How does a Bloomberg professional start their day? Here is the exclusive workflow:

Fixed Income and Derivatives specialists live here. It allows you to view multiple securities in a list format, similar to an Excel sheet, but with live pricing.

The dashboard for the global economy. It shows you a heat map of every major index. If you want to know how the Nikkei is performing while the S&P is open, start here.

| Formula | Purpose | |---------|---------| | =BDP("AAPL US Equity", "PX_LAST") | Real-time point data | | =BDH("AAPL US Equity", "PX_LAST", "1/1/2025", "4/1/2026") | Historical data | | =BDS("AAPL US Equity", "OPTION_CHAINS") | Bulk data sets |

Pro tip: Use =BQL (Bloomberg Query Language) to combine fundamentals, estimates, and pricing in one cell.