Chimp for HSX

Chimp is a spinoff of Port Monkey. It's the ultimate trade widget and bond shopper, that works on all HSX pages. It will always be there, right where you left it, ready for action. You can hide and unhide Chimp with a keystroke, or roll it up to a title bar.

Yes, that title bar is displaying HSX time for your last page load, if you wish. Chimp is for both users, and non-users, of Port Monkey!

Chimp features and advantages

Speed - Trading from Chimp never takes you away from your initial page. Instead, trade confirmation appears as a popup window that is easily dismissed with the Enter key, or which you can simply leave aside.

Mouseover symbols - Rolling over any security link in HSX will put its ticker into the Chimp symbol input.

Quantity quick-picks - Select often-used amounts with a single mouse click. The quantities are customizable. Even speedier!

Starbond adjust fetch - Instantly check the potential gain on any bond in the symbol box. Either click the S: link or hit Enter to see the adjust price as estimated by KaiGee.com. Chimp displays the estimated adjust price in green or red to illustrate what the math shows; this should not be considered an outright recommendation! Use this tool to cruise for good investments, from the HSX bond pages, to the calendar (adjusts) and Moviestock detail pages. Note that data at KaiGee.com is typically updated each Wednesday night. You can hover over the KaiGee.com link, to check the data freshness date.

Price checker - Similar to the Starbond fetch, Chimp can look up the current price of any HSX security.

Intraday price graphs - On Moviestock pages, clicking the Change Today number will open up a graph that shows a film's price history for the past 24 hours or so, with 5-minute resolution. This is useful for spotting trends and reversals. This intraday price graph example will open as a full web page. Using Chimp, the graph will open in a small window, much like the Chimp trade confirmation window. Note that you must set your browser options to allow pop-up windows for HSX (there's no downside to this). These price graphs are the handiwork of HSX user theun4gven. Very nice!

Persistence - Chimp remembers its size and position from page to page, and from session to session.

Customizability - Click the arrow icon ▲ to roll it up. Press F2 to hide or unhide. Click the heart icon ♥ to set other options, including font size and panel width, and whether to display HSX time.

Consistent behavior - I only recently discovered that the HSX tear-off trade widget picks up mouseover symbols, and has some degree of persistence. I had never seen these behaviors on my own computers, but now know they exist, after trying them on a relative's computer. I certainly hope Chimp will work consistently for all Firefox/Greasemonkey users that try it.

Browser notes

Almost all features of the Greasemonkey native code will work in non-Firefox browsers like Chrome, Opera, and possibly others. Here are the known exclusions or issues:

Chrome and Opera

The HSX time retrieval display does not work.
Chimp's bottom edge outline may be missing.
Resetting your 'private data' will also remove your Chimp settings. Think before you purge.

Opera

Retrieval of bond adjust info and security prices does not work.
Pressing F2 to toggle Chimp visibility works somewhat.

Since I use Firefox, I will not be paying attention if/when Chrome or Opera are updated in such a way that it breaks Chimp functionality. Please let me know.

Because this site has become unreliable, the download files have been moved to the GreasyFork script archive. Here's the new edzep download/install page. The Tripod pages are left up because they provide a better visual reference.