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DATASTREAM CHARTING – GETTING STARTED Thomson Reuters Training

Quick and easy access to Technical Analysis charts and data is essential in today’s fast moving markets. Datastream Charting is an intuitive web-based tool created to do just that. It has been designed around your workflow with key analytical tools allowing you to easily test financial and economic scenarios and share charts with colleagues and peers. Discover key functionality that Datastream Charting has to offer enabling you to quickly and easily create and customize charts and save valuable time using short codes. Content:

Benefits of Datastream Charting .................................................................................................... 2

Overview of Datastream Charting.................................................................................................. 2

Chartbook ...................................................................................................................................... 2

Key Indicators and Overview Page ............................................................................................... 4

Creating Charts .............................................................................................................................. 6

Applying Currency Conversion and functions ................................................................................ 7

Editing Chart Settings .................................................................................................................... 8

Saving and Managing Charts ...................................................................................................... 11

Managing charts .......................................................................................................................... 11

Exporting Charts from the Canvas .............................................................................................. 11

Need help or further training? ...................................................................................................... 12

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BENEFITS OF DATASTREAM CHARTING

Datastream Charting is an intuitive web-based tool, designed around your workflow with key analytical tools just a mouse click away and shortcuts for expert users. There is no need to learn complicated financial calculation formula to manipulate the data. You can test financial and economic scenarios in a few mouse clicks and share charts with colleagues. Datastream Charting allows you to:

Access key economic indicators and preview datasets with a few mouse clicks

Easily create charts for any financial instrument or indicator

Manage charts, styles, and templates through the library

Modify charts with customized expressions and multiple options

Insert refreshable charts in Microsoft Office documents

OVERVIEW OF DATASTREAM CHARTING Datastream Charting is integrated into Thomson Reuters Eikon. It is an integral part of Datastream Professional, and accessible via Datastream For Office and Datastream Desktop.

This document introduces the 5 major features of Datastream Charting: Chart Book, Key Indicators, Library, Chart and Overview. The below provides an overview of each feature.

Chart Book: provides a unique and immediate repository of analytical content.

Key Indicators: a list of major economic indicators sorted by country or indicator type.

Library: storage library of Datastream standard / user-created charts, styles and templates.

Chart: interactive charting window with extended functionality such as data viewer and export.

Overview: shows an overview of the selected economic series with background information.

CHARTBOOK The Chartbook, brought to you by Fathom Consulting, provides a unique and immediate repository of analytical content.


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You will find a wide range of economic and financial market indicators, covering a thorough selection of advanced and emerging market economies. The countries covered account for over 95% of global GDP. The Chartbook also contains Fathom proprietary indices such as the Sovereign Fragility Index:

Fathom also provide joint conditional probabilities of default for various Euro Area governments.

The Chartbook is organized by country, and then type of data.

You can find charts related to economic growth in the National Accounts section, or for more forward-looking indicators of economic growth, look in Surveys. As well as macroeconomic data, the Chartbook also includes a range of data on key financial market asset prices.

The charts automatically update, so you can stay on top of all the latest economic and financial markets developments.

You can export the charts to Office or as image files, or you can copy charts to your own Library.

Click on any chart name to open it in the Chart page. Here you can amend the chart, apply your own styling and then save the changes in your own Library.

In the Details View you can also copy the URL to the clipboard to share it with others.


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KEY INDICATORS AND OVERVIEW PAGE

The Key Indicators page displays a list of major economic indicators with links to other pages as well as the ability to export data to MS Excel. You can view economic data for a specific country. Click on the arrow button next to the dropdown box at the top of the page. You can also expand or collapse each classification group by clicking on the expand/collapse icon on the group header.

Hover over the Fly-out next to the series name and select View Overview, to go to the Overview page for this series.

The Overview page provides a basic chart (non customizable) with source information, background information and

recent values. Hover over the Fly-out next to the Series Name to find related information or to send the current code to

other pages.

Select country or category type Export series data to Excel

Preview

Collapse or expand classification group

Hover over the Fly-out next to a series name to open a menu for a single series or Use Selections for multiple series

Links to Overview page


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Exporting series to Excel

You can export one or more series from the Key Indicators page to Excel. To export a single series, hover your cursor

over the Fly-out button to the right of the series which you would like to export. Click the Export Series To Excel

option from the menu. Make your selection in the Export Option dialog and click OK.

To export more than one series, select the series by clicking the appropriate check boxes to the left of the series name

and hover your cursor over the Fly-out button next to Use Selections at the top of the page and click Export Series To

Excel.

Exporting a single series to Excel Exporting multiple series to Excel

Alternatively, click on the Export Series Data To Excel button on the page header.

The selected series will be displayed in Excel grouped by frequency and starting from the start date of the longest time

series in the selection.


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CREATING CHARTS You can create charts easily by using the menus in the Chartbook page or the Key Indicators page. To open Fathoms Sovereign Fragility Index for Greece in the Chart page select the Open Chart option from the Fly-out to the right of Greece Sovereign Fragility Index. It loads the chart into the Chart page.

To chart the GDP data for China, Japan, and the United States go back to the Key Indicators page and select National Accounts – GDP by Expenditure from the category dropdown. Then tick each of the 3 countries, and select the Create New Chart option from the Fly-out to the right of Use Selections. It loads the selected 3 series into the Chart page.

Alternatively, on the Chart page you can:

use expert entry: type an identifier into a series field.

find a new series using the Fly-out next to each line and select Find New Series to open Navigator:


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Overview of the Chart page Here is an overview of the Chart page:

APPLYING CURRENCY CONVERSION AND FUNCTIONS Applying Currency Conversion to all Series You can change Datatypes and currencies for each or all of the series easily with a few mouse clicks. To apply a currency conversion to multiple series, open the currency Fly-out menu by hovering over the Fly-out icon to the right of All Series On Chart. Select the required currency or click Enter Currency and type the currency code into the dialog box. Click OK or press Enter to apply the currency conversion to all series on the chart, each of which can still be edited individually by using the Fly-out menus for each line. Here, select Currency > US Dollar to convert the currency into US Dollar.

The series will be converted into US Dollar:

Toolbar for saving & printing charts, arranging objects, correlation, saving & applying styles, arranging size, panes and dates, and exporting.

Select to view data or chart

Click on the Data button to view the charts underlying figures

Use Fly-outs or links to customize chart objects


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Applying Functions to Series You can apply various kinds of functions easily with a few mouse clicks. To apply a function to a single series, open the function Fly-out menu by hovering over the function icon to the left of the series name. Select the required function and, if appropriate, the time period parameter. If the required time period is not shown, click on the Enter Period option and type it in. The function will be applied to the series. You can nest functions by repeating this process. For example, we will compare the GDP growth, therefore we will apply a year-over-year percentage change to all series. Hover over the Function Fly-out next to All Lines and select % Percentage Change > 1Y:

Manual Modification to Series Instead of using the Fly-outs you can also use Expert Entry: just type in the identifier together with the formula and the currency conversion. You can also delete series from a chart. To delete the third series you can either use the Fly-out button to the left of the line number or just delete the code in the command box. Finally, click Apply Changes in the chart window.

EDITING CHART SETTINGS Setting the date range To change the date range settings, select a date range from the Fly-out icon to the right of Date Range. Alternatively, select your start and end dates from the Fly-out buttons in the Dates section or type in the required relative date or absolute date. To set a date range in one click, hover your cursor over the Dates option on the toolbar and select a date range. Alternatively, if you have the SVG Viewer installed, you can left click and drag under the date axis to zoom in.


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Using Dates options on the toolbar Interactive date range settings using SVG Viewer

All lines editor You can use the All Lines editor to edit settings for all the lines on your chart. First, click the All Lines link available under the All Series section. The All Lines editor will open. Here you can select from various properties in the box on the left and select the required setting on the right. For example, to change the line type for each line from Line to Bar, click Line Type under Style and Colour in All Lines Editor, then select Bar from the dropdown box to the right of the line number. Then, click OK.

Chart Settings Chart Settings helps you to define the Chart Title, Chart Subtitle, Axes, Rebasing, Chart Grid Lines, Background Colour, Fonts, Legend Text and Bars of a chart. The chart settings option also allows you to rebase all or some of your series. To open the Chart Settings, select Chart Settings from the View dropdown box. Click the Chart Settings link under the Chart and Legend section to add a title, subtitle and specify the font, its size and style. Alternatively, if you have SVG Viewer installed, you can change chart settings for each charting object by simply clicking on the object within the chart canvas.


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To change the styles of your chart, click the Edit option on the Fly-out menu to the left of the line number. The line editor will open showing all the properties of the line. You can select from Line, Bar, OHLC (Open-High-Low-Close), Candlestick or Area line type. In this editor you can also set the colour, width and dash style of the lines and display the line on the left or right axis.

For example, to change the line colour click on the Fly-out menu to the right of the current colour. In the popup menu, you can select from standard colour settings or define original RGB colour settings by clicking on More Colours… Multi-pane Charts

With Datastream Charting you can easily create multi-pane charts. To do this, hover your mouse over the Panes

option on the toolbar in the Chart page and select a pre-formatted layout or the Custom… option. For example, we will

select Two Panes – 2:1 to add a smaller pane in the bottom of the chart window.

Then add External Trade Balance of China using Datastream Navigator. Hover over the Fly-out to the right of Pane 2

Line 1 and click on Find New Series… from the popup menu to open Navigator.

Open Explorer, go to Economics > Key Indicators by Country > China, Filter for “balance” and select EXTERNAL

TRADE BALANCE. Change its Line Type to Area and Line Colour from the Line editor.


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SAVING AND MANAGING CHARTS

Click the Save As button , enter a chart name and - if required – a short code and a description. The Name field

will default to any title you have added to the chart or, if your chart has no title, to the legend of the first line of the

chart. You can overtype or edit this name.

Select a destination folder from the Shared or Private section in the Folder field or click Create a New Folder and type

in the new folder name. You cannot save charts directly into the Shared or Private sections, but must create a

subfolder first.

Note: the Private section will be visible only if you are using a child ID.

If you wish to lock your chart, click the Locked checkbox and click OK. Locked charts cannot be deleted, moved,

renamed or edited by another user. The Locked option will be available only under the Shared section.

If you save a chart using a short code you can quickly re-open the chart using the code rather than searching the

Library. For example, type GDPCOMP1, and click OK. The chart will now appear in the Chart Library.

MANAGING CHARTS

You can search for saved charts in the Library page of Datastream Charting using the name and folder specified at

saving. The top level of the Chart Hierarchy is divided into three sections: Datastream, Shared and Private (child ID

users only). These three sections cannot hold any charts and contain only the folders.

Under the subfolders of Shared or Private, you can open, rename, delete, lock, copy, move, save with a new name,

export, apply/remove style, and add a new Short Code to single charts by hovering over the Fly-out to the right of the

chart name and click on the menus.

Opening Charts using Short Codes

Go to the Chart page, and click the New Blank Chart button to refresh the Chart window or open a new tab. Type

GDPCOMP1 in the Short Code command box on the top right of the window and click on the Go button. The Chart

saved in the previous section will be automatically loaded.

EXPORTING CHARTS FROM THE CANVAS

Charts can be exported to Excel, Word or PowerPoint as refreshable objects. To export the current chart in the canvas,

choose the Export to Excel / Export to Word / Export to PowerPoint option in the Chart page as appropriate. Note

that you will be prompted to save the chart in your Chart Library if you have not already done so.

The Export Settings dialog will pop up.

Enter the settings and click the Export Chart button. A window will open showing you the status of the export action.

For more information, see Status window.


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The charts are exported to Excel, Word or PowerPoint with the settings specified by the user. You can resize, drag or

cut and paste the chart within Excel, Word or PowerPoint or from one of these Office applications to another. If you cut

and paste to another Office application you will still be able to refresh the chart, provided you have installed the

appropriate add-in.

Select a chart and within the Datastream Charting Add-in go to Datastream Charting > Refresh and then Refresh

Selected or simply Refresh All and you can refresh chart objects embedded into Word/Excel/PowerPoint documents.

Exporting data to Excel

Click on either the Export Series Data to Excel (Series as Columns) icon or the Export Series Data to Excel

(Series as Rows) icon as required. Make your selections in the Export Option dialog and click OK.

Note: If you are unable to transfer, you might need to download an additional component. In this case a screen will

pop up instructing you to install this component.

Exporting more than one chart

You can also export multiple charts in one action by selecting the charts in the Library.

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