The hedging effectiveness for the three hedge ratios are found in Table 7. The effectiveness of the naive hedge ratio was similar to the OLS and GARCH for all commodities except feeder cattle, live cattle and lean hogs. In all three cases, the naive hedge ratio increased rather than decreased the varianc eof the portfolio. The OLS hedge ratio outperformed the GARCH hedge ratio for silver, soybean meal, feeder cattle, live cattle, and lean hogs. The GARCH hedge ratio only outperformed the OLS hedge ratio for silver. Equal performance was observed for the two remaining commodities, corn and wheat. Overall, the maximum difference between the performance of the OLS and GARCH hedge ratio was 4.05%.