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So after reading this article, I wanted to set up some type of automated alert that would email once the rate reaches a certain threshold.

If you want to know when treasury bills reach 2%, I figured out a way to do this. My brokerage account doesn't have an easy way to set alerts on t-Bill price changes, and an extensive search on Google has not resulted in any tool that allows me to track the specific ticker (TMUBMUSD01Y) easily online.

The only thing that seemed to work was to use this website scrapping tool (https://www.wachete.com/wachets) to listen to this website (https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/DTB1YR).

You can program the scrapper to look at the value change of the yield and set it to trigger an alert once it passes a threshold. I set up 0.5% and 1%.

I don't read financial news regularly, and it'd be helpful to get a heads up when this is happening. If anyone has a better way of doing this, please let me know.



What actions are you planning to take when it reaches those thresholds?




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