How do I access Bloomberg FSRC screens in Matlab?

I know you can access Bloomberg equity screens using the eqs function. Is there any way to access fund screens that are created in Bloomberg using FSRC? Thanks!

Answer 1

[Prasanna]

Hi Neil,

Accessing Bloomberg FSRC screens in MATLAB is a bit more specialized compared to the 'eqs' function. However you can use the 'blp' function to create a Bloomberg connection object and use the same to retrieve data fields related to funds using the 'history' or the 'getdata' functions if the specific fund data fields or identifiers are present.

If you have custom FSRC screens saved in Bloomberg, you may need to manually extract the relevant data fields and use them in your MATLAB scripts. If you have specific FSRC screens saved in Bloomberg, Use Bloomberg’s API to access these screens programmatically. This typically involves using Bloomberg’s Excel Add-In to create custom queries that can then be imported into MATLAB.

For more detailed steps on configuring the Bloomberg connection, refer the following documentations:

• Installing Bloomberg and configuring connections: https://www.mathworks.com/help/datafeed/installing-and-configuring-bloomberg-connections.html
• Bloomberg server: https://www.mathworks.com/help/datafeed/bloomberg-server.html
• getdata: https://www.mathworks.com/help/datafeed/blp.getdata.html
• history: https://www.mathworks.com/help/datafeed/blp.history.html

Hope this helps!