bullion Cart hedge vehicle from the long as well as the short side. They may for example, get orders from clients for physical coins and quote a certain price over spot and then lock it in by buying down to 1 ounce of gold, silver, platinum or palladium on the OTC market. They accumulate buy orders and then when ready to purchase the metal from their physical dealer, do that and lift the hedge. This is quite useful when the markets have wide ranges like last Thursday move of a full $1 in Silver . It allows you to accumulate orders and then make one big purchase rather than multiple smaller ones.
We also have people simply hedge their physical metal as soon as they get it and when they sell the physical, peel off the hedge, down to one ounce at at time. This allows you to protect your bottom line and if anything, can lower your costs to your clients if you don't have to have as wide a markup to cover the volatility.
If you take in a monster box of silver eagles into your inventory (500 oz of silver), you would lock in your price you paid for it per ounce by SELLING 500 ounces of silver on our platform in the over the counter/spot market.
Then as you sell your coins, you would take off the hedge by BUYING back what you sold, and you can do this as little as one ounce. It could be you sold just 1 coin and you buy back 1 ounce of silver, it could be 10 or even all 500.
Not including the costs to hedge, you basically make money on the physical metal you bought and then lose on the spot market account with us, or you lose on the physical metal and make money on the spot. So if silver dropped 50 cents after you took in your monster box and hedged, then you would sell the coins for a loss of $250 and make about $250 on the hedge account.
We offer London FIX Trades as a way of locking in prices with the Mints you deal with or other Dealers that use the FIX price to lock in your order. You can even lock in customers purchases using the FIX price if a client requests.