Accessing Bloomberg through Datafeed toolbox

Hello,

I am attempting to access Bloomberg data through the Datafeed toolbox, but I constantly receive the following error:

"Undefined function or variable 'bloomberg'."

I checked the classpath.txt to ensure that 'blpapi3.jar' is added, and it currently is listed.

What can I do? Thanks

[Ross]

Anyone have any help?

Answer 1

[Joan Puig]

You could try using the blp command, it uses the new interface.

>> con = blp();
>> getdata(con,'EURUSD Curncy','Last_Price')

ans = 

      Last_Price: 1.2778

>>

If that doesn't work, make sure that the toolbox is actually installed and that you have it on the MATLAB path (toolbox\datafeed\*)

Joan

[Jessica Lam]

Hi Joan

Would you mind give me some ideas how you could access bloomberg through Datafeed toolbox?

What kind of license you rent from bloomberg?

Do I have to install matlab in bloomberg terminal?

Or I can do another way round.

Thanks so much

Jessica

Answer 2

[Suny Mou]

Hello, I have the datatoolbox installed and did similiar thing. But I end up getting an error message as the following? What does it mean? How can I fix it? Thanks

EDU>> getdata(c,'IBM US Equity', {'Open';'Last_Price'}) ??? Error using ==> blp.getdata at 129 Daily limit reached. [nid:236]

Answer 3

[Karamos]

Hello,

Hi Ross, Have you found a solution? I am using Matlab7.12.0 R2011.a and Windows (64-bit) and when I am trying to connect with Bloomberg using the Datafeed I am receiving the same error.:

"Undefined function or variable 'bloomberg'."

I added the classpath.txt to ensure that 'blpapi3.jar' is listed. Does anyone know how to overcome this?