What I learned from this forum is to purchase TIPS in the secondary market when the "Yields are higher". But aren't the yields rising for all the rungs in parallel?. If we wait till the yield for 2036 issue is high enough, the yield for 2035 TIPS will be high too. In layman's language, shouldn't we sell the 2035 TIPS when yields are still low, so that that we get higher sell price, and wait till the 2036 TIPS yield high enough to purchase?
You would probably want to sell and buy at about the same time on the same day. In my experience, predicting the best time to swap (which day to sell and buy) is not possible. I doubt that it makes much difference. My personal preference is to do several swaps in the secondary market over a period of months, kind of a dollar-cost averaging approach.
Statistics: Posted by krisSA — Fri Jan 16, 2026 10:17 am — Replies 35 — Views 2778