Amber Terminal

What a Bloomberg Terminal is

It’s the screen on most trading desks. More than 350,000 people use it, it’s been around since 1982, and one seat costs about $31,980 a year on a two-year contract. People pay for three things:

• Data on every market

  Live prices, bonds, filings and history across every asset class, from one login.

  Here: public data for stocks, indices, futures, currencies, crypto, rates, filings and options. Some of it 15 minutes behind, and no single bonds.

• Its own newsroom

  2,700 journalists and more than 5,000 stories a day, often before anyone else.

  Here: headlines from public feeds. Bloomberg's newsroom can't be copied.

• The chat

  About 40 million chats a day between the people who use it. The person you trade with is already on it.

  Here: none. A network can't be rebuilt from code.

There are cheaper terminals. Koyfin starts at $39 a month, Godel at $118 a month, and FactSet and LSEG Workspace quote each customer privately. Amber Terminal is different in one way: it runs on your own computer, on public data, and you change it by asking your AI.

Where the numbers come from

Every number comes from a public source that needs no account and no API key. Type DATA in the app to see the source and freshness of every screen.

What it doesn’t have: a live order book, real-time prices on every exchange in the world, single bonds and CDS, and Bloomberg’s newsroom and chat. Use your broker’s prices to place orders.

Ways to use it with Claude

A terminal shows you the numbers. Connected to Claude, it can turn them into a decision: what to watch today, whether a move is already priced, whether a strategy is an edge or luck. Each one is a prompt you paste in. The build prompts add it to your terminal as a permanent screen. They help you trade better informed and better sized; none of them promises a profit.

• Your morning brief

  Two minutes before the open and you know what moved overnight, what's scheduled today and what the Fed is priced to do, instead of finding out from your P&L.

  WEI · CRYPTO · TOP · ECO · WIRP · W · ERN

  Ask Claude

  Using my Amber Terminal, give me this morning's brief in under 12 lines: what world markets and crypto did overnight (WEI, CRYPTO), the three headlines that matter most for my watchlist (TOP, W), today's economic releases with the consensus (ECO), what futures price for the next Fed meeting and how that changed since yesterday (WIRP), and anything on my watchlist with earnings this week (ERN). End with the one thing to watch today.

  Copy the prompt
  Build it into your terminal

  Add a function called BRIEF to Amber Terminal that puts this morning brief on one screen, built from the existing functions' data and refreshed every 15 minutes. Follow the README's 'Add your own screen' section and add a test.

  Copy the prompt
• Earnings: is the move already priced?

  Options tell you how far the market expects a stock to move on earnings. Compare that with how far it usually moves and you know whether options are cheap or expensive, and how big a position the likely move allows.

  ERN · OMON · OVDV · HP · INSD

  Ask Claude

  NVDA reports this week (check ERN for the date). From my Amber Terminal: get the implied move to the first expiry after the report (OMON) and the at-the-money volatility across the next expiries (OVDV), then how far NVDA actually moved the day after each of its last 8 reports (use its daily history around those dates). Is the market pricing a bigger or smaller move than NVDA usually makes? Show the expected range in dollars, and what a $2,000 position would gain or lose at each edge of it. Mention any insider buying or selling in the last 60 days (INSD).

  Copy the prompt
  Build it into your terminal

  Add a function called EMOVE to Amber Terminal: for the panel's stock, show the implied earnings move from the options chain next to its actual moves after the last 8 reports, with the average and a note saying whether options are pricing more or less than usual.

  Copy the prompt
• Fed day: what's already in the price

  Markets move on surprises, not on what everyone expected. Knowing what's priced stops you trading a headline that was already in the price.

  WIRP · GC · BTMM · CRED · FXC

  Ask Claude

  Before the next Fed meeting, using my Amber Terminal: what does WIRP price for it and the three after, and how has that changed this week? Where are the 2-year and 10-year yields and the 2s10s spread (GC, BTMM)? Are credit spreads widening or tightening (CRED)? Then tell me what decision would surprise the market, and how the S&P 500 and the dollar moved on the last three meeting days, so I know what a surprise has looked like.

  Copy the prompt
• Insiders buying their own stock

  When the people running a company buy its shares with their own money on the open market, it's one of the few signals the public can see. This finds it across your list in a minute.

  W · INSD · CF · DES

  Ask Claude

  For every stock on my Amber Terminal watchlist (W), plus AAPL, MSFT and JPM, check insider transactions in the last 60 days (INSD). List only open-market purchases: who bought, their role, the dollar amount, and how big that is next to what they already own. Then check each company's 8-K filings since (CF) for anything that explains it.

  Copy the prompt
  Build it into your terminal

  Add a function called IBUY to Amber Terminal that scans my watchlist for open-market insider purchases in the last 60 days and ranks them by dollar size, using the INSD data.

  Copy the prompt
• Headline sentiment across your list

  Funds pay for news sentiment scores. Claude can read the latest headlines for each stock on your list, score the tone and tell you which ones turned, so you look at the right charts first.

  W · CN · TOP

  Ask Claude

  For every stock on my Amber Terminal watchlist (W), read the latest headlines (CN) and score the tone of the news from -2 (very negative) to +2 (very positive), with one line on why. Then list the ones whose news turned sharply in the last few days, and the headline that did it. Don't guess a stock's direction from this, just tell me where to look.

  Copy the prompt
  Build it into your terminal

  Add a function called SENT to Amber Terminal that shows my watchlist with the latest headline for each stock and a column for a sentiment score I can fill in by asking Claude, saved in the data folder so I can see how it changes day to day.

  Copy the prompt
• Red flags in the filings

  Words like 'going concern', 'material weakness' or 'restatement' in a filing often come before bad news. Searching every filing for them used to need a research desk.

  DS · CF · W

  Ask Claude

  Using my Amber Terminal's document search (DS), check the last year of 10-K and 10-Q filings for every company on my watchlist (W) for these phrases: going concern, material weakness, restatement, auditor resignation, covenant breach. For each hit, give me the company, the filing, the date and the sentence it appears in. Then tell me which ones look serious and which are routine wording.

  Copy the prompt
• What it costs to protect your portfolio

  Before a big event you can buy protection. Knowing what three months of cover costs, in dollars and as a share of your portfolio, tells you whether it's worth it.

  PORT · OMON · OVDV

  Ask Claude

  Read my portfolio in Amber Terminal (PORT) and its beta to the S&P 500. Work out how many SPY put contracts would cover a 10% fall in the S&P for about three months, using real prices from the SPY options chain (OMON) at a strike around 5% below today's price. Tell me the total cost in dollars, the cost as a percentage of my portfolio, and what the at-the-money volatility (OVDV) says about whether protection is cheap or expensive right now.

  Copy the prompt
• Which data surprises move the market

  Not every release matters. Seeing how far the S&P and yields moved the last few times CPI or payrolls surprised tells you which numbers to be careful around.

  SURP · ECO · GC

  Ask Claude

  Using my Amber Terminal (SURP and ECO), show me the last few CPI, payrolls and retail sales releases: actual against consensus, and how the S&P 500 and the 10-year yield moved that day. Which surprises moved the market most, and what's due this week that could do the same?

  Copy the prompt
• Edge or luck? Test the idea first

  Most strategies that look great on a chart are luck. This tests yours on years of data and runs the checks quant desks use, before you put money behind it.

  BTST

  Ask Claude

  Using my Amber Terminal's backtester (BTST), test this idea on SPY, QQQ and BTC daily: buy when the price closes above its 200-day average and RSI(14) is under 60, sell when it closes back below the 200-day. Run the quant checks on each and tell me plainly whether it looks like an edge or luck. If it fails, change one thing and test again, at most three rounds, and show me every result including the failures, so I can see how many tries it took.

  Copy the prompt
• Your portfolio's real risk

  Knowing how much you'd lose if the market fell 10%, and which holding drives it, is the difference between sizing a trade and guessing.

  PORT · ERN · DVD · HP

  Ask Claude

  Read my portfolio in Amber Terminal (PORT). Tell me its beta to the S&P 500, which holding carries the most risk, which holdings report earnings or go ex-dividend in the next two weeks (ERN, DVD), and roughly how much the portfolio would lose if the S&P 500 fell 10%, using each holding's beta. Keep it to the numbers and one suggestion.

  Copy the prompt
• What the futures curve costs an ETF holder

  Commodity ETFs roll their futures every month. In contango that quietly costs holders; in backwardation it pays them. Most people holding USO or UNG don't know which.

  CT · GLCO

  Ask Claude

  Using my Amber Terminal, is crude oil in contango or backwardation right now (CL1 COMDTY CT), and how about natural gas (NG1 COMDTY CT)? Explain in plain words what that means for someone holding an oil ETF like USO for six months, and how much the curve has changed this month.

  Copy the prompt
• Add the screen you wish it had

  The terminal is yours. If it's missing the screen you check every day, Claude adds it in a few minutes, as a new function code.

  MOST · EQS

  Build it into your terminal

  Add a function called SECT to Amber Terminal that shows today's performance by sector from the stock screener's data: each sector's average move, its biggest gainer and loser, and click a stock to open its DES. Follow the README's 'Add your own screen' section and add a test.

  Copy the prompt

What you get

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  WIRP · The Fed rate path

  What fed funds futures price for every upcoming Fed meeting, in basis points and as cuts or hikes.

  Bloomberg: WIRP, part of a $31,980-a-year seat.

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  BonusBTST · Backtest with quant checks

  Run a strategy on any chart, then the checks quant desks use to tell an edge from luck: walk-forward, overfitting, deflated Sharpe, cost stress and Monte Carlo.

  Bloomberg: BTST backtests, without these checks built in.

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  OMON · Options chains

  Calls and puts by strike with bid, ask, implied volatility, delta and open interest, plus the implied move to expiry.

  Bloomberg: OMON.

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  GC · Yield curves

  The Treasury curve today against a week, a month and a year ago, plus other countries.

  Bloomberg: GC.

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  TOP and CN · News

  Market headlines from public feeds, and news for any company.

  Bloomberg: its own newsroom of 2,700 journalists. This one reads public feeds.

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  DES, FA, CF · Companies

  Description, five years of statements, and every SEC filing with a link.

  Bloomberg: DES, FA, CF.

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  INSD and HDS · Who’s buying

  Insider buys and sells, and the biggest institutional holders.

  Bloomberg: insider and holders screens.

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  WEI, GLCO, FXC, CRYPTO · Markets

  World indices, commodities, a currency cross-rate grid and crypto, refreshing on their own.

  Bloomberg: WEI, GLCO, FXC.

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  ECO, ECST, CBRT, COT · Macro

  The economic calendar with actuals, US macro series, central bank rates and futures positioning.

  Bloomberg: ECO, ECST.

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  BonusASK · Claude reads your terminal

  Connect your Claude with one line, then ask in plain English. It answers from the same screens and names where each number came from.

  Bloomberg: ASKB, its AI assistant, open to every user from 15 Oct 2026.

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  API · Excel and Python

  Bloomberg-style BDP and BDH requests as web addresses on your computer, so your spreadsheets and notebooks pull live numbers.

  Bloomberg: the BDP and BDH formulas in its Excel add-in.

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  W, PORT, ALRT · Watchlist, portfolio, alerts

  Track your list, import your holdings from a Schwab, Fidelity or IBKR export, and get a pop-up when a level breaks.

  Bloomberg: Launchpad monitors and alerts.

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  EQS and COMP · Screen and compare

  Filter every US-listed stock by your own rules, then compare returns, volatility and drawdown side by side.

  Bloomberg: EQS and COMP.

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  OVDV and CT · Volatility and futures curves

  The volatility smile and term structure for an index or stock, and the futures curve for oil, gold, gas and more.

  Bloomberg: OVDV and CT.

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  CRED and AUCT · Credit and Treasury auctions

  High-yield and investment-grade spreads against their past year, and every Treasury auction with its results.

  Bloomberg: credit index and auction screens.

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  DS and SURP · Filings and surprises

  Search every SEC filing since 2001 for a phrase, and see how markets moved when data beat or missed forecasts.

  Bloomberg: document search and economic surprise screens.

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  EE, ANR, DVD · Estimates and dividends

  Consensus earnings estimates and past surprises, analyst buy, hold and sell counts with price targets, and dividend history.

  Bloomberg: EE, ANR, DVD.

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  Four panels and your own screens

  Run four screens at once. Ask Claude for a screen it doesn’t have and it adds a new function code.

  Bloomberg: Launchpad and ASKB.

Function codes follow Bloomberg’s names where one exists, so if you’ve used a Terminal you already know where things are.

Questions