Throughout my 25 years in bond markets, there has always been one trade that becomes known as 'the widow-maker'. Being underweight long-dated gilts was one, at a time when new pension regulations sent yields plummeting, and shorting the Japanese bond market also became deadly as the Bank of Japan slashed rates to zero.
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