What is Emergency Hedging?Emergency hedging is making a second trade specifically for the purpose of protecting a primary trade. There are a few different methods of emergency hedging. Some methods use options strategies, some use combinations of different types of markets (such as stocks and futures), some use other markets on the same exchange, and some use markets on different exchanges. Which method you decide to use will vary depending upon the trade that you have open, and the type of problem that is being experienced