@MikeFritzell: How to bootstrap a Bloomberg t...

How to bootstrap a Bloomberg terminal in 2025:

Charts / price:
• Trading View (free but delay lag)
• Koyfin (free but delay)
• IBKR (pay for real-time prices for each market)
• Godel terminal for NASDAQ ($80/month)

News:
• Twitter search (free)
• Google Alerts (free)
• IBKR (free)
• The Fly On the Wall ($45/month)
• Godel terminal ($80/month)

Company financials:
• TIKR ($30/month)
• Koyfin ($39/month)

Analyst estimates:
• Yahoo Finance / Analysis (free)
• TIKR ($30/month)

Insider transactions:
• Openinsider for US stocks (free)
• Insiderscreener for int'l ($20/month)

Equity screener:
• Finviz for US stocks (free)
• FT for int'l (free)
• TIKR for int'l ($30/month)

Instant messaging:
• Twitter DM (free)
• LinkedIn (free)
• Substack Chat (free)

Filings:
• TIKR ($30/month)
• BamSEC for US stocks (free for latest)
• Stock exchange / regulatory websites

Earnings call transcripts:
• Quartr (free)
• Seeking Alpha (free)
• Motley Fool (free)

13Fs:
• Whalewisdom (free)
• Gurufocus ($42/month)

Stock ideas:
• VIC (free)
• Substack (per publication)
• SumZero (insto pricing)
• Smartkarma (insto pricing)

Research:
• ChatGPT 5 Thinking ($20/month)
• NotebookLM (free)

Alternative data:
• Google Trends (free)
• Social Blade for social media (free)
• StockX for second-hand goods prices (free)
• Pageviews (Toolforge) for Wikipedia (free)
• TickerTrends, multi-purpose ($100/month)

So cheap tools can get you very far - especially if you're a US-focused investor. In my view, ChatGPT and other generative AI tools have completely changed the game. The US$32,000/year cost is getting increasingly difficult to justify.

Off-topic, but check out my publication while you're at it:

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