Japan 225 (Nikkei) Historical Data Downloader
A desktop app that downloads Japan 225 (Nikkei) (JPNIDXJPY) price history on your own machine, written straight to your disk as CSV or JSON. Daily and monthly Japan 225 (Nikkei) candles reach back to 1986-09-04 — around 40 years — while quote-level tick history begins 2013-01-01. A complete Japan 225 (Nikkei) 1-minute series is roughly 5.4M rows, about 270 MB as CSV.
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What the app fetches for Japan 225 (Nikkei)
| Symbol | JPNIDXJPY |
|---|---|
| Instrument | Japan 225 (Nikkei) |
| Asset class | Indices – Asia |
| 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 | 1986-09-04 |
| 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 | 1986-09-04 → 2026-08-01 (last completed trading day) |
| Retrieval | Local — your machine connects directly to Dukascopy Bank SA |
| Runs on | Windows, macOS, Linux |
Japan 225 (Nikkei) timeframes the app supports
- Tick (every quote)
- 1 second
- 1 minute
- 5 minutes
- 15 minutes
- 30 minutes
- 1 hour
- 4 hours
- Daily
- Monthly
Japan 225 (Nikkei) coverage & file size, timeframe by timeframe
Japan 225 (Nikkei) does not start at the same date at every granularity: daily candles begin 1986-09-04, but the tick archive only reaches 2013-01-01, roughly 27 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 | 1986-09-04 | ~10,100 | ~503 KB |
| Monthly | 1986-09-04 | ~480 | ~24 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 Japan 225 (Nikkei) series
The Nikkei 225 is price-weighted, like the Dow, so a few high-priced constituents dominate its moves. Its daily history from 1986 is unusually instructive because it contains the one thing most equity series do not: a genuine multi-decade bear market, with the index peaking at the end of 1989 and not regaining that level for roughly 34 years. Any model that assumes equities recover within a career-length horizon can be tested against it directly.
What's inside the Japan 225 (Nikkei) 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 Japan 225 (Nikkei)
Japan 225 (Nikkei) (JPNIDXJPY) is a stock-index CFD with 40 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 1986-09-04 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 Japan 225 (Nikkei) data go?
- Japan 225 (Nikkei) daily and monthly candles reach back to 1986-09-04 — roughly 40 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 Japan 225 (Nikkei) tick data start later than its daily candles?
- Because they come from different parts of the archive. Daily and monthly Japan 225 (Nikkei) candles are reconstructed from long-run end-of-day records going back to 1986-09-04, while the tick archive — every individual bid/ask quote — only begins 2013-01-01, about 27 years later. If your study needs the full 40-year span, work in daily candles; if it needs quote-level detail, 2013-01-01 is the earliest Japan 225 (Nikkei) start date available.
- How large is a full Japan 225 (Nikkei) download?
- The complete Japan 225 (Nikkei) 1-minute history is roughly 5.4M rows, about 270 MB as CSV. Daily candles over the same instrument are far smaller — around 10,100 rows, 503 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 Japan 225 (Nikkei) 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 Japan 225 (Nikkei) data?
- No — we sell software. The MarketData Hub client retrieves Japan 225 (Nikkei) (JPNIDXJPY) 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