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Types of Loans Available

admin — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 09:06:07 +0000

Housing loans are the largest and most important retail loan segment. For most individuals the mortgage is likely to be the largest single loan they ever take from a bank. Governments in many countries have encouraged the growth of mortgage lending in order to increase the level of private home ownership. In many instances governments provide tax incentives to borrowers.
Credit losses on mortgages are generally lower than on other retail or corporate loans and also more predictable. It is quite common to hear bankers and analysts argue that the Basel Accord requirements also provide an incentive for banks to make housing loans because they are only required to “set aside” 50% of the regulatory capital required for all other loans to support a mortgage. Such comments often reveal a lack of understanding of the nature of the difference between risk and regulatory capital.
Housing loans can be either fixed rate or floating rate. In the US the latter are commonly referred to as Adjustable Rate Mortgages (ARMs).

Credit card

admin — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 09:02:14 +0000

A form of unsecured revolving credit but also providing an electronic point of sale payment service. Credit cards provide a specified period of free credit after which the issuer charges a relatively high rate on any balances not paid off. These balances are referred to as “rollover” balances. Some cards also have some form of annual fee.

Education loans

admin — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 09:04:28 +0000

In many countries banks provide loans to students to help pay for college fees. In some cases these loans are subsidized by the state.
In the most developed countries, and in particular in the US, securitization has had a marked impact on the development of the mortgage lending business. Securitization involves selling the rights to the cashflows generated from a pool of assets, of which mortgages make up the largest class. In such markets commercial banks may find it more profitable to originate mortgage loans and then to sell those loans than to hold and fund them.

Housing mortgage

admin — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 09:01:25 +0000

Typically a loan with a term of 15–30 years made for the purchase of a specific property. The borrower gives the bank a “lien” on the property. This is a legal term that entitles the bank to the title of the property in the event of the borrower failing to make payments as scheduled. Mortgages may be fixed rate, floating rate or some combination of the two forms, for example fixed for the first three years and then reverting to a floating rate based on some prespecified benchmark.

Consumer finance

admin — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 09:03:10 +0000

Car loans and loans for the purchase of other consumer items such as washing machines, motorbikes and televisions fall into the broad category of consumer finance. Banks compete with a number of non-bank institutions in this segment such as stores, auto manufacturers and specialist consumer finance firms.

RETAIL CREDIT PRODUCTS

admin — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 08:59:33 +0000

Many banks subdivide the retail segment further in terms of their own organization into personal banking (mortgages, credit cards, overdrafts and other services) and consumer finance (auto loans and other loans to finance consumer purchases). In recent years there has been a move to base the retail banking organization more on the delivery method used, for example branch-based banking and products delivered electronically. This trend is likely to persist as more people use the Internet to search for the best terms available and to apply for loans.
Most retail loans are highly commoditized. Credit approval procedures are highly automated and pricing and approval decisions result from bank policy decisions rather than being made individually. Key success factors in this segment include access to customers, ease of application, speed of credit approval and pricing. For specialist lending services, such as loans to individuals with a poor credit record, collateral requirements may be lowered in return for a higher price.

Identifying Extremes

admin — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 08:58:33 +0000

An equally popular and more interesting interpretation of the momentum chart is based on an analysis of tops and bottoms. All momentum values are bounded in both directions by the maximum move possible during the time interval represented by the span of the momentum. The conditions at the points of high positive and negative momentum are called overbought and oversold, respectively A market is overbought when it can no longer sustain the strength of the current trend and a downward price reaction is imminent; an oversold market is ready for an upward move. Faster momentum calculations win reach these maximum values more often and stay there for extended periods of high upward or downward momentum. The use of a slow momentum period, however, will produce values that rarely test its limits. If the momentum system uses the horizontal zero line to enter and exit trades, it is of no consequence how often the bounds are touched; once a position is entered, the high-momentum condition serves as a positive reinforcement for the trade. However, the maximum positive and negative momentum values can be measured and used to anticipate the end of a trend. For this purpose, momentum values that are too fast will obscure the trading signalsthe momentum index must be allowed to reach its full value.

Momentum as a Trend Indicator

admin — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 08:57:51 +0000

The momentum value is a smoothing of price changes and can be very similar to a standard moving average. Most applications use momentum as a substitute for a price trend. BY looking at the net increase in prices over the number of days designated by an n-day momentum indicator, intermediate fluctuations are ignored, and the pattern in price trend can be seen. The longer the span between the observed points, the smoother the results. This is equivalent to faster and slower moving averages.
To use momentum as a trend indicator, the momentum span is selected and plotted. A buy signal occurs whenever the value of the momentum turns from negative to positive, and a sell signal is when the opposite occurs. If a band is used to establish a neutral position or a commitment zone, it should be drawn around the horizontal line representing the midpoint momentum value, usually zero.
Buy and sell signals that occur sooner and are likely to be stopped out more often, use a signal line created by smoothing the momentum values, in this case using a simple 3-day moving average. Once the momentum value moves above a threshold level of, for example, 70, a sell occurs when the momentum crosses below the signal line. The position may he stopped out when the momentum crosses above the signal line, or when momentum moves above its entry level.
To find the best choice of a momentum span, a sampling of different values could be tested for optimum performance, or a chart could be examined for some natural price cycle. Identify the significant tops and bottoms of any bar chart, and average the number of days between these cycles, or find the number of days that would closely approximate the occurrences of these peaks and valleys. These natural cycles will often be the best choice of a momentum calculation interval.
Momentum and oscillators, however, are used just as often to identify abnormal price movements and for timing of entries and exits in conjunction with a longer-term trend.

Timing an Entry

admin — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:57:07 +0000

Momentum is a convenient way of identifying a good entry point caused by a price reversal during a trend. By choosing a much shorter time period for the momentum calculation, for example 6 days, to work in conjunction with a longer trend of 30 to 50 days, the momentum indicator will show frequent opportunities within the trend. The short time period for the momentum calculation assures you that there will be an entry opportunity within about 3 days of the entry signal; therefore, it becomes a practical timing tool.

Momentum and Oscillators

admin — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 08:56:50 +0000

The study of momentum and oscillators is an analysis of price changes rather than price levels. Among technicians, momentum establishes the speed of price movement and the rate of ascent or descent. Analysts use momentum interchangeably with slope, a straight-line angle of inclination of price movement as measured from a horizontal line representing time. Momentum is also thought of as force or impact; it is often considered, as in Newton’s Law, that once started prices tend to remain in motion in a somewhat straight line.
Rate-of-change indicators, such as momentum and oscillators, are used as leading indicators of price change. They can identify when the current trend is no longer maintaining its same level of strength. This gives the trader an opportunity to begin liquidating the open-trend trades before prices actually reverse. As the time period for the momentum calculation shortens, this technique of leading a trend changes to become more aggressive and is interpreted as a countertrend method. Use of a rate-of-change indicator anticipates change even sooner.
Before beginning a discussion of various momentum calculations, a brief comment on terminology will be helpful to understand how various techniques are grouped together. We begin with a single price, which has no movement. When we talk about bonds at 110 or gold at $400 per ounce, we are relating a price level and not implying that prices are going up or down. Next, we describe the speed at which prices are rising or falling. It is not enough to say that the S&P rose 3 points~ rather, you must specify. the time interval over which this happened—TheS&P rose 3 points in one hour.—’When you say that you drove your car at 60, you really imply that you were going 60 miles per hour, or 60 kilometers per hour. This description of speed, or distance covered over time. is the same information that is given by a single momentum value.
The last measure is one of change in speed, which is either acceleration or deceleration. The price of the Deutschemark may have risen by .0150 dollars per mark in the past week, indicating an average speed of .0150/5, or a rise of .0030 dollars mark per day however, it started rising slowly and increasing its speed over the week. Perhaps the mark rose .0010 on Monday, .0020 on Tuesday, .0030 on Wednesday, .0040 on Thursday, and .0050 on Friday, increasing in speed (or accelerating) by.0010 each day, The term rate of change (ROC) will also he used to describe acceleration; when the rate of change is zero. we are talking about speed and momentum.
You will see in this series of posts that speed is a more sensitive measurement than price level, and acceleration is more sensitive than speed. The various techniques described here are presented in order of speed and then rate of change. Following that is divergence, the most popular use of momentum indicators.