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Sorry because I didn't read all the posts but a cheapest idea could be to place your hedge on a demo account and you place only the winning position on your real account...so you pay only one spread.
Not sure what purpose that would hold.... the point of a hedge is to keep your trade going. you go long on side a but the market trends down, so you enter short on side b, which generates profit. its a zero sum amt as you lose on side a, but profit on side b. if your live acct goes negative, the hedge on a demo isnt going to balance it to a zero loss... placing only the winning position in the live acct would entail knowing which position is going to be the winning one, and if you know that, theres no reason to hedge anything. Hedging is simply a way to keep a trade open and avoid drawdown.
Trev