Dear all members, users, friends and foes of Tipping Monkey,

It is with strong emotions that I am writing to let everyone know that as of December 1, 2009, we will be officially discontinuing the Tipping Monkey service. The main reason for discontinuation is simply the fact that we have not been able to achieve the level of membership and traffic to sustain our operations, and with the proliferation of new competitors in the same space as ours, we just did not feel that it is sensible to maintain the manpower and financial commitment to continue operations for Tipping Monkey. It’s been a very, very tough decision indeed. I wanted to thank everyone who has been using our service, sending feedback, and supporting us in general! ...

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Dear members,

It's been a while since we added new features to Tipping Monkey. There have been a number of requests for exporting portfolio data to a user's own compute. So we decided to add that. In the Portfolio Balance Sheet page, you will now see an "Export Portfolio to CSV" link (see image below). Clicking that link will export that portfolio to your computer in CSV (comma-separated values) format. While this is not a very sophisticated format, it is a pretty standard format that many spreadsheets and applications recognize. We felt that should be good enough for most people.

Once again, happy trading, but make sure to INVESTIGATE before you INVEST!

- primate

For months we have been hearing about different types of issues surrounding members not being able to log in to their accounts. This mostly happens when people have a laptop that connect to different networks, or they log in from many different machines, or simply they use Tipping Monkey intermittently between the web interface and inside Facebook.

Either case, we made a fix that we think at least fixed one whole class of issues related to cookie management. We hope this will alleviate some of the pain that some members have been expreiencing.

Happy trading, and thanks for your continued support!

We experienced another glitch recently that took out our option chains again. Options trading is back now ... we apologize for any inconvenience!

Dear all, I apologize for not having been too active on the site lately. With the current markets in such turmoil there is much to distract our attention and a lot to ponder over. Well, I am not immune. I hope I will find the time in the near future to write an extensive update about the developments with Tipping Monkey, but I wanted to thank all the loyal members who continue to visit or otherwise support this site.

But first things first, I wanted to let all of you know that Options trading - which is one of the key differentiating features of Tipping Monkey - is back! The main change is that now we've embraced the "@" prefix for option symbols as our quote provider had changed their system. I think this is long overdue and better, since it eliminates the confusion between stock/option symbol clashes, and allows for quick visual disambiguation between stocks, options, and FOREX symbols.

We now also have commodity symbols (denoted with a "/" prefix) that people can "trade" (i.e. buy and sell only). We will be looking at updating the trading engine to see what additional support we need to add for more comprehensive commodities activity. We will be rolling out incremental changes in the next few months. Stay tuned!