USA 500 (S&P 500) Historical Data Downloader
A desktop app that downloads USA 500 (S&P 500) (USA500IDXUSD) price history on your own machine, written straight to your disk as CSV or JSON. Daily and monthly USA 500 (S&P 500) candles reach back to 1980-01-02 — around 46 years — while quote-level tick history begins 2012-01-16. A complete USA 500 (S&P 500) 1-minute series is roughly 5.4M rows, about 270 MB as CSV.
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What the app fetches for USA 500 (S&P 500)
| Symbol | USA500IDXUSD |
|---|---|
| Instrument | USA 500 (S&P 500) |
| Asset class | Indices – Americas |
| Tick & 1-second data from | 2012-01-16 |
| 1–30 minute candles from | 2011-09-19 |
| Hourly & 4-hour candles from | 2011-09-18 |
| Daily & monthly candles from | 1980-01-02 |
| 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 | 1980-01-02 → 2026-08-01 (last completed trading day) |
| Retrieval | Local — your machine connects directly to Dukascopy Bank SA |
| Runs on | Windows, macOS, Linux |
USA 500 (S&P 500) timeframes the app supports
- Tick (every quote)
- 1 second
- 1 minute
- 5 minutes
- 15 minutes
- 30 minutes
- 1 hour
- 4 hours
- Daily
- Monthly
USA 500 (S&P 500) coverage & file size, timeframe by timeframe
USA 500 (S&P 500) does not start at the same date at every granularity: daily candles begin 1980-01-02, but the tick archive only reaches 2012-01-16, roughly 32 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) | 2012-01-16 | very large | — |
| 1 second | 2012-01-16 | 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 | 1980-01-02 | ~11,700 | ~587 KB |
| Monthly | 1980-01-02 | ~560 | ~28 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 USA 500 (S&P 500) series
This is a cash-index CFD, not the S&P 500 itself and not a futures contract, and the distinction changes results: the price tracks the index level, which excludes dividends. Total return on the S&P has historically run roughly two percentage points a year above the price index, so any long-horizon study run on this series understates buy-and-hold by about that much. Note also the coverage split — daily candles reach 1980, but tick data only begins 2012.
What's inside the USA 500 (S&P 500) 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 USA 500 (S&P 500)
USA 500 (S&P 500) (USA500IDXUSD) is a stock-index CFD with 46 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 1980-01-02 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 USA 500 (S&P 500) data go?
- USA 500 (S&P 500) daily and monthly candles reach back to 1980-01-02 — roughly 46 years. Tick and intraday history is shorter: it begins 2012-01-16. Both run up to the last completed trading day, and every licence tier reaches all of it.
- Why does USA 500 (S&P 500) tick data start later than its daily candles?
- Because they come from different parts of the archive. Daily and monthly USA 500 (S&P 500) candles are reconstructed from long-run end-of-day records going back to 1980-01-02, while the tick archive — every individual bid/ask quote — only begins 2012-01-16, about 32 years later. If your study needs the full 46-year span, work in daily candles; if it needs quote-level detail, 2012-01-16 is the earliest USA 500 (S&P 500) start date available.
- How large is a full USA 500 (S&P 500) download?
- The complete USA 500 (S&P 500) 1-minute history is roughly 5.4M rows, about 270 MB as CSV. Daily candles over the same instrument are far smaller — around 11,700 rows, 587 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 USA 500 (S&P 500) 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 USA 500 (S&P 500) data?
- No — we sell software. The MarketData Hub client retrieves USA 500 (S&P 500) (USA500IDXUSD) 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