The value of the trade was about $850 million dollars. In simple terms, if that was a direct bond buy, no one would be talking about it.(siehe auch)However, with the use of futures, you have to have margin capacity behind the trade. That means with a single push of a button someone was willing to commit more than $1 billion of real capital to this trade with expectations of a 10-to-1 return ratio.
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The $1 Billion Armageddon Trade Placed Against the United States Bond Market
[Marketoracle] Jack Barnes writes : Someone dropped a bomb on the bond market Thursday - a $1 billion Armageddon trade betting the United States will lose its AAA credit rating.
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