USD/CAD Historical Data Downloader
A desktop app that downloads US Dollar vs Canadian Dollar (USD/CAD) price history on your own machine, written straight to your disk as CSV or JSON. Daily and monthly USD/CAD candles reach back to 1986-02-10 — around 40 years — while quote-level tick history begins 2003-08-03. A complete USD/CAD 1-minute series is roughly 8.4M rows, about 419 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 USD/CAD
| Symbol | USD/CAD |
|---|---|
| Instrument | US Dollar vs Canadian Dollar |
| Asset class | Forex Majors |
| Tick & 1-second data from | 2003-08-03 |
| 1–30 minute candles from | 2003-08-03 |
| Hourly & 4-hour candles from | 2003-08-03 |
| Daily & monthly candles from | 1986-02-10 |
| Timeframes | Tick → 1s → 1m → 5m → 15m → 30m → 1h → 4h → Daily → Monthly |
| Price types | Bid & Ask (with volume) |
| File formats | CSV, JSON (MetaTrader, NinjaTrader, Parquet & SQLite/DuckDB from the Pro licence) |
| Coverage | 1986-02-10 → 2026-09-17 (last completed trading day) |
| Retrieval | Local — your machine connects directly to Dukascopy Bank SA |
| Runs on | Windows, macOS, Linux |
USD/CAD timeframes the app supports
- Tick (every quote)
- 1 second
- 1 minute
- 5 minutes
- 15 minutes
- 30 minutes
- 1 hour
- 4 hours
- Daily
- Monthly
USD/CAD coverage & file size, timeframe by timeframe
USD/CAD does not start at the same date at every granularity: daily candles begin 1986-02-10, but the tick archive only reaches 2003-08-03, roughly 17 years later. Each row below gives that timeframe's own start date and scale, current through 2026-09-17:
| Timeframe | History from | Approx. rows | Approx. CSV |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tick (every quote) | 2003-08-03 | very large | — |
| 1 second | 2003-08-03 | very large | — |
| 1 minute | 2003-08-03 | ~8.4M | ~419 MB |
| 5 minutes | 2003-08-03 | ~1.7M | ~84 MB |
| 15 minutes | 2003-08-03 | ~558K | ~28 MB |
| 30 minutes | 2003-08-03 | ~279K | ~14 MB |
| 1 hour | 2003-08-03 | ~140K | ~7 MB |
| 4 hours | 2003-08-03 | ~34,900 | ~2 MB |
| Daily | 1986-02-10 | ~10,200 | ~511 KB |
| Monthly | 1986-02-10 | ~490 | ~24 KB |
Counts are approximate, derived from forex 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 USD/CAD series
USD/CAD tracks crude closely enough that it is often traded as an oil proxy, so its history is most informative read alongside a WTI series — the app can fetch both over the same range. Its daily archive begins 1986, but note the Canadian dollar's regime changed materially after the 2014 oil collapse; correlations fitted across the whole span average two quite different periods together.
What's inside the USD/CAD file
timestamp,open,high,low,close,volumeOne 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 Dollar vs Canadian Dollar
US Dollar vs Canadian Dollar (USD/CAD) is a spot forex pair with 40 years of retrievable history. It is commonly used for backtesting forex trading strategies and expert advisors (EAs), spread and volatility analysis, training algorithmic and machine-learning models, and charting currency-pair history. Pick any date range from 1986-02-10 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 USD/CAD data go?
- USD/CAD daily and monthly candles reach back to 1986-02-10 — roughly 40 years. Tick and intraday history is shorter: it begins 2003-08-03. Both run up to the last completed trading day, and every licence tier reaches all of it.
- Why does USD/CAD tick data start later than its daily candles?
- Because they come from different parts of the archive. Daily and monthly USD/CAD candles are reconstructed from long-run end-of-day records going back to 1986-02-10, while the tick archive — every individual bid/ask quote — only begins 2003-08-03, about 17 years later. If your study needs the full 40-year span, work in daily candles; if it needs quote-level detail, 2003-08-03 is the earliest USD/CAD start date available.
- How large is a full USD/CAD download?
- The complete USD/CAD 1-minute history is roughly 8.4M rows, about 419 MB as CSV. Daily candles over the same instrument are far smaller — around 10,200 rows, 511 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 USD/CAD CSV file?
- OHLC files contain a timestamp plus open, high, low and close columns (with volume); 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 USD/CAD data?
- No — we sell software. The MarketData Hub client retrieves US Dollar vs Canadian Dollar (USD/CAD) 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 forex data
- CSV & JSON format — columns explained
- Tick data vs OHLC candles
- Backtesting with historical data
- EUR/USD history
- GBP/USD (cable) history
- Import into MetaTrader
- Load in Python (pandas)
- How far back data goes
- vs HistData
- vs TrueFX
- Best free data sources
Related Forex Majors
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- EUR/USD — Euro vs US Dollar
- GBP/USD — Pound Sterling vs US Dollar
- NZD/USD — New Zealand Dollar vs US Dollar
- USD/CHF — US Dollar vs Swiss Franc
- USD/JPY — US Dollar vs Japanese Yen
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