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💶 Forex Majors Historical Data Downloader

A desktop app that downloads historical price data for 7 instruments in Forex Majors — the most actively traded major forex currency pairs — with daily history reaching back to 1973. Every series is available from tick level up to monthly OHLC candles, fetched on your own machine and written locally as CSV or JSON, current to the last completed trading day.

Popular: AUD/USD · EUR/USD · GBP/USD · NZD/USD · USD/CAD · USD/CHF

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One licence covers every instrument below and its entire history — tiers differ by export formats, bulk queueing and automation, never by how much data you may retrieve. Get the app · from €9, one time · Windows, macOS, Linux.

All Forex Majors instruments (7)

The MarketData Hub catalogue browser listing instruments by asset class with the history available for each.
Browsing the catalogue. Every Forex Majors instrument below is one row in the app, searchable alongside the rest of the 265+ markets.

Where to start with Forex Majors

If you are picking a first series here, depth is usually what decides it. EUR/USD reaches furthest back — daily candles from 1973-03-01, about 53 years — while AUD/USD is the most recent addition, starting 1993-01-04. The other 5 sit between the two.

Watch the tick gap. Every one of these 7 instruments has a quote-level archive that begins years after its daily candles do, AUD/USD among them (daily 1993-01-04, ticks 2003-08-03). If a study needs the full span, work in daily candles; if it needs quote-level detail, the later date is the real start.

Each instrument page below lists its own per-timeframe start dates, row counts and file sizes.

What a Forex Majors download looks like

Sizes here are driven by how much of the week the market actually trades, so they differ from other asset classes. Taking AUD/USD as the worked example, over its full history:

TimeframeFromRowsCSV size
Daily1993-01-04~8,500~424 KB
1 hour2003-08-03~140K~7 MB
1 minute2003-08-03~8.4M~419 MB
Tick (every quote)2003-08-03Far larger — usually gigabytes. Size a range before you run it.

Estimates at 50 bytes per CSV row, rounded. JSON runs larger; the file-size guide works through the arithmetic, and tick data vs OHLC covers which one you actually need.

Working with Forex Majors series

The seven majors carry the deepest daily history in the catalogue — several reach back to the years just after Bretton Woods collapsed, decades before anyone was recording quotes electronically. Their tick archives start around three decades later. That gap is the trap in every "since inception" statistic computed here: the phrase means one thing on the daily file and something quite different on the 1-minute one, and the two are not the same sample of the same market. Whenever you report a figure from a major, report the timeframe and the range that produced it.

Guides for Forex Majors

Frequently asked questions

How far back does Forex Majors historical data go?
The deepest daily series in this class is EUR/USD, with daily candles from 1973-03-01. Tick-level history is younger everywhere: the earliest Forex Majors tick data starts 2003-05-04, and the newest additions only from 2003-08-03.
Which Forex Majors instruments have the longest history?
EUR/USD (daily from 1973-03-01), GBP/USD (daily from 1986-02-10), USD/CAD (daily from 1986-02-10). Each instrument page lists its exact per-timeframe start dates.
Do all 7 Forex Majors instruments include tick data?
Yes — every instrument here can be fetched at tick level, but each series only reaches back to its own tick start date (2003-05-04 for the earliest, 2003-08-03 for the newest listings). Always check the per-timeframe table on the instrument page before assuming intraday depth.
When do Forex Majors markets trade?
These pairs trade 24 hours a day, five days a week. Expect no rows from Friday's close to Sunday's open, and thinner tick density through the Asian session than around the London/New York overlap.