Downloading historical price and market information

Downloading historical price and market information



In this presentation I'll be showing you how to download historical price and market, or accounting information into Excel from Bloomberg. First thing to check is 1) that Bloomberg is open (the application) and secondly that you have this Bloomberg ribbon available. You'll see there are a number of different tools that you can use to download information into Excel, and we're going to focus on historical data. So at the top of this toolbar at the left, you'll see a button for real time or historical data. You click on that and you'll be choosing historical end of day data.

Now a wizard will pop up and this will allow you to select the securities that you'd like to download information on. So starting off let's choose BHP. So I'm typing BHP and it's coming up with a drop-down box and I can select the equity, security. I'm now going to choose a peer company, Rio Tinto. The Australian listing, AU. And I'm also going to choose information on the exchange, so ASX200. And double click on that like the others to bring that up. If I wanted to, I would also be able to pull up information on an entire index by selecting an index in the second half of the screen. For example if I said, S&P 500. Index on the drop down box.

And then it's letting me choose from securities. So for example I could then choose either all of them or individual companies that I wanted to look at. So I might just choose one company and then add that to the bottom. When I've finished with my company list I'm going to select next. Now I need to choose the data fields that I want to download. So I can do this in two ways, firstly I can choose or search for a field, by typing it in this search text book, for example price. And pressing enter. PX Last is typically the field you would use to download the end of day share price and I'm going to double click on that. But if I'm interested in finding accounting related fields, it may be worth going back into Bloomberg and searching under a page known as FLDS. Enter. Which will let me do a search for the data fields that are available for particular securities.

So if I put the security up here, BHP for example, and the data field that I'm after is earnings per share, and I press enter, it's going to give me a list of the data fields relating to earnings per share. There's actually 44 pages, but it's going to rank them by most used and most likely. So you'll see that the first few are all potentially relevant. The first one here says BEST EPS, and BEST when looking at Bloomberg always refers to consensus from analysts. If I want a full definition, I can click on the item and it will give me more information about this particular data field. To get back to the previous page I'll select the end menu key on the keyboard. So I can see these are a couple of items that I'm interested in. I'm going to go back now that I've seen they are the right items, back to Excel, and I'm going to search, do the same search, EPS. I'm going to select both BEST EPS by double clicking on that. I'm also going to download Trailing 12 months EPS by clicking on that, and you'll see the same definitions are in Excel itself, except it can be easier to navigate in the Bloomberg page.

So I'm happy with that, last price, consensus EPS or BEST EPS and Trailing 12 months EPS. I'm going to hit next to go to the next page. So this is when I'm selecting the period and range of data. The period can be selected at the top right. I can choose weekly, monthly, quarterly data. I'm going to choose semi-annual data to download for all these items. And now I can choose the date range. What I'm going to choose is either between a series of dates by doing a fixed time series or a relative time series when I might be looking at the last 10 semi-annual periods. I'm going to do the last 5 years of data, therefore it's going to be the last 10 semi-annual periods.


Okay, Next. So this is quite important. This is going to be determining what, how I want to treat days when the data isn't available for example, a weekend, a holiday, a trading halt. I would always recommend to select either all trading weekdays or all calendar days and then either carry over last value or select a blank field for when data is not available. Next. This is a selection of how you want to treat corporate actions. The recommended settings are typically recommended. And this is describing how it's going to be laid out. For example, is the data going to be orientated on the horizontal axis or the vertical axis. And whether you want to display the security and date fields. And finally, do you want this to be in reverse or chronological order. When you're happy with the settings, click finish. It's going to begin the process of downloading the data.

So now you'll see that it's downloaded the data sets that we're after. And you've got the information that we've requested. Now if you wanted to make changes to the data we've selected, all of the data that's been downloaded has been aggregated from this cell, the top date cell. The formula itself is obtained in this cell and the format it takes is =BDH(ticker, field or fields, start date, end date). Now these other arguments are all the other arguments that were used in the Excel wizard. If you want to change any of these or work out what they are and what they represent and what the overrides are, you can click on the fx button, click on to help on this function and you'll get a full description and information of the formulas, how they're represented and any of the fields that you're able to override.

What you'll also be able to do is, if there are any other arguments you wanted to modify, you can click on that argument and it'll give you the different selections that are available. So I'm going to leave it as is, because I'm happy with the data I've got there. And that's the best way to download historical data.





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ECB Exchange Rates Free Excel Tool with Auto Query to European Central Bank

ECB Exchange Rates Free Excel Tool with Auto Query to European Central Bank

Welcome this is a quick presentation of the Excel exchange rate tool the tool provides you with daily update European Central Bank reference rates rates are presented as equivalents of one euro in different foreign currencies you can refresh the data by clicking the refresh button this will update the exchange rates up to today at least if you refresh after four o'clock in the afternoon Central European Time the tool is quite simple in use you can select the currency for example South African rent in this case if the dates of the 18th of April 2012 and you will now let one euro at a reference rate of 10 South African rents and 25 cents you can also select for example US dollars you would ask for the date that she wanted in this case I'm going to ask it for April the 17th and I will know that one euro on April the 17th 2012 had European Central Bank reference rate of one dollar and 31 cents you can update the data by clicking the refresh button and this will work for all Excel versions above 2007 and 2007 exchange rates are one euro equivalent reference race based on European Central Bank source data refreshed on a daily basis from focus does not accept any responsibility for the information at all by using this tool you automatically accept the terms above for more information and tools please visit www.disabilitydenials.com for,


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Converting Currency Values in Numbers (#1532)

 Converting Currency Values in Numbers (#1532)


There are a lot of different ways to convert currency values in Numbers. Let's take a look at some of the functions. I'm going to start a Formula here by hitting the Equals key. On the right I'm going to search in functions for things that have to do with currency. So let me search for currency. You can see that there are four different functions here. So let's jump ahead and take a look at Currencyconvert which is a really simple one. So we look at the function here and it's currencyconvert value into currency-code. We can start with that. We'll convert say if I want to convert ten dollars. Since I'm set to be US English for the language it's going to assume dollars. So ten but I'm going to convert to Euros. I'm going to use the currency code for euro, EUR, as a string inside quotes. I'm going to get a result there. Now another thing I could have done is I could have provided a string here with a currency value in it.

So 10 with the dollar sign, $, and it would work. That's one way to deal with making sure that you're in the right currency. Use a string instead of a number. If I was actually going to use something like $1in here and it's formatted as dollars then it would pick it up and make sure it uses the right currency. So I'll do currencyconvert. I'll select this cell as the value and I'll use the euro as the code. So that's a pretty simple way to do it. It's going to take the number from the previous days' close. So it's not a live currency update but it's close enough. It's just what it was at the end of yesterday. So for exact calculations you may want to have some more sophisticated financial software. But for just general things with what today's price is, this will work. Now let's take a look at some of the other functions. So we'll delete this formula here and we'll look at Currency. So Currency what it will do is it will convert from one currency to another and give you the price.

So, for instance, I can do Currency and I can say US dollars to euro and what it will give me is basically how much one dollar is in euros. I can put another parameter here and you can see there's a list of them. There's change, percent change, open, high, low, 52 week high, etc., etc. So I could basically go with say the open price from yesterday and it will give me that.

So you have some more functionality there. Now there are also some other ones here. CurrencyH which is historical. So not only can you get a lot of that same data for the current day but you can also set a date. So you can go, say, what was it the end of last week or a year ago. That kind of thing. There's also a currencycode function which will tell you the code for value. So if I were to do, let's say, currencycode select this which is know is a dollar amount I'm going to see that it is in US dollars. If this was in euros then it would put EUR. Now how about these codes. How do you figure out what they are. So you can see here in the description for all these functions that it says that the currency codes are defined by ISO 4217. So if we simply search for ISO 4217 we can find that in Wikipedia and quickly get to the table here where it tells you codes for different countries and currencies.

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Download Historical Exchange Rates into Excel with a Click

 Download Historical Exchange Rates into Excel with a Click



Hey guys, this is Yi from ExcelClout.com with another Excel tool to share with you. This time I'm going to show you a tool I've put together that can automatically download historical exchange rates right into Excel. And with this tool, you can download your historical currency data with a click of a button. So here we go. This is the url where you can download that file, or you can get there by Googling Excel Clout (C-L-O-U-T) historical exchange rates. And it should be the first link in the search result. Let's click on download and open the file. Now because the file was downloaded from the Internet, the first time you open this file, you may get this security warning. We need to click on enable editing. And the file contains macros. We need to enable the macros by clicking enable content. And it's important that you enable the macros because it's the macros that's going to automatically download your foreign exchange rate data. This Excel file basically comes with a form as you see here. And all you have to do is fill out this form, and the macros will take care of downloading the currency data you specified.

Over here, you have a currency codes reference table in case you need look up any currency code. Now I am going to show you how quick and easy it is to get your historical foreign exchange rates, so you can focus more on your historical analysis instead of searching for data. First, we need to specify the currency pairs we'd like to download. For example, let's change the currency pairs over here to, say, EUR/USD for Euro vs U.S. Dollar, USD/CAD for U.S. Dollar vs Canadian Dollar. Make sure you have that slash in between the currency pair so that the macros can recognize the currency pair you've chosen. Just enter the currency pairs in a list like this. Next let's set the From date to, say, 8/1/2000, and the To date to 8/1/2010, so that the spreadsheet will automatically download 10 years worth of historical currency data.

And last you have the option to set the frequency of your data. If you set the frequency to daily, you're going to get the exchange rate for each weekday. Weekly would give you the exchange rate on the last day at the end of each week. So you'll get the exchange rate on the last day at the end of each selected period. You have other options such as monthly, quarterly, and yearly. Normally we'd keep the frequency at daily so we get all the historical exchange rates for every weekday. So now we're ready to click this Download Data to New Sheet button, which is the centerpiece of this tool. When you click this button, what's going to happen is the specified historical exchange rate data will be automatically be downloaded and organized into a new sheet within this file. If you look over here, you have two sheets in this file right now: the Form and Sheet1. As soon as you click on this download button, a new sheet with the automatically downloaded exchange rate data will be added. So let's click on the download button and send the macros to work.

And you see that a new sheet called Sheet2 has been added. Let's go to Sheet2 and check out the currency data we just downloaded. We have the dates in one column and the historical exchange rates for each currency pair in separate columns. Now a quick note about the data. The foreign exchange rate data is downloaded from Quandl.com (Q-U-A-N-D-L). Quandl is like the Wikipedia for financial data.

The currency data is pulled from one of Quandl's currency data sets that covers a boarder set of currency pairs, even including some that are not traded in the foreign exchange market. However there's a catch. In an email exchange with Quandl's CEO, I found out that there is no timestamp for the data, which means we don't know what time the currency rates were recorded.

That's because these daily rates are derived from multiple sources such as exchanges, brokerages, and central banks. Despite the lack of a timestamp, the historical currency rates can be used to spot trends or large movements. And Quandl offers unlimited access, so you can download as much data as you need right from this file. In very rare occasions, Quandl could be unavailable possibly due to maintenance. And in this case, just try downloading your data again at another time.

So now you have this handy tool to download your data, and my recommendation is that use this tool just to get your data. Once your data is downloaded, like we have over here, move the data to another file for your final analysis. And that's it! I hope you guys find this Excel tool useful.



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