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What is something cool/useful that you did on it that's not available from other internet sources?

by sjs7007 8y ago

JackFr 8y ago
Mortgage backed security data & analytics.
- sjs7007 8y ago
  Not sure if you actually mean it or referring to The Big Short. If not joking what function do you use for it?
  - cturner 8y ago
    The previous post is valid. Other examples, corporate actions (up to date and historic), identifiers for instruments as they appear on particular secondary markets (eg, what is the name if this security on aquis europe), current and historic close prices (for any venue you could name), otc/si trade reports. The broad spread and generally high quality of data is what drives the platform.
  - JackFr 8y ago
    Serious. For bond trading and analytics, often no one has the data other than Bloomberg. INTEX has a lot of MBS and ABS data, Trepp has CMBS data, and I guess there are some muni and corporate specialists, but Bloomberg has it all and at your fingertips with an ergonomic UX, and any analytics you can think of. If you want to actively trade fixed income, you just can't do it without a Bloomberg.
intended 8y ago
Easy hunting for M&A in X space, customer lists, and then you can switch over to commodity data, or pretty much anything else you need, from research reports to data pulls into excel for models. From the dumbest things to the really esoteric like filings of some obscure Hong Kong based firm or data on plasma waste to power projects in XYZ region. Bloomberg is pretty absurd.
- unixhero 8y ago
  >Bloomberg is pretty absurd. I love it!
dman 8y ago
1. Connectivity of news with data - a lot of news stories had links where you could dig in to datasets that were relevant to the news. 2. Availability of information under one symbol space allowing you to create views that pulls in information about very disconnected fields. 3. A company wide focus on converting things into "symbols". Most memorable example was the symbol for number of kidnappings in Mexico. The breadth of data available is truly impressive.
- JohnJamesRambo 8y ago
  That is so interesting. What was the symbol for that?

What is something cool/useful that you did on it that's not available from other internet sources?

JackFr 8y ago

Mortgage backed security data & analytics.

sjs7007 8y ago
Not sure if you actually mean it or referring to The Big Short. If not joking what function do you use for it?
- cturner 8y ago
  The previous post is valid. Other examples, corporate actions (up to date and historic), identifiers for instruments as they appear on particular secondary markets (eg, what is the name if this security on aquis europe), current and historic close prices (for any venue you could name), otc/si trade reports. The broad spread and generally high quality of data is what drives the platform.
- JackFr 8y ago
  Serious. For bond trading and analytics, often no one has the data other than Bloomberg. INTEX has a lot of MBS and ABS data, Trepp has CMBS data, and I guess there are some muni and corporate specialists, but Bloomberg has it all and at your fingertips with an ergonomic UX, and any analytics you can think of. If you want to actively trade fixed income, you just can't do it without a Bloomberg.

intended 8y ago

Easy hunting for M&A in X space, customer lists, and then you can switch over to commodity data, or pretty much anything else you need, from research reports to data pulls into excel for models. From the dumbest things to the really esoteric like filings of some obscure Hong Kong based firm or data on plasma waste to power projects in XYZ region. Bloomberg is pretty absurd.

unixhero 8y ago
>Bloomberg is pretty absurd. I love it!

dman 8y ago

1. Connectivity of news with data - a lot of news stories had links where you could dig in to datasets that were relevant to the news. 2. Availability of information under one symbol space allowing you to create views that pulls in information about very disconnected fields. 3. A company wide focus on converting things into "symbols". Most memorable example was the symbol for number of kidnappings in Mexico. The breadth of data available is truly impressive.

JohnJamesRambo 8y ago
That is so interesting. What was the symbol for that?