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My startup, a Bloomberg terminal alternative let's users see and browse data without login for any stock. The idea is to limit friction between user and the da

My startup, a Bloomberg terminal alternative let's users see and browse data without login for any stock. The idea is to limit friction between user and the data. https://quantale.io/dashboard/details/AMC https://quantale.io/dashboard/details/AMC

frakkingcylons 5y ago
Why do people insist on referring to web apps with generic stock data as an alternative to the terminal? Even ignoring the fact that this is focused only on equities, the terminal is built around power users. it needs to be like vim. Super fast and you can access everything without leaving the keyboard.
- nly 5y ago
  To be fair, if access to reliable, realtime (not delayed) market data was free or cheaply available, then I have no doubt that the open-source community would produce something better than the BB Terminal. It's phenomenal how much energy and engineering time is wasted at hundreds of financial firms developing feed handlers for all the different exchanges that they wish to access, let alone the monetary and logistical cost of getting access. I mean for many exchanges you're talking 5 figures per month for for a a 1 Mbps multicast UDP stream with a primitive protocol, poor specs / documentation and no SDK for developing anything. If anyone could go to the NYSE we site and sign-up for access at a reasonable cost, and get access like any other modern web API, there would be a lot more innovation.
ydant 5y ago
Just a minor bug/issue report - if you use lowercase for the symbol, most of the page works fine - except the main chart: https://quantale.io/dashboard/details/amc https://quantale.io/dashboard/details/amc vs. https://quantale.io/dashboard/details/AMC https://quantale.io/dashboard/details/AMC
- scottydelta 5y ago
  hey, thanks for catching this bug, I will fix it in next release in a couple of days. If you have signed up then email me at my email on profile and I can extend your trial to a couple of months. Thanks again.

frakkingcylons 5y ago

Why do people insist on referring to web apps with generic stock data as an alternative to the terminal? Even ignoring the fact that this is focused only on equities, the terminal is built around power users. it needs to be like vim. Super fast and you can access everything without leaving the keyboard.

nly 5y ago
To be fair, if access to reliable, realtime (not delayed) market data was free or cheaply available, then I have no doubt that the open-source community would produce something better than the BB Terminal. It's phenomenal how much energy and engineering time is wasted at hundreds of financial firms developing feed handlers for all the different exchanges that they wish to access, let alone the monetary and logistical cost of getting access. I mean for many exchanges you're talking 5 figures per month for for a a 1 Mbps multicast UDP stream with a primitive protocol, poor specs / documentation and no SDK for developing anything. If anyone could go to the NYSE we site and sign-up for access at a reasonable cost, and get access like any other modern web API, there would be a lot more innovation.

ydant 5y ago

Just a minor bug/issue report - if you use lowercase for the symbol, most of the page works fine - except the main chart: https://quantale.io/dashboard/details/amc https://quantale.io/dashboard/details/amc vs. https://quantale.io/dashboard/details/AMC https://quantale.io/dashboard/details/AMC

scottydelta 5y ago
hey, thanks for catching this bug, I will fix it in next release in a couple of days. If you have signed up then email me at my email on profile and I can extend your trial to a couple of months. Thanks again.