Anyone in the area?
Seems there as a 45-day hold time before securities purchased via Treasury Direct can be transferred to a broker and marketed. Is this true? Is...
Anyone know the smart way to view and buy Muni offerings directly (e.g., not through a broker)? In other words, buy the municipal bonds directly...
Anyone know of a calculator that will tell me if it makes sense to sell a bond at current market price? That the market price of the bond has...
Anyone using GPT for a trading edge? Create an LLM, or LTM (“large trading model :)” trained on equities data, generate a future market state,...
Hawkish. Two more rate increases this year, still waiting for effect of previous hikes. Unanimity on no rate cut, and no cuts expected for years....
Wowee wow wow... a set of AWS services went down today. Quite alarming, especially as companies move more to cloud-based infrastructure. They're...
“Open Market Operations” So the Fed, with the Treasury, who together control the money supply, is trading in the market to move rates? - Is this...
Now that the debt ceiling has been lifted, we have an action-packed agenda for Treasury auctions next week. About $300B in liquidity about to be...
A friend hit me with a tough argument to counter. I was preaching my love of the bond markets, and then opined that the top ETFs are superior:...
Can anyone with a terminal plz take a look at the Credit Default Swap curves for these guys and post how bad it looks? Ty Keith :^)
Brethren: Where can I purchase retail agency bonds? - IB: Just had a talk with them, and they do not offer Agency bonds. - Schwab: Nope.. their...
Hello All, How would I go about getting licensed as a fixed-income advisor? Also, how difficult is it to set up a company to take on clients and...
Anyone know how to view fees charged for a bond trade? For example, how to show the commissions/fees for a Treasury bond buy. Thanks, Keith
Fed rate adjustment on June 16th?
Assuming a recession in 2024, what is the best position to secure? I’d prefer a long market position in an ETF or something to both avoid short...
Any thoughts on Brazilian Treasuries? 10y is returning about 12%. SnP rates them BB-, and they’ve defaulted 10 times in history: 1898, 1902,...
How do you handle your coupon payments? Not sure what to do with these bits of ca$h that get paid out. I try to aggregate them into other coupon...
What is the retail broker that has the largest set of Fixed Income offerings, both total number of products, and types of products. As I...
Of the 11 S&P sectors, the best place to be in times of recession is Pharma, because people have to keep taking their medicines. What do you...
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