Obtaining intra-day values of the EUR-USD exchange

Question

I need for my project the values of the EUR-USD exchange (both intra-day and ticker). I've been playing around with the Yahoo's YQL API and at this moment I can obtain the current value of the exchange. But no idea about how to get the intra-day values.

Any suggestions?

Answer 1

Option #1 - If you need historical data you can use one of the links from other answers

• http://eareview.net/tick-data/download-free-tick-data
• Training set of tick-by-tick data?

Option #2 - Also, historical data can be exported from Metatrader or Ninjatrader :

• https://www.mql5.com/en/articles/27 (OHLC bars only)
• http://www.ninjatrader.com/support/helpGuides/nt7/index.html?exporting.htm

Option #3 - if you need real time tick data, again, export them from Ninjatrader as far as some brokers now allow to open account in NT for free, e.g. FXCM

• http://www.fxcm.com/products/ninjatrader/

Answer 2

You might be interested in this link:

https://www.dukascopy.com/swiss/english/marketwatch/historical/

It's not as good as Reuters or Bloomberg data, but it's free.

Answer 3

Intraday data on FX markets are not publicly available. I can only recommend a paid source where you may eventually ask for a student trial:

http://thomsonreuters.com/en/products-services/financial/quantitative-research-and-trading/tick-history.html

Answer 4

Oanda also offers tick data for free provide you have an account with them and maintain a balance in excess of $1,000 (academic exceptions are possible). The data can be downloaded from

https://fxtrade.oanda.com/trade-forex/fxtrade/historical-data

It appears that you need to log in to see the relevant restrictions but I have included them here for people to see

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