Bonds: All Time Low Yields!
- Thread starter The Answer
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Nitro,
If you are looking for good action in the securities markets with good liquidity, the T-bond and the 10 YR Note is it. And they are traded electronically. Computer dominated almost 4 to 1 computer to pit. There is no need to trade the mini bond or note. The big ones are only $31.25 a tick. Notes on avg will have a 16-20 tick range and bonds 25-30. Stay away from the Eurodollars. It is like watching paint dry. The commissions will kill you.
Here are ZB volumes figures:
Final Futures Volume / Open Interest
For May 14, 2003
Last Updated: May 15, 2003 10:06 AM CST
30 Year U.S. Treasury Bonds Month a/c/e
308,144
http://www.cbot.com/cbot/quotes/futures_volume_detail/0,1589,12+410+415+8,00.html
ZN a/c/e volume
594,007
http://www.cbot.com/cbot/quotes/futures_volume_detail/0,1589,12+410+415+9,00.html
You are correct...
ZN - ZB my bread and butter... when someone says they are in a trade and gives the wrong contract information, makes a guy wonder about the validity of the trade.
ZN is like trading a mini ZB, but with twice to three times the volume. As the ZN is now the becnhmark it has the majority of the volume.
The 5 will often have more volume than the 30 (ZF and ZB respectively) which puts it in the fairly active catagory.
Minis are not needed on something that has a margin of ZF - 1215 and ZT - 1013.
All bond and note markets above are the electronic version of those traded in the pits.
Make 'em pretty, Chris
stocks going up
bonds going up
gold going up
all at the same time.
this only means one thing to me, and that is big money is being pumped into the financial system by the fed.
bonds going up
gold going up
all at the same time.
this only means one thing to me, and that is big money is being pumped into the financial system by the fed.
