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Red Keys –
Esc Cancel
CONN – to log off n log on
To bring up the analytics and data etc for a particular stock/index/bond etc etc – after typing its name
press the correct market sector key!
Green Keys:
3 main green keys you should focus on:
1. Menu key: Brings up main menu of all diff market sectors, people, etc etc. If you are in a
function (Bloomberg speak for screen) and you hit menu key, it takes you to the prev function
(screen).
2. Message Key:
3. Help key: Type a keywork and press help key it brings up lot of related links(?).
When you are on an actual function (screen), you can press help key to find help related to
keywords and other stuff on that function (screen).
Helpx2 = Press Help key twice and it leads you to a live chat!! Help available 24x7x365.
GIP3: If an equity is loaded and you write “GIP 3” in the bar and hit <GO> (enter), it shows intraday
movement graph of that security.
Export Menu: Here you can export the graph/ANR(analysts recommendations) to your email address
outside to use the bloomberg info outside of Bloomberg.
Terminal Menu: has the option to turn on or off the autocomplete feature … recommended to turn on!
Create a login using the CONN key and logging off first, On the login screen – leave login password blank
and hit GO – it will ask you to create one. Then you can customize it and eg. Say configure it that you
want to focus on equities sector, and so on.
“Cheatsheets”: Write CHEAT<GO> - brings up a category wise menu of cheat sheets (1-2 page PDFs that
list out all the functions and their shortcuts in that category). Take printout and keep with you when
working on some sector etc … very very helpful – recommended.
PDF<GO>: Shows ALL price provider default list. For Example: Market sector preferences -> Price source
preferences->Mortgage price preferences. Shows all pricing providers, you can select the price provider
you want to use!
1. GS<GO>
2. Hit equity key.
3. WEI<GO> - World equity indices. Shows info on various indices across the world.
4. Click on S&P 500 – shows Intraday market map. Good way to gauge which sector are up or down
good to know where to enter in or exit out of
5. You can change it source from this function (screen) to pick stocks from your any one of your
portfolios that you have created in Bloomberg etc. It will show its split.
6. To go directly to this screen.. write IMAP<GO>.
MOST:
MRR: Which securities in your portfolio have done worst and done best in a period selected (day, 1
month, 6 month etc etc).
Historical Pricing:
HP<GO> - When an equity has been loaded, go to HP function to see it historical price back to as far
back as it goes !!! with that days volume and prices !!
Financial Analysis
FA<GO>: Financials for the company. 10K stmts, as reported financial statements, Bloomberg adjusted
financial stmts etc.
MCN<GO>: Most important news articles about the company. (Does not contain fluff etc from web as in
above function).
BRC<GO>: Research reports by company. Shows analyst details, date and time of the report,
buy/hold/sell recommendation etc etc.
RSE<GO>: Research home page – you can select researching by company, by ticker, by sector, by
country, by analyst etc etc from this screen !!
OMON<GO> : Main page for options !! Shows all ticker symbols etc etc.
**Drag the ticket symbol when you see the mouse thumb tag on it, drag to top typing area in same or
another window and it loads up that ticker symbol.
Correlations:
CORR<GO>: Main Correlation screen
PC<GO>: Peer correlation
HS<GO>: 2 see correlation between 2 securities (Good one!!)
EQS<GO>: Great screen for idea generation. Select criteria to filter out and find securities you might be
interested in. Eg. US Securities, P/E>15, Price/Book>2, Market Cap>2000 ($2Billion), Pharma sector. This
gives us 5 securites. Then can do plethora of comparative study with comps (comps as suggested by
Bloomberg – can do comps self too).
NRR<GO>: News. Highest total readership between Bloomberg users. Biggest increase in readership
etc.
BLP<GO>: Bloomberg Launchpad – configurable set of screens with functions you use most often. It is
used to have your own set of customized Bloomberg screens load up immediately with one command.
EVTS<GO>: Events
ALLQ<GO>: Quotes.
COMB<GO>: Corporate bonds. Shows list of bonds that are comparable to the bond that we
have loaded (Similar to RB for equities).
YAS<GO>: Yield analysis. Can customize the screen as per what you wanna look at?
QR<GO>: Time and sales. Whats been trading at and at what time. Shows Yield, price, Spread,
etc
SRCH<GO>: To search for bonds based on your criteria.
I-Banking related
LEAG<GO>: League tables
Shows which banks have done which deals, their market share etc etc.
GCDS<GO>:
e.g. Region(America) -> Industry(Finance) -> etc etc selctoin – see graph etc.
ECCG: Equity credit comparison graph. Comparison of stock vs. its CDS graphs etc.
(c) Government:
FED<GO>: Main page for all FED related news etc
FFIP<GO>: Federal Funds implied probability. The futures etc details – what they are being
traded on
(d) Mortgages:
(e) Munis: Hit MUNI key to bring the MUNI main menu.
MUNI -> Offerings -> By state (e.g. PA) – To see all current offerings of Muni bonds in that state
MBXI<GO>: Average yields etc. info for Muni bonds. All tickerized – can drag and drop to
analyze further.
(g) Commodities:
GLCO: Home page for commodities.
CCRV: All commodity curves.
HPA<GO>: “Historical portfolio analysis” Shows your portfolio over time. Compared to your
benchmark. More based on allocations
HFA<GO>: Shows portfolio over time – performance basis compred to the benchmark
3 main Bloomberg functions that you will use in excel. All info on DAPI screen. 3 functions as follows:
1. BDP - “Bloomberg data point” – current market data
2. BDH – historical data.
3. BDS – Bulk data – e.g. statement into excel etc
To find relevant fields. Use command FLDS after loading a security in the Bloomberg terminal. To
make sure you get the field name make sure go in Options and see that “show field mnemonics” is
checked.
=BDP(security, field)
You can also use Bloomberg data wizard in excel to just select securities, fields, periodicity, time
frame etc etc and it will write formula for you !!
Fundamental Analysis:
Use the data wizard to pull data related to fundamental analysis using the data wizard. You can
select securities and then select what info you want – it creates e.g. income statement etc etc into
excel. To see where the data in a particular cell was fetched from – right click (after it has been put
into excel) and then select Bloomberg transparency, It will open up the 10K etc wherever it pulled
the data from.. !!