April 13, 2007
$1,500 a Month, Real-Time Not Included
Bloomberg’s Money Machine, by Carol Loomis
“Michael Steinhardt, the hedge fund pioneer, said recently that he has a Bloomberg on his desk but doesn’t know how to use it. The retired chairman of Citigroup, Sandy Weill, says he uses his but wouldn’t dare stray from the pages that show the price of Citi stock and changes in the major indexes, for fear he could never get back to them. (Another financial notable, Warren Buffett, does not have a Bloomberg on his desk, though a member of his staff uses one gratefully.)”
There are folks who can play the Bloomberg like concert pianists but I’m not one of them. Like the old timers mentioned above, I often lose my place and can’t find my way back (and then throw things at the wall). I think the guys at TickerSense can bang on a Bloomberg with the best of them.
I came close to working for Bloomberg here (a schoolmate from Hopkins-Nanjing is Beijing bureau chief), but they didn’t hire me. It was either the blog that killed my chances (not likely?) or the fact that they didn’t like my writing style (more likely). It’s a crying shame because I would have busted my ass working there. (I did get “The Bloomberg Way,” their writing manual for reporters, as a parting gift.)
April 14th, 2007 at 2:33 am
CM, anything interesting in their writer’s manual?
April 14th, 2007 at 4:57 am
CM, I always thought the corporate thing isn’t your style.
April 14th, 2007 at 8:28 am
roy: Not really, but I’m a big fan of “plain English” and so is Matt Winkler (the guy who wrote the manual).
Tom: Bloomberg isn’t a typical corporate culture. It’s pretty intense and competitive, more like a Wall Street firm.
April 29th, 2007 at 3:58 pm
[…] Is this a good idea? I tried to get the data off the Bloomberg to draw an overlay chart (option on top of stock), but I couldn’t. I’m an old fart like Sandy Weill so if anyone can tell me how to export intraday options data from the Bloomberg I’d be much obliged. Anyway, I just grabbed some screenshots instead. […]