Is there a cheaper alternative to a Bloomberg Terminal?

Daal · Aug 25, 2009

For those who dont want to blow $1,500 a month. Reuters?I'm mainly interest in real time market data for all kinds of obscure markets and realtime news

WinstonTJ · Aug 25, 2009

Thompson Financial ~$800/month but IMHO bloomberg is worth every penny of the $1,800/month (plus add-ons & exchange feeds) it costs

tablewhite · Aug 27, 2009

There's a bunch of products from Thomson Reuters: Reuters 3000 Xtra (http://thomsonreuters.com/products_...ducts/equities_derivatives/americas/3000_xtra) plus also Dealing on Reuters (http://thomsonreuters.com/products_..._products/foreign_exchange/forward_fx/dealing) for starters.

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Stewenson133 · Aug 27, 2009

Quote from WinstonTJ:

Thompson Financial ~$800/month but IMHO bloomberg is worth every penny of the $1,800/month (plus add-ons & exchange feeds) it costs

1800$/month with anywhere subscription too?

freddel · Mar 18, 2012

Up

Any suggestions?

What about Interactive Brokers "IBIS Research Platform" bundle?!
Dow Jones Global Market News USD199.00
Dow Jones News Service 2 USD115.00

http://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/p.php?f=marketData&ib_entity=uk

Thanks

mokwit · Mar 18, 2012

Metastock quotecenter. USD135/month. Institutional platform at retail price. (was Bridge platform).

http://www.equis.com/products/realtime/quotecenter/?overview

Global data. If you just want US data plenty of others.

failed_trad3r · Mar 18, 2012

Factset

Lornz · Mar 18, 2012

Quote from failed_trad3r:

Factset

How is that cheaper?

Both Factset and Capital IQ cost about the same as a Bloomberg Terminal. They also have a requirement of a certain number of accounts, as far as I know.

FrankSlaughtery · Mar 19, 2012

Quote from WinstonTJ:

Thompson Financial ~$800/month but IMHO bloomberg is worth every penny of the $1,800/month (plus add-ons & exchange feeds) it costs

IIRC thomson (reuters) seems cheaper but is about the same as bbg once you get the same packages as bbg. even then nothing compares to bbg.

Eethkr · Apr 3, 2016

Its gonna be hard to find a program that handles everything Bloomberg terminal does for you. You may be able to find specific functions in Bloomberg online for free. For example I consider http://eqsift.com/ to be a good alternative to Bloomberg's EQS function.