XAG/GBP Historical Data Downloader
A desktop app that downloads Silver vs Pound Sterling (XAG/GBP) price history on your own machine, written straight to your disk as CSV or JSON. Daily and monthly XAG/GBP candles reach back to 1986-10-01 — around 40 years — while quote-level tick history begins 2011-09-19. A complete XAG/GBP 1-minute series is roughly 5.4M rows, about 270 MB as CSV.
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What the app fetches for XAG/GBP
| Symbol | XAG/GBP |
|---|---|
| Instrument | Silver vs Pound Sterling |
| Asset class | Forex Metals |
| Tick & 1-second data from | 2011-09-19 |
| 1–30 minute candles from | 2011-09-19 |
| Hourly & 4-hour candles from | 2011-09-18 |
| Daily & monthly candles from | 1986-10-01 |
| 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 | 1986-10-01 → 2026-08-01 (last completed trading day) |
| Retrieval | Local — your machine connects directly to Dukascopy Bank SA |
| Runs on | Windows, macOS, Linux |
XAG/GBP timeframes the app supports
- Tick (every quote)
- 1 second
- 1 minute
- 5 minutes
- 15 minutes
- 30 minutes
- 1 hour
- 4 hours
- Daily
- Monthly
XAG/GBP coverage & file size, timeframe by timeframe
XAG/GBP does not start at the same date at every granularity: daily candles begin 1986-10-01, but the tick archive only reaches 2011-09-19, roughly 25 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) | 2011-09-19 | very large | — |
| 1 second | 2011-09-19 | 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 | 1986-10-01 | ~10,000 | ~502 KB |
| Monthly | 1986-10-01 | ~480 | ~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 XAG/GBP series
Silver priced in sterling, with daily history from 1986 — deep enough to cover the 1992 ERM ejection and 2016's referendum, both of which move this series through the currency leg while the metal leg sleeps. That is the general trap of metal crosses: attribution. Before reading a move as "silver", check XAG/USD and GBP/USD over the same window to see which leg actually moved.
What's inside the XAG/GBP 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 Silver vs Pound Sterling
Silver vs Pound Sterling (XAG/GBP) is a spot precious-metals instrument 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 1986-10-01 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 XAG/GBP data go?
- XAG/GBP daily and monthly candles reach back to 1986-10-01 — roughly 40 years. Tick and intraday history is shorter: it begins 2011-09-19. Both run up to the last completed trading day, and every licence tier reaches all of it.
- Why does XAG/GBP tick data start later than its daily candles?
- Because they come from different parts of the archive. Daily and monthly XAG/GBP candles are reconstructed from long-run end-of-day records going back to 1986-10-01, while the tick archive — every individual bid/ask quote — only begins 2011-09-19, about 25 years later. If your study needs the full 40-year span, work in daily candles; if it needs quote-level detail, 2011-09-19 is the earliest XAG/GBP start date available.
- How large is a full XAG/GBP download?
- The complete XAG/GBP 1-minute history is roughly 5.4M rows, about 270 MB as CSV. Daily candles over the same instrument are far smaller — around 10,000 rows, 502 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 XAG/GBP 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 XAG/GBP data?
- No — we sell software. The MarketData Hub client retrieves Silver vs Pound Sterling (XAG/GBP) 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
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