FEEL LIKE TRYING to pay down your debt is a losing battle? No wonder: Credit-card companies are quite inventive when it comes to charging fees or finding new reasons to jack up your interest rate.

Credit cards sometimes get a bad rap for their high interest rates and fees, or for being the mechanism that gets some people into debt trouble. But when used strategically, credit cards can help you ...

Behind each “impossible” credit-card trick lies a predictable pattern of visual manipulation, timing, and controlled hand positioning. The tutorial breaks these concepts into easy-to-follow segments, ...