https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26260019
I looked through the features to see if my impression was wrong now, but seeing a new feature called Government that didn’t even acknowledge Treasuries has confirmed the weakness of this comparison.
I made the repo open-source first at the end of February, given that we are only 3 devs (2 adding features and 1 dev ops) all with full-time jobs, there's only so much we can get our hands on.
I don't have access to Bloomberg Terminal. But I'm pretty confident that there are features that we've got that Bloomberg doesn't. E.g. we have a screener for stocks that can be specified by our user base and made available by everyone (https://github.com/GamestonkTerminal/GamestonkTerminal/tree/...). This is what having an open-source project can bring, combining collective knowledge of the community.
It just takes time for free software to match commercial offering at first, but eventually it surpasses them (too many example to list) for 90% of the uses.
If it let me cancel my Bloomberg subscription, why not?
All I want is reddit + twitter firehose sentiment mining, accurate plot of basic (EURUSD, wood futures) and not so basic (VIX) things.
I do not need to keep track of cargo ships on a map.
The only thing that this shares with the bloomberg terminal is that it can do equities and is on a terminal.