Thanks for the feedback. I guess I in part was expecting people to learn about portfolio margin and box spread options for other reasons (so the additional work to pull out equity into CDs isn’t that much), and in part forgot how difficult it might be for someone to learn about these things. Maybe there’s an opportunity for someone to start a business to do this for their customers...
BTW you’ll have to pass a multiple-choice test to be approved for PM at TDA, which can be tough. Let me know if you need any help with that. Also I’ve been getting 0.5%-0.55% interest rate from box spreads recently, and CDs are currently 1.25%-1.3%. CDs were around 1.5% when I first wrote this, so it was significantly more attractive then. I would say it’s still worth it because once you learn these things you can get the extra return every year without that much additional work, and over several decades it can add up to a lot.
Thanks for the feedback. I guess I in part was expecting people to learn about portfolio margin and box spread options for other reasons (so the additional work to pull out equity into CDs isn’t that much), and in part forgot how difficult it might be for someone to learn about these things. Maybe there’s an opportunity for someone to start a business to do this for their customers...
BTW you’ll have to pass a multiple-choice test to be approved for PM at TDA, which can be tough. Let me know if you need any help with that. Also I’ve been getting 0.5%-0.55% interest rate from box spreads recently, and CDs are currently 1.25%-1.3%. CDs were around 1.5% when I first wrote this, so it was significantly more attractive then. I would say it’s still worth it because once you learn these things you can get the extra return every year without that much additional work, and over several decades it can add up to a lot.