Having set up a ReferenceDataRequest I send it along to an EventQueue Service refdata = _session.GetService("//blp/refdata"); Request request = refdata.CreateRequest("ReferenceDataRequest"); /* append the appropriate symbol and field data to the request */ EventQueue eventQueue = new EventQueue(); Guid guid = Guid.NewGuid(); Correlati...
When I use the Java Bloomber V3 API it usually works. However, sometimes, especially after a reboot, bbcomm.exe is not running in the background. I can start it manually by running blp.exe, but I wondered if there was a way of doing this via the API? I'm still waiting on Help-Help ... ...
Hi there, Does anyone know how to get asynchronous data through Bloomberg's new data API (COM v3) with Python? I found this code below on wilmott.com and it works just fine, but it's for the old API version. Does anyone know the corresponding code for the new version? from win32com.client import DispatchWithEvents from pythoncom impor...
Hi Friends, we have subscription to Bloomberg data, we use excel to load data from bloomberg using bdp function. but its pain,so we decided to find easy way to do this . Is there any way to program and calculate Fixed Income Chars from a list of securities using VBA ,access,sql or anything.? Thanks ...
I made a program in c# based on the example "SubscriptionWithEventHandlerExample" of API 3.2.9.0. After subscribing to about 500 securities for realtime data, I receive some ADMIN event warnings claiming SlowConsumerWarning and SlowConsumerWarningCleared. I read somewhere that it introduces some delay, until I process all events. The p...
How do you explicitly request fx forwards as outrights using the bloomberg API? In the Bloomberg terminal you can choose whether to get FX Forwards as absolute rates (outrights) or as offsets from Spots (Points) by doing XDF, hitting 7, then the option is about half way down. 0 means outrights, and 1 means offfsets. With most defaults ...
I'm trying to automate construction of an Excel 2007 spreadsheet that uses the Bloomberg plugin to pull down live prices. The problem is that when I open Excel through win32com the Bloomberg plugin does not load (so all of the formulas end up with "#NAME?" errors). Manually uninstalling and reinstalling the plugin works, but copying the...
As informed by the example in the Bloomberg APIv3, i need to start a Bloomberg session to open a service, then i need to use the service to create a request. My question is, if my program sent a request, got the answer, and then after a while it might need to send another request. In this situation, how do i determine whether the Sessi...
Using the Bloomberg API, how do I request the price information for the HTUSMOML and GSTHHVIP indexes. Part of the basic code which I am using is listed below: session.OpenService("//blp/refdata"); Service refDataService = session.GetService("//blp/refdata"); Request request = refDataService.CreateRequest("ReferenceDataRequest"); requ...
Hello, I'm sending an email from Outlook 2003 (soon to be 2007) to a colleague's Bloomberg email address. I added voting buttons to it. Outlook users can all see the buttons, but the colleague who's reading the email in his Bloomberg console cannot. Is there any way I can get those voting buttons to be displayed to him? If not, are ...
Is there any API to send Bloomberg chat messages? ...
Is there a reliable way to open a specific bloomberg terminal page programmatically (e.g. "MSFT Equity")? I am open to any suggestions and code samples: Start process with path to bloomberg terminal executable and ticker in the arguments Bloomberg API DDE COM Automation SendKeys (can be blocked by some antivirus software) ... Many t...
Im looking to write a new application in ruby/python which uses a feed from bloomberg and am stuck trying to find any documentation for using (or even setting up) Bloomberg Server API with either of these languages. Does anyone have any good links to tutorials for this or maybe some boilerplate code to get set up? Or is it best to just ...
I had a look at Asynchronous data through Bloomberg's new data API (COM v3) with Python? before posting which has some pretty awesome info, but what I need is a way to create a CUSIP-Description table in a database using the Bloomberg API (to save $$$ by avoiding a CUSIP subscription) Does anyone know how to populate a table with CUSIP ...