Thank you all for the offers, but after further thought with the benefit of being fully awake (I created this loan request while still half-asleep), I've decided to table it for now. It's not that I don't trust myself to pay back the loan, or any lack of trust on behalf on you potential lenders to securely hold my collateral. I just don't trust my trading skills enough, even though I'm very certain that the LTC/BTC ratio will continue to rise as we approach the block reward halving. Thanks, EcuaMobi, for sewing that little seed of doubt (clarity?) to help me realize the risk.
You can just leverage ltc long, u don't need a loan to buy more litecoins!:)