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

GS/JPM/XLF L/L/S triple play based on market weakness.  bigger better quality banks should hold up better than the XLF.  1/3 position put on. 11.3.09

NUE/AA Pair L/S 1/3 trade placed on 11.2.09.  RoV at .496, spread of -.0847 and -1.77 std dev.

HD/L Pair L/S 1/3 position put on 11.2.09.  RoV 2.284, spread of -.2877 and -1.431 std dev.

SKS/DDS Paired L/S trade 1/3 position put on 11.2.09.  RoV 1.966, spread of -.294, and 1,87 std dev.

PMTI/CYNO Paired L/S trade started 1/3 position on 11/2/09.  RoV at 1.2842, spread -.60 against 3mo avg, -1.7166 std dev.

MOT was once the undisputed king of sexy design back in the RAZR glory days.  Stock should move up on speculation that the DROID is a huge sucess in Q4 '09 for the cell phone maker.  Short term play on the DROID hype.

Shorting any business that derives revenue from GPS.  Google/Android launching free GPS software via Google Maps on new handsets kills the business model.  Garmin and TomTom are dead.

Realistically I think tipping monkey should only make you pay 50-60% collateral (IM) on margin account and have a MM (maintanence margin) of lets say 30%. This way we could receive margin calls (from user: primate I am assuming) for liquidation or extra collateral back to IM, similar to the real world. I haven't traded futures hear yet so I am assuming the IM is 100% as well. Realistically it should only be maybe 5% to handle marked-to-market adjustments. It would definetly complicate the software. Just a thought.