Is your debt more than you can pay? Have you considered filing for bankruptcy, or talked with a financial advisor who has suggested bankruptcy filing? If you find yourself in over your head in debt, bankruptcy might appear to be the perfect solution – but only if you’ve considered all other alternatives first.
In fact, taking a close look at bankruptcy alternatives might make you think twice about filing bankruptcy. Bankruptcy should be used as a last resort as it can be extremely frustrating, and it creates long term damages on your credit. Plus- even though you are filing bankruptcy to get out of debt problems, bankruptcy is not free. You will need an attorney and they will require an upfront payment before proceeding. Depending on where you live, filing bankruptcy can cost anywhere between $500 and $1,500.
You will also need to consider whether or not your debts are the type that can be removed in a bankruptcy. Not all debts can be wiped out by filing bankruptcy. Child support, student loans, alimony and taxes are all debts that must be repaid, and can’t be removed from your responsibility through filing bankruptcy.
If you do file bankruptcy, it will stay on your credit history for ten years. Having a bankruptcy on your credit report will make it difficult if not impossible to get loans or credit cards – and any financing you are able to obtain will have extremely high interest rates because you are classified as high risk. In essence bankruptcy should be considered to be a 10 year sentence – and if you could reasonably pay off your debts within 10 years you may want to consider paying them off instead of filing and then dealing with the repercussions of it later on.
Bankruptcy Alternatives
Before filing bankruptcy, you should first try to negotiate settlements with your creditors. A debt settlement is when a creditor agrees to accept less than the total amount owed and consider the account paid in full. It is often marked as “settled” on your credit report which is not as good as “paid as agreed” but it is certainly better than filing bankruptcy. What you need is time to get back on your financial feet and that is what a settlement process will provide you.
Your final alternatives to bankruptcy involve making a detailed, strict budget in which you will have to live. It would be a new way of life, most likely, and involve reducing your expenses to the bare minimum (perhaps moving to a less expensive home, skipping cable television and all unnecessary expenses, reducing utility usage, etc). It would involve increasing your income by getting a new job or a second or even third job in order to get more money to pay off debts.
Think of it this way – you could file for bankruptcy and have financial troubles for 10 years afterwards; or you could get serious about paying off debts and build your credit score and history while repaying in half the time.
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Interesting video – friend and subscribe for day trading, day trader, day trade videos, technical analysis…
Free Forex EA- works perfectly fine for me.
In longer-term investing strategies, position sizing is a bit more complicated and may depend on the strategy at play. In this section, we will focus on sizing positions for short-term trades.
@oscar2oo9
Your spread is 2.0 !
The break even is 1.2680 +0.002 = 1.2700
If you sell at 1.2699 you loose
I buy about 500 dolars at 1.2680 and as I was wayting for a good selling number like a 1.2699 .I was loosing money… why? on te acounts- equity.?????
as soon as u execute a position it should appear right away in your platform in the order that u place it….
i found this forex system based on price action
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What video editing/recording software do you use Dave?
Also, from your experience, is there any difference in execution time of a “large position” vs. a 1k position. thanks.
hi,
can you actually establish ANY position size you desire. Let’s say I’ve got $50,000,000, in an account. Would it be possible for me to establish a position size, say 10,000k or $1,000 per pip, 50,000k or $5,000? If these position sizes are possible, would the specific currency pair’s liquidity affect transactions? Thanks.
Hi, many brokerage firms including FXCM will allow you to trade in sizes of 1K or smaller however even at 10K the value of a one point move in the market is only $1. Since the market is not very volatile most consider that trading pretty small. Hope that helps. Dave
This will probably be answered later on but does this mean that I must trade in the tens and hundred of thousands of dollars? I thought the advantage was being able to trade small?