Provide your answer to the question below as the number of contracts needed. Round to the nearest whole number. Record your answer as positive if the investor should purchase futures contracts and record your answer as negative if the investor should sell futures contracts (for example, an answer of -1 would indicate the investor should sell one contract, an answer of +5 would indicate the investor should purchase five contracts).

The current S&P 500 futures contract has a price of 2,472 and a multiplier of 50.

An investor currently holds a portfolio with value $276,873 and Beta of 1.5. The investor wants to use futures contracts to alter the beta of the portfolio to 0.44. What position should the investor take in the futures market?