// monsa vs bloomberg terminal
Bloomberg Terminal and Monsa answer different questions.
A terminal is where a professional finds out what is happening. Monsa is where you find out whether what you hold still matches what you said you wanted.
What Bloomberg Terminal is for
News, pricing, fixed income, FX, chat, and a data set deep enough that entire desks are built around it. It is the industry's nervous system and it is priced like it.
Monsa holds the rules you wrote down and checks your holdings against them every night.
They do not overlap enough to choose between. A terminal answers questions you bring to it; Monsa asks you one question you did not bring, every night, about the book you already own. Somebody with a terminal at work and a personal portfolio at home is the clearest case for running both.
Side by side
| What you want to do | Bloomberg Terminal | Monsa |
|---|---|---|
| Find out what happened to a company today | Comprehensive. News, filings, transcripts, estimates, the lot. | Not its job. Monsa reads fundamentals and prices, not news. |
| Write down what you require of a holding | Screening exists, but the criteria live in a screen you run, not as a rule-set attached to a portfolio. | The whole product. Rules belong to a portfolio and are checked against every holding in it. |
| Be told when a holding stopped matching your own rules | You would have to remember to re-run the screen. | Every night, without being asked. |
| Cost | A professional subscription, priced per seat per year. | One plan, priced on the pricing page. |
When you do not need Monsa
If you have a terminal and the discipline to re-run your own screens on your own book, you do not need this. The gap Monsa fills is the re-running.
Monsa is also not a broker, does not place trades, and never says what to buy or sell. The other comparisons say the same thing about different tools, and a spreadsheet gets further than most people expect.
Rules written down while you still remember why you bought something survive the moment the price argues with you.