I worked as an FA for Morgan Stanley and we used the DowJones service for news releases and such but I don't recall our live stream for the ticker and such. They had a deal with DJ where we could just hit F6 and pull up on the DJ's wire info.
All of my
Fx knowledge so far is academic as I'm still getting my feet wet, but I started off in college as an economics guy so maybe that's why I consider myself a fundamentals person, but you have to pay attention to the technicals because so many people use them. In a nutshell, if a large percentage of the traders in a certain market are going to buy/sell at a certain time as dictated by a widely regarded chart strategy, you have to be able to react to it.