CONTINUED DISCUSSION ON RELATIONSHIPS AMONG TRUST CERTIFICATES

This is going to be my last discussion on trust certificates for at least a few days.  I wanted to continue the discussion begun earlier today in this post:  Stocks & Politics: Relationships: Trust Certificates for the Same ATT Bond  I will sometimes elect to sell a TC containing the same bond as another TC when there is a serious pricing discrepancy and then buy the higher yielding TC.  For example, I discussed this morning the relationship between three TCs containing the same AT & T bond:  JZE, JZJ and GJF.   If I owned the TC containing the AT & T bond which had a bid of 21 this morning, and an unrealized profit in it, symbol GJF,  I would have probably sold it at 21 and then try to buy JZJ at the current bid of 17.7.    That would have been a too large of a discrepancy to ignore.  I did not have GJF in inventory.   I have done something similar to that hypothetical maneuver with the TCs containing AON bonds, KVF, KVW and KTN (DKK has never been owned among the AON TCs), and the two TCs containing Verizon bonds, XFL and PJL.   In addition to these TCs, it can also be done occasionally with senior bonds from Liberty Media, PKK , PIS and PYL.  Of these TCs discussed in this post, I currently own PJL and XFL, with a limit order to sell PJL in for the day, PKK, PIS, KVW, KTN, JZJ and JZE.     

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