Brent Crude Oil Historical Data Downloader
A desktop app that downloads Brent Crude Oil (BRENTCMDUSD) price history on your own machine, written straight to your disk as CSV or JSON. Daily and monthly Brent Crude Oil candles reach back to 2006-11-17 — around 20 years — while quote-level tick history begins 2010-12-02. A complete Brent Crude Oil 1-minute series is roughly 5.8M rows, about 289 MB as CSV.
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What the app fetches for Brent Crude Oil
| Symbol | BRENTCMDUSD |
|---|---|
| Instrument | Brent Crude Oil |
| Asset class | Commodities – Energy |
| Tick & 1-second data from | 2010-12-02 |
| 1–30 minute candles from | 2010-12-02 |
| Hourly & 4-hour candles from | 2010-12-02 |
| Daily & monthly candles from | 2006-11-17 |
| Timeframes | Tick → 1s → 1m → 5m → 15m → 30m → 1h → 4h → Daily → Monthly |
| Price types | Bid & Ask |
| File formats | CSV, JSON (MetaTrader, NinjaTrader, Parquet & SQLite/DuckDB from the Pro licence) |
| Coverage | 2006-11-17 → 2026-11-02 (last completed trading day) |
| Retrieval | Local — your machine connects directly to Dukascopy Bank SA |
| Runs on | Windows, macOS, Linux |
Brent Crude Oil timeframes the app supports
- Tick (every quote)
- 1 second
- 1 minute
- 5 minutes
- 15 minutes
- 30 minutes
- 1 hour
- 4 hours
- Daily
- Monthly
Brent Crude Oil coverage & file size, timeframe by timeframe
Brent Crude Oil does not start at the same date at every granularity: daily candles begin 2006-11-17, but the tick archive only reaches 2010-12-02, roughly 4 years later. Each row below gives that timeframe's own start date and scale, current through 2026-11-02:
| Timeframe | History from | Approx. rows | Approx. CSV |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tick (every quote) | 2010-12-02 | very large | — |
| 1 second | 2010-12-02 | very large | — |
| 1 minute | 2010-12-02 | ~5.8M | ~289 MB |
| 5 minutes | 2010-12-02 | ~1.2M | ~58 MB |
| 15 minutes | 2010-12-02 | ~385K | ~19 MB |
| 30 minutes | 2010-12-02 | ~193K | ~10 MB |
| 1 hour | 2010-12-02 | ~96,300 | ~5 MB |
| 4 hours | 2010-12-02 | ~24,100 | ~1 MB |
| Daily | 2006-11-17 | ~5,000 | ~251 KB |
| Monthly | 2006-11-17 | ~240 | ~12 KB |
Counts are approximate, derived from commodity session hours across the available history. Tick and 1-second runs are queued and resumable rather than fetched in one pass. See the data methodology for how candles are built.
Working with the Brent Crude Oil series
This is a continuous CFD rather than a single futures contract, meaning it rolls from one delivery month to the next as each expires. Rolls introduce discontinuities that are an artefact of the contract change and not a market move — if your strategy trades gaps or breakouts, it will find signals at the roll dates that were never tradable. Daily coverage begins 2006; tick data starts 2010.
Brent crude oil historical data — what the CSV holds
Brent tick and 1-minute data
Ticks and 1-minute candles start 2010-12-02 and the full 1-minute run is 5.8M rows, about 289 MB as CSV. Daily candles reach back to 2006-11-17, and the whole daily history is 5,000 rows, about 251 KB as CSV. Prices are US dollars per barrel.
Why the daily close is not the ICE settlement
ICE Brent futures settle on trading between 19:28 and 19:30 London time. This file's daily candles end at UTC midnight, and the CFD keeps quoting after the settlement window, so its "close" is the last quote before midnight — hours later — and will not match the published settlement price. That is a boundary, not an error. If a study needs settlement-aligned days, build them from the 1-minute file with a 19:30 London cut (18:30 UTC in British summer time).
April 2020 and March 2022, as they appear in the file
When WTI's expiring contract settled near −$37 on 20 April 2020, Brent did not go negative: front-month Brent futures touched an intraday low of $15.98 on 22 April, the lowest since 1999. On 7 March 2022, two weeks after Russia invaded Ukraine, Brent futures spiked to $139.13 within minutes of the Sunday-evening open, the highest since 2008, and fell back within days. A continuous CFD may print those extremes slightly differently from the futures depending on where it was in its roll, so check both windows in your own file. Two practical points follow: Brent stays positive through 2020, so log returns are safe here in a way they are not on WTI; and the 2022 high was set in a thin opening minute that few could have traded, so a backtest that fills there deserves suspicion — model it on the ask side and look at the spread.
Brent minus WTI from two files
The Brent–WTI spread is a subtraction, not a ratio: Brent minus WTI, in dollars per barrel. Download both at the same timeframe and join them on the exact timestamp. A daily spread series runs from 2006-11-17; an intraday one from 2011-09-23, which still contains the record: front-month Brent's premium reached $27.88 on 14 October 2011, during the glut at the WTI delivery hub in Cushing, Oklahoma. One trap: the two contracts expire on different dates, so a continuous series of each rolls on its own schedule, and every roll puts a jump into one leg only. The spread series inherits both sets of jumps — mark the roll dates before trading signals off it.
Is Brent historical data free?
The app is a free download and the data comes straight from Dukascopy Bank SA to your disk, never through our servers. Every licence, including the €9 entry tier, reaches the whole archive at every timeframe — Brent and WTI alike. Tiers differ by software features, never by history.
What's inside the Brent Crude Oil file
timestamp,open,high,low,closeOne row per candle, stamped with the bar's opening time; tick files instead carry timestamp,askPrice,bidPrice,askVolume,bidVolume on every quote — ask first. Timestamps are epoch milliseconds in UTC, which pd.to_datetime(df.timestamp, unit="ms", utc=True) or =A2/86400000+DATE(1970,1,1) turns into a date. Worked examples and import steps are in the CSV & JSON format guide.
About Brent Crude Oil
Brent Crude Oil (BRENTCMDUSD) is a commodity CFD with 20 years of retrievable history. It is commonly used for backtesting commodity and futures strategies, seasonality and volatility studies, hedging research and quantitative model training. Pick any date range from 2006-11-17 onward, choose a timeframe and the bid or ask side, and the app fetches and writes the files locally — no scripting.
Frequently asked questions
- How far back does Brent Crude Oil data go?
- Brent Crude Oil daily and monthly candles reach back to 2006-11-17 — roughly 20 years. Tick and intraday history is shorter: it begins 2010-12-02. Both run up to the last completed trading day, and every licence tier reaches all of it.
- Why does Brent Crude Oil tick data start later than its daily candles?
- Because they come from different parts of the archive. Daily and monthly Brent Crude Oil candles are reconstructed from long-run end-of-day records going back to 2006-11-17, while the tick archive — every individual bid/ask quote — only begins 2010-12-02, about 4 years later. If your study needs the full 20-year span, work in daily candles; if it needs quote-level detail, 2010-12-02 is the earliest Brent Crude Oil start date available.
- How large is a full Brent Crude Oil download?
- The complete Brent Crude Oil 1-minute history is roughly 5.8M rows, about 289 MB as CSV. Daily candles over the same instrument are far smaller — around 5,000 rows, 251 KB. Tick and 1-second runs are larger again and are queued and resumable rather than fetched in one pass. Sizes are approximate; nothing is priced by volume.
- What columns are in the Brent Crude Oil CSV file?
- OHLC files contain a timestamp plus open, high, low and close columns; tick files contain a timestamp with bid and ask prices. All timestamps are UTC. The files import directly into Excel, Google Sheets, Python (pandas read_csv), R, MetaTrader, NinjaTrader and TradingView.
- Do you sell Brent Crude Oil data?
- No — we sell software. The MarketData Hub client retrieves Brent Crude Oil (BRENTCMDUSD) on your own machine, under your instruction, directly from the source; we never host, cache or relay it. Your use of the retrieved data is subject to the source's terms.
Guides
- Get the app — Windows, macOS, Linux
- How to download historical commodity data
- CSV & JSON format — columns explained
- Tick data vs OHLC candles
- Backtesting with historical data
- Query with SQL (DuckDB)
- Import into NinjaTrader
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