(ZB) 30 year T Bond

Discussion in 'Financial Futures' started by hetrazom, Feb 14, 2018.

  1. southall

    southall

    ZN and ZF could be 0.01 ticks.
    But ZB depth is too shallow for 0.01 tick increment.
    About 10 years ago they changed ZB from 1/32 ticks to 1/64 ticks but they had to revert back after a year to 1/32 because each level was too thin.
    There was not a multi tick wide spread as you might think, but each 1/64 level was populated with about 60 contracts. Instead of several hundred contracts when the tick size is 1/32.
    Basically liquidty/depth shrank because the Market Makers and scalpers didn't like the smaller spread.
     
    Last edited: Feb 15, 2018
    #11     Feb 15, 2018
  2. truetype

    truetype

    How many on ET trade >60 bonds at a clip? Anyway, 1/(2^n) ticks are an accounting nuisance. Bunds trade fine in 0.01s.
     
    #12     Feb 15, 2018
  3. maxinger

    maxinger

    T bond, notes, corn, soya, wheat, cattle, hog futures all use non decimal stuff.
    The exchange chief should have used decimal places right from the start.

    We have to live with the non decimal stuff.
     
    #13     Feb 15, 2018
  4. comagnum

    comagnum

    The treasury bond pricing scheme makes getting Excel functions to work a real pain!
     
    #14     Feb 16, 2018
  5. piezoe

    piezoe

    But admittedly you'd have to be a fairly dimwitted American not to be able to divide, multiply, add and subtract by ten in your head. Whereas mental arithmetic in 32nds or 64ths, unless you are a professional carpenter, is not so intuitive. Let's just decimalize everything and get on with it. Or would you rather we adopted a number system in base 32 instead of base 10? That's another way to go to make arithmetic in 32nds easier. ;)
     
    #15     Feb 28, 2018