UK Long Gilt Historical Data Downloader
A desktop app that downloads UK Long Gilt (UKGILTTRGBP) price history on your own machine, written straight to your disk as CSV or JSON. History runs from 2017-12-26 — around 9 years — at every timeframe from raw ticks to monthly candles. A complete UK Long Gilt 1-minute series is roughly 3.1M rows, about 157 MB as CSV.
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Windows, macOS, Linux · €9 one-time for the entry licence · get the app
What the app fetches for UK Long Gilt
| Symbol | UKGILTTRGBP |
|---|---|
| Instrument | UK Long Gilt |
| Asset class | Bonds |
| Tick & 1-second data from | 2017-12-28 |
| 1–30 minute candles from | 2017-12-28 |
| Hourly & 4-hour candles from | 2017-12-28 |
| Daily & monthly candles from | 2017-12-26 |
| 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 | 2017-12-26 → 2026-09-17 (last completed trading day) |
| Retrieval | Local — your machine connects directly to Dukascopy Bank SA |
| Runs on | Windows, macOS, Linux |
UK Long Gilt timeframes the app supports
- Tick (every quote)
- 1 second
- 1 minute
- 5 minutes
- 15 minutes
- 30 minutes
- 1 hour
- 4 hours
- Daily
- Monthly
UK Long Gilt coverage & file size, timeframe by timeframe
Every UK Long Gilt timeframe shares the same 2017-12-26 start date, but not the same scale — coarser candles stay small while tick and intraday files grow fast. Current through 2026-09-17:
| Timeframe | History from | Approx. rows | Approx. CSV |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tick (every quote) | 2017-12-28 | very large | — |
| 1 second | 2017-12-28 | very large | — |
| 1 minute | 2017-12-28 | ~3.1M | ~157 MB |
| 5 minutes | 2017-12-28 | ~630K | ~31 MB |
| 15 minutes | 2017-12-28 | ~210K | ~10 MB |
| 30 minutes | 2017-12-28 | ~105K | ~5 MB |
| 1 hour | 2017-12-28 | ~52,500 | ~3 MB |
| 4 hours | 2017-12-28 | ~13,100 | ~656 KB |
| Daily | 2017-12-26 | ~2,200 | ~109 KB |
| Monthly | 2017-12-26 | ~100 | ~5 KB |
Counts are approximate, derived from bonds 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 Long Gilt series
The Long Gilt future's defining data event is late September 2022, when the UK "mini-budget" triggered a gilt collapse violent enough that the Bank of England intervened to halt a pension-fund doom loop — days of moves that were previously considered impossible for a G7 bond market. This series (from end-2017) contains that window in full; risk models that haven't been stress-tested against it are not stress-tested. Price moves inversely to yields, and rolls apply.
What's inside the UK Long Gilt 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 Long Gilt
UK Long Gilt (UKGILTTRGBP) is a bond CFD with 9 years of retrievable history. It is commonly used for fixed-income and macro backtesting, yield and rate analysis, and building cross-asset research datasets. Pick any date range from 2017-12-26 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 Long Gilt data go?
- UK Long Gilt history runs from 2017-12-26 — roughly 9 years — up to the last completed trading day, at every timeframe from raw ticks to monthly candles. Every licence tier reaches all of it.
- How large is a full UK Long Gilt download?
- The complete UK Long Gilt 1-minute history is roughly 3.1M rows, about 157 MB as CSV. Daily candles over the same instrument are far smaller — around 2,200 rows, 109 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 Long Gilt 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 Long Gilt data?
- No — we sell software. The MarketData Hub client retrieves UK Long Gilt (UKGILTTRGBP) 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 bonds data
- CSV & JSON format — columns explained
- Tick data vs OHLC candles
- Backtesting with historical data
- Excel & Google Sheets
- How far back data goes
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