1. 05. Data from Bloomberg Add-in

2. Launch Bloomberg and Press GO

3. Enter your login details

4. Choose Settings Wheel, then set window size to Normal

5. From Windows Menu Click Install Excel Add-In

6. Press Install

7. Click OK

8. Click Microsoft Excel 2010

9. Click on Cell A1

10. Click Bloomberg

11. Click Real-Time/Historical

12. Click Historical End of Day

13. Type Apple

14. Double-Click AAPL US Equity

15. Type SP

16. Double Click SPX Index (S&P 500 Index)

17. Click Next

18. Select Market Activity

19. Select Last

20. Select Last Price

21. Click Add

22. Click Next

23. Select Date From 01/01/2003 to 12/09/2012

24. Click Next

25. Click Include all calendar days

26. Click Finish

27. Increase Column Width of A and D

28. Shows Historical Prices for APPLE and S&P500

29. Select Columns A to E

30. Press Home

31. Press Copy

32. Press Paste -> Paste Values -> 123

33. This removes any formulas

34. Type ApplePrice in B2, and SP500Price in E2

35. Click on Cell A1

36. Click Delete -> Delete Sheet Rows

37. Select Columns C and D

38. Click Delete -> Delete Sheet Columns

39. Now have neatly formatted data

40. Challenge Select Sheet2 and download share price data on another company of your choice

41. If we try to create a line graph comparing Apple and S&P500 it will not be very clear

42. Click on Cell A1

43. Press Ctrl + Shift + * on your keyboard to select whole dataset

44. Click on Insert -> Line -> 2D Line

45. Apple starts off at a much lower level than S&P Need to create an index for both starting at 1,000

46. Click on graph and press Del on keyboard

47. Type AppleIndex in E1

48. Type SPIndex in F1

49. We want to compare all prices to the first price so in cell E2 type =B2/$B$2*1000

50. In cell F2 type =C2/$C$2

51. Select cells E2 and F2

52. Press Ctrl + c on your keyboard to copy formulas

53. Select from cell E3 to the bottom of dataset and press Ctrl + v to paste formulas

54. Select column headings of E and F to select all cells in those columns

55. Right-click with your mouse and click Format Cells …

56. Select Number -> 2 Decimal Places

57. Click OK

58. Numbers now displayed with 2 decimal places

60. Have created price indices starting at 1,000 for both Apple and S&P500

61. Apple has increased from 1,000 to 92,196.79 S&P has increased from 1,000 to 1,629.38

62. Click on column header A to select the Date column

63. While holding Ctrl on your keyboard, click on column header E and F

64. Click on Insert -> Line -> 2-D Line

65. Displays a line graph of the indices both starting at 1,000

66. File -> Save As -> 05b-datacompleted.xlsx

67. Challenge Calculate an index of the share price data you downloaded for another company Begin the index at 1,000 Produce a basic line graph