AGRICULTURAL COMMODITIES ON BLOOMBERG Dr. Carolyn Takeda-Brown
overview BLOOMBERG: F9 <Go> What is Bloomberg? Agriculture data available on Bloomberg Creating your own personal Bloomberg login
What is Bloomberg? Information source: News & Economic data Market monitor Security pricing
Yellow keys represent market sectors Commodities: F9 <ENTER> Other important keys: MENU = backup HELP = users manual
There is no homepage so the first screen you ll see is often an advertisement for specialized or new Bloomberg functions.
To access commodities: F9 <GO> Return key = GO on Bloomberg To navigate: Type quick keystrokes at the blue cursor OR Select from the menu using the mouse
Agriculture Commodity markets menu You can return to this menu by clicking on Related Functions Menu at the top of the screen From this screen select AGGP to follow to the next slide.
AGGP = spot prices
AGSD = Agriculture Supply & Demand Within this screen you can choose a product by clicking on the orange box (circled). This example shows supply & demand for corn.
CCAL = Crop Calendar Within this screen you can choose tabs along the bottom.
Weather vs Yield
Tracking Crop Progress CCAL <GO>
Economic Calendars: Schedule of announcements AGRI <GO>
Futures Contracts Table Menu CTM <GO>
corn futures contract traded on the CBOT C A = active corn contract C A <F9> <GO>
In the gray bar toward the top of the screen you can see the futures contract we are locked onto: C Z5 = December 2015 expiration
DES <GO> Description of the futures contract Notice the current price is $3.845 per bushel.
Graphing the price of this corn futures contract over time GP <GO> It is also possible to graph moving averages
Seasonality graph: Compares price of the current year s corn futures prices with prior years. 2012 was very unusual. SEAG <GO>
Technical study menu for the December 2015 corn futures contract. TECH <GO> Notice the quick keystrokes in blue for each of the popular studies. For example, RSI will give you the Relative Strength Index.
Two things to note on this slide -- the Relative Strength Index has been added to the graph and the price is displayed as a bar chart rather than a line graph.
A Point & Figure graph is displayed for the PFP command.
Creating a Bloomberg login
Choose Create a New Login
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Fill in your first and last name. Bloomberg types in uppercase but assume it is case sensitive when creating your password. Fill in your cell phone number for both work and mobile number. Fill in UF email address. Continue
Select one option from the 6 listed. Send Code
Wait here until you receive a 4-digit validation code from Bloomberg. Create Login
PLEASE RECORD YOUR LOGIN NAME IN A SAFE PLACE. If you forget your login name or password Bloomberg now has ways to retrieve your login and reset password but you ll need the cell phone used to create your account.
Save your defaults
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