Msrpaul

The Treasury Short: Still Viable?

RYJUX is a better treasury short play than TBT for a long term hold, buy TBT only to short a panic in TLT. RYJUX leverage is about 1.25, and thus less worry of decay. More people should know this

Bond ETFs: Are Treasury Bonds Entering a Downtrend?

Other than shorting the TLT, the only other way I can play this trade is RYJUX. I have been looking at this trade for weeks now, and only avoided it because another "shoe" dropping will send equity scardicats back to bonds, thus my conclusion is shorting the TLT is the same strategy as going long stocks....and that really wouldn't be economic diversification, would it?