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Treasury Yields Are Crashing-er

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The entire bond complex has come under pressure here with 2Y through 30Y all seeing yields jerk lower. 10Y and 30Y yields are back at the flash-crash Bullard Lows of Oct 16th... as yet another squeeze of record Treasury Shorts blows the minds of every talking head on CNBC...

 

From the close of the day when Jim Bullard saved the world!!!

 

explained by this.. .the asset class that stumped everyone in 2014: Treasurys.

10-yr T-notes

 

Large speculators strongly increased their net short position to -$16.3bn from -$7.5bn notional.
Bearish. The Dec-01 Outside Bar and impulsive break of 2.227% points to
further gains to 2.404% and beyond. Below 2.227% indicates stalling;
bulls gain control below 2.150%

Actually, not "bearish" but "short coveringish"...

Charts: Bloomberg

 

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Fri, 12/12/2014 - 12:18 | 5544521 medium giraffe
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Bullardish!

Fri, 12/12/2014 - 12:38 | 5544633 eclectic syncretist
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Hide your FRN's motherfuckers!!!!  Soon enough you'll realize you can't hide them.

Fri, 12/12/2014 - 12:50 | 5544692 Arius
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Dont fight the FED!

 

that includes tha Chinese Central bank for those traders who do not know it yet ....

Fri, 12/12/2014 - 12:52 | 5544704 ZH Snob
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everyone is begining to realize the emperor wears paper clothes and a major storm front is blackening the sky.

Fri, 12/12/2014 - 12:35 | 5544533 Disc Jockey
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I got nothing.

Fri, 12/12/2014 - 12:38 | 5544629 Temporalist
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Then you got muppeted so you are "Muppetish."

Fri, 12/12/2014 - 12:52 | 5544711 Disc Jockey
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Ah but you make the asumption I had anything to begin with.

The only winning move is not to play...

Fri, 12/12/2014 - 12:57 | 5544733 TBT or not TBT
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I got nothing too,  but my pseudonym is about the unbearable lightness of treasuries, and so it is my duty to say something, in this case nothing.   

Fri, 12/12/2014 - 13:09 | 5544794 OldBoy
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We Muppetized some Folk.

Fri, 12/12/2014 - 12:20 | 5544534 fuu
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But but but I heard bottom was in 2 hours ago.

Fri, 12/12/2014 - 12:38 | 5544634 Temporalist
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Off the lows!  Sidelines!  Green shoots!

Fri, 12/12/2014 - 12:20 | 5544543 101 years and c...
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i thinks the fed is finally trapped.  print moarerest, and bonds reverse, sending yields much higher which is horrible for all the massively over leveraged corporate balance sheets that issued debt at 0% to buy back stock and pay dividends.  or they dont print moarerest, and stocks/commodities crumble, but bonds rise and yields continue to fall.  so, will the fed pick stocks over bonds for the FIRST TIME EVER?  

Fri, 12/12/2014 - 12:28 | 5544579 Bernoulli
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They can't.

Fri, 12/12/2014 - 12:43 | 5544651 Temporalist
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Don't worry the Fed nearly owns everything and when they do everything will be A-Ok!

Fri, 12/12/2014 - 12:20 | 5544544 AlchemyFinancial
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And so is oil.  Broke 61, 60, 59, and now 58 all in the last 24 hours.  DEFLATION.  It's all around us, except in the SPX of course...for now...  http://www.alchemyfinancials.blogspot.com/2014/12/jingle-bells.html

Fri, 12/12/2014 - 12:22 | 5544547 madbraz
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If this had anything to do with speculators, why are yields in all safe haven country bonds crashing faster than ours?  There is no short speculation on those bonds, only ours.

 

If it weren't for the futures market simply being a (failed) mechanism for the NY FED, primary dealers and hedgies to short treasuries, our yields would be on par with Germany's. 

Fri, 12/12/2014 - 12:24 | 5544557 NoVa
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Bond markets do not lie.  Prepare for S&P to decline.

a close on the 10yr below 2.10% opens the path to hit 190 bps on the yield.  10yr has already hit 128 in price - 

 

 

 

Intraday Technical Outlook
As of TYH4 @ 127.00 USH4 @ 144.15

   

Security

Level 1

Level 2

Outside

10yr Resistance

127.13

127.19

127.25

10yr Support

126.22

126.17

126.12

Bond Resistance

144.31

145.07

145.15

Bond Support

143.29

143.22

143.15

Fri, 12/12/2014 - 12:25 | 5544562 Bernoulli
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We're going down.

This shit is about to get real.

Minus 2.5% on the DAX at the moment? I guess some people are starting to panic....

 

Fri, 12/12/2014 - 12:44 | 5544647 medium giraffe
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FTSE having a 'mare too.  If it breaks 6000.....

Fri, 12/12/2014 - 12:26 | 5544574 Boston
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Having been very long US Treasuries for the past 12 months, my main worry is about being too greedy and not getting out at the right time. That said, I see no reason why the 10yr should not fall below 2.0%, and stay there for a while.....especially since the S&P500 has still not corrected in any meaningful way. Once that happens, and I'd be looking for at least a 20% drop, then I will reduce my long position by a large percentage.

Meanwhile, I'm off to Starbucks to treat myself to a short cup of drip coffee....again! 

Fri, 12/12/2014 - 12:42 | 5544648 eclectic syncretist
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+1 for shorting bonds: -1 for patronizing starbucks and thinking that it's cool.

Fri, 12/12/2014 - 13:22 | 5544882 Boston
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Don't worry, I take my second cup (the one they use for heat for short cups) and fill it with milk......meaning I get a free cup of milk with my coffee. Hence, I'm not patronizing starbucks!

Fri, 12/12/2014 - 13:22 | 5544885 Boston
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Fri, 12/12/2014 - 12:43 | 5544656 NoVa
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Long TLT with avg basis at $113 - :)

 

Fri, 12/12/2014 - 16:04 | 5545664 disabledvet
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How is free credit bad for equities?

Same goes for free energy I might add.

Plus the value of that dividend stream is simply off the charts right now with the dollar going through the roof.

Move to Venezuela and live like a King just on your trading position in McDonalds....

Fri, 12/12/2014 - 12:52 | 5544708 himaroid
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I keep a big core position in TLT and trade etf hedges around it.

It is a Merry Christmas this year.

Fri, 12/12/2014 - 14:02 | 5545097 NoVa
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Amen brutha

I just sold at 126.25.  1.3% gain for the day - nice!

 

Fri, 12/12/2014 - 12:32 | 5544604 buzzsaw99
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You fell victim to one of the classic blunders - The most famous of which is "never get involved in a land war in Asia" - but only slightly less well-known is this: "Never go all-in against Treasurys when death is on the line"! Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! Ha ha ha... [/vizzini]

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