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Joseph Wang & Alex Etra: Trillion-Dollar Liquidity Drain Imminent

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The Treasury Cash Futures Basis Trade

The Treasury Cash Futures basis trade is an arbitrage trade where you sell short, chevy futures and on the other hand, you own cash treasuries. Before 2019, this trade was huge but now it's getting popular. The hedge fund community has been buying a lot of treasury bonds heading into 2020. So when people are worried about who's going to buy all those treasuries that are coming, it seems like it's going to be the hedge fund community because they want to do the straight.

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