Utilization Question

[Credit-hoarder]

My USAA CC has starting reporting on EQ either today or yesterday. Subsequently my score went from 697 to 691 via myFico Scorewatch. But I'm not worried about that b/c my total credit reporting should also have gone from $7500 to $18500--bringing my UTIL from around 6% to around 2% (approx $375 in balances reporting currently) and myFico score should rebound fairly quick if I can keep my total reporting balance right around $400. Is this a correct assumption to make based on this scenario?.

[Necromancer]

I believe your assumption is correct, but most likely the fico drop was due to a decrease in your AAoA, which will increase as your new TL ages.

[coldnmn]

+1

[user5387]

I believe that a given utilization puts you in a particular bucket, and if utilization goes down a bit, but you're still in that bucket, then it won't help you.

I presume this is true for lots of aspects of FICO scoring.  For example, my AAoA is around 6.1 years, and I doubt that getting it up to 6.5 years will do anything for me.

[too-much-time]

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user5387 wrote:

I believe that a given utilization puts you in a particular bucket, and if utilization goes down a bit, but you're still in that bucket, then it won't help you.

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I don't know, so I'm quoting. "Util doesn't determine buckets. If it did, we would be getting poured in and out of buckets every time another CC updates." "We do know that there are 2 negative and 8 positive buckets."

[guiness56]

You are correct.  There is no bucket for utilization.