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Strategies & Market Trends : MARKET INDEX TECHNICAL ANALYSIS - MITA -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Richard Ruscio who wrote (2388)	1/21/2000 6:47:00 AM
From: MoneyPenny	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 19219

I just lurk on the index thread but to your question regarding long bonds, you can buy 30 yr zeros through the mutual fund, BTTRX. Just a volatile as the bonds themselves but with with a tolerable minimum. American Century is the fund group and I know I can buy them from Fidelity through their fund supermarket. Back to the shadows.

To: Richard Ruscio who wrote (2388)	1/21/2000 9:46:00 AM
From: pater tenebrarum	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 19219

Richard, 'real' bonds are trading in chunks of $1,000 face value...proxies would be the various bond funds, e.g. the Rydex government bond fund, as well as a host of closed - end bond funds, which tend to trade at a big discount to NAV during bond bear markets. i'll post a list of those a little bit later, but have to tell you, you have to do some DD before buying to find out what types of bonds they are holding. some of the CEF's that trade at big discounts are risky, but i personally consider most of them a buy. another way of playing an improving interest rate climate are various high-yielding and 'defensive' stocks. details later. regards, hb