Trading Treasury Futures

SINGLE-CONTRACT FUTURES PLAYBOOKS - BOOK 1: TRADING TREASURY FUTURES: ZB & ZNThere is no serious retail book dedicated to trading Treasury futures, despite ZB and ZN sitting on some of the deepest, most permanent liquidity on the CME. Every "futures 101" title stops exactly where the real instrument begins: the delivery mechanics, the rate calendar, the session structure that actually moves these two contracts. This book starts where those books end.It builds Treasury futures from the ground up as their own instrument class, not an equity index with a different ticker. You'll learn the cheapest-to-deliver mechanic and conversion factor system that anchors the futures price to a real bond, and DV01, the duration-based risk figure that replaces delta for an instrument with no options-style Greeks. From there, the book maps the nearly 24-hour trading day into distinct liquidity regimes, breaks down exactly how ZB and ZN react differently to FOMC, CPI, and NFP, and walks the quarterly Treasury auction cycle as a schedulable source of intraday distortion most traders never learn to read. A full chapter builds the NOB spread, trading the shape of the curve, not just its level, with real DV01-weighted hedge-ratio math.Four complete trade case studies, built at full depth from pre-market plan to post-mortem, show every mechanic in this book working together on one execution. This is not a generic futures book with Treasury tickers dropped in. It is Treasury futures taught the way a rates desk would teach them.

SINGLE-CONTRACT FUTURES PLAYBOOKS - BOOK 1: TRADING TREASURY FUTURES: ZB & ZNThere is no serious retail book dedicated to trading Treasury futures, despite ZB and ZN sitting on some of the deepest, most permanent liquidity on the CME. Every "futures 101" title stops exactly where the real instrument begins: the delivery mechanics, the rate calendar, the session structure that actually moves these two contracts. This book starts where those books end.It builds Treasury futures from the ground up as their own instrument class, not an equity index with a different ticker. You'll learn the cheapest-to-deliver mechanic and conversion factor system that anchors the futures price to a real bond, and DV01, the duration-based risk figure that replaces delta for an instrument with no options-style Greeks. From there, the book maps the nearly 24-hour trading day into distinct liquidity regimes, breaks down exactly how ZB and ZN react differently to FOMC, CPI, and NFP, and walks the quarterly Treasury auction cycle as a schedulable source of intraday distortion most traders never learn to read. A full chapter builds the NOB spread, trading the shape of the curve, not just its level, with real DV01-weighted hedge-ratio math.Four complete trade case studies, built at full depth from pre-market plan to post-mortem, show every mechanic in this book working together on one execution. This is not a generic futures book with Treasury tickers dropped in. It is Treasury futures taught the way a rates desk would teach them.