The Wall Street Skinny on Instagram: "We going beyond the basics to tackle concepts that SEEM more advanced, but are simple when you break 'em down! Curve trades are ways that investors express a view about the shape of the yield curve. What's the yield curve? Imagine a graph of interest rates where your x axis is the maturity of a bond or a swap, and the y axis is your interest rate. All else being equal, you'd imagine that interest rates for shorter maturities would be lower than interest rate