Get to know Treasuries CTD

Now that you have a deeper understanding of the U.S. Treasury basis, we need to delve a little deeper into what is known as the cheapest-to-deliver (CTD) security. While each U.S. Treasury futures contract has its own basket of eligible securities for delivery generally one, or sometimes two, price out to be most efficient for the short position to deliver to the long position. This security is most efficient because it is considered cheaper or cheapest to deliver versus the other alternative securities.