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You can use BradyNet Pro to track your real portfolio, or to test an investment strategy with a make-believe portfolio.

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BradyNet Pro F.A.Q.

This page serves as a guide and how-to manual for BradyNet Pro. If you have a question or problem with BradyNet Pro, please look here for your answer first. If all else fails, contact us directly at support@bradynet.com.

What is BradyNet Pro?

A service oriented for market professionals and serious investors, BradyNet Pro provides Brady bond pricing information combined with portfolio analysis software. BradyNet Pro also provides a comprehensive database of other Emerging Market's fixed income instruments as well as the tools to analyze them and integrate them to your portfolio. Some of this information can also be received via email.

Unlike BradyNet, BradyNet Pro is not a free service--please see the Registration Page for details.

As a new BradyNet Pro user, where should I start?

The best place to get started is right here, in the FAQ. It will tell you everything you need to know in order to activate certain functions.

For most users, the most important feature to activate is the Portfolio. You do this by going to the Edit Portfolio page, and 'buying' (figuratively speaking!) the various bonds. Once you have a portfolio, the other Portfolio Functions will begin working.

You may opt to receive email reporting the status of your portfolio on a regular basis. This will not happen automatically, you must request it first; you do this on the Email Services section of the Edit Portfolio page.

If you are not interested in the Portfolio functions, you can skip these steps entirely--there are plenty of other features for you to use.

Registering and Logging In to BradyNet Pro

To log in to BradyNet Pro, you must have a valid account number and password. If you have not registed, you must visit our Registration Page.

During the registration process, it is crucial that you supply a valid email address. Your account number will be mailed to this address, and without that, you cannot access the system. A valid email address looks something like this: jack@aol.com or mary@xyz.net. If you are not sure of your email address, contact your network administrator (or Internet Service Provider) and they will furnish this information.

Once you have your account number and password you must wait one business day to have your account authorized.

Connect to the Login Page at http://www.bradynet.com/pro/ and enter your account number and password in the form, and press Login. You will then come to the BradyNet Pro Menu Page, from where you can access all of the premium services.

The BradyNet Pro Menu Page

From the BradyNet Pro Menu Page, you have access to a variety of functions not available in BradyNet.

The buttons on the left portion of the screen are accessible to anybody, subscribers and non-subscribers alike. They are:

Home - Returns to the Home Page (or Login Page) of BradyNet Pro.
Welcome - The Welcome Page to BradyNet Pro, good reading for first time users.
Tour - The BradyNet Pro Tour, a way for non-subscribers to take a peek at what BradyNet Pro has to offer.
Register - The Registration Page to acquire a new account.
BradyNet - The Home Page of BradyNet

The options to the right are available only to subscribers.

Basic Functions:

Menu returns to the BradyNet Pro Menu Page (if you are already there it will simply refresh the page)
Email Services will configure your account to receive reports by email.

Portfolio Functions:

Edit Portfolio lets you change your portfolio.
Statistics
Breakdown
Profit/Loss
by Country

Analysis Functions:

The Toolbox - a graphical interface to the BradyNet Database.
New Issues - search the New Issues Database with incredible power and flexability.
The CyberExchange - the BradyNet CyberExchange contains a wealth of data on hundreds of bonds, many of which are not yet included in the Toolbox. It also provides a discussion forum for each individual bond.
Live Prices - Prices, spreads and intra-day charts during trading hours.
Live Prices and simultaneous chat

View Prices

One of BradyNet Pro's most popular services is daily prices furnished by the Bank of Boston. Click on View Prices and this information will appear.

It's similar in format to the daily prices found at BradyNet's Daily Prices Page and provided from within BradyNet Pro for your convenience.

Email Services

BradyNet Pro will send news to your email account on a daily or weekly basis--but only if you tell it to. This is the page to set or change your email status.

Currently, the only report available is the Portfolio Statistic Report. Other options will become available soon.

To activate this report, select "daily" (for reports mailed Monday-Friday) or "weekly" (for reports mailed every Friday).

Edit Portfolio

One of BradyNet Pro's most advanced features is that it will track your portfolio, and provide you with reports, charts, and statistics. First, however, you must tell the system what your portfolio looks like. The system will remember this information permanently, until you decide to make another change.

The Edit Portfolio button takes you to a transaction area where you may buy and sell assets. You must select the asset you want to buy (or sell), the face value (in $US), and click on the button next to Buy or Sell.

The next two fields, Purchase Price and Purchase Date optional--but they will be used in reports if provided.

Note: It is important to understand that the system keeps a cumulative average to determine the average purchase price of each asset. For example, suppose you purchase $1000 at a price of 90, and then another $1000 at a price of 80. Your final portfolio will reflect $2000 at an average price of 85.

To remove an asset from your portfolio altogether, simply sell the entire amount owned.

Statistics

Your Portfolio's basic statistics at-a-glance. It includes its Nominal Amount, Market Value, Cashflow Yield (%), Stripped Yield (%), Stripped Spread and Duration.

To gain a good perspective, this page also includes the change in those statistics for the last 1, 7 and 30 days.

You can use this function to get a quick idea of where your portfolio stands.

Portfolio Breakdown

This function includes detailed information for each asset in your portfolio. The data includes: Bid Price, Face Amount Owned, Market Value, % of Port., Cashfl Yield (%), Stripped Yield (%) Stripped Spread Duration.

You can use this function to analyze your portfolio's composition.which assets in your portfolio are performig according to your expectations and which aren't.

Profit and Loss

Monitor which assets in your portfolio are performing according to your expectations and which aren't. The profitability of the whole portfolio as well as of each assets is measured in dollar and in percentage terms. Profits (or losses) are measured for the last 1, 7 and 30 days as well as the change since the asset was purchased.

An invaluable measurement tool of the change in your portfolio's valuation.

Breakdown by Country

With this function you can measure your portfolio's geographic diversification. The data presented includes the Nominal Amount, Market Value and the percentage of your Portfolio held in each country.

This data is presented in a table format as well as in a color-coded pie chart for ease of presentation.

The BradyNet CyberExchange

The service also includes the "BradyNet CyberExchange". Through this product you can find the best prices and yields from many data contributors. You can also communicate with fellow bondholders, issuers and underwriters through asset-specific discussion FORUMs. The CyberExchange also includes descriptions, charts, data downloads and links for a comprehensive number of eurobonds, Brady bonds and other Emerging Market's debt issues.

Step 1

The first step is find those bonds with the characteristics that they require with the help of a search engine. You can search by "Issuer" or by other criteria. For example, you can select all the bonds from Mexico that yield over 9% and mature before December 1st 1999; You would select;

Country:                        [Mexico]
Yield to Maturity:          [9%] to [leave blank]
Maturity Date:               From: [leave blank] to [12-01-99]

The search engine returns all the bonds in the database that meet that search criteria thus allowing an investor to make direct comparisons of bonds with similar characteristics.

Step 2

Once the investor has found a potentially interesting instrument they can obtain more detailed information on it by clicking on the red arrow next to the bond name.

You will find long-term charts, data downloads, bond descriptions, bond-specific discussion Forums, etc.

Live Prices

BradyNet Pro offers "Live" prices and spreads and charts for Brady, Global and Eurobonds updated throughout the trading day.

You can choose from 19 pages with bonds. By clicking on a bond name you can find its description and discussion Forum. If you click on the small graphic next to the bond you will find an intra-day chart for the price and spread (where available).

Live Prices and Chat

By selecting this option you can view the live prices and discuss them with other market participants simultaneously!

Troubleshooting

Problem	Solution
The system says "bad username/password" when I try to log in.	Check to make sure (1) you know the correct account number and password; (2) in the account number, be sure to type 0 (zero) and not O (the letter); (3) see problem listed immediately below.
I bookmarked my Bradynet Pro Menu Page, but when I use the bookmark it gives me an error message.	For some pages, such as the BradyNet Pro Menu page, you must enter your account number and password each time you connect to BradyNet Pro. The best page to bookmark is the login page: http://www.bradynet.com/pro/
I cannot see all of the colors used to color-code the countries.	BradyNet Pro color codes the countries in several areas including the tables and charts. In order to see the color coding, you need to use a new version of a graphical browser such as Netscape or Internet Explorer. You also must have a monitor capable of displaying at least 256 colors.
When I print out some of the reports, some of the information does not print.	Some browsers need to have a setting changed, so that Black Text is set "ON." This is usually accomplished in the Page Setup or Printer Setup options of the File-menu.
I share my computer with other people. Will they be able to see my BradyNet Pro account?	Make sure you always close the browser window when you leave BradyNet Pro. Your password will be required to reaccess BradyNet Pro. (If you don't close the window, anybody can press "Back Page" until they are logged in under your account.)
The figure for "7 day change" refers to a date which was 8 days ago.	If a day of pricing is missing, for whatever reason (e.g., a holiday), it will use the previous pricing day. Technically, this is a "5 business day change" and not 7 calendar days.
The average purchase price for a certain asset is in error.	Sell all of the asset. Purchase the amount you own at the correct average purchase price.

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