Version 1.0.3.2: Fix to Market Analysis

I had a feeling that I did not correctly handle the end of the month. When using the Market Analysis links on the listing detail page, I calculate the loan origination date to be 1 month prior to today... that will allow for ROI data to display. I was not correctly determining the date 1 month prior to today. If you must know I was doing today's month minus 1, today's date minus 1, and leaving the year alone. So as an example, today I would calculate the loan origination end date to be, February 30th. It now does it correctly and handles the beginning of the new year as well.

I would appreciate any feedback on these tools especially. I have been using the Specific link myself. I have debated whether or not to add to the search Homeowner's yes and AutoFund no, depending on the listing being viewed.

Version 1.0.3.1: Fixed a bug in the auto refresh

Oops --- version 1.0.2.9 does not work correctly. It would only work the first time. I have addressed the problem and it now correctly auto refreshes at about 5 minutes left in the 20 minute window.

Version 1.0.2.9: Auto refresh 20 minute timer update

I have added an option that is disabled by default. Go to Your Accounts after logging into Prosper and click Enable Auto Refresh. This feature when enabled with 5 minutes left in the 20 minute timeout will refresh the browser window which resets the Prosper timer.

Now if you are sitting on a compose message page the auto refresh will not happen.

Thanks for the suggestion Stephen!

Version 1.0.2.8: More Market Analysis

I've added a Specific hot link under Market Analysis. You must be logged into Prosper to see this feature as it makes use of the listing's extended credit information. I am open to suggestions on how best to utilize this information when examining the performance ROI. Here is what it currently does.

If the extended credit information shows a non-zero value for these criteria:

• Number of DQs now
• Number of DQs ever
• Number of PRs 12 months
• Number of PRs 10 years
• Inquiries last 6 months

then the performance criteria will search for 0 through plus 2 of the listing's number. To see it in action click the Specific link and then edit the search criteria on the Marketplace Performance page that pops up.

I have also added a hot link on the Q&A section next to the lender asking the question. This way you can quickly determine the lender's "credibility."

Version 1.0.2.7: Email Alerts

I hope everyone has been enjoying the new Market Analysis links. I personally find that they shed some light on the listings. Please do leave some feedback or contact me directly if you have other ideas. I have been out of town the last week... sorry for the lack of updates.

Thank you to everyone that has donated. It is appreciated! Going forward I have decided to enable the Watch List. If you haven't seen it in action. Do give it a try!

For this release - please shutdown Internet Explorer, uninstall your old version of the Prosper IE Extension, then download and install the new version. At least one person was having issues with an older version that was not updating properly. Just to help ensure everyone's installation is working, I will not provide the update install. If you are unsure which one to choose from the right, click the Modified installer.

Some of you may have seen this forum thread discussing email alerts. If not, the user zieri has been busy developing add-ons for Prosper as well. He has agreed to allow me to integrate his alert mechanism into my Internet Explorer extension.


On the listing detail page, you will now see a new hot link, Alert (see above). The first time you click this link you will be presented with a login page for www.zierious.com. Be sure to click the remember me button! Very important! And if Internet Explorer asks if it should remember your password, click yes. Enter your information. If you are presented with this login page again from within my extension, you will need to enter the information again. Also whatever action you performed, you will have to do it again.

If you have any questions or concerns, contact me through Prosper.

Okay - once you have entered the login information for zierious and set the email alert time frame, you can close that web page. Go back to Prosper and click the Alert link again. No indication right now of success... but if the login page does not appear again it most likely was successful.

A new menu item has been created called Alerts. Pretty clever, I know. Click it and you will see this image below. It sometimes can take a few seconds to load the information. You can use the Manage alert email preferences link to visit www.zierious.com to change your alert settings. The Remove button works as expected from the Alerts page, as does the link to the listing.



I will continue to make the integration better, such as a spy glass on the listing detail page indicating you have an alert set for this listing.

Enjoy.

Version 1.0.2.6: More market analysis changes, and a new feature

Added two new Market Analysis features. At the top I have added Group and a spy glass next to group. The Group link opens in a new window and displays the Marketplace Performance for that group. The spy glass pops up a window displaying the Estimated ROI for that group. Please note some groups do not have data since they are 'new' groups.




Next to the Group's star rating I have added another spy glass. This one pops up the groups historical interest rates.



On the search result pages I have changed the indicator for a listing that has notes to the spy glass. This matches what happens on the listing detail page.

And a new feature inspried from this forum entry. Actually I am making use of friedo's tools.

Each time you visit a listing detail page, the extension will search for entries in the Prosper forums and automatically display the topic titles on the page. I still like the on demand use of Ctrl-M to look for forum posts so it is still available.

I have added the option to enable or disable this feature. You must navigate to 'Your Account' tab within Prosper. Click on 'Enable Forum Search' or 'Disable Forum Search'. I have not noticed any performance issues... but if you do you can disable this feature and stick with Ctrl-M.

Version 1.0.2.5: Fix to Notes and UI change for Market Analysis

A few people had reported a problem with Notes giving an error when deleting entries. Also some people had problems viewing the Notes dialog. These issues have been addressed.


For the Market Analysis links I did modify them to look like this:




This change is keeping with my theme of the spy glass popping up information. I hope to add another link called Specific soon. Still working out the details.

Version 1.0.2.4: Improved Market Analysis

Thank you golden for the suggestion! This is a great improvement to the market analysis. I added an extra link, Estimated ROI, in the Market Analysis section.

Quickly view the estimated ROI based on a loan value +/- $2000 of the listing. For easy of access I show the borrower's credit grade in the popup. You may need to click on the image to fully see it.



The Broad and Narrow links open a new window with the market analysis. I have modified the link to display the estimated ROI at the bottom of the page. The Estimated ROI link currently is the information from the Broad query.

Depending on feedback ... I am thinking of putting a spy glass next to the Broad and Narrow links to display the popup Estimated ROI. Let me know your thoughts.

And Ratchetr I am looking into your enhancement request for Notes. Thanks!

And I fixed an issue with the 'View Lender Stats' link the forums.prosper.com. At times it would popup then disappear immediately.

Version 1.0.2.3: Market Analysis

I have added two new hot links to the listing detail page, Broad and Narrow.

Both invoke Prosper's new Market Performance page. Choosing Broad specifies the search criteria to be the listing loan amount +/- $2000. Narrow adds group and homeowner classification. Adding the option 'Borrowers who are group members' if the borrower is a member of a group and include only Homeowners if the borrower is a homeowner.

I have some plans to expand this type of analysis, taking into consideration extended credit report information. Stay tuned.

Version 1.0.2.2: Minor UI change and Notes fix

When using the Notes feature, some of you have received an error message about a missing directory. Sorry about that. Of course the directory exists on my computer. I have fixed this issue to ensure the directory is created. Thanks for the feedback.

I have also introduced a minor UI change. The size of the buttons on the search result pages has always bothered me. So I have changed them into links.

This takes up less space and at least to me looks better.

New Feature

So I have been using for some months a hidden feature. The nature of this feature gives a clear advantage to you as a bidder. And therefore puts me at a disadvantage as a fellow lender. Because of that I have not shared this technology with anyone. I will utilize the same donation concept. For those that already have the Watch List enabled, $5 will be appreciated. For new donaters, $15 would unlock both the watch list and the new feature. What is the feature you ask? Hmmm... should I say... okay I will ...it is an autobid feature that waits until the last minute to bid.

If you are interested send me a message through prosper for more details.

Version 1.0.2.1: Notes change and fix to forum link to lender stats

I found a problem with the recent addition to the link to lender stat information in the forums. If the forum username was not a valid lender username then an error message would be displayed. I have removed the error message. The popup will display "No information found."

Second change I made was to allow a single click in the Notes popup to view the notes for that listing id without navigating the browser. Use double click to navigate to the listing id.

Any thoughts on improving the Notes feature would be appreciated.

Version 1.0.2.0: View other lender stats in Endorsement section and forum posts

Okay - two basic changes in this release. This forum post generated a lot of activity. This is the modification to the prosper.forums signature to include the stats for the lender. A big thanks to wiseclerk and epetroel for their work.

In partnership with epetroel and www.ericscc.com I have added some hot links next to lender names so you can quickly view the 'credibility' of the lender.

From within Prosper.com, in the Endorsement section I added a hot link next to the endorser's username.

And in prosper.forums.com if you find a poster that has not modified their signature I've added a link (View Lender Stats) under the poster's username that will retrieve the information for you.

Version 1.0.1.9: Option to disable timeout warning

I received some feedback that the popup warning for the timeout is sometimes annoying. I have added an option on the timeout dialog to prevent it from appearing. This ensures that the functionality remains the same for those that like it. If you change your mind, you can always re-enable the option on the Your Account tab.



I also fixed a problem with your current bids not showing immediately after you placed the bid in the search result pages and the watch list. I actually haven't tested it... since I haven't found a listing to bid on since I noticed it wasn't working. But it should work.

Version 1.0.1.8: Fixed View Loans to show all your loans

I read this post in the forums and thought that was a good idea.

Can Prosper do something so that we can set the default date range for "View Loans" under the "Your Account" tab?

Right now when I click on "View Loans" I only see my recently created loans and need to change the date range to see earlier loans. It's only one extra step I have to take but it would be convenient if could set my own default date range.

From the "Your Account" tab, when you click on "View Loans" it will default the Origination dates to Jan 1, 2005. This will ensure that all your loans will display.

If you already have the extension installed, click the update link on the right.