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Questions related to credit card management and use of credit to achieve your financial goals I have found on google that my screename has been linked to some garbage financial sites, that I have nothing to do with Please ask me to verify this if you are not sure and let me know who is making any claims so i can sue their asses off this is my website or my blog http://www.geocities.com/tbaarr/night_vision.html http://www.tbaarr.blogspot.com/

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i own over 10 credit cards

8 of these have credit limits over 10k and i use 2 of them to invest with

i have the balance as a fixed life of the loan balance transfer

and make 10 points profit on the money

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I retired doing this in 1996

and wish to pass on my experience. BE aware I got married in 1998 and started Driving Rig in 2004 so that I could get affordable quality Heath insurance for my family as I now have 2 beautiful daughters 4 and 8 as of aug 2007, so I may take longer to answer som questions. i cover such subjects as, my approach to credit, how to establish and maintain multiple accounts, how i get single digit life of the loan balance transfers, how i use their money for 45 days interest free, how i use credit cards to invest for 30% a year profit, and how i maintain a 650+ credit rating while holding 5 or more accounts. I challege anyone have me compare any answer, that suze orman gives on her tv show, to what i would suggest as i find her answers just plain incompetant, especially when she states that borrowing money from an ira causes you to pay double taxation. Thats just plain wrong
 
   

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Living on a Budget, Saving Money - Two-Cycle Daily Balance


Expert: tbaarr - 2/10/2009

Question
Hello:

I hope that you can answer my question regarding credit cards. Do you know how to determine the balance for a Discover card?
The company uses the two-cycle average daily balance method.

Can you perhaps use an example in your reply for carrying a previous balance and one for not?

I thank you for any helpful reply or information you may send to me.  

Answer
Its beyond me you need a computer

the best I can say is take your interest rate

divide it by 365 days

multiply by 30 days ie an average month

multiply that number by your payoff principal balance

the result is approx your monthly interest

add that to your payoff principal balance

then add your payoff principal balance again

then divide the result by 2

and thats pretty close to the midpoint average daily balance

it approximates the add on daily interest

or simply add the daily amount of interest to your principal balance

you do that by dividing your interest by 365 and then multiplying the payoff balance by the result

good luck  

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