How to buy US Treasury Bonds with Fidelity Investments?

If you have a brokerage account with Fidelity Investments, you can follow these steps to buy Treasury Bonds.

1. Login to your brokerage account.

2. Select "Research > Fixed Income" from the menu. You see the fixed income security search screen.

3. Select "Bonds" as the security search type.

4. Select "Yields" as the security display type.

5. Select a maturity date column (e.g. "30yr+") in the "U.S. Treasury" row. You see a list of Treasury Bonds that are maturing in about 30 years.

6. Select "Buy" on a Treasury Bond. You see a list of current quotes on the selected Bond, followed by a trade form to place an order.

7. Fill the trade form, for example:

Action: Buy 
Quantity: 9 (in unit of $1,000 face value)
Order Type: Limit Price 
Limit Price: 90.386 
Time in Force: Fill or Kill 

Here is a screenshot of trade order form to buy a US Treasury Note with your brokerage account on Fidelity Investments.

To help you placing a trade order on a US Treasury Note, the order form displays detailed information about the Note:

CUSIP: 912810TX6
Description: UNITED STATES TREAS SER BONDS OF FEBRUAR4.25000% 02/15/2054 BDS
Series: Bonds of February 2054   
Coupon Rate: 4.25% 
Maturity: 2054-02-15 

It also displays quotes on the Bond placed by seller/buyers on the stock market at this moment around 4pm on 2025-01-17:

          Buyer's Quotes             |            Seller's Quotes
Bid Yield    Qty (min)    Bit Price  |  Ask Price    Qty (min)    Ask Yield
---------   -----------   ---------  |  ---------   -----------   ---------
    4.876      800(200)   90.320     |     90.386      800(200)   4.871
    4.877    30000(250)   90.312     |     90.391    30000(250)   4.871
    4.878     8000(225)   90.300     |     90.403     9000(250)   4.870
    4.880    25000(  5)   90.265     |     90.453    25000(  5)   4.866

Note that "Yield" values in the quotes are calculated as YTM (Yield To Maturity) values. If you place an order with a price different than those quoted prices, you can use our online calculator to get your YTM. Click this link "YTM of US Treasury Bond of February 2054 traded on 2025-01-17 with a price of 90.35", you will see the YTM of 4.8740% displayed.

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