This is my first ever Thread (so please be gentle).
Most people will eventually want some Historical Data to do backtesting.
Sites with data seem to come and go and the formats are often not what we want e.g. I'm using MT4 and would like some M1 data. Alpari used to make files like EURUSD_M1.hst available for download to anyone who wanted it. Those links have now gone down.
One site people are using is http://ratedata.gaincapital.com/. This site currently has close to 50GB of tick data in csv format. There are over 6500 zipped csv files. Coverage of 2003 to present is great and there is also some data for 2000, 2001 and 2002.
I will show you the software and methods I use to download large numbers of files from the web (using Gain Data as an example) and how to modify that data if it's not in the format you require.
EDIT: Please be clear about the intent of this thread ... it's not about where to get forex data (although happy to post links here) but what software and methods can be used to download it and work with it eg create OHLC (or OHLCV) data from tick data.
Craig (Post 4) has stated that Gain Data is 'really bad quality' ... has anyone got evidence to support this claim? If so, please let me know.
Most people will eventually want some Historical Data to do backtesting.
Sites with data seem to come and go and the formats are often not what we want e.g. I'm using MT4 and would like some M1 data. Alpari used to make files like EURUSD_M1.hst available for download to anyone who wanted it. Those links have now gone down.
One site people are using is http://ratedata.gaincapital.com/. This site currently has close to 50GB of tick data in csv format. There are over 6500 zipped csv files. Coverage of 2003 to present is great and there is also some data for 2000, 2001 and 2002.
I will show you the software and methods I use to download large numbers of files from the web (using Gain Data as an example) and how to modify that data if it's not in the format you require.
EDIT: Please be clear about the intent of this thread ... it's not about where to get forex data (although happy to post links here) but what software and methods can be used to download it and work with it eg create OHLC (or OHLCV) data from tick data.
Craig (Post 4) has stated that Gain Data is 'really bad quality' ... has anyone got evidence to support this claim? If so, please let me know.