Is TrueFX data really free?

Yes — TrueFX offers free tick data downloads for its supported forex pairs after a free registration. The limits are scope, not money: forex majors only, tick-only, packaged as monthly files.

Does TrueFX provide OHLC candles?

No — TrueFX publishes raw tick quotes; any candles you need, you aggregate yourself. The MarketData Hub client downloads either ticks or any of ten candle timeframes, already aggregated.

Can I mix TrueFX and Dukascopy data in one backtest?

Avoid it. They are different feeds: tick counts, exact prints and gap behaviour differ between any two sources, and a strategy that spans the seam can pick up artefacts at the boundary. Choose one source per study.

Which has deeper history?

For tick data on major pairs the two are broadly comparable (2000s onward). For anything before that, only candle data exists anywhere — and daily candles in the Dukascopy archive reach decades further back than any tick series, on majors back to the 1970s–80s.

MarketData Hub vs TrueFX (2026)

By Martin Buessler · Published 31 July 2026 · Updated 1 August 2026 · 2 min read

TrueFX occupies a specific niche: genuinely free, institutional-grade tick data for the major forex pairs, behind a free registration. If your work lives inside that niche, it's excellent. This comparison lays out where the niche ends and what changes when it does.

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The short answer

Choose TrueFX if you need raw tick data for major FX pairs only, and monthly files suit your pipeline. Choose the MarketData Hub client if you need candles as well as ticks, pairs beyond the majors, other asset classes entirely, or range-based downloads instead of month-file bookkeeping.

What TrueFX is

A free service publishing tick-level (bid/ask) quote data for a set of major and popular forex pairs, sourced from an institutional trading network, downloadable as monthly files after free registration. It is tick-only by design: no candles, no other asset classes.

Head to head

Dimension	TrueFX	MarketData Hub client
Price	Free (registration required)	Software licence from €5.60, one-time
Instruments	Major/popular forex pairs (a couple of dozen)	265+ instruments across seven asset classes
Granularity	Tick only — candles are yours to build	Tick AND ten candle timeframes, aggregated for you
Packaging	One file per pair per month	One file per date-range job, tick or candle
History depth	Years of tick history for its pairs	Tick from the 2000s on majors, daily candles decades further back
Privacy	Registered account, downloads from their servers	Retrieval on your machine from the source archive; no account with us sees your selections

Where TrueFX wins

If your entire requirement is "clean free ticks for EUR/USD and friends", TrueFX is hard to argue with: real institutional quotes, zero cost, a stable format. Building candles from ticks yourself is a solved problem in pandas or DuckDB (we have guides for both), and if that's your whole pipeline, you may not need anything else.

Where the client wins

Everything outside the niche. Candles without building them, daily history reaching decades before any tick archive, exotic crosses, metals, indices, commodities, crypto — and a queue that takes "2004 to today" as one job instead of ~270 monthly files. The two aren't the same feed, either: tick counts and exact prints differ between sources, so pick one source per study rather than mixing.

Facts about TrueFX checked mid-2026 against their public site; their offering can change — verify anything load-bearing there. TrueFX is an independent service with no connection to MarketData Hub.

Frequently asked questions

Is TrueFX data really free?: Yes — TrueFX offers free tick data downloads for its supported forex pairs after a free registration. The limits are scope, not money: forex majors only, tick-only, packaged as monthly files.
Does TrueFX provide OHLC candles?: No — TrueFX publishes raw tick quotes; any candles you need, you aggregate yourself. The MarketData Hub client downloads either ticks or any of ten candle timeframes, already aggregated.
Can I mix TrueFX and Dukascopy data in one backtest?: Avoid it. They are different feeds: tick counts, exact prints and gap behaviour differ between any two sources, and a strategy that spans the seam can pick up artefacts at the boundary. Choose one source per study.
Which has deeper history?: For tick data on major pairs the two are broadly comparable (2000s onward). For anything before that, only candle data exists anywhere — and daily candles in the Dukascopy archive reach decades further back than any tick series, on majors back to the 1970s–80s.