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I built a 516-panel financial terminal in 3 weeks using AI

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Re: I built a 516-panel financial terminal in 3 weeks using AI

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Just curious if “number of panels” is a genuine metric by which financial terminals are judged?

Surely it gets noisy after 30 or so, but pedestrian stock trading apps like Thinkorswim have very high levels of customizability and modularity. I think even extensibility in Thinkorswim’s case. Java I think. Anyway, I would think any users of OP’s app are not using 90% of the 500+ widgets.

Re: I built a 516-panel financial terminal in 3 weeks using AI

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I built Neuberg because I’d always wanted a Bloomberg Terminal, but as an independent trader, I just couldn’t justify paying $24,000 a year for it. So I decided to build my own with Claude Code. It’s a real-time trading terminal covering fixed income, derivatives, commodities, equities, credit, macro, and alternative assets, with 516 panels in total. You can freely drag, drop, and arrange them however you like. What…

If I understand correctly, you had 30 working panels for the core functionality. You then vibe-coded an additional 486 new panels that use fake data? That's not quite how you presented the project in the title.

Re: I built a 516-panel financial terminal in 3 weeks using AI

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This is cool, but my experience with trading stocks is that you need to spend money in order to be on a remotely-level playing field with the whales. Ignoring that so much stock market data costs money, there’s also the matter of direct fiber connections to exchanges, brokers who batch your order with others resulting in subpar fill prices relative to bid-ask spread, the pattern day trading rule that only affects poo…

The real moat of the Bloomberg terminals is the messaging feature that connects you to the other traders.

Re: I built a 516-panel financial terminal in 3 weeks using AI

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I built Neuberg because I’d always wanted a Bloomberg Terminal, but as an independent trader, I just couldn’t justify paying $24,000 a year for it. So I decided to build my own with Claude Code. It’s a real-time trading terminal covering fixed income, derivatives, commodities, equities, credit, macro, and alternative assets, with 516 panels in total. You can freely drag, drop, and arrange them however you like. What…

Most of the value of the Bloomberg terminal is the data, not the number of panels

Re: I built a 516-panel financial terminal in 3 weeks using AI

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I built Neuberg because I’d always wanted a Bloomberg Terminal, but as an independent trader, I just couldn’t justify paying $24,000 a year for it. So I decided to build my own with Claude Code. It’s a real-time trading terminal covering fixed income, derivatives, commodities, equities, credit, macro, and alternative assets, with 516 panels in total. You can freely drag, drop, and arrange them however you like. What…

This is great work! Where are you getting your data from? Finding quality data sources is difficult

As far as I know, finding quality data sources is virtually impossible unless you already have so much money that your involvement in the stock market is either because you have insider knowledge or severe boredom owing to your never needing to work a day in your life.

I remember some startup selling a stock market data API as a subscription. I don’t think they exist anymore. So anyone who spent weeks, months of their free time building an app around that API is now completely shit out of luck.

I suspect the real APIs are still running the same code they ran in the 90s and if you have to ask how much they cost, you can’t afford them.

Re: I built a 516-panel financial terminal in 3 weeks using AI

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I built Neuberg because I’d always wanted a Bloomberg Terminal, but as an independent trader, I just couldn’t justify paying $24,000 a year for it. So I decided to build my own with Claude Code. It’s a real-time trading terminal covering fixed income, derivatives, commodities, equities, credit, macro, and alternative assets, with 516 panels in total. You can freely drag, drop, and arrange them however you like. What…

If I understand correctly, you had 30 working panels for the core functionality. You then vibe-coded an additional 486 new panels that use fake data? That's not quite how you presented the project in the title.

What do you mean? It says used AI in the title. That already implies it doesn't actually work.

Re: I built a 516-panel financial terminal in 3 weeks using AI

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I built Neuberg because I’d always wanted a Bloomberg Terminal, but as an independent trader, I just couldn’t justify paying $24,000 a year for it. So I decided to build my own with Claude Code. It’s a real-time trading terminal covering fixed income, derivatives, commodities, equities, credit, macro, and alternative assets, with 516 panels in total. You can freely drag, drop, and arrange them however you like. What…

I open the site and nothing is loading and all I see is a grid

Re: I built a 516-panel financial terminal in 3 weeks using AI

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post #13
post #8

This is cool, but my experience with trading stocks is that you need to spend money in order to be on a remotely-level playing field with the whales. Ignoring that so much stock market data costs money, there’s also the matter of direct fiber connections to exchanges, brokers who batch your order with others resulting in subpar fill prices relative to bid-ask spread, the pattern day trading rule that only affects poo…

The real moat of the Bloomberg terminals is the messaging feature that connects you to the other traders.

Fascinating. It’s called Instant Bloomberg and it’s just AOL instant messenger but only between Bloomberg Terminals. So that is absolutely the “data that insiders rely on that pedestrians will never have” and I’m sure it offers tremendous advantage and may explain why stocks trend in a direction for extended periods of time absent any public news.

I mean there’s no way average joes like us stand a chance doing anything but dollar cost averaging into index funds.

E: imagine if there was a law passed that required those IMs to be public in near-real-time (releasing the transcripts days later defeats the purpose).

Re: I built a 516-panel financial terminal in 3 weeks using AI

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is great work! Where are you getting your data from? Finding quality data sources is difficult

As far as I know, finding quality data sources is virtually impossible unless you already have so much money that your involvement in the stock market is either because you have insider knowledge or severe boredom owing to your never needing to work a day in your life. I remember some startup selling a stock market data API as a subscription. I don’t think they exist anymore. So anyone who spent weeks, months of thei…

You can get real-time market data through Databento. Been doing it for years. Top of book suffices for most people.

Re: I built a 516-panel financial terminal in 3 weeks using AI

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post #2

I built Neuberg because I’d always wanted a Bloomberg Terminal, but as an independent trader, I just couldn’t justify paying $24,000 a year for it. So I decided to build my own with Claude Code. It’s a real-time trading terminal covering fixed income, derivatives, commodities, equities, credit, macro, and alternative assets, with 516 panels in total. You can freely drag, drop, and arrange them however you like. What…

Most of the value of the Bloomberg terminal is the data, not the number of panels

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