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Bloomberg API

https://www.bloomberg.com/professional/support/api-library/

Commands and short description in no particular order

The best site is https://guides.library.yale.edu/Bloomberg/bloomberg_docs

Menus, Help, etc

  • Hot HELP key twice – to reach to help line
  • BHL – Help and Learning
  • FLDS – Data finder
  • HL space data field – Search Bloomberg for example, HL Duration will find definition for duration
  • TRAI – Training request
  • SMNR – Bloomberg seminar and webcasts
  • MSG – messages, to retrieve previous emails
  • HDSK – Help desk to retrieve the previous conversations
  • MAIN – Main menu of Bloomberg functions
  • GRAB – grab screen and email to yourself
  • SECF – Security finder
  • USER – user group
  • w – security worksheet

Launchpad

  • BLP – Bloomberg Launchpad
  • LLP

Launchpad is the most powerful tool to customize investor’s need. It gives a tremendous flexibility. Start with BLP GO

09:48:28 HA-CHIN YI : Hi I want to create a group and apply it to my Launchpad operation.09:49:49 BLOOMBERG HELP DESK : Are you looking to group components in your launchpad?
09:51:17 HA-CHIN YI : yes
09:51:31 HA-CHIN YI : I have several stocks in my worksheet

09:51:54 HA-CHIN YI : And I want to group them
09:52:13 HA-CHIN YI : And my news feed automatically produce news feed for that particular group
09:53:16 BLOOMBERG HELP DESK : How would you like to group them within the worksheet? By sector?
09:54:45 HA-CHIN YI : Well show me how to group them by sector first please
09:56:01 BLOOMBERG HELP DESK : Of course. So within your worksheet, please go to the Edit tab >> Group >> can choose grouping here. Or, to create a custom group, you can select all of the securities you would like to include >> right click >> create custom group
10:02:10 HA-CHIN YI : Let me ask another way. Suppose I have 50 stocks but I want to group about 5 stocks in one group of my interest.
10:02:39 HA-CHIN YI : And then I want my NEW FEED to show lists of articles for that five stocks only.
10:03:54 BLOOMBERG HELP DESK : So you can create the news panel and input just those 5 securities in the amber search bar. Or you can do it individually where you link the worksheet and the news panel and whenever you click on a security, the news panel reflects the news of that security. Which would you prefer here?
10:05:29 BLOOMBERG HELP DESK : Great so it seems you have your news feed linked already
10:05:33 HA-CHIN YI : How can I link worksheet and news feed?
10:05:52 HA-CHIN YI : I did it accidentally
10:06:56 HA-CHIN YI : More specifically, I am not sure how I created group A in my picture
10:07:20 BLOOMBERG HELP DESK : No problem. So to link these, please first go to your worksheet at select the either chain link icon at the top center or it might be a blue A. If it is a blue A, please select Create New Group. Then, please go to the news feed and click the blue A here and select the new group Green B
10:07:47 BLOOMBERG HELP DESK : This will then link your worksheet and news panel so that whenever you click on a security, the panel will update to reflect that security
10:16:33 BLOOMBERG HELP DESK : Great. So then yes, you click the security in the ticker column of your worksheet, and this should flow through to the news panel
10:20:18 BLOOMBERG HELP DESK : So you are not adding the stocks specifically, this will be linking the two components — the worksheet and the news panel. Then, you can either link the worksheet as a whole, or as security-based. If you choose security based, you can then click on a security and it will flow through to the news panel. I am not seeing a way to have a group flow through here so the best way for you to get the group within your worksheet to flow to your news panel is to add these individually
10:22:58 HA-CHIN YI : Here is what I found accidentally
10:23:16 HA-CHIN YI : In my worksheet, I created a group B
10:23:47 HA-CHIN YI : And then I press Control -key plus the security I want to add to Group B
10:24:12 HA-CHIN YI : Then the terminal adds the stock I selected.
10:24:23 HA-CHIN YI : And then I moved to NEWS FEED
10:24:36 HA-CHIN YI : And press GROUP B in Chain link
10:24:56 HA-CHIN YI : Then the terminal produces news lists for those stocks within GROUP B.
10:26:01 HA-CHIN YI : Plus I understand the difference between “the monitor”and “the security.”
10:28:43 BLOOMBERG HELP DESK : You can always reference this conversation via
HDSK <GO> , as well as your other Help Desk Inquiries. Also, if you have any further questions, please feel free to reach back out using your reference number H#1136376193. Does this work for you?

Global markets

  • WEI  –  world indices
  • WEIF – Futures price
  • WEI>>MOV – Equity index mover
  • MEMB – member weighting
  • WPE – World P/E
  • ECST – Economic statistics by country
  • WEX – cross currency rate
  • FXC – currency rates matrix
  • RATC – rating revisions monitor
  • BTMM – interest rates and the bond market
  • USSW – Treasury I swaps monitor pages
  • FIT – Fixed income trading
  • WB – World bond markets
  • CDR – markets calendar
  • MMR – Money  market LIBOR
  • SRCH – Corp Government Bond search
  • CRVF All yiled curve
  • PICK – Muni Offerings

Economy /Macroeconomic analysis

  • ECO – Economic announcements
  • MA – Mergers and acquisition

Industry analysis

  • BI – Bloomberg industries or Bloomberg Intelligence
  • ICS – Classification browser
  • ICS BICS – Bloomberg industries

Microstructure data

  • GIP – interday price
  • QR – time/sales
  • BQ – Bloomberg guote
  • BAS – broker activity
  • AQT – average quote
  • VAP – Volume at price
  • TSM – trade summary matrix
  • OMON – Customizable option monitor
  • OVME – option valuation
  • OSCH – option screening
  • OTD – Option description
  • GIV – Graph intraday volatility
  • GV – Graph volatility
  • SKEW – Volatility skew graph

Index analysis

  • TRA – Total return
  • MOV -Index movers
  • MRR – Member returns
  • MEMB – Member weights

Screening tools

  • EQS – query and download into Excel
  • BI – Bloomberg intelligence (You can go to industry breakdown)
  • MOST – Most active securities
  • FPC – Mutual fund ranked returns
  • ECDR – IPO calendar
  • PDF –

Technical analysis

  • TECH – Technical study browser
  • GP –  Graph price
  • GIP – Intraday price chart
  • RSI – relative strength
  • WLPR – Williams %R a signal for directional change
  • RSI – Relative Strength Index
  • BOLL – Bollinger bands
  • DMI – Directional movement index
  • MACD – Moving average convergence/divergence
  • TAS – Stochastics
  • TE – Trading envelopes

News

  • N – News and Research functions
  • NSE >> USS – US stock market news
  • NSE >> NFLX – NFLX-related news
  • NSE>>OPN – Opening market commentary
  • CN – Individual company news
  • READ – Most read stories
  • OPIN – Bloomberg opinion
  • MEDI – Bloomberg Media
  • TOP – top Bloomberg news

STOCK

  • DES – company description
  • FA – financial analysis (you can change from annual to quarterly)
  • MGMT – Executives and boards
  • CN – Company news
  • ISSD – Company overview
  • ANR – analyst recommendations
  • WACC – cost of capital
  • Beta – beta
  • SPLC – supply chain
  • DVD – Dividends, Stock splits
  • ERN Earnings Summary
  • EE – Earnings Estimates
  • GE – P/E Graph – Valuation
  • EM – Estimates Matrix
  • ANR – Analyst Recommendations
  • PHDC – Institutional & Insider Holders
  • CRPR – Credit Ratings
  • CACS – Corporate Action Calendar
  • CF – Corp Filings – SEDAR/EDGAR Provides access to publicly available filings for research purposes.
  • OWN – Ownership summary
  • HE – P/E table
  • RV – Relative valuation
  • EQRV – Equity relative valuation
  • COMP – Comparative total return
  • HP – Historical price table
  • SI – Short interest
  • RV – Relative valuation

Treasuries / Corporate Bond

  • WB – world bond market
  • SRCH – Bond search
  • YCRV – yield curve analysis

FX

  • FXC – Currency rates matrix
  • WCR – world currency rates
  • OVDV – Currency Volatility

Options

Commodities

  • GLCO -Global commodity prices

Tables

  • LEAG – League tables

EXCEL

  • XLTP – Export certain analysis

ESG

  • ESG

Portfolio

  • PRTU – portfolio creation
  • PORT – portfolio analysis

Bloomberg API

  • BQLX – new query for Bloomberg API
  • FLDS – Data filed finder
  • TRAI – setting up a training via web
  • WAPI – Bloomberg API Development (the best way to learn BQLX)
  • DAPI – Bloomberg Desktop API

EQS – Spreadsheet builder (in Excel)

Mutual fund / ETF

  • FUND – Fund home
  • Bloomberg-Funds or this one might be better tmp38 or this one Cheat Sheet by David J Abner
  • Bloomberg Fund Classification
  • ETF – ETF
  • FSRC – fund screening ; use screening criteria. for example, type ETF etc…
  • FSCO – Score and rank funds
  • FMAP – top-down analysis
  • NI FND, or NI ETF, Or NI HEDGE – fund news, or ETF new, or Hedge fund news
  • HFA – historical return analysis
  • FREP – generate fund report
  • HDS – institutional holdings
  • FLNG – 13F holdings
  • RV and RVC  – peer group or relative valuation
  • TRA – Total return analysis

Industry analysis

  • BI <GO>: Bloomberg Intelligence provides key industry data, interactive charting and written analysis by Bloomberg industry experts.  Also provides industry fundamental statistics, market share, ESG and other metrics across industries: i.e. retailers, airlines, global auto manufacturing, etc.
  • IFS <GO>: Industry fundamental statistics provides industry specific metrics across certain industries: US retailers, US airlines and global auto manufacturers.
  • RES <GO>: Research search engine allows searching by industry, region, company ticker, and more for available analyst reports.
  • RV <GO>: Market Relative Value provides broad comparison of relative value and performance indices.
  • EE <GO>: Earnings Analysis provides data by sector/industry and analysis for EPS, net income and sales.
  • BI BESGG <GO>: ESG indicators industry analysis dashboard.