What is Your Favorite "Safe" Investment : CDs, Online Savings, etc...

Vanguard Prime money market has SEC yield of 2.09%.

I bonds has annual limit of $10,000 per SSN, (additional 5k, if you are getting tax refund and use that refund to purchase IBond) which limits its use. Also you have to deal with TreasuryDirect which is pain
 
OneChicago said:
Calendar spreads using Security Futures. Buying soon to expire (and go through delivery which requires you to deploy cash) and simultaneously Selling a longer dated contract at an interest rate differential. The long SSF(long stock)/Short SSF position is delta one with no need to re-balance. Simply wait for the longer dated contract to expire and the long stock position is used to satisfy the short future obligation and the position becomes null with the interest component remaining in your account as return. Next week is will feature very large spreads as customers roll from Sep to Oct and anyone with an IBKR account can participate. As an example today a customer rolled from Sep to Dec '18 $2.8MM notional value of INTC paying 279.26bp (annualized). The two legged trade done in the same PM account allows for very low performance bonds as the trade is riskless. While there is a non-zero risk that the Options Clearing Corporation could become insolvent this is very unlikely and not associated with the transaction itself.

David
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What's the maximum leverage available here? What happens if the OCC busts?
 
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