BIL: how its history is extended
BIL returns from its first trading day; earlier history from TBILL.IRX, then TBILL.TB3MS.
Kind
Backfill chain
Extended from
1934-02-28
Through
2026-09-03
Sources
BIL → TBILL.IRX → TBILL.TB3MS
Validation at each junction
| Real series | Stands in before it | Real data from | Overlap (years) | Monthly correlation | Return gap (pp/yr) | Gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BIL | TBILL.IRX | 2007-05-30 | 19.26 | 0.9463 | -0.09 | pass (bars: corr ≥ 0.9, |gap| ≤ 1.0pp) |
| TBILL.IRX | TBILL.TB3MS | 1960-01-04 | 66.5 | 0.9935 | 0.002 | pass (bars: corr ≥ 0.9, |gap| ≤ 1.0pp) |
Figures on this page are computed from the data store when the page renders; the gate is re-checked every time an extension is used. Method: the lab's tracking standard, lab.data.chains.