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Bond Strategy With a Perfect 2024 Track Record Flashes Sell Signal

  • TLT fund is overbought, judging by ‘moving-average envelopes’
  • Strategy based on momentum is up 33% this year, fell in 2023

The US Treasury building in Washington, DC.

Photographer: Samuel Corum/Bloomberg
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A momentum-based technical strategy that has had a 100% winning record in trading long-term Treasuries this year flashed a sell signal Monday.

The sell call at Monday’s open comes after BlackRock Inc.’s $61 billion bond exchange-traded fund tracking Treasuries due in more than 20 years (TLT) surged Friday when a weak job report fueled speculation that the Federal Reserve will cut interest rates aggressively.