Bond market data for the other 99% of investors
The terminal crowd sees every price. Now you do too.
Yield curves, bond screeners, fair-value checks, and ladder tools built from the same public trade data the professionals use — minus the $28,000-a-year terminal.
No card required. Built on TRACE, FRED & Bank of Canada data.
The bond market charges you for being invisible.
Corporate bonds don't trade on an exchange with one public price. They trade dealer-to-dealer, and the price you're shown depends on who's asking. Same bond, same day, two very different fills:
Institutional print · $2,000,000 block
$98.40 YTM 5.42%
What the trade tape (TRACE) shows professionals paid.
Retail fill · $25,000 order
$99.65 YTM 5.18%
Roughly 125 bps of markup, silently embedded in the price.
Illustrative example. The markup never appears as a fee — it's just a worse price. Basispoint's fair-value check compares any quote you're shown against recent prints on the tape, so the spread stops being invisible.
Tools, not tips.
We don't recommend bonds and we don't sell them. We build the instruments that let you judge them yourself.
Bond screener
Filter US and Canadian issues by yield, rating, sector, duration, and call features — the way a desk analyst would shortlist.
Fair-value vs. the tape
Paste a quote, see how it compares to recent institutional prints on the same bond. Know the markup before you pay it.
Ladder & barbell builder
Construct maturity ladders with cash-flow and reinvestment modeling. Compare against GIC ladders and bond ETFs honestly.
Curve & spread monitor
US and Canada yield curves, 2s10s, credit spreads — charted daily with plain-language notes on what moved.
Yield & downgrade alerts
Set a target yield on a maturity or watch an issuer's rating. Get an email when the market comes to you.
The education library
Duration, convexity, callable math, ladders vs. funds — explained for investors, not for a CFA exam.
Clip the coupon.
Bond certificates once came with literal coupons you clipped to collect interest. Ours just collect tools. Annual plans get two months free.
Free
$0 / forever
- Daily yield curves — US & Canada
- Screener, 10 results per search
- 1 saved ladder
- Weekly letter, public archive
- Full education library
Pro — most clipped
$29 / month · $290 / yr
- Everything in Free, plus
- Full screener, saved screens
- Fair-value check vs. TRACE prints
- Unlimited ladders, reinvestment modeling
- 10 yield & downgrade alerts
- Full weekly letter + data appendix
Desk
$99 / month · $990 / yr
- Everything in Pro, plus
- API access for your own models
- Historical curve explorer & exports
- Unlimited alerts
- 3 seats — built for small RIAs
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