Why is this is better than an ETF treasury fund, CDs, and high-interest savings accounts?
Answer: Treasury Bills "interest" is state & local tax-free on the money earned. So if you're in a high-income tax state and city they're worth it.ETF fund aren't always 100% in treasuries and charge fees.
Question (asked a dozen or more times in the thread) : How does bill interest work?
Answer: Treasury Bills "interest" is the difference between face value and purchase price. You buy a $10k bill at less than $10k, upon maturity, it is worth $10k. The difference between purchase price and maturity value is your "interest."
Tax Equivalent Yield Calculator For Savings Bonds, Treasury Bills, and Tax-Exempt Money Market Funds
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How Buy and Sell Treasury Bills
https://thefinancebuff.com/treasury-bills-cd-money-market.html
When are the auctions? When can I place an order?
4, 8, 13, 17, and 26 week bills are auctioned every week.
52 week bills are auctioned every four weeks.
You can see recent results and the planned schedule at: https://www.treasurydir
4 and 8 week bills are usually announced on Tuesday, auctioned on Thursday, and settle on Tuesday.
17 and week bills are usually announced on Tuesday, auctioned on Wednesday, and settle on Tuesday.
13 and 26 week bills are usually announced on Thursday, auctioned on Monday, and settle on Thursday.
52 week bills are usually announced every 4th Thursday, auctioned on Tuesday, and settle on Thursday.
At a brokerage, you can usually can place an order between the announcement and auction.
At TreasuryDirect, you can place an order up to about 8 weeks in advance.
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Treasury BILLS are currently paying over 5% for various maturity lengths under 1 year. These can be bought through most brokerages even without a TreasuryDirect account.
Treasury BONDS are paying 4% or less and have 20 or 30 year terms.
The 4 week bill ordering opens tomorrow 8/8, the deadline to buy it is sometime Thursday 8/10 morning depending on where you are buying it and it settles on 8/15.
On TD Ameritrade, they take your money on the 10th (take it out of the money you can trade with when you hit purchase which can be as early as the 8th) and buy the bill on the 15th during time which you earn no interest. Thus the reason that I stopped buying 4 and 8 week bills at auction. Secondary markets settle the next day so often a better deal. Treasury direct does not take the money from your bank account till the day it settles and Vanguard keeps it in the settlement fund earning interest till the day it settles as well. Not sure about the other brokerage houses. Also, not sure if you rollover the t-bills how the time between redemption and the next auction works as far as any interest you are losing as that is often a week of interest as well.
FYI, if you do the math, 4 weeks for $10,000 usually gets you about $40 in interest for letting them hold your money for 5 weeks.
The Monday auctions for 3 months and six months settle on Thursday so much less time to hold your money for nothing and less redemption downtime.
The money market funds often have repurchase agreements that are taxed at the state and local level but obviously more liquid. Am looking into the ETFs now.
Good luck to everyone!
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Unnecessarily too basic website.
Edit: I see an option for View Auction Results, but I don't even see the one I want listed in the BuyDirect area. The 13 week 08/10/2023 11/09/2023 is not listed?
Unnecessarily too basic website.
Edit: I see an option for View Auction Results, but I don't even see the one I want listed in the BuyDirect area. The 13 week 08/10/2023 11/09/2023 is not listed?
How can a person like me see that the auctions for 13 weeks are on Monday ? Maybe I missed it.
Unnecessarily too basic website.
Edit: I see an option for View Auction Results, but I don't even see the one I want listed in the BuyDirect area. The 13 week 08/10/2023 11/09/2023 is not listed?
Fidelity and other Brokerages (Vanguard) show you an "Estimate" for what the % is going to be. As noted above since its an Auction that happens in the future TreasuryDirect isnt listing the pricing until it completes.
In most/many cases Fidelity/Vanguard show you lower/conservative % btw and with interests going up the % is higher most of the time but not sure if this will be the case once the rates start to trend downwards.
Shahhere
In most/many cases Fidelity/Vanguard show you lower/conservative % btw and with interests going up the % is higher most of the time but not sure if this will be the case once the rates start to trend downwards.
Shahhere
Unnecessarily too basic website.
Edit: I see an option for View Auction Results, but I don't even see the one I want listed in the BuyDirect area. The 13 week 08/10/2023 11/09/2023 is not listed?
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How can a person like me see that the auctions for 13 weeks are on Monday ? Maybe I missed it.
https://www.treasurydir
And a list of upcoming auctions here:
https://www.treasurydir
And generally, 13- and 26-weeks are on Mondays, 52-weeks, when held (once a month), are on Tuesdays, 17-weeks are on Wednesdays and 4- and 8-weeks are on Thursdays. Federal holidays will delay an auction by a day.
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It is extremely easy to buy T-Bills once your TD account is set up and you have a bank account for the source of the funding linked.
T-Bills are govt insured, not sure if Fidelity or other brokerages are. That is very important for me.
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