Switzerland 20 (SMI) Historical Data Downloader
A desktop app that downloads Switzerland 20 (SMI) (CHEIDXCHF) price history on your own machine, written straight to your disk as CSV or JSON. Daily and monthly Switzerland 20 (SMI) candles reach back to 1992-01-03 — around 34 years — while quote-level tick history begins 2013-01-03. A complete Switzerland 20 (SMI) 1-minute series is roughly 5.4M rows, about 270 MB as CSV.
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What the app fetches for Switzerland 20 (SMI)
| Symbol | CHEIDXCHF |
|---|---|
| Instrument | Switzerland 20 (SMI) |
| Asset class | Indices – Europe |
| Tick & 1-second data from | 2013-01-03 |
| 1–30 minute candles from | 2011-09-19 |
| Hourly & 4-hour candles from | 2011-09-19 |
| Daily & monthly candles from | 1992-01-03 |
| 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 | 1992-01-03 → 2026-08-01 (last completed trading day) |
| Retrieval | Local — your machine connects directly to Dukascopy Bank SA |
| Runs on | Windows, macOS, Linux |
Switzerland 20 (SMI) timeframes the app supports
- Tick (every quote)
- 1 second
- 1 minute
- 5 minutes
- 15 minutes
- 30 minutes
- 1 hour
- 4 hours
- Daily
- Monthly
Switzerland 20 (SMI) coverage & file size, timeframe by timeframe
Switzerland 20 (SMI) does not start at the same date at every granularity: daily candles begin 1992-01-03, but the tick archive only reaches 2013-01-03, roughly 21 years later. Each row below gives that timeframe's own start date and scale, current through 2026-08-01:
| Timeframe | History from | Approx. rows | Approx. CSV |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tick (every quote) | 2013-01-03 | very large | — |
| 1 second | 2013-01-03 | very large | — |
| 1 minute | 2011-09-19 | ~5.4M | ~270 MB |
| 5 minutes | 2011-09-19 | ~1.1M | ~54 MB |
| 15 minutes | 2011-09-19 | ~360K | ~18 MB |
| 30 minutes | 2011-09-19 | ~180K | ~9 MB |
| 1 hour | 2011-09-19 | ~89,900 | ~4 MB |
| 4 hours | 2011-09-19 | ~22,500 | ~1 MB |
| Daily | 1992-01-03 | ~8,700 | ~436 KB |
| Monthly | 1992-01-03 | ~410 | ~21 KB |
Counts are approximate, derived from index 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 Switzerland 20 (SMI) series
The SMI is dominated by its defensive trio — Nestlé, Novartis and Roche are roughly half the index — giving it the lowest beta of Europe's majors, and its January 2015 session is a unique data point: when the SNB abandoned the franc floor, the SMI fell nearly 9% in a day not because business changed but because the measuring currency did. This series (daily from 1992) contains that day; currency-hedged and unhedged Swiss equity analysis diverge violently around it.
What's inside the Switzerland 20 (SMI) file
timestamp,open,high,low,closeOne row per candle; tick files instead carry timestamp,bid,ask on every quote. All timestamps are UTC. Worked examples and import steps are in the CSV & JSON format guide.
About Switzerland 20 (SMI)
Switzerland 20 (SMI) (CHEIDXCHF) is a stock-index CFD with 34 years of retrievable history. It is commonly used for backtesting index and CFD strategies, studying long-term market cycles and drawdowns, benchmarking portfolios and building quantitative research datasets. Pick any date range from 1992-01-03 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 Switzerland 20 (SMI) data go?
- Switzerland 20 (SMI) daily and monthly candles reach back to 1992-01-03 — roughly 34 years. Tick and intraday history is shorter: it begins 2013-01-03. Both run up to the last completed trading day, and every licence tier reaches all of it.
- Why does Switzerland 20 (SMI) tick data start later than its daily candles?
- Because they come from different parts of the archive. Daily and monthly Switzerland 20 (SMI) candles are reconstructed from long-run end-of-day records going back to 1992-01-03, while the tick archive — every individual bid/ask quote — only begins 2013-01-03, about 21 years later. If your study needs the full 34-year span, work in daily candles; if it needs quote-level detail, 2013-01-03 is the earliest Switzerland 20 (SMI) start date available.
- How large is a full Switzerland 20 (SMI) download?
- The complete Switzerland 20 (SMI) 1-minute history is roughly 5.4M rows, about 270 MB as CSV. Daily candles over the same instrument are far smaller — around 8,700 rows, 436 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 Switzerland 20 (SMI) 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 Switzerland 20 (SMI) data?
- No — we sell software. The MarketData Hub client retrieves Switzerland 20 (SMI) (CHEIDXCHF) 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 index data
- CSV & JSON format — columns explained
- Tick data vs OHLC candles
- Backtesting with historical data