Always buy in auction. If you buy in secondary market you pay offered side. The Treasury auction process provides the best opportunity to get the best price. The Treasury dealers usually bid the auctions so the pricing is cheap to the existing curve.
When you purchase treasuries outright you can review the maturity date and confirm the date you prefer to have principal repayment. Since Bills mature on Tuesday or Thursday normally they are a bit easier to manage maturities and reinvestments.
Treasury bills mature on Tuesday and Thursday. Coupon securities can mature on ANY day of the week on the 15 mid month or at monthend. On a Saturday maturity the Treasury pays coupon interest and principal repayment on the next business day so for August maturities payment will be Tuesday...
Leverage funds are all in basis trades. Long cash treasuries short futures. Asset mangers are just long futures in their books. The leverage funds repo their cash Treasury positions daily overnight. Say the implied repo rate is 5.85% to be long cash short futures until the delivery date. The...
I would think of it as buying on the bid side of the market vs paying the offer side when you purchase from a dealer/broker. During the normal Treasury auction process dealers hit the new issue market so that the auction issues price at levels where dealers are mostly likely able to make money...
It was reported that this trade was a new long in the market. Open interest increased from 1.196M on April 8 to 1.251M on April 9 a 55,000 increase.
@ $25 per tick works out to $46,000,000 loss
My guess not a straight bet but sure is painful
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/your-short-has-been-rejected-massive-stock-lending-firm-processing-over-2tn-transactions
ICBC was hacked in November they cleared 25% of UST market now they clear zero. I'm sure the same fate awaits these guys.
Yes
ZQ = Daily Fed Effective
SR1 = Daily SOFR Rate
At the moment setting @ 3bps spread. Also ZQ a bit better liquidity out the curve and ZQ a slightly larger sized contract