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Group 1: Report Industry Investment Rating - No relevant content provided Group 2: Core Views of the Report - The price of lithium carbonate fluctuates violently. Hedging is the core tool for enterprises to manage business risks and stabilize operating profits. Enterprises are advised to comprehensively use futures and options derivatives to build hedging strategies suitable for their own business needs, and adhere to the principle of risk neutrality [1] - Hedging can achieve full - dimensional risk hedging, effectively avoid five core risks faced by enterprises in operation, and provide multiple empowerments for enterprise operations [3] - Different links in the lithium industry chain can choose different hedging strategies according to their risk characteristics, and pay attention to relevant matters in the hedging process [7][8] - Options can make up for the core short - board of futures hedging, locking in risks while retaining the excess returns of favorable price changes [9] - There are four core problems in the hedging business of lithium industry chain enterprises, and corresponding improvement suggestions are put forward [18] Group 3: Summary by Directory Lithium Market Risk Management Necessity - From 2020 - 2022, the price of battery - grade lithium carbonate increased by more than 10 times, and from 2023 - 2025, it plummeted by nearly 90%. Extreme price fluctuations bring challenges to the entire industry chain [3] - Hedging can hedge risks in all dimensions, lock in production and operation costs and terminal benefits, and provide multiple empowerments for enterprise operations [3] Core Hedging Strategies Lithium - battery Enterprises' Core Exposures - Since 2023, the lithium price has been in a downward trend. Upstream and mid - stream enterprises can carry out sell - hedging through lithium carbonate futures. Since mid - 2025, the lithium price has risen, and downstream users can carry out buy - hedging [7] Linear Hedging - Futures hedging is the most mainstream, most liquid and lowest - credit - risk hedging tool. Enterprises in different industrial chain links can choose different hedging operations, and need to pay attention to issues such as basis and margin management [8] Non - linear Hedging - Futures hedging has limitations in giving up excess returns. Options can lock in the maximum loss when the price changes unfavorably and retain all the profit space when the price changes favorably [9] Hedging Strategies for Different Industrial Chain Links - Different links in the lithium industry chain, such as lithium resources, non - integrated salt factories, etc., have different core price risk exposures and corresponding suitable hedging strategies and expected effects [10] Operation Example - An integrated salt factory considered hedging 500 tons of lithium carbonate inventory in late October 2025. It added option protection to the hedging plan. Different profit situations occur under different lithium price trends [13][14] Risk Control and Suggestions - There are four core problems in lithium industry chain enterprises' hedging business, including lack of internal control system, deviation from the principle of risk neutrality, insufficient market understanding and lack of professional talents. Enterprises need to take corresponding improvement measures [18]