help. A simple guide to trade canadian treasury bills interactive broker??

[klattermusen]

Hey all

I barely figured out how to trade US treasury bills on IB.

How do trade canadian treasury bills ? As simple as possible please. Especially the name of the acutal bills...they are so unintuitive lol.

THANK YOU

 

[Drawdown Addict]

If you are looking to trade them and not to hold them to maturity, the futures market is the place.

 

[klattermusen]

If you are looking to trade them and not to hold them to maturity, the futures market is the place.

thanks. But I'm with interbrokers - not sure what you mean by futures.

 

[TimtheEnchanter]

IB has a futures trading platform, and Bonds and T-Bills are traded as full and mini contracts. IB should have a fixed-income research place where you could buy corporate and government and treasury bills or muni bonds. Avoid futures if not experienced!

 

[klattermusen]

IB has a futures trading platform, and Bonds and T-Bills are traded as full and mini contracts. IB should have a fixed-income research place where you could buy corporate and government and treasury bills or muni bonds. Avoid futures if not experienced!

thanks. Yes i just want to buy 1 or 2 month out cnd bills nothing messy.

 

[TimtheEnchanter]

thanks. Yes I just want to buy 1 or 2 months out and bills nothing messy.

Sorry I do not use IB and their software (and lack of customer care) drive me insane; possible that TWS is not the pace but their webpage is for this action. https://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/trading/products-bonds.php

 

[Drawdown Addict]

thanks. Yes i just want to buy 1 or 2 month out cnd bills nothing messy.

Is not about any mess, you will be required to answer a few questions about your experience before they let you trade with futures. You have to sign up for a subscription to the futures market that you are planning to trade.

Normally t-bills are traded by futures, so will have to get used to that market.

You could always ask the Canadian authority to purchase bonds, but that is a very old fashion way of doing it. I am not even sure if that is still available these days.

 

[TimtheEnchanter]

Is not about any mess, you will be required to answer a few questions about your experience before they let you trade with futures. You have to sign up for a subscription to the futures market that you are planning to trade.

Normally t-bills are traded by futures, so will have to get used to that market.

You could always ask the Canadian authority to purchase bonds, but that is a very old fashion way of doing it. I am not even sure if that is still available these days.

But is there even a Canadian T-note future? I would not trade futures unless paper traded for a while!

 

[Drawdown Addict]

But is there even a Canadian T-note future? I would not trade futures unless paper traded for a while!

You are right , first try a paper account.
I am not familiar with the Canadian market but I can imagine that the natural way should be through futures.
At least it is the way in any other country.
Since OP is asking for help it must be a bit difficult to find the way.