Sometimes I casually flash my B-Unit around or pretend to check the time on it just to let everyone know I have a subscription.

Other times I will go out of my way to send emails from the terminal just so others get a glance at my @bloomberg.net email address. I also have people send me stuff to the email if it's someone I haven't met before.

The Bloomberg Terminal is well worth it for these two perks. It's much better than paying for an @hey.com email address.

Assert your dominance by using your childhood hotmail email address for business purposes

Log into work's Microsoft subscription from hotmail.com to keep The Man humble

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I honestly can't tell if this is a parody or not

Parody. If you have a Bloomberg terminal then probably many of the people you interact with at work also have Bloomberg subscriptions. Imagine some tech worker in Silicon Valley trying to flex some employer-provided top-of-the-range MacBook. The price isn’t the same but the idea that it won’t impress the in-group is.

The SV equivalent is the corporate badge casually clipped to the belt while having lunch/coffee/drinks/dinner.

Hey，I've seen people flex their Palantir seat licenses!

Maybe it's like teamblind? IIRC you need to sign up to them using your work e mail. And it's authwalled so can't really be read without an account.

That's the best type of parody

Not to the proud family whose surname is Parody.

Also those representing parity overheard you and may have a bit to talk with you about.

If it isn’t a copypasta, it should be.

I absolutely detest this comment and all it implies. I'll accept my downvotes now.

Unless I missed sarcasm, in which case, please accept my humblest apologies.

Don't forget the included subscription to Bloomberg Businessweek that we religiously "read" with the feet on the 10 cm of our desk that are not covered with terminal screens.

Having worked in finance on the buy side, I can say this was not true for me or the dozens of people I knew who use it. Neither I nor others I know in the space use the terminal as a place to "hang out" with wealthy people.

Bloomberg's tooling is quite good, and you can get 80% of the way to a bespoke chart with 20% of the work.

Not sure if the above is speculation, or parody, or just a projection of a stylized view of how finance and the world works. But definitely the above comment is confusing / misleading to people who don't work in the industry.

Hello from the (ex) sell side. I think it's satire. Pretty hard to tell though. But I think it's just really good satire.

Poe's Law strikes again.

This has that too, it's called "reddit"

I'm sure jedberg will be very interested to find out about this Reddit thing

Reddit isn't people who have made at least a 25k investment in a terminal communicating under their real name and job title. That's worth something.

No, but it has plenty of people making at least a 250k investment into a meme stock.

My understanding was that the real action takes place in the anonymous chat rooms on the Bloomberg terminal, But I don't know if this is true.

> This has that too, it's called "reddit"

If you receive a Bloomberg message from someone, it's something actionable. That's not true, in finance, of virtually any other electronic communication channel.

> If you receive a Bloomberg message from someone, it's something actionable.

That's some real blue sky thinking.

Can you give some examples? Do you mean it's highly trustworthy?

>communicating under their real name and job title.

I never got spammed once on my terminal.

Not once.

He's just saying the high cost acts as an inbound filter.

Spamfilter prior to HashCash based on Proof of Income

I wonder if a messageboard where you had to submit a significantly difficult hashcash proof with every message would be very interesting.

Yeah that's why we're using Echofin to chat with my trading group. We have tradingview charts, stock screener and a few self-developed crypto tools alongside the chat workspace. Pretty fucking awesome if u ask me.

A ton of big asset trades get initiated and agreed upon via bb chat. But if you’re just trading equities on an exchange, this is probably of no real value to you.

I thought they were too busy Snapchatting themselves with their gold iPhone 12 pros in diamond-encrusted cases with ruby-encrusted selfie sticks.

Just go to 4chan /biz/ for crypto or reddit's wsb for stocks.

The idea that you still need to pay 25k$ for a communication software in 2021 is absurd.

Check my comment history, bought lots of link in 2017 because everyone was buying it on /biz/, posted about it once here and got criticized for it by someone because it's 4chan etc... and people will only listen to you if you have an expensive suite and watch on, even tech people ironically.

It’s about who you know and the quality of info haha, do what you want

Well /biz/ was telling everyone to buy chainlink at 20 cents, it's now 26$, and they were posting all sorts of information to back their claims.

If information giving more than x100 ROI in 3 years isn't quality enough for you then I don't know what is.

One would be wise to look past the anonymity, racist jokes, homophobic jokes, etc... to find what you want, it's like diving in a lake of shit that has treasure chests under it you'll find it if you look hard and deep enough, but you'll have to swim in shit.

"They predicted 13 out of the last 2 bubbles"

That’s someone who understands bubble physics. They tend to join like that before they pop.

The issue is that predicting that a specific thing will rise doesn't mean anything, for all we know you've been predicting EVERYTHING will rise, and got no false negatives but a million false positives.

For every ChainkLink there's a dozen pnd/rugpull scams.