Setting Up a Bond Ladder
Posted: Sat Mar 17, 2012 8:31 pm
So the treasury buying tutorial in the Bonds section is awesome and helped convince me how easy it is to hold LT bonds directly through Fidelity.
I'm considering doing the same with my cash by building a 1-3 year treasury ladder. However, I personally need something "automatic" that doesn't require me to constantly monitor my investments. Fidelity has a nice bond ladder tool, but it apparently has a minimum of 5 years required in the ladder.
If anyone here is currently using Fidelity for managing a ST bond ladder and can recommend an easy system, please let me know. Otherwise I'll probably just stick with SHY and not worry about it.
Thanks.
I'm considering doing the same with my cash by building a 1-3 year treasury ladder. However, I personally need something "automatic" that doesn't require me to constantly monitor my investments. Fidelity has a nice bond ladder tool, but it apparently has a minimum of 5 years required in the ladder.
If anyone here is currently using Fidelity for managing a ST bond ladder and can recommend an easy system, please let me know. Otherwise I'll probably just stick with SHY and not worry about it.
Thanks.