Quote from bone:
There is no right way or wrong way to make money trading markets... if you are consistent trading the markets by reading the peanuts in your shit, then who am I to judge ?
I have used a Bloomberg on and off for the past 20 years - the only reason I have done without the past three years is because I didn't have a firm covering that long two year contract. The Bloomberg is expensive for a reason - it is simply the cat's ass. I love that Beta Scatter Plot Correlation functionality, and I currently have a workaround with a commercial stats package ( which I admit is not as robust ).
I hear you on the two year contract. It's expensive. But I figured that the data that i need would cost about 1k/month and be a pain in the ass to source and integrate together.
What reminded my of Microsoft is that when I signed the contract they asked me which services I was using along with bloomberg and which services I was dumping because of bloomberg. At a meeting later they said that they "wanted to help me reduce my costs by eliminating duplicate services."
