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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 VBA code from the recorded macro leads to a "Run-time error '13': Type mismatch" error. I can click the End button and everything runs fine, but I want to have this fully automated. My code is: import win32com.client xl = win32com.client.gencache.EnsureDispatch

I have to download historical end of day data for a huge list of stocks. I found on the bloomberg excel add-in the function BDH that is very useful. That is what I need but there is an issue: my stocks are identified by ISINs and i have tried in many way to put the ISINs in the first field of the function but it doesn't work. The function isn't able to identify the security by the ISIN despite the fact that is reported as security identifier in the bloomberg formula syntax: look at slide 24 here http://lgdata.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/docs/205/56376/bloomberg%20excel%20desktop%20guide

I'm working on a macro to place multiple formulas in one cell. In this case, its 3 Bloomberg formulas into one cell. The formula works in Excel when copied or typed manually but not when type it in the VBA module, where it creates an error (Compile error: Expected: End of statement) and highlights "rtg_mdy_sen_unsecured_debt". I believe the problem is the use of quotation marks in the formula but I can't find any information on how to work around it. The formula that works in Excel (when input manually or copied into a cell) follows: =BDP($O4,"rtg_mdy_sen_unsecured_debt")&"/"&BDP($O4,"rtg_sp

pdblp allows daily historical Bloomberg requests via: con = pdblp.BCon(debug=False) con = start() df = con.bdh(['SPY Equity'], 'PX_LAST', '20150103', '20150619') How can intraday price/volume/open interest etc requests be made? Desired behavior resembling as below, the price on 15 minute intervals. df = con.bdh(['SPY Equity'], 'PX_Last', ... , periodSelection = 'MINUTE', period=15) Have you looked at the intraday request python example? You need to specify the timing in your request. def sendIntradayTickRequest(session, options): refDataService = session.getService("//blp/refdata") request =

I'm trying to setup my Mac OS X system to use the pdblp Python library which requires me to first install the Bloomberg Open API libary for Python . After cloning the git repo and running python setup.py install , I get File "setup.py", line 20, in <module> raise Exception("BLPAPI_ROOT environment variable isn't defined") Exception: BLPAPI_ROOT environment variable isn't defined How should I proceed? You also need to install the C/C++ libraries and then set BLPAPI_ROOT to the location of the libblpapi3_32.so or libblpapi3_64.so files. For example: cd /some/directory wget https://bloomberg

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 you can explicitly set them in the API, so your code gives the same result whichever computer you run on. How do you set this one in a V3 API query? Having had a colleague told by the help desk this is impossible, it turns out they are wrong and it is possible.

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 ... After talking to the help desk, it turns out that on 64 bit Windows, running under a 64bit JVM bbcomm is not automatically started. This does not happen under 32bit Java - under 32 bit bbcomm automatically runs. So my solutions are either to wait for the problem to be fixed by Bloomberg (now I understand it) or