Show HN: Feather – 90 percent of Bloomberg terminal, for 5 percent of the price

Re:Show HN: Feather – 90 percent of Bloomberg terminal, for ... by jonp888 on Saturday June 25, 2022 @03:19PM (#31877925)

Looking at it, it appears to cover only equities and ignores all other financial products, which renders the "90%" claim risible. To claim that a good example of the other 10% is the location of oil tankers is either deliberately misleading or highly misinformed.

I don't doubt you've put some effort into making a good platform, but anyone can make a deal with some exchanges to get their trade feed.

Fixed Income products are Bloomberg's main strength, and in that world there are no shortcuts - you have to get as many bond traders as possible to send you their pricing. Bloomberg prices millions of fixed income products based on thousands of sources. Not to mention that a lot of the bond trading itself happens via the Bloomberg messagaing system.

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Re:Show HN: Feather – 90 percent of Bloomberg terminal, for ... by akrai on Saturday June 25, 2022 @03:35PM (#31878056)

We do plan to add fixed income, as well as other asset classes, in the next 12-18 months, just to be clear. Hopefully that clears up any doubts!

We're also building this for the retail trader and are focused accordingly :)

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Re:Show HN: Feather – 90 percent of Bloomberg terminal, for ... by DwnVoteHoneyPot on Saturday June 25, 2022 @03:58PM (#31878242)

Seems like you're missing foreign exchange and commodities too? How about options trading? I get access to all that via Interactive Brokers. Bloomberg at work also has economic data.

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