UK 100 (FTSE 100) Historical Data Downloader
A desktop app that downloads UK 100 (FTSE 100) (GBRIDXGBP) price history on your own machine, written straight to your disk as CSV or JSON. Daily and monthly UK 100 (FTSE 100) candles reach back to 1988-04-05 — around 38 years — while quote-level tick history begins 2013-01-01. A complete UK 100 (FTSE 100) 1-minute series is roughly 5.4M rows, about 270 MB as CSV.
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What the app fetches for UK 100 (FTSE 100)
| Symbol | GBRIDXGBP |
|---|---|
| Instrument | UK 100 (FTSE 100) |
| 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 | 2011-09-18 |
| Daily & monthly candles from | 1988-04-05 |
| 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 | 1988-04-05 → 2026-08-01 (last completed trading day) |
| Retrieval | Local — your machine connects directly to Dukascopy Bank SA |
| Runs on | Windows, macOS, Linux |
UK 100 (FTSE 100) timeframes the app supports
- Tick (every quote)
- 1 second
- 1 minute
- 5 minutes
- 15 minutes
- 30 minutes
- 1 hour
- 4 hours
- Daily
- Monthly
UK 100 (FTSE 100) coverage & file size, timeframe by timeframe
UK 100 (FTSE 100) does not start at the same date at every granularity: daily candles begin 1988-04-05, but the tick archive only reaches 2013-01-01, roughly 25 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 | 2011-09-18 | ~89,900 | ~4 MB |
| 4 hours | 2011-09-18 | ~22,500 | ~1 MB |
| Daily | 1988-04-05 | ~9,700 | ~483 KB |
| Monthly | 1988-04-05 | ~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 UK 100 (FTSE 100) series
The FTSE 100 daily archive reaching 1988 covers Black Monday's aftermath, the 2000 and 2008 drawdowns and the Brexit period. Worth knowing for interpretation: most FTSE 100 revenue is earned outside the UK, so the index often rises when sterling falls. Studies that treat it as a bet on the British economy tend to get the sign wrong.
What's inside the UK 100 (FTSE 100) 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 UK 100 (FTSE 100)
UK 100 (FTSE 100) (GBRIDXGBP) is a stock-index CFD with 38 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 1988-04-05 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 UK 100 (FTSE 100) data go?
- UK 100 (FTSE 100) daily and monthly candles reach back to 1988-04-05 — roughly 38 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 UK 100 (FTSE 100) tick data start later than its daily candles?
- Because they come from different parts of the archive. Daily and monthly UK 100 (FTSE 100) candles are reconstructed from long-run end-of-day records going back to 1988-04-05, while the tick archive — every individual bid/ask quote — only begins 2013-01-01, about 25 years later. If your study needs the full 38-year span, work in daily candles; if it needs quote-level detail, 2013-01-01 is the earliest UK 100 (FTSE 100) start date available.
- How large is a full UK 100 (FTSE 100) download?
- The complete UK 100 (FTSE 100) 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, 483 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 UK 100 (FTSE 100) 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 UK 100 (FTSE 100) data?
- No — we sell software. The MarketData Hub client retrieves UK 100 (FTSE 100) (GBRIDXGBP) 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