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Re: Show HN: Can’t afford Bloomberg Terminal? No prob, I built the next best thing

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Post by fareesh »

valuearb wrote: post #58
sexy_year wrote: post #2

If you like stocks and are careful with the way you spend your money, you know how much time goes into buying shares of a stock. It’s tedious and I don’t have 24k for a Bloomberg terminal. Which led me to the idea during xmas break to spend the time creating my own terminal. I introduce you to “Gamestonk Terminal” (probably should’ve sent 1 tweet everyday to Elon Musk for copyrights permission eheh). In summary, the…

if it doesn't come with an ISDA, I'm not interested. "JP Morgan Employee : But, uh... you guys are under the capital requirements for an ISDA. Charlie Geller : By how much? JP Morgan Employee : [thinking] Uh... how much? One billion, four hundred seventy million. So... a lot. Charlie Geller : This makes us look bad, doesn't it? That we didn't know what the capital requirements were? JP Morgan Employee : Uh... it's no…

Ah the wily Brownhole fund from the 2008 collapse

Re: Show HN: Can’t afford Bloomberg Terminal? No prob, I built the next best thing

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Post by est31 »

dan-robertson wrote: post #184
dkdbejwi383 wrote: post #160

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I honestly can't tell if this is a parody or not

Parody. If you have a Bloomberg terminal then probably many of the people you interact with at work also have Bloomberg subscriptions. Imagine some tech worker in Silicon Valley trying to flex some employer-provided top-of-the-range MacBook. The price isn’t the same but the idea that it won’t impress the in-group is.

Maybe it's like teamblind? IIRC you need to sign up to them using your work e mail. And it's authwalled so can't really be read without an account.

Re: Show HN: Can’t afford Bloomberg Terminal? No prob, I built the next best thing

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Post by wrycoder »

mortdeus wrote: post #125
slissenburg wrote: post #90

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Watch the movie "the big short". It's really good. This is from one of the scenes where too guys try to get a license. Although the manage a few million dollars, in order to get the license they should have even more. Or as it turns out the right connections.

the book is even better.

Both are good. The flick is quite faithful to the book, especially in tone.

Re: Show HN: Can’t afford Bloomberg Terminal? No prob, I built the next best thing

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Post by wrycoder »

cambalache wrote: post #73
sevencolors wrote: post #67

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According to the docs it uses https://www.alphavantage.co/

He just wanted to push his service. HN comment section has been unbearable recently with the substantial increase of people doing this. It has always been present but now it is almost reaching the point of making the comment section worthless.

There are quite a lot of comments that make it to the top which say, "That's nice, I made this similar thing which is really interesting, here's a ." Followed by a big thread about their thing.

I don't mind those comments so much, as they can lead to good stuff, but I do mind them derailing the main thread when they are upvoted. So, I often downvote them in retaliation.

Re: Show HN: Can’t afford Bloomberg Terminal? No prob, I built the next best thing

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Post by adeelk93 »

twic wrote: post #143
wyxuan wrote: post #54

The only thing that this shares with the bloomberg terminal is that it can do equities and is on a terminal. Sort of irks me because a bloomberg terminal can do so much more: level 2 data, trading capability, damn near instant news alerts, options, debt instrumentals + so much more - and I get it, this isn't meant for that same crowd and this is pretty well flushed out for a retail investor. But the comparison with t…

Also, this looks like it's purely for equities - no bonds, futures, options, swaps, etc. I suspect that by volume of risk traded by users (not purely through the terminal), equities are a minority of what the Bloomberg terminal supports. Still, this is a cool hack. I understand that it is not a genuine attempt to unseat Bloomberg!

I know, I got excited when I saw the headline, only to discover it’s yet another equity-only tool

Re: Show HN: Can’t afford Bloomberg Terminal? No prob, I built the next best thing

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Post by mettamage »

pc86 wrote: post #224
Hnrobert42 wrote: post #206

Is it just me, or is the feel of the comment on this post different than other HN posts? There are a lot more snarky jokes. A little more combative. It feels like why I stopped reading Reddit. I hope it doesn’t metastasize to posts on other topics.

> Please don't post comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. It's a semi-noob[0] illusion[1], as[2] old[3] as[4] the[5] hills.[6] [7] [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=926703 [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=633099 [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=582513 [3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=289254 [4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=253657 [5] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?i…

I know it's as "old as the hills", and so on, but this was the first time I was feeling it too. But I think it's because one satiric comment just got a lot of attention [1], then other people started to do a bit of satire as well. Which is why it feels Reddit like. Looking at the other comments and top child comments, I don't see it either.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26261247

Re: Show HN: Can’t afford Bloomberg Terminal? No prob, I built the next best thing

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Post by ThisIsTheWay »

yakshaving_jgt wrote: post #205
ananthrk wrote: post #82

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Can you provide some more context on this?

It's the best scene in the movie. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qo1OSqBQYmk

Its a great scene, but this one takes the cake: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbiDrzTd8fE

"That's a nice shirt, do they make it for men?"

"Somehow you're like Dora the Explorer and you're the first person who has found this thing..."

Re: Show HN: Can’t afford Bloomberg Terminal? No prob, I built the next best thing

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Post by [deleted] »

ShaneMcGowan wrote: post #180
atian wrote: post #147

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Sometimes I casually flash my B-Unit around or pretend to check the time on it just to let everyone know I have a subscription. Other times I will go out of my way to send emails from the terminal just so others get a glance at my @bloomberg.net email address. I also have people send me stuff to the email if it's someone I haven't met before. The Bloomberg Terminal is well worth it for these two perks. It's much bett…

Assert your dominance by using your childhood hotmail email address for business purposes

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Re: Show HN: Can’t afford Bloomberg Terminal? No prob, I built the next best thing

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Post by ThisIsTheWay »

omarhaneef wrote: post #250
sezna wrote: post #84

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Quote from the movie Margin Call.

You're thinking of: "Please, speak as you might to a young child or a Golden Retriever. It wasn't brains that got me here, I can assure you that."

Jeremy Irons is a god in Margin Call, such a good performance.
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