# Bloomberg Terminal Hacker Approved page: https://hackerapproved.com/p/bloomberg-terminal/ 24 people recommended Bloomberg Terminal in Hacker News comments, 8 had mixed feelings and 16 criticized it, November 2025 to October 2026. It was recommended in 8 of 12 months, in 12 threads. It does not meet the Hacker Approved badge rule. **Verdict:** Recommended for deep financial data, especially fixed income, and a dense interface that lets traders scan quickly. Critics point to its high annual price. Summary written by Claude from 47 comments. It was written before the November 2026 recount, and 43 of those comments still count. ## Why people recommend it - High-quality, trusted financial data (5 comments in the sample): "Bonds and Fixed Income: It provides the best data for interest rates and debt markets." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49287328)) "If you want fixed-income data, Bloomberg is the only shop on the street data-wise." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49287746)) "It's the information sources and validation that makes it worth the price." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46663375)) - Dense screens for scanning quickly (4 comments in the sample): "a trader who knows where everything is can scan a lot of information very quickly" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49921266)) "Love how those dense screens make numbers checkable at a glance" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49912141)) "Your hands never left the keyboard, and that was the point" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47619490)) - Data and news in one place (3 comments in the sample): "Bloomberg has its own news collection and analysis operation, bigger than almost all US newspapers." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49914759)) "Combined with the data and news and you got yourself a hell of a platform" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49289741)) "It brings data sources into one place." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49289235)) - Pays off through better trades (3 comments in the sample): "A single $250 payment per head for training is quite cheap if you consider the hours saved at not waiting for awfully slow SSO redirections" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45828069)) "Making a bad trade or missing a good one due to delaying data or bad data can pay for several years worth of bloombergs" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49288322)) "if bloomberg can give you an edge on just one or two trades a year, you come out ahead" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49287655)) ## What people warn about - Very high annual subscription cost (3 comments in the sample): "At $32,000 a year per person the Bloomberg Terminal is a deeply unfair advantage for the rich to get richer." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49912232)) "They even bumped up our prices from $25k to $36k annually." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45839971)) "$25,000 annually is brutal if you're not a broker-dealer" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49912180)) - Dated, cluttered interface (3 comments in the sample): "It was always a melange of ancient Fortran tabbed forms with never-to-be-fixed bugs and newer consistent TUI." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45837309)) "Many of these have atrocious interfaces. I pay because they solve real problems in the real world for me." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48139554)) "that $18,000-$24,000 bloomberg terminal had a 300bps modem" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46060663)) - Cheaper alternatives exist for many uses (2 comments in the sample): "There are alternatives that cost much less than 30k per year for just stocks." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49289526)) "You don't need Bloomberg terminal to extract fundamentals nor alpha." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49291386)) ## What people recommend instead - [Gloomberb](https://hackerapproved.com/p/gloomberb/): 8 recommend, 2 mixed, 12 criticize ## Where to get it - [Visit the official site](https://www.bloomberg.com/professional/) ## The badge A product earns the Hacker Approved badge when at least 10 people recommend it, recommenders outnumber critics at least 2 to 1 (mixed feelings count toward neither side), it was recommended in at least 4 of the 12 months and in at least 5 different threads, and no single thread supplies more than half of the people who recommend it. Health and money products are never badged. ## Cite as Hacker Approved, "Bloomberg Terminal", https://hackerapproved.com/p/bloomberg-terminal/ (24 recommend, 8 mixed, 16 criticize; Hacker News comments, November 2025 to October 2026). Counts updated 3 Nov 2026, with data through October 31, 2026.