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Seemed to be a 7 point bump in EX FICO 8
when overall utilization dropped from 6.88%
to 5.9%. Suggests to me that 6% overall utilization
might be a thing.
HPs falling off a CR at 2 years don't result in any FICO scoring impact. Any impact happens at the 1 year mark.
I'm quite sure that SJ has isolated this score change specifically to his utilization change. The only factor I would suggest double-checking with the month just recently changing would be the aging of his AoOA, AAoA and AoYA by 1 month. A threshold could have been crossed on one of those factors, possibly resulting in a score change.
SJ, any update to your TU/EQ scores to go along with this utilization change? We have seen many times that 1 bureau can behave/react differently to report changes where the other 2 don't, so I'm just curious here for my own knowledge.
@Anonymous wrote:
I know you’re one of the pros on here, but I’ll ask anyhow - did the paydown coincide with any aging anniversaries or HP falloffs (either entirely at 2 years or from scoring at 1 year)? I’d be curious to know if there were any other secondary scoring criteria that happened around the same time...
No it was an overnight change, nothing else happened.
@Anonymous wrote:HPs falling off a CR at 2 years don't result in any FICO scoring impact. Any impact happens at the 1 year mark.
I'm quite sure that SJ has isolated this score change specifically to his utilization change. The only factor I would suggest double-checking with the month just recently changing would be the aging of his AoOA, AAoA and AoYA by 1 month. A threshold could have been crossed on one of those factors, possibly resulting in a score change.
SJ, any update to your TU/EQ scores to go along with this utilization change? We have seen many times that 1 bureau can behave/react differently to report changes where the other 2 don't, so I'm just curious here for my own knowledge.
The reason I was able to get clean data -- which is a challenge in my profile -- is that I just subscribed to a new Experian product which gives me daily updates of the report including updates of 4 scores: FICO 8, FICO 2, and an Auto and Bankcard score. So it's clean data, but only applicable to EX. Several days later on my MyFICO dashboard there was a 6 point increase in TU FICO 8. So it's possible that it was related, but impossible for me to have any degree of certainty about that one.
It didn't occur during the changeover of the month; it occurred earlier.
Cool, good stuff.
It's easy enough to test a couple of times to make sure... just yo-yo back and forth between 5% and 6% reported utilization and see if your score goes +7, -7, +7 etc. I always think it's good to do that across theorized thresholds; I did that across what I believed to be a threshold at 78 months (6.5 years) AAoA and proved it to be one by doing so.
@Anonymous wrote:Cool, good stuff.
It's easy enough to test a couple of times to make sure... just yo-yo back and forth between 5% and 6% reported utilization and see if your score goes +7, -7, +7 etc. I always think it's good to do that across theorized thresholds; I did that across what I believed to be a threshold at 78 months (6.5 years) AAoA and proved it to be one by doing so.
I will try to do that but I don't have complete control over it.
@SouthJamaica wrote:
@Anonymous wrote:
I know you’re one of the pros on here, but I’ll ask anyhow - did the paydown coincide with any aging anniversaries or HP falloffs (either entirely at 2 years or from scoring at 1 year)? I’d be curious to know if there were any other secondary scoring criteria that happened around the same time...No it was an overnight change, nothing else happened.
In order for aggregate utilization to change, the set of individual card utilization percentages must also change. What was that change in your list of reported card balances and utilization percentages over the last several days?
Since we are early into December, when aging thresholds become a hidden driver of score changes, what was your sequence of tracking scores from late November to the change you think of as 6% Overall Utilization as the December 1 threshold was crossed?