Treasury Basis Trade Explained: Repo, Leverage, Risk
How the Treasury cash-futures basis trade actually works: repo-financed long bonds, short futures, the convergence math, and why hedge funds risk $1T+ on it.
How the Treasury cash-futures basis trade actually works: repo-financed long bonds, short futures, the convergence math, and why hedge funds risk $1T+ on it.
How the repo market works: $12.6T daily, SOFR, tri-party clearing, the Fed’s Standing Repo Facility, and the 2019 spike that changed everything.
How the repo market actually works — collateral, haircuts, SOFR, the Fed’s ON RRP, and why the $2.5T overnight RRP facility drained to almost zero in 2026.
Repos and reverse repos move trillions of dollars daily. Learn how repurchase agreements work, what the Fed’s RRP facility does, and why it matters to markets.