Site and Experiments under active R&D - please excuse our mess!
Site and Experiments under active R&D - please excuse our mess!
Consumers expect inflation to stay > 3 % for five years according to Reuters, while the US Treasury is boosting TIPS issuance to meet rising demand.
Beat the Rate Spike—Before the Market Does.
After four decades of falling yields, the bond market has turned jagged. A single Treasury-auction misfire now sends mortgage rates up 75 bps in an afternoon, vaporizing CD deals and hammering bond-heavy portfolios. Retail savers learn about spikes hours late—by then, smart money has already hedged. BondGuard delivers institutional-grade rate intel in real time, so households lock higher yields or hedge leverage before the market moves.
Hypothesis: Retail investors will pay $99 per year for SMS/email alerts that pre-empt a ≥ 25 bp jump in the 10-year Treasury and provide one-click hedge instructions.
• Lightweight Streamlit dashboard + Twilio SMS.
• 100 landing-page clicks → collect 10 pre-orders.
• Pass if ≥ 30 % of wait-listers pre-pay $99 or Stripe-authorize the fee.
Monitors Treasury auctions, Fed speeches, and futures curves; pings you by SMS the moment yields breach your custom threshold—hours before mainstream coverage.
Input loan balances or bond ladder; simulator shows how TIPS, I-Bonds, or rate caps offset a spike—net impact in plain dollar terms.
Deep-links to your brokerage trade ticket with bond, CD, or ETF hedges pre-filled, turning advice into locked-in action in under 60 seconds.
"BondGuard texted me three hours before the Fed minutes leak—grabbed 5 % CDs while they lasted."
- Eric Blanchard, Retiree
"The hedge simulator showed my variable-rate HELOC would balloon; fixed it a week early."
- Dana Ruiz, Small-Biz Owner
"Finally a bond tool that explains hedge math in dollars, not basis points."
- Samantha Lee, CFP
BondGuard uses read-only market data and never asks for brokerage credentials. Phone numbers are encrypted; SMS vendor (Twilio) certified for SOC-2. We publish full alert criteria to avoid pump-and-dump abuse, and we accept no payment from product issuers—only subscription revenue from you.
We delete this data after the study or anytime you ask.
Please reach us at bondguard@gowenplaces.com if you cannot find an answer to your question.
You set the trigger (e.g., “10-year > 4.75 %”). We only ping when conditions hit—no spam.
Never. We deep-link trade tickets but can’t see or execute your orders.
You’ll receive lock-in notices for CD ladders and guidance on rolling hedges down—BondGuard works both ways.
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