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Strategies & Market Trends : The Epic American Credit and Bond Bubble Laboratory

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To: russwinter who wrote (19539)10/7/2004 10:15:02 AM
From: Wyätt Gwyön  Read Replies (1) of 110194
 
what do you think about trading the AUD futures? they are backwardated, with DEC 05 trading at about a 2-cent discount to spot. i haven't traded currency futures and am wondering if there's some kind of "catch". all i can see is that if you buy the bonds maturing in DEC 05, you pay spot but the interest-to-maturity should equate back to approximately the DEC 05 future's current price. does that sound correct?

if so, then it would seem to be the same thing to trade the futures or the bonds of the same expiry/maturity. however, there may be smaller spreads on the futures, and obviously futures can be traded on margin unlike the bonds (for retail investors, anyway). any thoughts?
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