I'm looking for ways to gain leverage with futures for my investments in U.S. stocks and U.S. Treasuries. I'm comfortable investing in S&P 500 Futures over the long-term because comparing it to the actual S&P 500 Index shows it has been remarkably similar. However, this isn't the case for U.S. treasuries. I've compared most of the bond ETFs against their futures counterpart and while some are similar, they aren't close enough trackers for my comfort - any idea why this is the case for treasury futures? See below links for the graph comparisons:
S&P 500 Index (^GSPC) vs S&P 500 Futures (SP=F)
IEI (3-7yr ETF) vs IEF (7-10yr ETF) vs ZN=F (10yr futures) vs ZF=F (5yr futures)
Submitted February 27, 2021 at 07:48PM by xpksmile https://ift.tt/2PiXqZn
