How far back does GBP/USD data go?

Daily candles begin 1986-02-10 — about 40 years. Quote-level tick data begins 2003-05-04.

Is Black Wednesday (1992) in the data?

Yes, in the daily series — the ERM exit of 1992-09-16 is one of the sharpest daily moves in it. It is not available at tick or intraday resolution, which begins in 2003.

Is the 2016 Brexit referendum drop covered?

Fully — at every granularity from raw ticks to daily candles, since it falls well inside the quote-level era. It makes a good event-study exercise precisely because the whole order of events exists at tick resolution.

Download GBP/USD (Cable) Price History

By Martin Buessler · Published 23 August 2026 · Updated 17 September 2026 · 1 min read

GBP/USD — cable, the oldest continuously traded exchange rate in the world — carries daily candles from 1986-02-10 in this archive and quote-level ticks from 2003-05-04. That seventeen-year gap decides which of the pound's famous episodes your backtest can actually see.

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Coverage, and which crises are in it

From the metadata behind the GBP/USD instrument page:

Daily/monthly candles from 1986-02-10 — which means Black Wednesday is in the series: 1992-09-16, the day sterling was forced out of the ERM, sits in the daily data as one of the sharpest one-day moves cable has printed.
Tick, minute and hourly data from 2003-05-04 — so 1992 exists only as daily candles, while the 2016 Brexit-referendum drop (another of cable's landmark moves) is fully covered at every granularity, down to individual quotes.

That pairing makes GBP/USD a genuinely useful two-era instrument: regime studies on four decades of daily data, and quote-level event studies on everything after 2003.

Downloading and sizing it

In the desktop app: GBP/USD, timeframe, range, CSV or JSON — fetched on your machine, from the source, into your files. The file-size calculator gives rows and megabytes for any range before you run it; as a 24×5 pair, cable's intraday files size like EUR/USD's.

Every tier reaches the full forty years — tiers differ by software features, never by history depth.

Frequently asked questions

How far back does GBP/USD data go?: Daily candles begin 1986-02-10 — about 40 years. Quote-level tick data begins 2003-05-04.
Is Black Wednesday (1992) in the data?: Yes, in the daily series — the ERM exit of 1992-09-16 is one of the sharpest daily moves in it. It is not available at tick or intraday resolution, which begins in 2003.
Is the 2016 Brexit referendum drop covered?: Fully — at every granularity from raw ticks to daily candles, since it falls well inside the quote-level era. It makes a good event-study exercise precisely because the whole order of events exists at tick resolution.

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