[R-SIG-Finance] RBloomberg equity options prices

Dirk Eddelbuettel edd at debian.org
Fri Sep 28 02:49:07 CEST 2007


On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 05:33:28PM -0700, Moshe Olshansky wrote:
> Thank you - this really works!
> 
> I was unable to guess that for the option data one
> still must add the word "Equity" at the end.
> 
> Is there any place where such information can be
> found?

The Bloomberg terminal itself?  If you can;t get 'info' reliably for a
symbol you can get the time series either.  Recall that in interactive
mode, the 'yellow key' matters, and that is what corresponds to the
'Equity' here.  

Dirk

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