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The journey of life is unique. It never leads to a constant
path. Somewhere it’s up somewhere it’s down. Very few of us
realise that a boom is always followed by a bust and vice-
versa. One day your life is full of excitement and happiness and
on the other day you are down and depressed. One day you have a
lot of money to spend and on the other day you are left without
a penny. Most of us face financial problems in the course of our
lives. We weave various dreams to make our lives comfortable and
affluent but our income and savings hardly allow us to actualise
them. But for those who dare to turn their dreams into reality
secured loan is a suitable option.

There can be a number of purposes to get a secured loan. You can
renovate your house; buy a new car abandoning the older one,
finance your holiday tour, finance your marriage or any other
extravaganza. There can be uncountable reasons to get a secured
loan. Different kinds of secured loans carry different names
such as a car loan, an educational secured loan, secured
holiday loan etc.

Secured loans are those loans that are taken against collateral.
It means the loan is allotted against some movable or immovable
asset of the borrower. In a secured loan the lender is at
comfort because he can repossess the property of the borrower in
case of repayment of the loan. House owners usually keep their
house as collateral so that they can get maximum benefits from
the lender.

There are a few advantages and disadvantages attached with the
secured loans. In a secured loan the interest
rates are kept low. The monthly installments are small and even
the repayment period is more in comparison with unsecured loans.
On the flip side secured loans carry greater risk for borrowers
because they can lose their property in case of non-payment of
the loan. Also, the paperwork involved in the process of taking
a secured loan is more.

Even though there are some disadvantages attached with secured
loans they are still favourable for house owners and others who
possess some property. Lenders do not hesitate in giving a large
amount of money when they are offered some collateral against
it. The less interest rates as well as long repayment tenure are
the attractions of secured loans.

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If you have had difficulty keeping up with your bills, you can
rest assured you are not alone. Many people have run into
trouble or a shortage of cash flow from time to time that has
resulted in the inability to make all of their payments in full
and on time. However, just because you don’t have a perfect
credit history does not necessarily mean that you will be unable
to obtain a credit card. It’s no surprise that a person with a
low credit score will have more difficulty and less options when
trying to get a credit card in their name, but it is not
completely impossible because creditors do take more than just
your credit score into consideration when deciding whether or
not to give you a credit card. The important thing to remember
is you do not want to apply for every credit card out there-
every time you apply for a credit card, you are further hurting
your credit rating. When you have a low credit score and a poor
credit history, you need to do your research before you start
applying, and only apply to the handful of credit cards that are
designed for individuals with a less than perfect credit history
to make sure you limit the number of credit inquiries that are
placed on your credit report.

When a credit card provider is deciding whether or not to extend
credit to an individual, the lenders take several things into
consideration. The credit score is always a factor, as is your
overall credit history of how many times you’ve made late
payments, and how much credit you currently have available to
you, and how much debt you currently owe. In addition to these
issues, a credit card company will also consider the length of
time that the individual has been employed at their current job,
and will look favorably on people who have held a steady job
with a decent income for a long period of time. If your debt to
income ratio is manageable, meaning you make enough money to
comfortably pay for the amount of debt you currently owe,
sometimes a lender can still extend you credit even though you
have made late payments in the past.

Chances are, if you’re working to improve your credit score for
your future, you’re sending as much money as possible to each of
your creditors each month as you are trying to pay down your
overall debt. Because of this additional money being sent out,
there will be less money available to you on a regular basis,
and having a credit card can give you some security in the event
of an emergency. What happens when your car breaks down, or a
health issue comes up and you just don’t have the money to pay
for it because you’ve been sending all your extra money to each
of your creditors? Having a credit card can be the security you
need for these emergency issues. Credit cards for individuals
with poor credit histories will almost always carry a higher
interest rate than a traditional credit card, but the benefits
of having a credit card for emergencies, or to use as a second
form of identification, or even for renting an apartment make
having the credit card advantageous over not having the card at
all. Some landlords may require a credit card be on file in the
event you are late with your rent payment, so that they have the
additional security of knowing they can get their money by
billing your credit card. The most popular option for people
with poor credit histories is to obtain a secured credit card. A
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The investment strategy followed by the majority of investors “buy low sell high” will lose money for those investors who follow it. Let’s look at the facts and you will see why it fails over the longer term and discover a better way to trade.

Buying low you can’t do it! Why? Quite simply, it involves predicting the market and not reacting to price strength. In hindsight charts prove it simply does not work. Traders like to buy low on a dip to support, but how often does support fail? The answer is most of the time.

Most traders are so keen to buy low they keep buying into support and then get stopped out. They then lose their equity after a number of trades, as the odds simply are not in their favor when they try this and loses eventually see them wipe out their account equity.

Buy low sell high, is only a good strategy if you have hindsight and can see what happened on the charts and you don’t have the benefit of this when you enter the trade.

We have all heard of the predictive theories of Gann and Elliot, but if they worked and we all knew where prices were going in advance, there would be no market.

The price would simply be known to all traders and their would be no market. Leave the above theories to the far out investment crowd and the dreamers and base your strategy on the reality of how and why markets really move.

Back to basics

So what should a trader do?

The answer is revealed in the well known phrase “a trend in motion is more likely to continue than reverse”.

When do the odds most favour this?

The answer is when prices break to new highs and a trend in motion accelerates at a rapid rate from a new price high. Look at any currency chart and you will see the biggest price moves normally take place from important market highs with NO pullback.

FACT: A “buy low sell high” strategy will see traders miss the majority of major moves.

Traders who wait to buy low never get in to the trade and miss the trend, as the price accelerates away from them and never looks back. These traders therefore never get a chance to enter the trade.

The secret to buying a market and catching the big profitable moves is “buy high and sell higher”, accept the wisdom of this phrase and you will be in on all the major trends.

It’s hard to buy a trend in motion.

The reality is the odds favour that a trend in motion will continue and when a market has broken out to new highs, the odds of a continuation of the trend are at there highest.

Know one likes to miss the start of the move but if we trade this way we can get in on all the major moves.

Which method is best?

Use important breaks of resistance, time entry with momentum indicators such as the stochastic indicator, and be selective with your trades to catch the big moves.

Or:

Try a strategy that involves “buying low and selling high”, get stopped out frequently and watch all the major moves take off from new market highs.

Easy choice really!