Creative Way to Save Money on Health Insurance

By Mark Bradshaw

Get more health insurance with less money.

This may be hard to understand, but sometimes you need to buy two health insurance policies to save money and get better coverage. Many agents are helping their customers buy more coverage for less money with this solution.

Major Medical - High Deductibles

Consider major medical health insurance. We all know it is expensive, but a higher deductible plan can be a lot more affordable. It can also be easier to be accepted for one. And I have seen top insurers who even offer longer rate guarantees on them, and some come bundled with prescription coverage and doctor's office copay features.

Now, a five or ten thousand dollar deductible may seem steep, but consider saving a few hundred dollars a month in premium. Also consider the fact that many insurance companies will not underwrite, or evaluate risk, as strictly on a higher deductible policy. If you, or somebody in your family or small business has a health condition, a higher deductible health plan may be your best option!

Health/Accident Supplemental Health Insurance

You can find very affordable health and accident insurance policies. A $5k to $10k cash payment could slide right in there to help with expenses that your major medical will not cover. The cash can help pay your costs, pay for things that your regular health policy does not cover, and even provide cash for other expenses like transportation and living expenses.

Supplemental policies may come as a package, or you may need to find an accident and sickness policy. Some companies even provide an association membership with their major medical, so you can buy this coverage for a low cost.

A qualified insurance professional can help you.

Major medical insurance will be expensive for most people, but an experienced professional should listen to your needs, and then find a plan that you can afford. If you can find a professional who represents a variety of companies, you should be able to compare your options. - 23211

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Understanding Fibonacci Trading (Part I)

By Ahmad Hassam

What is Fibonacci forex? Did you see the movie, The DaVinci Code? You will find a scene in the movie where the characters talk about the Fibonacci number as part of a clue or code of some sort.

So what are Fibonacci numbers? The Fibonacci number series were made famous by an Italian Leonardo de Pisa. The Fibonacci series starts with 0 and 1 and goes out to infinity with the next number in the series being derived by adding the prior two. For example, 0+1=1, 1+1=2, 1+2=3, 2+3=5, 3+5=8, 5+8=13, 8+13=21, 13+21=34, 21+34=55, 34+55=89, 55+89=144, 89+144=233, 144+233=377.

What is so fascinating about this series is that there is a constant found within the series as it progresses to infinity. The Fibonacci series is like this; 0,1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21,34,55,89,144,233,377,610, 987..to infinity. This constant is known as the Golden Ratio, Golden Mean or Divine Proportion.

What is so special about the Golden Ratio? You will find the Golden Ratio by dividing the higher number with the lower number by taking any two consecutive numbers in the series after the first few. For example, 89/55=1.618, 144/89=1.618, 233/144=1.618, 377/233=1.618, 610/377=1.618, 987/610=1.618 and so on. Go as higher in the series as you want and you will still find the Golden Ratio by dividing the next higher number with the lower number in the series. The inverse of 1.618 is 0.618. The inverse of the Golden Ratio is also a very important number in Fibonacci trading.

The Golden Ratio can be found in many places in nature like flowers, shells, fossils etc. What is most important to forex traders is that applying these ratios can help identify key support and resistance zone in the market and therefore determine key trading opportunities or setups.

Thus the application of Fibonacci ratios can give you the edge as a forex trader if you use the Fibonacci trading technique properly. We have already discussed the Golden Ratios 1.618 and its inverse 0.618. The main ratios used in everyday analysis are 0.382, 0.50, 0.618, 0.786, 1.000, 1.272 and 1.618.

You should be proficient with using the technical analysis program if you want to use the Fibonacci ratios in your trading. It is assumed that you have a computer, a market data source such as quote.com and a technical analysis program to manipulate that data since you are trying to look into a type of technical analysis.

There are three types of Fibonacci price relationship namely, retracements, extensions and price projections (sometimes also called price objectives). We will look into each type of these relationships individually. The Fibonacci price analysis calculations can be done by hand as well but they are time consuming and tedious.

The definition of a support is the price area below the current market where you will look for a possible termination of the decline and where you would consider to becoming a buyer of whatever currency pair you are trading. Each of these Fibonacci price relationships will be setting up potential support or potential resistance in the chart that you are analyzing.

Support and resistance are two very important concepts used in trading. Resistance is price where the sellers overcome the buyers and the price starts to decline after reaching a high. It is the price area above the current market where you would look for the possible termination of a rally and consider being a seller. Fibonacci support and resistance levels as known as the leading indicators! - 23211

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An Overview On How To Invest For Retirement

By Doris C. Mckittrick

Setting yourself up for a financially secure retirement is a vital part of your working life, so you need to know how to invest for retirement. Make sure you can be confident that you have invested wisely throughout your working years to be able to live comfortably in retirement.

The secret to knowing that you will be financially secure in retirement is vigilance; regularly checking that you have your money invested in the wisest and most productive way. Strategies need to change in line with your stage of life, so you need to keep up to date with what is available to suit your particular needs. A registered financial adviser is the person best equipped to help you continuously assess and tweak your investments.

There are too many investment options for retirement to cover in a single article. This article presents an overview of the basic investment options open to you; take this bit of knowledge and use it to grow your retirement portfolio.

Actually making a start is the most important part of retirement investments; don't put it off, just make a start. Employer matching programs, 401K and 403B, are a good starting point, and are simple to get into. Make your next step a Roth IRA with their tax exemption advantage.

Many workers also take out whole life insurance, both as a retirement investment strategy and as protection for their dependants. This is particularly important when you have children, so that their lives are disrupted as little as possible if something happened to you, the bread-winner. Later on, if you don't think you need the life insurance, you can cash it in as a valuable source of retirement income.

Because investment strategies are different for a young worker and a worker approaching retirement, you need to seek advice on the most appropriate investments for your age. Older workers may decide to invest with safe or conservative options to protect their capital, because they don't have as many working years to recoup any losses. So, corporate or government bonds, money markets and fixed-income options, may be more suitable. These don't give the same returns on investment but your assets are more protected than with higher-risk options.

Other investment options include stocks, a good method of beating inflation; mutual funds, which invests your money, and that of other investors, as pools of money in stocks, bonds or both of these; bonds, which can be private or government owned, and tend to be a stable investment; ETF or an exchange traded fund, similar to a mutual fund but are often a cheaper option; and cash, which is a safe option but easily eroded by inflation. - 23211

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US Dollar (Part III)

By Ahmad Hassam

United States was known to have one of the safest and the most developed capital markets in the world. As the risk of severe United States instability was considered to be very low, US Dollar was considered one of the premier safe haven currencies in the world prior to September 11.

This allowed United States to attract investments from all over the world at a discounted rate of return. Almost 76% of the global currency reserves were in US Dollar. Post 9/11, foreign investors and the Central Banks are not so sure about the US Dollar due to the increased US uncertainty like the present recession and decreasing interest rates.

China pegs its currency to US Dollar. China has been accused by the United States many times of using this practice to keep its national currency artificially weak in order to boost its exports. There are many other developing and emerging countries that peg their local currencies to US Dollar. China is a very active participant of the global currency markets because its maximum float per day is controlled within a narrow band based on the previous days closing US Dollar rates. Any fluctuations beyond this band will invite intervention by the Chinese Central Bank that may include buying and selling US Dollars. Important countries that peg their currencies to US Dollar are China and Hong Kong.

EU represents a market as large as US with its own single currency Euro. Euro has provided an alternative to the US Dollar. The emergence of Euro is also threatening the US Dollar as the worlds premier reserve currency. Recently a group of countries like China, France and others have called for the introduction of a new global reserve currency by the IMF that should replace the US Dollar. If this happens in the next few years, it may have far reaching implications of the US Dollar and the US economy.

Many central banks have already begun to diversify their foreign exchange reserves by reducing their US Dollar holdings and increasing their holdings in Euro and the gold. The interest rate differentials between the US Treasuries and foreign bonds are followed by the professional forex traders with keen interest. It can be a very strong indicator of potential currency movements because the US markets are the largest markets in the world and the investors all over the world are very sensitive to the yields offered by the US assets.

Market participants also closely watch the US Dollar Index as an indicator of overall US Dollar strength or weakness. The USDX is a futures contract traded on the New York Board of Trade (NYBOT). It is important to follow this index because when the market analysts are talking of general US Dollar weakness, they are referring to this index.

The US Stock and Bond markets also impact US Dollar. Cross border merger and acquisitions involve big forex transactions and are also very important for forex traders to watch.

The following economic indicators are important for the US Dollar: Employment, Nonfarm payrolls, Consumer Price Index, Produced Price Index, GDP, International Trade, Employment Cost Index, Industrial Production, Consumer Confidence, Retail Sales, TIC Data etc. - 23211

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Do You Really Need Renters Insurance?

By Dave Trusty

Whether you live on the top of the sky overlooking the park or in a home rented from a friend you need to have your own renters insurance policy. Renters insurance is the only way that you get to make sure that your financial situation is covered should the worst disasters strike.

Your landlord carries insurance on the building you live in. Whether you are in a single family home, a duplex, or a high rise apartment building your landlord makes sure that the building is covered in the event that there is a weather anomaly or a fire. Any kind of destruction that the property suffers is covered under your landlord's insurance.

Renters insurance does not cover flood waters, and you need to buy a government backed flood insurance policy if there is a risk of flooding in your area. You can not expect to file under your landlord's policies, even in the event of a flood. This is important to understand, as the value of your personal property can exceed tens of thousands of dollars and you may very well find that the financial burden of replacing it all to be extreme.

Personal property is an investment, whether it feels that way or not. Everything you have in your place you purchased or received as a gift, and thus it is an investment. In order to keep your investment protected, you need a simple renters insurance policy. This way if anything happens you do not have to worry about spending too much to retrieve the finances to replace the items lost.

If you lost everything in your rented property today, how much do you think it would cost to replace it? Think about everything from the expensive electronics to the collection of three dollar spatulas and coffee cups that you would have to buy once again. Think about the appliances that you own as well as the furnishings.

It is better to protect yourself through your own policy. Can you imagine exactly how much it would cost to replace everything in your home or apartment? Even if you have that kind of cash on hand, renters insurance prevents you from having to bear the expense of replacing everything you own.

Your income could easily be compromised without a way to replace your tools of the trade quickly and easily. This is what renters insurance is for. You don't need to lose anything because your building ended up in the wake of a particularly bad storm or because you were burglarized while you were away. - 23211

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