MetaTrader 4
.fxt for the Strategy Tester, .hst for offline charts.
Historical tick data for silver against the US dollar (XAGUSD): bid and ask for every tick from 2003-05-04, about 294 million in all. Export it as files for MT4 and MT5 backtests, as CSV, or as Excel workbooks.
Trial code $0, for the last 7 days. Single symbol $1.20 / month or $5.80 one-time; all markets $15 / month. See pricing
Data
One file for each UTC day, with bid and ask for every tick. You choose the timeframe and format when you export.
| Symbol | XAGUSD |
|---|---|
| Name | Silver against the US dollar |
| Group | Metals |
| First day | 2003-05-04 |
| Updates | Every day |
| Data | Bid and ask for every tick |
| Price decimals | 3 |
| Rows | About 294 million, on average about 48,000 per trading day |
| Download | About 1.2 GB for the full history |
| Export timeframes | M1, M5, M15, M30, H1, H4, D1, W1 |
| Export formats | Generic CSV, MT4 (.fxt, .hst), MT5, NinjaTrader, cTrader, TradingView, AmiBroker and Dukascopy CSV: 8 in all. How each format is written |
Backtesting
The client exports files for MT4 and MT5. The help center has the import steps.
.fxt for the Strategy Tester, .hst for offline charts.
Ticks and 1-minute bars for a custom symbol.
Also generic CSV, NinjaTrader, cTrader and others.
Questions
On 2003-05-04 (UTC), and it is updated every day. You can download the full history or choose a range of dates.
About 1.2 GB to download, about 294 million in all. The client downloads by day and doesn't download a day it already has. The size of the exported files depends on the format and the timeframe.
These symbols don't trade on Saturday, so there is no Saturday file. The week opens on Sunday evening UTC, so Sunday's file only holds quotes from the open onward.
Choose the single symbol plan on the client's License page. Monthly is $1.20 / month, with updates for the next 30 days included; one-time is $5.80, with future updates included. Both download this symbol's full history. See pricing
Yes. Get a free trial code to download the last 7 days of ticks for one symbol, and keep it up to date for the 7 days.