Does anyone have any good primers on the bond market and how to make money is it? Is there anything left in bonds, or is it all just in high yield nowadays?
Bond Market
Charles Adams
David Edwards
Bump for interest
Jayden Rogers
Bonds are traded on closed and semi-closed markets, by highly-specialized traders. Unless you're working at a large trading desk and have substantial capital, you have zero chance to compete. You're going to get the worst executions possible, and the pros will eat you alive.
If your risk profile calls for a bond allocation in your portfolio, do yourself a favor and buy a bond index.
Owen Nelson
Any good bond indices you'd recommend looking into? I saw a thread around here shilling to short junk bonds a couple days ago.
Landon Rodriguez
>I saw a thread around here shilling to short junk bonds a couple days ago.
Just stop. Stop chasing Veeky Forums meme investments, stop trying to time the market, stop with the leveraged investing. Stop doing dumb stuff.
You want a good bond index? Fine: BND. If you're feeling the itch to be a Wolf of Wall Street you can get crazy and throw in a little BNDX. Now let's be wild and hold our investment for a solid 10-30 years, enjoying the meme magic called compounding.
Sorry to make fun of you, but you're being ridiculous and noobish. Go learn what bonds are and how they fit into a well-constructed portfolio. Then come back and ask questions.
Luis Green
>Unless you're working at a large trading desk and have substantial capital, you have zero chance to compete
not true. I've bought bonds with interactive brokers without much money. it's easy.
you find a corporation you want to buy bonds from, then filter out the maturity dates you're looking for, and then buy the bond at whatever price it is offered. the high the price, the lower the yield, and vice versa.
Parker Sanchez
>I've bought bonds with interactive brokers without much money. it's easy.
And you vastly overpaid for that board compared to a real bond trader. In fact, you probably paid a significant percentage to some middleman who held your bond for 4 milliseconds before reselling it to you as a large profit.
Please learn about how bond markets work before posting dumb stuff. They're not at all the same as stock markets, as you seem to think. Its criminal that your broker allows you to buy stuff when you're so ignorant, but IB is only in it for the money.
Benjamin Brown
uh my bond buys worked out very well, actually. interactive brokers is great for buying bonds.
Cameron Long
OP was asking for a primer on bonds before asking specifically about them
Eli Martin
Vanguard lets you buy bonds (or just new bonds?) for free. I wouldn't buy bonds unless it's American treasuries. You have significant risk when buying corporate bonds since you're not diversified. Buying individual bonds is a great way to save money if you intend to hold until maturity since you will always get back your principal.