THOMSON REUTERS EIKON WHAT S NEW IN THOMSON REUTERS EIKON FOR DECEMBER 2010 FX & MONEY MARKETS Thomson Reuters Training It is essential to keep up to date with new functionality and features for Thomson Reuters Eikon. This document outlines desktop enhancements in Thomson Reuters Eikon for FX & Money Markets. Content: What s New Monitoring FX&MM Data...2 What s New - Managing Workspace...3 What s New Charting...7 What s New - Working with Thomson Reuters Eikon Excel...10 What s New Working with Communities...11 Need help or further training?...13 * The December 2010 release is dependant on installation of Service pack 1
WHAT S NEW MONITORING FX&MM DATA Charting FX Options Overview users can now define how many historical vol curves they want to see (1-4) on the vol cone tab. 2
WHAT S NEW - MANAGING WORKSPACE Automatic logout Your Thomson Reuters Eikon session will automatically end as soon as you close the application. You will be prompted to enter your User ID and Password on next start-up. This will ensure no one can access your Thomson Reuters Eikon while you are away from your desk. If you wish to open the application without entering your credentials on every start-up, you can tick the Remember My Password option in the login screens. If Thomson Reuters Eikon Excel is running when you exit Thomson Reuters Eikon, the following prompt is displayed: You should click No if you want to leave Thomson Reuters Eikon Excel to retrieve data. Please note: This option will allow access to your TR Eikon without the need to enter your login and password. Ability to close all tabs in one click for a cleaner workspace A new 'Close other tabs' entry is available in the right-click menu of document tabs. It allows you to close all other tabs. Right Click on one of the opened Tabs and click Close other tabs as shown below. 3
Drag & Drop functionality for your Favorites You can drag an object into the Favorites pane to create a Favorite. You can also drag from the Favorites pane into an Object to open the Favorite in this object. Drag the Object on to the Favorites Icon, within the document toolbar, and Drop within the Favorites pane that will automatically display. If you have not previously saved the Object, you will be prompt to do so. Quickly integrate real-time pop-ups within your Flex Document through improved navigation It is now much easier to reuse a real-time Object that you have opened from an Explorer view into your Flex Document. The pop-in icon will lists all open Flex Documents as well as a screenshot of each of them allowing you to choose where you want to insert the chosen Object. 4
You can reset any toolbar to its default state The 'Reset to Defaults' entry in the 'Choose Toolbar Buttons' menus allows you to reset the toolbar to its factory defaults. 5
Freely manage your workspace through Drag & Drop of your document Tabs By dragging a document tab outside of its application window it will be opened in a separated new window. 6
WHAT S NEW CHARTING Right click menu enhancement to allow quick access to useful chart commands and tabular historical Time Series data. Save time by being able to quickly access frequently used functionality. The right-click menu has been enhanced to allow direct access to useful chart commands: Composites User-Defined Continuations User-Defined Yield Curves Time-series History Unit Conversion Instrument Details Four new Moving Average studies: Adaptive, Centered, Hamming and Modified Moving Averages The addition of four new Moving Average studies will complement our suite of analysis: Adaptive Moving Average Centered Moving Average Hamming Moving Average Modified Moving Average In any Chart Object, click the Analysis button or Right Click and select Analysis menu. The Chart Analysis window will open. Pick the related Moving Average analysis within the available list. 7
Customize the look and feel of your Line, Bar and Candlesticks charts as well as your annotations When you modify the display properties (width, colour, style) of your Lines, Bars, and Candlesticks analysis, you now have the ability to save these settings as default. The same will apply to any changes to the Annotation properties. In the Chart Object, double-click on the label of a Line, Bar or Candlestick analysis. This will open the Analysis Properties window. Click on the Display Tab. Make required changes and click on "Set as User Default" option. New shadow display style for the Chart annotations to improve visualisation A new Show Shadow option has been added to the annotations properties. This enables you to customise and highlight any annotation introduced into a chart by applying a "shadow", and also being able to control exactly how it is presented via 3 separate shadow properties. Insert annotation on a chart. Double-click on the newly inserted annotation to open the annotation property. Apply shadow option. 8
Analyze the strength of current market trends with a new Trend Intensity (IFR) chart study Leverage the new Trend Intensity (TI) chart analysis to support your trading decisions. Trend Intensity (TI) is one of Thomson Reuters IFR (International Financing Review) proprietary technical tools used to identify the trending potential of many financial markets. In comparison to other trend identifying indicators, Trend Intensity (TI) provides both a measure of trend strength as well as potential reversal, formation or breakout points. In particular, TI has a strong memory induced from geometric averaging of past values. Falling TI levels indicate a directionless market while rising levels indicate a trending market (in either directions). As such it is effective in signalling corrections to a recent strong trend and in providing warnings of a new trend forming. To illustrate, look at the TI chart below of the US 5-yr bond futures contract. The TI was above the 40's level in Dec 2008 signalling that a correction was imminent. Subsequently a series of TI readings in the 10's indicate a sideways market for the better part of 2009. At the same time the series of increasing lows in the TI during that period signalled that a new trend was potentially forming. 9
In any Chart object, click the Analysis button or Right Click and select Analysis menu. The Chart Analysis window will open. Pick the Trend Intensity analysis within the available list. WHAT S NEW - WORKING WITH THOMSON REUTERS EIKON EXCEL Drag & Drop from Thomson Reuters Eikon Desktop to Thomson Reuters Eikon Excel When you drag & drop from the Quote List, Quote or Ticker Objects into Thomson Reuters Eikon Excel, the most appropriate RData or RtGet function is created. These functions allow you to retrieve the same data as the desktop Objects are displaying, but also let you easily change the instruments they are applied to; using cell-referencing. This allows you to build Excel spreadsheets using Thomson Reuters data from the desktop, without having to search for field names. Embed RHistory function within other Excel functions RHistory() function can be nested within other Excel and Adfin Analytic functions such as AVERAGE(),MAX(), MIN(), OpHistVol(). For example, you can now quickly calculate the historical volatility for a given instrument without the need to display the full range in your Excel spreadsheet. Note: please be aware the function can t be nested with IF(), IFERROR() and CHOOSE() function. This feature will be available in forthcoming release. 10
WHAT S NEW WORKING WITH COMMUNITIES Quickly share documents and spreadsheets with all participants in a conversation using the File Sharing capability The File Sharing capability allows users to send Microsoft Word or Excel documents to contacts from within a conversation window. Click on the File Share icon to browse and select files. Once you have selected a file, click the Send button to start uploading the file to the server. Once the upload completes, all participants in the conversation will receive a hyperlink to the file. To access the file, they can click on this link. Quickly distinguish a multi-party conversation Additional information has been added in order to help spot multi-party conversations better. This includes the following: 1. Multi-party conversations are distinguished by a special multi-party icon 2. The number of participants is shown through a conversation count 3. A list of first names of all participants is shown In addition the Monitor header now shows the number of open conversations. 11
Customised corporate disclaimers Organizations are now able to display customised corporate disclaimers. A special request for customised disclaimers can be submitted via your Account Manager. All Messenger conversations now display two types of disclaimers. The first is a Thomson Reuters default disclaimer, which informs the user of corporate policy. The second is displayed inline with the conversation text, at the beginning of each new conversation, or, in the case of multi-party conversations, to each new participant joining the conversation. Disclaimer messages stand apart from the rest of the conversation contents by being enclosed in a rectangular box. Convenient access to contact business card information You can now view a contact s profile by hovering the cursor over the contact name, in the contact list or the conversation header. The Profile Card appears with the contacts business card information as well as two additional links to either start a new conversation or to see the contacts full profile. Keyboard shortcuts to add other contacts to your multi-party conversation a) To automatically move the cursor to the search bar enter Ctrl-Q b) To select a contact and add them to a conversation press Ctrl-Enter on a selected contact, or alternatively click on the contact while pressing the Ctrl key. 1. While in a conversation click on the Search bar or press Ctrl-Q to automatically move the cursor to the search bar. 2. Type the name of the person you wish to add to the conversation 3. Highlight the contact in the search results and press Ctrl-Enter or Ctrl-Click the selected name 4. Press OK when prompted to add this person to the conversation 12
Share news stories, graphs or any other content with ease and convenience You can now quickly share information by dragging & dropping Objects directly onto a contact in your contact list or into an open conversation. A link to the Object will be inserted in the reply control; all you have to do is click on the Send button. NEED HELP OR FURTHER TRAINING? Use the Support Links on the left hand side of your Thomson Reuters Eikon Home Page to quickly and easily get help, contact us, request training and access On-Demand training modules and find information on new features within the product. You can access comprehensive on-demand elearning modules by clicking on the Training link from the Support links on your Home Page and/or register for our interactive training sessions directly via our website: https://customers.reuters.com/trainingknowledgenetwork/eikon/ You can contact your local training centre. 13