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These Treasury Bonds have finally been stopped out. After 60 trading days – just under 4 months – the bonds have finally been stopped out. We entered this trade on 7-12-2011 at a price of 124-31.5 Today, we exited today at 139-3.5 This ends up being $14,125. It’s not bad money for sitting around and [...]
These two markets are just on fire for the last month. We’re trendfollowers, so those profit stops just keep ratcheting up every day for these two markets. I want to point out something remarkable. Gold and Bonds aren’t supposed to rally at the same time.
This is a huge rally – and it’s been so clean. There has been very few pullbacks – so the stop keeps moving up relatively quickly. This trade is already a huge winner. The stop will be moved to the bottom of the consolidation in the next few days. Remarkably, this is over 6 [...]
The 30 year bonds are in a strong rally, and over the next several days, the stop will be moving up dramatically. The 10 day low will move up from 130-18 to 134-02. For a short term trend following system, this is big money at $2,500 per contract. Not bad for a trade that’s just a [...]
There was lots of action everywhere in the markets – but the U.S. Treasuries continued their incredible rally in the last 1/2 of the week. We’ve been long the bonds (USU11). Check out this market action in the 30 year bond: Simply incredible market action that’s great for trendfollowers.
Monetary Realism
