US Light Crude Oil (WTI) Historical Data Downloader
A desktop app that downloads US Light Crude Oil (WTI) (LIGHTCMDUSD) price history on your own machine, written straight to your disk as CSV or JSON. Daily and monthly US Light Crude Oil (WTI) candles reach back to 1983-04-20 — around 43 years — while quote-level tick history begins 2013-01-01. A complete US Light Crude Oil (WTI) 1-minute series is roughly 5.4M rows, about 270 MB as CSV.
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What the app fetches for US Light Crude Oil (WTI)
| Symbol | LIGHTCMDUSD |
|---|---|
| Instrument | US Light Crude Oil (WTI) |
| Asset class | Commodities – Energy |
| Tick & 1-second data from | 2013-01-01 |
| 1–30 minute candles from | 2011-09-23 |
| Hourly & 4-hour candles from | 2011-09-23 |
| Daily & monthly candles from | 1983-04-20 |
| 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 | 1983-04-20 → 2026-08-01 (last completed trading day) |
| Retrieval | Local — your machine connects directly to Dukascopy Bank SA |
| Runs on | Windows, macOS, Linux |
US Light Crude Oil (WTI) timeframes the app supports
- Tick (every quote)
- 1 second
- 1 minute
- 5 minutes
- 15 minutes
- 30 minutes
- 1 hour
- 4 hours
- Daily
- Monthly
US Light Crude Oil (WTI) coverage & file size, timeframe by timeframe
US Light Crude Oil (WTI) does not start at the same date at every granularity: daily candles begin 1983-04-20, but the tick archive only reaches 2013-01-01, roughly 30 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 | 2011-09-23 | ~5.4M | ~270 MB |
| 5 minutes | 2011-09-23 | ~1.1M | ~54 MB |
| 15 minutes | 2011-09-23 | ~359K | ~18 MB |
| 30 minutes | 2011-09-23 | ~180K | ~9 MB |
| 1 hour | 2011-09-23 | ~89,900 | ~4 MB |
| 4 hours | 2011-09-23 | ~22,500 | ~1 MB |
| Daily | 1983-04-20 | ~10,900 | ~545 KB |
| Monthly | 1983-04-20 | ~520 | ~26 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 US Light Crude Oil (WTI) series
WTI's defining data event is 20 April 2020, when the expiring front-month futures contract settled at roughly minus $37 — the first negative print in its history. Whether and how that appears in a continuous CFD series varies, so check the April 2020 window explicitly before running anything across it: code that assumes prices are positive, or that takes logarithms, will fail or silently produce nonsense there. The daily archive reaches back to 1983, covering both oil shocks of the modern era.
What's inside the US Light Crude Oil (WTI) 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 US Light Crude Oil (WTI)
US Light Crude Oil (WTI) (LIGHTCMDUSD) is a commodity CFD with 43 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 1983-04-20 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 US Light Crude Oil (WTI) data go?
- US Light Crude Oil (WTI) daily and monthly candles reach back to 1983-04-20 — roughly 43 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 US Light Crude Oil (WTI) tick data start later than its daily candles?
- Because they come from different parts of the archive. Daily and monthly US Light Crude Oil (WTI) candles are reconstructed from long-run end-of-day records going back to 1983-04-20, while the tick archive — every individual bid/ask quote — only begins 2013-01-01, about 30 years later. If your study needs the full 43-year span, work in daily candles; if it needs quote-level detail, 2013-01-01 is the earliest US Light Crude Oil (WTI) start date available.
- How large is a full US Light Crude Oil (WTI) download?
- The complete US Light Crude Oil (WTI) 1-minute history is roughly 5.4M rows, about 270 MB as CSV. Daily candles over the same instrument are far smaller — around 10,900 rows, 545 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 US Light Crude Oil (WTI) 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 US Light Crude Oil (WTI) data?
- No — we sell software. The MarketData Hub client retrieves US Light Crude Oil (WTI) (LIGHTCMDUSD) 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