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Selling a Treasury Marketable Security

You can hold a Treasury marketable security until it matures or sell it before it matures.

To sell a Treasury marketable security, you must work through a bank, broker, or dealer.

Your first step depends on where your security is held.

If your Treasury marketable security is here do this to sell it before it matures
with a bank, broker, or dealer contact that bank, broker, or dealer
in TreasuryDirect
or Legacy Treasury Direct
transfer the security to a bank, broker, or dealer (to the commercial book-entry system)

TreasuryDirect: Selling a security

In Treasury Direct, when you buy a Treasury marketable security, you must hold it in your TreasuryDirect account for 45 days before selling or transferring it.

This means you can’t sell or transfer a 4-week bill from TreasuryDirect because it matures in less than 45 days.

This hold also applies to a reinvestment when new funds are added to pay for the new security.

To sell a security that is in a TreasuryDirect account:

  1. Go to our page on Transferring from one system to another.
  2. Go to the section on TreasuryDirect to the commercial book-entry system.

Legacy Treasury Direct: Selling a security

Note: All securities in Legacy Treasury Direct are beyond the 45-day hold.

To sell a security that is in a Legacy Treasury Direct account:

  1. Go to our page on Transferring from one system to another.
  2. Go to the section on Legacy Treasury Direct to the commercial book-entry system.