Introduction to Bloomberg Terminals

Lesson 2 - A Trading Game

Video 1 - Rules of the game

In this lesson, you will play a trading game against the students of MathSoc (our student maths society). The first video explains the rules and dicusses how you can use the terminals to find ideas for investment strategies.

The video covers the following Bloomberg functions.

Video 2 - Managing Portfolios with Bloomberg

Before watching this video, decide on what portfolio you would like to use in the trading game. Make sure you've written down a list of tickers and percentage weightings. This video will then show you how to value your portfolio.

This video covers the PRTU and PORT Bloomberg functions.

Video 3 - How did you do?

Find out whether you chose a good strategy and how your portfolio performed compared to the MathSoc students.

Sorry that the sound quality isn't very good in this video, it turns out that the Bloomberg rooom is better for finding about financial data than it is as a recording studio!

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