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@TimtheEnchanter also note the difference in spread between a comparable US Treasury bond. Schwab bond is 6½ times bigger! Personally, I hate big spreads... so much less liquid. - Schwab bond spread: 5.910 - 5.602 = 0.308 - Treasury bond spread: 5.409 - 5.362 = 0.047 You will pay, and pay...

Phew good! I was worried about you <3

I'll get back to you. I have to take a closer look. Did you purchase these at issue or on the secondary market?

Can you post the CUSIP please? I want to see if it's callable. That's BIG, because if prevailing rates happen to plunge and your bond goes UP in value, they can call it back, stick you with your money, and not pay your interest. This is a risk that must be reflected in the yield. You see my...

- Is it callable? Did I miss something or did you omit the most important aspect? Not that it matters with the upcoming rate hike. - With comparable T bills paying 5½%, and a rate hike expected in two weeks at the FOMC meeting, you are not being compensated for the additional risk of a corp...

Reference please?

Give me a week or two to dig up my old algos and time them. Despite an attractive T-Bill market, I want to get back into algo trading. This market won’t last forever!

Well the damage is done… the stuff I buy has pretty much doubled in price since this whole fiasco commenced.

Yes that’s what I had in mind. Just some simple market, limit, stop orders. Note that IB and other brokers have a large portfolio of order types, and these can actually work in your favor. Some of the more complex order types are routed to a different, _faster_ queue!

What are y’all doing to get around inflation? Some is unavoidable, but this has helped me a lot: - Repairing my old car. Instead of buying a new one. Saving huge dollars. - Food shopping at cheaper stores. I save about 50% by traveling a few miles away - Taking advantage of credit card promos...

I will measure again. It’s been since 2016 since I ran those algos.

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Algo/API is the fastest way. With an Optimim Cable connection the best I’ve seen is about a 250ms response time.. sometimes 1500ms if they drag their feet and giving better fills to a preffered client (which is effing annoying). I have FIOS now so I really should benchmark it again. Regardless I...

You can chat it up on different trading forums… create a bit of a buzz, and draw in some buyers and sellers. Kinda like how Bloomberg news is always squawking about $TSLA. (Is $TSLA blasphemy permitted on the forum?)

I’m actually starting to think that this “looming recession” is fully priced in, including at least two if not three ¼pt raises to over 6% by EOY. unless the Fed goes balls-to-the-wall and cranks the fed fund rate up over 7% (or more), methinks that the $SPY will break 500 by year end. Sh!t...

Gonna make a killing on my stamp futures contracts @64.

Eureka! I got it… thank you! So where are they parking their funds? Money markets and/or more liquid instruments, which allow them to “wait and see” what happens?

Referencing the article below, I don’t understand why a bond selloff would occur. I can understand why peeps would bail on stocks, with an expectation of a big rate hike, and efforts to “torpedo” the economy to cool it down and squelch high inflation. But why a bond selloff? Wouldn’t investors...

What kind of “plan?” Schedule something?

I’m in Summit. Maybe meet up in Morristown, or play a round of golf?