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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 in Thomson Reuters Eikon for December 2010 - FX & Money Markets
WHAT’S NEW – MONITORING FX&MM DATA
Charting
What’s included?
FX Options Overview users can now define how many historical vol curves they want to see (1-4) on the vol cone
tab.
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What’s new in Thomson Reuters Eikon for December 2010 - FX & Money Markets
WHAT’S NEW - MANAGING WORKSPACE
Automatic logout
What’s included?
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
What’s included?
A new 'Close other tabs' entry is available in the right-click menu of document tabs. It allows you to close all other
tabs.
How to access?
Right Click on one of the opened Tabs and click „Close other tabs‟ as shown below.
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What’s new in Thomson Reuters Eikon for December 2010 - FX & Money Markets
Drag & Drop functionality for your Favorites
What’s included?
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.
How to access?
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
What’s included?
It is now much easier to reuse a real-time Object that you have opened from an Explorer view into your Flex
Document.
How to access?
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.
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What’s new in Thomson Reuters Eikon for December 2010 - FX & Money Markets
You can reset any toolbar to its default state
How to access?
The 'Reset to Defaults' entry in the 'Choose Toolbar Buttons' menus allows you to reset the toolbar to its factory
defaults.
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What’s new in Thomson Reuters Eikon for December 2010 - FX & Money Markets
Freely manage your workspace through Drag & Drop of your document Tabs
What’s included?
By dragging a document tab outside of its application window it will be opened in a separated new window.
How to access?
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What’s new in Thomson Reuters Eikon for December 2010 - FX & Money Markets
WHAT’S NEW – CHARTING
Right click menu enhancement to allow quick access to useful chart commands and tabular
historical Time Series data.
What’s included?
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
What’s included?
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
How to access?
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.
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What’s new in Thomson Reuters Eikon for December 2010 - FX & Money Markets
Customize the look and feel of your Line, Bar and Candlesticks charts as well as your
annotations
What’s included?
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.
How to access?
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
What’s included?
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.
How to access?
Insert annotation on a chart. Double-click on the newly inserted annotation to open the annotation property. Apply
shadow option.
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What’s new in Thomson Reuters Eikon for December 2010 - FX & Money Markets
Analyze the strength of current market trends with a new Trend Intensity (IFR) chart study
What’s included?
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.
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What’s new in Thomson Reuters Eikon for December 2010 - FX & Money Markets
How to access?
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
What’s included?
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
What’s included?
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.
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What’s new in Thomson Reuters Eikon for December 2010 - FX & Money Markets
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.
Quickly distinguish a multi-party conversation
What’s included?
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
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.
In addition the Monitor header now shows the number of open
conversations.
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What’s new in Thomson Reuters Eikon for December 2010 - FX & Money Markets
Customised corporate disclaimers
What’s included?
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
What’s included?
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
What’s included?
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.
How to access?
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
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What’s new in Thomson Reuters Eikon for December 2010 - FX & Money Markets
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.
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