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I think most people who have used a BBT or anything similar know that the main thing you are really paying for is the data subscriptions. While an open source solution would be amazing there is no incentive for anyone to provide you with real time data. Without the vast number of resources that an actual BBT can pull in you just have a charting software with a Twitter feed. At the end of the day the yearly cost of a BBT is surprisingly justifiable if you have the need for real time data for some use case like quick arbitrage trades. However, most people who would want to use this probably want to day trade and chase the market which is an awful idea and will likely lead them to spending more money on data and psychiatrists than they would have ever made on the market.


Real-time data is overrated. A big majority of BBT users don't rely on it at all. Not speculation, just actually talking with users ...

FWIW, Databento has just announced a partnership with OpenBB (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/databento_openbb-investment-r...) and they provide real-time data


BBT works with paid data subscriptions of various kinds. There is a location for the various keys for access.


You pay for most real time data on top of the Bloomberg subscription. Bloomberg would be an unrealistically good deal if it included real time data.


This is not the case at all. They provide their own proprietary non-conflated data for a bunch of different classes (markets, prices, research, news, etc) and it’s packaged with their yearly licence fee of ~30K USD per year.

They have a website you can read about what they offer in their software with the licence.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/professional/product/data/


I wish I had a legitimate-use-case job where I got to use a bloomie




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