New release of Bloomberg-to-Mathematica code

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A new release of my code to move data from Bloomberg to Mathematica. The big changes here include

  • rolling all four functions (current data, historical data, intraday data, and intraday bar data) into a single executable. This reduces the number of connections needed by Mathematica among other advantages,
  • standardization of function names,
  • addition of DPDF code to intraday functions, allowing the user to specify whether or not data should be adjusted for dividends, and
  • it has been compiled for the first time for x64 as well as x86.

This interface, its source code, and compiled binaries are freely available at
https://github.com/MichaelSternNYC/

Example:

x1 = msBBGhistory["IBM US Equity", "Px_Close_1D", {2015, 1, 1}, "", "Day", "use DPDF" -> False];
x2 = msBBGhistory["IBM US Equity", "Px_Close_1D", {2015, 1, 1}, "", "Day", "use DPDF" -> True];
DateListPlot[{Callout[x1/x1["FirstValue"], "without dividends"], Callout[x2/x2["FirstValue"], "with dividends"]}, PlotStyle -> {Red, Blue}, PlotLabel -> "Historical IBM Returns", Frame -> {True, True, False, False}, ImageSize -> Large]

Graph of normalized IBM prices demonstrating dividend adjustment and Callouts.

Cycling data via Mathematica

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Modern cycling trainers show a video and correlate resistance with what’s being shown on screen. You can “ride” a stage of the Tour de France and it will be tougher as you ride up steeper hills. Zwift has created virtual courses that cyclists from around the world can ride simultaneously, interacting with each other. It records detailed information about your virtual progress in a .FIT file, along with your heart rate, cadence, and other data from third party monitors you may be using.

Using fitparse, I created software that converts these into a format that Mathematica can understand, and using Mathematica, it is possible to break down the data a million ways. A few graphical examples are shown below.

The topography of an evening's ride in Zwift's Watopia as decoded by Mathematica

The topography of an evening’s ride in Zwift’s Watopia as decoded by Mathematica

Velocity on the course, roughly the inverse of changes in elevation except where there are sprints

Velocity on the course, roughly the inverse of changes in elevation except where there are sprints

My heart rate as measured by a Wahoo heart rate monitor

My heart rate as measured by a Wahoo heart rate monitor

Bloomberg-to-Mathematica interface now supports overrides

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Reference data requests made via the Bloomberg API can be simple (“current price of IBM Equity”) or complex (“trailing 12 month beta between AAPL US Equity and the Nasdaq index”). To send those more complex requests via external software requires overriding Blomberg’s default fields, something the Bloomberg-to-Mathematica interface did not allow. Until now.

moStarts = DateRange[{1990, 1, 1}, {2016, 4, 1}, "Month"];
moToInclude = 12;
corr1 = Table[{moStarts[[i + moToInclude - 1]], msGetBBG["SPX Index", "CORR_COEF", "noisy" -> False, "overrides" -> <|"BETA_OVERRIDE_REL_INDEX" -> "NDX Index", "BETA_OVERRIDE_START_DT" -> bbgifyDate[moStarts[[i]]], "BETA_OVERRIDE_END_DT" -> bbgifyDate[moStarts[[i + moToInclude - 1]]]|>]}, {i, 1, Length[moStarts] - moToInclude}];
corr2 = Table[{moStarts[[i + moToInclude - 1]], msGetBBG["SPX Index", "CORR_COEF", "noisy" -> False, "overrides" -> <|"BETA_OVERRIDE_REL_INDEX" -> "USGG10YR Index", "BETA_OVERRIDE_START_DT" -> bbgifyDate[moStarts[[i]]], "BETA_OVERRIDE_END_DT" -> bbgifyDate[moStarts[[i + moToInclude - 1]]]|>]}, {i, 1, Length[moStarts] - moToInclude}];

DateListPlot[{corr1, corr2}, PlotLabel -> "Trailing 12-Month Correlations", Frame -> {True, True, False, False}, PlotStyle -> {Blue, Purple}, Epilog -> {(Text[Style["SPX vs. NDX", FontSize -> 10, Blue], {{2010, 9, 2}, 1.01}]), (Text[Style["SPX vs. U.S. 10 Yr Rates", FontSize -> 10, Purple], {{2007, 3, 2}, .65}])}, ImageSize -> Large, Axes -> True]

Correlation of SPX vs. various things over time

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The interface and source code can be found at GitHub

More revisions to the Bloomberg-to-Mathematica code

It can now take multiple simultaneous securities requests for current data, for a speedup of about 20x. You can download the WSTP conduits and source code at Github. https://github.com/MichaelSternNYC Sample below with some of The Economist‘s Big Mac Indices.


indices = {"BIGMUS", "BIGMBZ", "BIGMMX"};

data = Map[
msBBGgetHistory[# <> " Index", "Px_Last", {1997, 1, 1}, "", "Monthly"] &, indices];

DateListPlot[data, PlotStyle -> {Red, Blue, Purple}, PlotRange -> {1.1, 6.4}, Frame -> {True, True, False, False}, PlotLabel -> "Global Big Mac Prices (USD)", Epilog -> {(Text[Style["U.S.", FontFamily -> "Calibri", FontSize -> 10, Red], {{2007, 1, 10, 16}, 3.4}]), (Text[Style["Brazil", FontFamily -> "Calibri", FontSize -> 10, Blue], {{2007, 5, 10, 16}, 4}]), (Text[Style["Mexico", FontFamily -> "Calibri", FontSize -> 10, Purple], {{2007, 1, 10, 16}, 2.3}])}, ImageSize -> Large];

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