Al_Dente wrote:Remote post here, my only one today
TRUST NO BOND QUOTES OR BOND CHARTS COMING FROM stockcharts.com
Last night they updated fresh EOD end of day quotes on bonds, when the bond market was closed yesterday. Not joking.
$UST 10 yr bonds off -1.05% YESTERDAY. $USB 30 yr bonds off -1.89% YESTERDAY (yes, I’ve double checked v. friday).
Those are big percentages in bonds... and they broke below support…. on a closed day…THIS IS RIDICULOUS…
Only TLT(the 20s) is holding up…. a bit misleading, don’t u think, as it is among the few bond “proxies” we can actively trade in the equities mkt…… what kind of proxy is that?…..so, is TLT being “held up” by the active trading volume in the ETF stock market? And does that now give us a DISTORTED PICTURE of "real" bonds, rendering TLT functionally useless as indicator of true bond mkt action?
The irony is we pay money to suckcharts.com for their spurious quotes on the biggest market in the world, then we have to troll free sites to find the truth. So I’ve thrown ALL my stkchrts bond info into the trash, along with $LIBOR where feeble quotes persisted all last week.
The only inkling we’ve had on this board about the massive bond dump has been jarbo’s EXCELLENT posts from the bond floors all last week. We kept reading those reports, then checking TLT, MUB etc… couldn’t see the effect yet…didn’t get too alarmed…. Big mistake.
BTW: here was a saturday heads up on the wholesale treasury dump, from zerohedge, which I did not post yesterday as I thought it was a bit too tinfoil for this board. Ignore the part where Tyler hypothetically blames geitner, et al., and read the real meat.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/did-forei ... -treasurys
Has the bond market changed the game on us here folks? Or is Al just overreacting because he is so furious?
Use finviz.com until we can find a better view and sort this out.