France 40 (CAC 40) Historical Data Downloader
A desktop app that downloads France 40 (CAC 40) (FRAIDXEUR) price history on your own machine, written straight to your disk as CSV or JSON. Daily and monthly France 40 (CAC 40) candles reach back to 1987-12-31 — around 39 years — while quote-level tick history begins 2013-01-01. A complete France 40 (CAC 40) 1-minute series is roughly 5.4M rows, about 270 MB as CSV.
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What the app fetches for France 40 (CAC 40)
| Symbol | FRAIDXEUR |
|---|---|
| Instrument | France 40 (CAC 40) |
| Asset class | Indices – Europe |
| Tick & 1-second data from | 2013-01-01 |
| 1–30 minute candles from | 2011-09-19 |
| Hourly & 4-hour candles from | 2011-09-19 |
| Daily & monthly candles from | 1987-12-31 |
| 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 | 1987-12-31 → 2026-08-01 (last completed trading day) |
| Retrieval | Local — your machine connects directly to Dukascopy Bank SA |
| Runs on | Windows, macOS, Linux |
France 40 (CAC 40) timeframes the app supports
- Tick (every quote)
- 1 second
- 1 minute
- 5 minutes
- 15 minutes
- 30 minutes
- 1 hour
- 4 hours
- Daily
- Monthly
France 40 (CAC 40) coverage & file size, timeframe by timeframe
France 40 (CAC 40) does not start at the same date at every granularity: daily candles begin 1987-12-31, but the tick archive only reaches 2013-01-01, roughly 26 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) | 2013-01-01 | very large | — |
| 1 second | 2013-01-01 | 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 | 1987-12-31 | ~9,700 | ~486 KB |
| Monthly | 1987-12-31 | ~460 | ~23 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 France 40 (CAC 40) series
The CAC 40's daily file reaches back to the last trading day of 1987 — the index's own base period — covering every modern European cycle. Two interpretation notes: it is a price index (dividends excluded, unlike the DAX's performance construction), and its 21st-century character is luxury-goods concentration, with LVMH and peers making it a China-consumer proxy to a degree no other national benchmark matches. Tick data starts 2013; the deep history is daily-only.
What's inside the France 40 (CAC 40) 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 France 40 (CAC 40)
France 40 (CAC 40) (FRAIDXEUR) is a stock-index CFD with 39 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 1987-12-31 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 France 40 (CAC 40) data go?
- France 40 (CAC 40) daily and monthly candles reach back to 1987-12-31 — roughly 39 years. Tick and intraday history is shorter: it begins 2013-01-01. Both run up to the last completed trading day, and every licence tier reaches all of it.
- Why does France 40 (CAC 40) tick data start later than its daily candles?
- Because they come from different parts of the archive. Daily and monthly France 40 (CAC 40) candles are reconstructed from long-run end-of-day records going back to 1987-12-31, while the tick archive — every individual bid/ask quote — only begins 2013-01-01, about 26 years later. If your study needs the full 39-year span, work in daily candles; if it needs quote-level detail, 2013-01-01 is the earliest France 40 (CAC 40) start date available.
- How large is a full France 40 (CAC 40) download?
- The complete France 40 (CAC 40) 1-minute history is roughly 5.4M rows, about 270 MB as CSV. Daily candles over the same instrument are far smaller — around 9,700 rows, 486 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 France 40 (CAC 40) 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 France 40 (CAC 40) data?
- No — we sell software. The MarketData Hub client retrieves France 40 (CAC 40) (FRAIDXEUR) 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