Multiple User Portfolios

We've recently expanded user portfolio sizes from 250 to 500 bonds. To make managing all these positions easier, we've enabled multiple portfolios for each user. The number of portfolios per user is unlimited. A new portfolio is designated by tagging an existing bond. To add a new tag, or edit an existing tag, just click on the tag link next to the bond in question. See circled area in screenshot below. When you've tagged at least one position, a drop down box will appear at the of your portfolio page allowing you to choose which subset of bonds to view. The drop down box is shown below as well. A bond can have more than one tag. i.e. can belong to more than one subset

Screenshot of dialog box to add, or edit tags for a bond:

BWIC Email Alerts

All bonds stored in portfolio now link to our BWIC email alert system. Any time a bond stored in portfolio is out for the bid you will receive an email alert to your Bloomberg. Screenshot of example message is below:

To enable our users to make best use of this new feature, all portfolio sizes have been increased from 250 to 500 line items. The default setting is to have alerts enabled. If you don't want to receive these alerts, you can toggle them on/off via the radio button at the top of the portfolio page. Link here: http://www.empirasign.com/portfolio

TRACE Trading Volume Charts

TRACE Reported trading volumes for TBA's, Agency CMO's, Non-Agency, ABS, and CMBS can be seen here:
www.empirasign.com/trace (no password required)
Click on any chart element to see the underlying data series.

Chart date ranges can be changed via the form on the report page. Screenshot is displayed below:

Send BWICs directly to your Bloomberg

You can now send nicely formatted BWIC summaries to your Bloobmerg. Just click on the the MSG button (circled below in red) on any BWIC screen. Link to list from example below: www.empiraisign.com/bwic/111025K (subsription required)

An example of resulting message as shown on Bloomberg is displayed below:

Portfolio Comps via MS Excel Filters

One of the most difficult issues involved in MBS valuations is finding enough observable market events to base a valuation on. Even the most liquid bonds only trade about once a week. Empirasign ABS/MBS Trade Database subscribers will be aware that we've solved this problem via our similar bonds feature. This feature is now available inside Excel. Submit a portfolio of bonds to us, and once a week and at each month-end, we will produce an Excel Filter spreadsheet with market data (trade prices, price talk and dealer offers) for bonds similar to those in your portfolio. All the data is housed in Excel for easy manipulation and integration with other risk management and reference data tools.

Download a demo spreadsheet here:

Contact us for a demonstration: info@empirasign.com.

Excel API for Empirasign MBS Data

Empirasign MBS Market Data can now be accessed directly from Excel. To use the demo spreadsheet (image above), enter the cusip you want to query in cell B10 and then click the "Get Cusip Data" button. All our market leading color (trade prices, price talk and offerings) are returned in Excel for easy manipulation.
Download a demo spreadsheet here:

Contact us: info@empirasign.com to have a limited use ID/password enabled.

Inventory Spread Movements

Keep track of how dealers adjust their offering spreads in response to market activity and trade flows. As in the image above, each day we'll show how many Agency ARMS are offered Wider/Tighter/Unchanged to the previous day's levels. All the numbers are hyperlinked, so you can click through to see exactly what bonds are offered wider today than yesterday.
Link to page: http://www.empirasign.com/spreads/

More sectors to be added soon.

Easy Access to Recent Searches

Recent search activity will now appear under a drop-down menu on each page below our man ListMetrics box. The box will store up to the last ten searches performed and is deleted once you log out. Thus, upon a new session, no drop down menu will appear until some new searches have been made.

MBS Data available via API

Our API has been extended to encompass our ABS/MBS Trade Database. Now it's even easier to embed the only commercial source of MBS Market Data into your own internal systems. Just hit our site with a cusip and authorization signature, and we'll return all the data we have for the bond (trade data, dealer price talk, and dealer offerings).

Sample link (returns JSON):
http://www.empirasign.com/api/cusip/sample
Same data for LXS 2007-7N 1A1A, here (pdf).

Contact us directly for pricing info, and an authorization key.

Add Bonds to Portfolio with 1-Click

Add bonds to your portfolio quickly and seamlessly by just clicking your mouse on most bond search and view screens. Just click on the button under the +Actions+ section. Of course, you can still add bonds the old fashioned way by copy and pasting in cusips from Excel--one at time, or in bulk.

To view your portfolio, go here: http://www.empirasign.com/portfolio