Volatility Index (VIX) Historical Data Downloader
A desktop app that downloads Volatility Index (VIX) (VOLIDXUSD) price history on your own machine, written straight to your disk as CSV or JSON. History runs from 2022-10-05 — around 4 years — at every timeframe from raw ticks to monthly candles. A complete Volatility Index (VIX) 1-minute series is roughly 1.4M rows, about 71 MB as CSV.
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What the app fetches for Volatility Index (VIX)
| Symbol | VOLIDXUSD |
|---|---|
| Instrument | Volatility Index (VIX) |
| Asset class | Indices – Americas |
| History available from | 2022-10-05 |
| 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 | 2022-10-05 → 2026-09-17 (last completed trading day) |
| Retrieval | Local — your machine connects directly to Dukascopy Bank SA |
| Runs on | Windows, macOS, Linux |
Volatility Index (VIX) timeframes the app supports
- Tick (every quote)
- 1 second
- 1 minute
- 5 minutes
- 15 minutes
- 30 minutes
- 1 hour
- 4 hours
- Daily
- Monthly
Volatility Index (VIX) coverage & file size, timeframe by timeframe
Every Volatility Index (VIX) timeframe shares the same 2022-10-05 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) | 2022-10-05 | very large | — |
| 1 second | 2022-10-05 | very large | — |
| 1 minute | 2022-10-05 | ~1.4M | ~71 MB |
| 5 minutes | 2022-10-05 | ~284K | ~14 MB |
| 15 minutes | 2022-10-05 | ~94,500 | ~5 MB |
| 30 minutes | 2022-10-05 | ~47,300 | ~2 MB |
| 1 hour | 2022-10-05 | ~23,600 | ~1 MB |
| 4 hours | 2022-10-05 | ~5,900 | ~295 KB |
| Daily | 2022-10-05 | ~980 | ~49 KB |
| Monthly | 2022-10-05 | ~50 | ~2 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 Volatility Index (VIX) series
This tracks the VIX, and the VIX is not an asset: it is a computed 30-day implied-volatility statistic that cannot be bought, held or compounded. Spot VIX mean-reverts by construction — it cannot trend to zero or infinity — and its spikes are near-instantaneous (5 August 2024 printed the largest intraday jump in years within hours). Strategies built on "buying" this series are simulating an instrument that does not exist; real volatility exposure lives in futures with their own steep roll costs. The series starts October 2022.
What's inside the Volatility Index (VIX) 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 Volatility Index (VIX)
Volatility Index (VIX) (VOLIDXUSD) is a stock-index CFD with 4 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 2022-10-05 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 Volatility Index (VIX) data go?
- Volatility Index (VIX) history runs from 2022-10-05 — roughly 4 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 Volatility Index (VIX) download?
- The complete Volatility Index (VIX) 1-minute history is roughly 1.4M rows, about 71 MB as CSV. Daily candles over the same instrument are far smaller — around 980 rows, 49 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 Volatility Index (VIX) 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 Volatility Index (VIX) data?
- No — we sell software. The MarketData Hub client retrieves Volatility Index (VIX) (VOLIDXUSD) 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
- Nasdaq 100 history
- Excel & Google Sheets
- How far back data goes
- Import into NinjaTrader
- vs Dukascopy export
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