> there is no reason you can't buy 30 year bonds and sell them later. Except, there are no guarantees the price you get on the sale of those bonds will be the

> there is no reason you can't buy 30 year bonds and sell them later. Except, there are no guarantees the price you get on the sale of those bonds will be the same as the price you initially payed. The possibilities are you might get your money back, you might make money or you might lose money on that sale. Edit: In fact as can be seen by the graph below the yield on 30 Year T-Bonds is going up, indicating the price of the bond is falling (as the price moves inversly to the yield). http://www.marketwatch.com/investing/bond/30_year http://www.marketwatch.com/investing/bond/30_year NOTE: See the 6m curve from link above