How to short U.S Government Bonds?

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Marc Faber is saying that the trade for 2009 is to short US government bonds. How would one go about doing this? I know nothing of bonds or the bond market, so....will want to ease into this. Thanks
 
So, if I am bearish on US government bonds, then I would go long TBT? Just want to make sure. Never dealt with an ultrashort ETF.
 
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So, I can just short any of the EFT's that are long government?

EDV
IEF
PLW
TLH
TLT
TLO
TBT
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Shorting EDV is your best choice because it contains long term zero coupon bonds. If you go with TBT and PST you will have to be long on them.
 
Futures exists. Been trading the ZB (30y) and ZN (10y) T-bond futures on CBOT/ECBOT back 4-5 years ago. The size is $100k per contract but the margin requirement is low. Maybe there is even minis available today.
 
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is TBT going to be like the skf? mean if you had the trade of 2008 (short finance stocks) and bought skf you where only up like 5-10%. so will you get screwed in tbt like the people who where right wanting to short finance stocks but only ended up making 10% while xlf was down like 60%
 
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is TBT going to be like the skf? mean if you had the trade of 2008 (short finance stocks) and bought skf you where only up like 5-10%. so will you get screwed in tbt like the people who where right wanting to short finance stocks but only ended up making 10% while xlf was down like 60%
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I agree with these concerns. I wouldn't trust the 'financial engineering' of ETFs either
 
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