Retrieves futures series qualitative information from Bloomberg.

Provided with a set of futures active contract Bloomberg tickers retrieves qualitative information on the corresponding futures series.

BBG_futures_info(active_contract_tickers, ...)

Arguments

active_contract_tickers	a chatacter vector. Specifies the futures active contract Bloomberg tickers to query data for.
...	optional parameters to pass to the bdp function from the Rblpapi package used for the query (options parameter).

Value

An S4 object of class FuturesInfo.

See also

• The fields dataset in the BBGsymbols package (finRes suite) for details on the Bloomnerg fields used here.

• Helper datasets in the fewISOs and GICS packages (finRes suite).

Examples

if (FALSE) {

    BBG_futures_info(active_contract_tickers = c("W A Comdty", "KWA Comdty"))

  }