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Hedging Tech-heavy Portfolios with Futures: Gold, Blue Chips & Trade Setups — Ben Watson (7/7/26)
Ben Watson reviews gold, tech and blue-chip futures, beta-weight hedges, technical signals, and futures/options strategies using thinkorswim paperMoney. Educational; not investment advice.
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What stands out
On Schwab's Trader Talks webcast, Ben Watson walked viewers through using futures to hedge a tech-heavy portfolio, beta-weighting positions and juggling gold and blue-chip futures in the thinkorswim paperMoney simulator. That hands-on approach matters because it ties abstract risk concepts to the exact tools Charles Schwab offers to retail and advisor clients, while reminding traders of the specific regulatory cautions around options and virtual-currency futures. For anyone holding concentrated tech exposure, the class is less about making a trade and more about learning how to avoid one you will regret.