"Uh-ohhhhh!" Very low volume in ES futs spells 'Keeping Powder Dry' kind-of day?!?

[speedo]

No stocks

I knoooow... there are no dumb questions.... but here's a dumb one. Did they buy regular securities? I mean like say FB and NFLX and others. P&G etc.
2nd dumb question... are we not allowed to look at what they own?

They don't buy stocks but the funny money produced by their policies do.

 

[tommcginnis]

Assuming that the above analysis will come to fruition. Then buying TBT, TMV and TTT be the way to go right?

The ol' inverted-intuition thing -- gets me every time.
The *product* you are buying produces a stream of cash.
With more persons demanding the product, the necessary stream goes down while the price (for the product) goes up.

So, in 'scarier' times, bond prices go up even as coupon pmts go down.
Or, in 'FED-a'flowing' times, bond prices will sink, and *maybe* pmts (on stuff yet-to-be-issued) will go up.

So, the answer to your question (TBT, TMV, TTT) is, "I don't know." because they are ETFs, not the underlying paper itself. I don't know what determines their payout or market value, or when they go back to market for re-ups. [Think in terms of VXX -- a *marvelous* idea, until you realize the coming VIX-fut-driven contango.]

IN THINKING FURTHER... I think the answer to your question and to mine, would be found in putting up a graph of TBT, TMV, TTT against the SPY (+WMV+DIA+QQQ, "WTH"), and compare movement. A positive/zero correlation would tell you a lot about how TBT, TMV, TTT are structured.

 

[maxinger]

It is quite common for a particular trading instrument to sleep for many many days.

What you should do is to trade other trading instruments that are not sleeping.
eg Russell, Nasdaq.