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Thomson Reuters Eikon for North America Fixed Income
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Thomson Reuters Eikon for North America Fixed Income
- This video gives you an overview of the key highlights for Fixed Income Professionals, such as Rates and Credit Views, Tradeweb, time series and curves, news, government auctions, new bond issues, calculators and much more.
Total Running Time 3:59 - This module includes the following topics:
- About the Home Page (2:29)
- Access the Fixed Income Asset Class Overview (2:29)
- Access Bond View (2:28)
- Search for Fixed Income data (2:25)
- Search for Fixed Income data using specific criteria (1:36)
- Search for Fixed Income-related news stories (1:09)
- Access Credit Views (2:02)
- CDS Risk Analysis (1:36)
- CDS Default Risk Analysis (1:18)
- Access and Trade from Tradeweb (1:11)
- Working with Fixed Income Chart (2:24)
- Using Quick Charts for Fixed Income (1:40)
- Opening Fixed Income Calculators (2:24)
- Working with Bond Calculator (2:01)
- Working with CDS Calculator (1:27) - Learn how Thomson Reuters Eikon can intuitively provide you with access to a wide variety of Fixed Income data, news, pre-defined overviews and trading and analytical capabilities, as well as Reuters Insider and unique collaboration tools.
Course outline:
- Overview of the key benefits of Thomson Reuters Eikon for Fixed Income markets
- New convenient search tool
- Pre-built displays and Calculators
- Tradeweb
- Reuters award-winning news and Reuters Insider
- Connecting to Fixed Income communities
- Summary
- Instantly navigate to anywhere using the new single search box. This video shows you how to search by issuer names, ISIN’s, tickers, Reuters Instrument codes, quotes and guides. It also shows the new AutoSuggest and explains how to combine different search terms in the Fixed Income Markets.
Total Running Time 4:01 - Discover how quick and easy it is to connect with expert help using Contact Us. Contact Us is accessible via many of the Thomson Reuters Products.
Total Running Time 1:55 Just Added (2)
- IFR Markets is now a fully integrated product in Thomson Reuters Eikon and is relied on by industry professionals around the globe, 24 hours a day. Find out here why you should access it today, how to access News and Data for Rates, Credit and Foreign Exchange, as well as how to set up Alerts.
Total running time 4:36 - Use Thomson Reuters Eikon to follow the People’s Bank of China key data and news as well tracking the open market operations.
Total Running Time 4:49
Focus on Credit: Price Discovery (7)
- Learn to search for news and pricing on new bond issues throughout the evolution of structuring a deal.
Search for the combination of Eikon’s vast global coverage from the new issues tab within Thomson Reuters Eikon and Credit Views pre-settlement price guidance content from IFR that delivers a best-in-class solution.
Total Running Time 3:11 - Access All Quotes to view pricing on a single issue from multiple contributors in one screen. The All Quotes Screen provides total market depth and transparency of the bonds market and is customisable to input price tolerance and filter out unwanted price contributors.
Total Running Time 3:46 - This course covers the following topics:
Loans News (2:03)
Loans Data (2:31)
Cash Loans (2:05)
Secondary Market Intelligence Benchmarks (3:12)
Loan Credit Default Swaps (1:38)
Loan League Tables (1:33) - IFR New Issue Monitor via CreditViews provides you with the pipeline and price guidance you need to compete effectively in volatile markets of newly issued bonds. Access new issue information throughout the evolution of a deal from rumor to pre-marketing to price guidance to final pricing and commentary.
Total Running Time 3:47 - Learn how Thomson Reuters Eikon combines intuitive functionality with a wide variety of data, news, pre-defined overviews and analytic tools to cover the Corporate bonds and Loans markets.
Course outline:
- Discover Eikon Home Page
- Access bond data and more with the powerful Search Tool
- Saving and monitoring data – quote list
- Navigating the Home Page – Fixed Income quick links
- Navigating the Home Page – Asset Classes
- The Market Data and Tools tab in the Asset Class Guides
- The Instruments tab in the Asset Class Guides
- Navigating the Home Page - News
- Summary
- Access global Credit Markets via Credit Views on Thomson Reuters Eikon. This short video shows you how to make the most of credit pricing, liquidity and risk analysis, as well as credit research and news - all via Credit Views.
Total Running Time 4:20 - CDS prices from Markit provide streaming, real-time and end of day prices at the index and single name level based on observable quotes from CDS market makers.
In this module discover how to easily access the Markit CDS prices including intraday, same day and end of day updates in Thomson Reuters Eikon.
Total Running Time 4:27
Focus on Credit: Pricing & Evaluation Tools (4)
- This video will demonstrate how to test normality of returns using the Historical Return Analysis Calculator.
Total Running Time 3:06 - The Credit Default Swap (CDS) calculator provides CDS Single Names and Indices calculation for Fixed Income users.
- Starting the Credit Default Swap Calculator
- Using the Credit Default Swap Calculator
- Using CDS Par - In this course you will learn how to:
- Open and Morph the Bond Calculator
- Use the Fixed Rate Calculator to calculate price and yield
- Compare spreads using the Fixed Rate Bond Calculator
- Use the Fixed Rate Bond Calculator to perform yield comparisons
- Perform "what-if" price and yield scenarios
- View Zero Curves
- Use the Floating Rate Note Calculator to calculate proceeds and prices
- Use the Floating Rate Note Calculator to calculate Margins and risk measures
- Use the Inflation-Linked Bond Calculator to calculate price/yield
- Use the Inflation Linked Bond Calculator to calculate price/yield to carry analysis
- Use Seasonality Adjustment
- Use the Simulation tab in the Convertible Bond Calculator
- Use the Convertible Bond Calculator for Income Analysis - Monitor and perform what if analysis on your chosen list of bonds. It supports fixed rate bonds, floating rates notes, index-linked bonds and convertible bonds.
Total Running Time 5:26
Focus on Interest Rates: Price Discovery (3)
- Discover the new Government Bond prices tab, which offers streaming prices and is fully integrated within Thomson Reuters Eikon.
Total Running Time 4:31 - Rates Views provides comprehensive rates prices and related spread data for cash, derivative and future products. A suite of calculated spreads provides visibility on trade flow across G40+ markets and you can spot investment opportunities with intuitive charting. Tradeweb is fully integrated along with pop out screens to fully customize the Rates Views experience.
Total Running Time 5:04 - Access All Quotes to view pricing on a single issue from multiple contributors in one screen. The All Quotes Screen provides total market depth and transparency of the bonds market and is customisable to input price tolerance and filter out unwanted price contributors.
Total Running Time 3:46
Focus on Interest Rates: Pricing & Evaluation Tools (9)
- This course covers the following topics:
Working with the FRA Pricer Calculator
Changing Currency and Modifying Calculation Parameters
Calculating FRAs from Futures
Calculating FRAs from a Zero Curve
Calculating FRAs for Broken Dates
Calculating a Single FRA-Pricing
Calculating a Single FRA-Settlement Calc
Linking to Related Calculators - This module includes the following topics:
- About the Swaption Calculator
- Define the Swaption
- Visualize Volatilities
- Evaluate a Swaption
- Run a Scenario Analysis
- Creating Your Own Swaption Strategy
- Linking to Related Calculators - This course covers the following topics:
Getting Started with the Swap Pricer (1:16)
Pricing a Fixed Floating Swap (2:50)
Cash Flows (1:05)
Currency Basis Swap (1:33)
Create a Swap Portfolio (1:10) - In this course you will learn how to:
- Open and Morph the Bond Calculator
- Use the Fixed Rate Calculator to calculate price and yield
- Compare spreads using the Fixed Rate Bond Calculator
- Use the Fixed Rate Bond Calculator to perform yield comparisons
- Perform "what-if" price and yield scenarios
- View Zero Curves
- Use the Floating Rate Note Calculator to calculate proceeds and prices
- Use the Floating Rate Note Calculator to calculate Margins and risk measures
- Use the Inflation-Linked Bond Calculator to calculate price/yield
- Use the Inflation Linked Bond Calculator to calculate price/yield to carry analysis
- Use Seasonality Adjustment
- Use the Simulation tab in the Convertible Bond Calculator
- Use the Convertible Bond Calculator for Income Analysis - In this course you will learn how to:
- Find and open the Zero Coupon Builder
- Add the Zero Coupon Builder to a Flex Document
- Build a Zero Coupon Curve
- Save and retrieve a custom-built Zero Coupon Curve - The Swap Curve Monitor focuses on the entire interest rate swap curve. This introduces new possibilities for trading and pricing various swap curves, including Curve Spreads, Butterfly Spreads and Forward Starting Swaps. This updated version of the video brings a new focus on Carry and Roll Down.
Total Running Time 5:21 - Monitor and perform what if analysis on your chosen list of bonds. It supports fixed rate bonds, floating rates notes, index-linked bonds and convertible bonds.
Total Running Time 5:26 - This course includes the following topics:
- Overview of the Swap Points and Outrights Calculator
- Modifying Currency Sources and Customizing Parameters
- Working with Standard Periods and Broken Dates
- Working with Linked Calculators - Join this session to learn how Thomson Reuters Eikon enables you to intuitively find, price and monitor interest rate derivatives with power prebuilt displays and single / multiple swap calculators.
Course outline:
- Searching for interest rate swap data
- Accessing the interest rate Calculators
- Pricing interest rate derivatives with:Interest Rate Swap Calculator,Complex Swap Calculator
- Marking to market swaps with the Swap Portfolio Calculator
- Accessing the Basis-Adjusted Zero Curves
- Embedding the Calculators in your screen and link to a quote list of currencies
News & Commentary (3)
- IFR Markets is now a fully integrated product in Thomson Reuters Eikon and is relied on by industry professionals around the globe, 24 hours a day. Find out here why you should access it today, how to access News and Data for Rates, Credit and Foreign Exchange, as well as how to set up Alerts.
Total running time 4:36 - Thomson Reuters Eikon provides easy access to market-leading real-time and historical news from Reuters as well historical news from over 550 newspapers and periodicals. It’s easily tailored to your needs and displayed in text, picture and on-demand video.
Course outline:
- Accessing real-time news
- Accessing historical news
- Accessing Reuters Insider TV
- Getting help and further information
- Summary / Q&A
- As market participants you are constantly bombarded with news and information. Ensuring you receive relevant information can be difficult and time consuming. Reuters Insider is a interactive, web-based TV platform designed to do just that including news, insight, research and intelligent tools to provide a personalized viewing experience. Join this session to learn how to get started.
Course outline:
- What is Reuters Insider?
- How to access Reuters Insider
- The Reuters Insider Home page
- Setting Alerts
- Playing a show
- Customization
- Joining the conversation
- Getting help and further information
- Summary / Q&A
Currently in the News (2)
- In this module discover tools to help you quickly track the Eurozone Crisis as well as access key economic indicator data and forecasts.
Total Running Time 3:34 - Eurozone Debt Crisis deepening: You can monitor the recent ratings actions, gauge market reaction and explore the condition of the last few remaining triple AAA rated countries.
Total Running Time 3:00
Risk Analysis & Research (7)
- Thomson Reuters now provides a new user interface for its DTCC CDS Volumes data and offers new features such as new historical charting tools, an improved Biggest Movers tab, increased search and filter functionality for Single Names as well as Excel download capabilities.
Total Running Time 5:30 - Thomson Reuters provides the Tradeweb Liquidity Cost Index to evaluate and measure liquidity levels and trade direction in the government bond markets. The index is derived from actual prices and volume levels from the Tradeweb Platform. Watch this video now to find out more details.
Total Running Time 4:03 - Thomson Reuters now offers three StarMine Credit Risk models in CreditViews: The Structural Model, the SmartRatios Model and the newly added Text Mining Credit Risk Model.
Total Running Time 6:44 - Join this session to learn about Thomson Reuters Eikons Credit Views. Credit Views is an intuitive combination of functionality, data, news and analytics providing a compelling view of the credit market.
Course outline:
- Discover Eikon Home Page
- Credit Views Home Page and how to search for Credit Entities
- Navigating Single Issuer Credit Profile – summary of debt outstanding
- Charting the 5Y CDS against traded net notional volumes from DTCC and the pricing template used in the quote object for CDS
- Credit Analysis tab within Credit Views – biggest movers, sector/ratings curves, DTCC CDS volumes and Credit Research.
- One of the big growth areas in Eikon – news, community and collaboration
- Access global Credit Markets via Credit Views on Thomson Reuters Eikon. This short video shows you how to make the most of credit pricing, liquidity and risk analysis, as well as credit research and news - all via Credit Views.
Total Running Time 4:20 - The Interest Rate Spread Quick chart offers an easy and effective way to analyze the spreads of interest rate instruments. Discover how to access and utilize this key tool.
Total Running Time 2:37 - Join this session to learn how Thomson Reuters Eikon intuitively enables you to monitor yield curves by viewing pre-defined or customizable curves in a powerful charting display and exporting & updating in the Thomson Reuters Excel add-in.
Course outline:
- Viewing curves graphs in the Money Markets and Fixed Income content explorers
- Viewing yield curves in the Curve Quick Chart
- Plotting curves in the customizable Chart Object
- Creating and viewing custom curves
- Exporting curve data to Thomson Reuters Eikon Excel
- Summary
Focus on Technical Analysis and Charting (14)
- This module includes the following topics:
• Introduction to MACD (1:10)
• Convergence and Divergence signals (1:31)
• Identifying Buy and Sell Signals (0:58)
• Using the Zero Line to find the right time to buy or sell (1:05)
• Creatinging MACD analysis in Thomson Reuters Eikon (1:28) - This course covers the following topics:
• About Trendlines (1:48)
• Drawing a Trendline (1:35)
• Adjusting Trendlines (1:23)
• Adding a trendline to a chart in Thomson Reuters Eikon (2:33) - This course covers the following topics:
• About Golden & Black Crosses (1:00)
• Identifying Golden & Black Crosses (1:37)
• When to use Golden & Black Crosses (1:51)
• Summary (1:07)
• Creating a Golden & Black Cross chart in Thomson Reuters Eikon (3:25) - This module covers the following topics:
* Introduction to Candlestick Charting (2:37)
* Creating a Candlestick Chart in Thomson Reuters Eikon (2:09) - This course covers the following topics:
- What are Bollinger Bands?
- Expanding and Contracting Bands
- Adding a Bollinger Band to a chart - The Ichimoku Kinko Hyo is a purpose-built trend trading charting system that has been successfully used in nearly every tradeable markets. The indicator provides a broad picture of an instrument's prices in a single view, helping traders align their strategy according to pricing trends.
- What is Ichimoku Kinko Hyo?
- Apply Ichimoku Kinko Hyo analysis to a chart
- Using Ichimoku to monitor buy and sell signals
- Using Ichimoku to monitor signal strength
- When to use the Ichimoku Kinko Hyo Indicator - This course will demonstrate:
- An Introduction to the Relative Strength Index
- Using RSI to Analyze Market Conditions
- Bullish and Bearish Failure Swings
- Setting Parameters
- How to create a Relative Strength Index in Thomson Reuters Eikon - This course will demo:
- What is a Fibonacci Fan
- How to add a Fibonacci Fan to a chart in Thomson Reuters Eikon - Join this session to learn how Thomson Reuters Eikon intuitively enables you to monitor yield curves by viewing pre-defined or customizable curves in a powerful charting display and exporting & updating in the Thomson Reuters Excel add-in.
Course outline:
- Viewing curves graphs in the Money Markets and Fixed Income content explorers
- Viewing yield curves in the Curve Quick Chart
- Plotting curves in the customizable Chart Object
- Creating and viewing custom curves
- Exporting curve data to Thomson Reuters Eikon Excel
- Summary
- Learn how to find and use the Trend Intensity analysis: A Thomson Reuters IFR Markets proprietary indicator.
Total Running Time 1:21 - Thomson Reuters Eikon’s easy-to-use charting applications combines comprehensive real-time and historical data with a sophisticated suite of analyses and trend recognition tools for performing advanced technical analysis.
Course outline:
- Charting using Home Page
- Customizable Charts
- Quick Charts
- Adding Analyses
- Sending Commentaries
- Exporting Charts to Excel
- The Technical Analysis Quick chart allows you to apply various analyses to the instruments you monitor with intuitive collaboration tools.
Discover how to access and use this powerful charting application.
Total Running Time 2:57 - Discover the Curve Quick Chart. It allows you to create, view and compare curves quickly.
Total Running Time 3:42 - The Credit Default Swap Quick Chart allows you to quickly find, chart, and analyze a Credit Default Swap (CDS) and CDS Index. You can also easily chart the related Equity and DTCC CDS Volume.
Total Running Time 4:22
Thomson Reuters Eikon for Excel (3)
- This course will demonstrate:
- Converting PowerPlus Pro sheets
- Dragging and Dropping Realtime Data
- Dragging and Dropping Multiple Data types
- Dragging and Dropping Data from a Chart
- Linking Calculators with Thomson Reuters Eikon Excel
- Using the Insert Function Wizard
- Modifying Data using Insert Function
- Retrieve Realtime Data using SpeedData
- Use SpeedData to Retrieve Data for Lists
- What is Adfin Analytics? - Fast and reliable pricing and valuation capabilities are central to a trader’s daily business. With Thomson Reuters Eikon you have access to a suite of powerful, ready-to-use calculators, a library of market-standard financial functions and highly sophisticated Excel capabilities. Learn how to convert your existing sheets and easily integrate Thomson Reuters and 3rd party data into your Microsoft Excel spreadsheets.
Course outline:
- Accessing Thomson Reuters Eikon for Excel
- Converting Spreadsheets
- Dragging and Dropping
- Retrieving Real-time data
- Retrieving Reference data
- Adfin functions
- The RSearch function in Thomson Reuters Eikon for Excel provides you with a powerful tool for analyzing the markets. You can screen for instruments and retrieve real-time and historical price and descriptive data all in one place, without having to memorize any instrument codes.
Total Running Time 3:54
Macroeconomics (7)
- Use Thomson Reuters Eikon to follow the People’s Bank of China key data and news as well tracking the open market operations.
Total Running Time 4:49 - Discover the ECB View which will allow you to track European Central Bank and its impact on the markets.
Total Running Time 4:53 - Keep up-to-date with Economic events in real-time, historically and looking forward. Learn how to add events to your calendar, for future reference.
Total Running Time 3:27 - Central bank rates are at historic lows helping to increase liquidity in financial markets and support growth in a fragile economy. Join this session to learn how Thomson Reuters Eikon can help you monitor Central Bank measures, analyze their outcomes and monitor interest rate trends in real-time.
Join this session to learn how Thomson Reuters Eikon can help you monitor Central Bank measures, analyze their outcomes and monitor interest rate trends in real-time.
Course outline:
- Central bank rates overview screen
- Central bank rates in a pop up window
- Market expectations of central bank rates
- Central bank market operations data
- News on inflation, PMI & central banks
- Need help or further training?
- Learn how to access key Central Bank rates, policies, news, charts,polls and ECB open market operations in one easy to access page in Thomson Reuters Eikon.
Total Running Time 4:08 - Use the Economic Monitor to stay current on the latest indicator releases. Learn how to find release data and set alerts on indicators most important to you.
Total Running Time 2:04 - In this module discover tools to help you quickly track the Eurozone Crisis as well as access key economic indicator data and forecasts.
Total Running Time 3:34
Trading Capabilities (2)