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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.

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