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by kwsp 79 days ago
Most of the value of the Bloomberg terminal is the data, not the number of panels
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as someone who worked at TR (now Refinitiv) and then Bloomberg, it's not even the data. it's IB. After IB it's the data. :)
As someone that worked for the spin out from GS, then got acquired by TR, then sold off to Blackstone, I wonder how much of our tech debt is still there for you to deal with 10 years later. :)
I haven't been at TR in 10+ years as well. AT TR, I mostly dealt with Eikon's pipeline for estimates, actuals and the like (IBES data) ingestion, querying and analytics. So can't say much, though some of my old colleagues still seem to be there.
I'm not sure if this is a coincidence or not, but today my github account was removed from the organisation... after 10 years.
As someone who never worked anywhere: what’s IB?
Nonsense, when he'll have one panel per screen pixel, he'll be able to see over 8 million Fibonacci retracements, 40 heatmaps and real-time market sentiment headlines at once on a 4k monitor, then you'll see.
... and speed. They publish billions of ticker items in near real time simultaneously to all their users... the tech is pretty crazy!
it's all about the bas
this.