rsu hedging
With a substantial portion of stock in tc offered by FAANG like companies, I want to know 1) If you can hedge your rsu 2) Do you hedge your rsu
When I worked at a company that actually gave me options I sometimes shorted it. Puts are usually too expensive.
You can't short your own company
Depends on what your agreement says. In my case there were black out periods in which trading company stock wasn't allowed. Outside of those periods it was ok. It wasn't like I was getting against the company. I was hedging.
Nope. Almost always against company policy and a fireable offense to bet against your own stock.
Puts are almost always contrary to company policy. Read your RSU grant document, duh.
At Google you can't buy or sell any company stock options. I looked into this when I got hired. 😁
Any ????
No derivative trades in goog are ever allowed. You can't buy calls, you can't buy puts, you can't short. You also can never use vested GOOG for margin - the theory being that hypothetically you might be forced to sell during a quiet period. Can they actually check any of this? I doubt it.
Of course you can. The company policy can go suck it. They cannot find out easily. The only issue is insider trading regulations which are unlikely to apply to minion SWEs.
Autosale. Put in S&p500 or similar plans.
What you are suggesting is a type of reinvestment. I am looking for protecting the initial price at which stocks we're offered by giving a premium. With this if the stock value falls you will still never loose more than the premium. If it rises you get the profits less the premium.
You can buy a put option for a certain amount giving a guarantee to sell the stock at a set amount