I have three bond funds that I use for a regular market hedge as well as a possible target for short-term down market conditions. Unless some last minute Hail Mary comes out on this US/China trade dispute, I expect the rest of May and maybe June and July to be difficult months to weather in stocks. There's some money to be made, but it'll require strict...
LQD - Strong Sell BOND AMEX:GOVT BND
29th of November, 2007 - bond market experiences a flash crash which is quickly bought up by the FED in an effort to prevent widespread debt defaults. Worked for a few months only for companies to begin defaulting anyway, probably through a series of realized margin or interest spike risks. This is what caused the financial markets to implode in 2008. Watch and...
Bonds are dropped... Please help me here - what does this mean exactly ?
For BND...the 79.80 level is where the problems are. If it breaks up through the 79.80 level decisively the entire Yield Curve will have to invert until everything unwinds. A rejection would be tell tale of Central Bank intervention. They would be buying stocks and forcing everyone into stocks instead of Bonds.
Bond Market Flight To Safety... LOL When will these people ever learn ? . Unprecedented levels of us debt . Unwinding of petro dollar status . Primary buyer of us 10 years is us treasury via short term derivatives swap machinery . The game will continue until it can't ! Reallocate to Bitcoin, Ripple XRP.... Now !
The Vanguard Total Bond Market ETF, chart (BND) has shown a falling wedge pattern.