Posts Tagged ‘Treasury futures trading’

Options Strategies for an Overshot Market

By Kristina Zurla Landgraf • Jan 27th, 2009 • Category: Broker Commentary, Educational

The February issue of Futures Magazine features an article titled “Options Strategies for an Overshot Market” by Lind Plus Senior Market Strategists Frank D. Cholly and Frank J. Cholly. They discuss three strategies for coping with an overbought market, using “the exponential rise in Treasuries” at the end of 2008 as an example. Read the [...]


Yield Curve and the U.S. Dollar

By Kristina Zurla Landgraf • Nov 11th, 2008 • Category: Broker Commentary, Market Updates

U.S. Dollar and the Yield Curve By Mike Hinman The yield curve is a depiction of the difference between short-term and long-term government interest rates, and you can trade these differentials with futures contracts. Near the shorter end of the curve, a daily chart of five-year Treasury note futures shows the market hit a double [...]