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Market neutral and hedging
A cluster on building cleaner market-neutral trades, testing whether hedges remove the risk you think they remove, and deciding when event-style markets and perps belong in the same structure.
Reviewed by Alphora Research
Updated June 30, 2026
Many trades get called market neutral long before they are actually neutral. In practice, neutrality depends on what risk you are trying to remove, how the hedge ratio was chosen, how the two legs behave under stress, and whether the relationship survives the regime you are trading.
For Alphora-style research, a hedge is not just a second line item. It is a testable claim about what exposure should disappear, what residual edge should remain, and how execution, liquidity, expiry, and signal format can break that claim. This cluster turns that broad idea into separate questions about beta removal, hedge quality, mismatch, and event-market plus perp workflows.
Questions in this cluster
Each page answers a narrower search-shaped question while staying linked to the broader research theme.
Strategy intuition
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What is beta neutrality?
Learn what is beta neutrality, why it matters in market neutral and hedging, and how it connects to a practical systematic trading workflow.
Strategy intuition
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Why does beta neutrality matter in systematic trading?
Learn why does beta neutrality matter in systematic trading, why it matters in market neutral and hedging, and how it connects to a practical systematic trading workflow.
Strategy intuition
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What are hedge ratios?
Learn what are hedge ratios, why it matters in market neutral and hedging, and how it connects to a practical systematic trading workflow.
Strategy intuition
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Why do hedge ratios matter in systematic trading?
Learn why do hedge ratios matter in systematic trading, why it matters in market neutral and hedging, and how it connects to a practical systematic trading workflow.
Strategy intuition
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What is residual exposure?
Learn what is residual exposure, why it matters in market neutral and hedging, and how it connects to a practical systematic trading workflow.
Strategy intuition
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Why does residual exposure matter in systematic trading?
Learn why does residual exposure matter in systematic trading, why it matters in market neutral and hedging, and how it connects to a practical systematic trading workflow.
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What are basis hedges?
Learn what are basis hedges, why it matters in market neutral and hedging, and how it connects to a practical systematic trading workflow.
Strategy intuition
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Why do basis hedges matter in systematic trading?
Learn why do basis hedges matter in systematic trading, why it matters in market neutral and hedging, and how it connects to a practical systematic trading workflow.
Strategy intuition
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What makes a trade market neutral in practice?
Learn what traders really mean by market neutral, why dollar neutrality is not enough on its own, and how Alphora-style research checks whether returns are coming from the spread instead of the tape.
Risk management
research
How do you know whether a hedge actually works?
Learn how to evaluate hedge quality with residual beta, shock tests, and paper-trading evidence instead of relying on intuition or a cleaner-looking chart.
Use cases
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When should you hedge an event market with a perp?
Learn when a perp is a useful directional offset for an event-style market, and when payoff mismatch makes the hedge worse than the original risk.
Portfolio construction
implementation
How do you remove beta from a crypto trade idea?
Learn practical beta-removal choices for crypto trades, from benchmark selection to hedge-ratio estimation and refresh rules.
Risk management
research
What causes hedge mismatch in a market-neutral trade?
Learn the main reasons a hedge misses the exposure it was supposed to offset, and how to spot mismatch before it turns into unexplained PnL.
Portfolio construction
implementation
How should you size the hedge leg in a pair trade?
Learn how traders size the offsetting leg of a pair trade and why hedge sizing is really a risk-budget decision.
Risk management
research
Why can a market-neutral trade still lose on correlation breakdown?
Learn why residual losses in market-neutral trades often come from changing relationships rather than from a failure to put one leg long and one leg short.
Use cases
implementation
How do you pair an event-style market with a perp without over-hedging?
Learn a practical way to combine event-style markets and perps so the perp offsets broad tape moves without overwhelming the event thesis.