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Re: Gloomberb

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Post by altairprime »

nose wrote: post #115
ryukoposting wrote: post #40

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Asked a dear friend in the finance industry what he thought about Bloomberg. He's the type of guy who uses these systems daily. Mostly paraphrasing: 1) Bloomberg was lightyears ahead of anything else in the pre-internet days, so there's a lot of UI familiarity. 2) Bloomberg's chat is important because, as a hedge fund or investment bank, the chat is how you buy and sell bonds. You agree to the trade in the chat, then…

I find it interesting that nobody from the finance community is directly speaking about their experience in this thread. What's the equivalent of hacker news for financial folk?

Bloomberg Terminal is that equivalent. Like, imagine if RHEL had an integrated live service TUI and integrated chat messenger system for customers, and you’d get about the same result except for a Linux distribution discussing packages and kernel patches and such, right? And since everyone using it is a paying customer, they can be taken for granted as likely being a serious participant rather than a bot/troll.

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Post by mortenjorck »

As someone whose trading is mostly based on vibes via Reuters, X, and the Apple Stocks app, this is a fun dip in the deep end. The tiling UI is quite sensible once you get the hang of it.

The one thing I can't figure out is how to set a pane to change its ticker symbol based on the selected one in another pane. The default research panes do this, but I can't figure out how to set a new one to do it.

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Post by munksbeer »

Pooge wrote: post #121
slowin wrote: post #64

I really wish people would mention their stack when they have these curl install scripts. I'd rather use a real package manager, but I'm not totally against installing a compiled binary this way. I am, 100%, not going to install some Java/Type-script nightmare like this though. How is it resolving the dependencies? Is it installing some version of node, bun... on my machine? How's that working with other versions I h…

And in the GitHub release page they include compiled binaries anyway... Why would you advertise `curl | bash` as a way to install if there's a binary available?! Download it, put it wherever you like (probably `~/.local/bin/`) and you're good to use it. Sometimes I truly wonder...

It seems to have become "the thing" to do. I can't figure out if it is bad as it feels. Why would I run `curl | bash` on something that could be doing literally anything. It feels crazy that all the lessons we've learned just get thrown away.

On the other hand, just because I run `brew install someapp`, it somehow feels safer, but why? That app could be doing anything too.

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Post by deadbabe »

tecleandor wrote: post #97
deadbabe wrote: post #85

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There is a marketplace on Bloomberg where you can buy and sell interesting stuff you don’t really find anywhere else. Some of it stored in freeports and delivered to your freeport, etc. top tier escorts, etc.

In freeports? So you mean like art?

More than just art in freeports.

Re: Gloomberb

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Post by munksbeer »

wavemode wrote: post #182
resters wrote: post #118

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It's a bit ironic that in a country with free markets , so much of the data that is relevant to modern finance is proprietary and quite expensive. The exchange/marketplace is the oldest business in the world. How absurd that in 2026 seats on exchanges cost millions and the entities that control exchanges are mechanisms of gatekeeping rather than quality control -- the cronyism shown to SpaceX reveals just how corrupt…

A stock exchange is nothing more than a marketplace. Anyone can start their own (the challenge being, getting a bunch of companies to want to list their stock with you). That freedom is actually why it's hard to create a Bloomberg competitor - in order to provide their data stream, Bloomberg has to have partnerships with hundreds of companies worldwide who run exchanges for stocks, bonds and other instruments. If exc…

> A stock exchange is nothing more than a marketplace. Anyone can start their own (the challenge being, getting a bunch of companies to want to list their stock with you).

Not really true. I can't just start a stock exchange. I need to comply with a bazillion regulations. Then I need a license, which I won't get.

As much as the crypto space is disliked, it also showed what happens when regulation isn't stopping you. Exchanges would pop up and anyone could create one. You didn't have to be already wealthy, a spin off from a hedge fund, a connected family, a connected person. You could just do it, and if it was good enough, people would trade on your venue.

Then, probably correctly, regulation came, and now that is all gone. The little person can't do that any longer, it is now reserved for the elites again.

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Post by linkregister »

wyre wrote: post #184
graemep wrote: post #177

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That was not caused by trading. It was caused by irresponsible lending and deceptive securitisation of that debt. Trading can bring down a bank (e.g.Barings) but is not a big systemic risk.

Is lending not a trade? Two parties exchange money for terms of repayment/debt.

The trading occurring on the Bloomberg terminal is of bonds, equities, and commodities.

Re: Gloomberb

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Post by bellowsgulch »

I'm a regular Joe, but finance screens seem like pure wank to me. If you work a desk in NYC, maybe it's a different story, and even then probably not, but if you're some bum nobody from LA with a little bit of money to throw around, there's absolutely nothing these things, or 6 simultaneous screens and an RGB PC case are going to tell you that give you some sort of long-term edge.

Horoscopes for young impressionable men, along with Bitcoin and all sorts of crap, was the most articulate way I've heard it.

As if technical analysis was worth more insight than pissing straight up looking for rain. Sure, it's wet.

Re: Gloomberb

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Post by rtaylorgarlock »

rtaylorgarlock wrote: post #98
CharlesW wrote: post #78

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The source is prominently linked: https://github.com/gloom-sh/gloomberb > please don't write command line tools in non-compiled languages! Around 40% of Linux CLI tools are written in interpreted languages.

Let those be the 40% we prefer less :) Revealing stack does not validate the framework, but we appreciate some foss sauce 'round these parts.

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