High-Quality Historical Market Data

Access 15 years of 1-min unfiltered historical market data to backtest your cTrader cBots, this is 5 years more data than what cTrader Algo offers. Forex market data refers to real-time and historical information about currency trading in the global forex market, and this data is essential for traders who participate in currency trading or monitor exchange rate movements.

What is Backtest Data?

Forex backtest data refers to historical price and volume data used to evaluate the performance of a trading strategy by simulating its application over past market conditions. The reason traders backtest is to see how a trading system would have performed if it had been used in the past, which can help traders refine their strategies before applying them to live trading.

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cTrader Market Data

With Forex the cTrader platform provides data from 2014 to the current date and for some traders this does not go far enough back for a robust test for their automated trading systems. The more data available the better the tests over different market conditions. It is possible to download and use 3rd party market data to go back in the past and have up to 15 years of market data for testing, this is 50% more data.

Backtest Market

BacktestMarket is a company that specialises in historical market data for the MT4 and the cTrader trading platform, they provide clean data going back to 2019. The types of data they provide are:

1. Bonds.
2. Forex.
3. Commodities.
4. Metals.
5. Stocks.
6. Cryptocurrencies.

Free Historica Data

Using our data conversion tool, you can also download and convert free historical market data from Ducascopy, and you can easily convert market data to be used with cTrader Algo for backtesting.

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Yahoo Finance Historical Data

You can access historical price, dividend, and stock split data for most securities on Yahoo Finance to help forecast a company's future or gain market insights. This data can be downloaded as a CSV file for offline use, which can be opened with Excel or similar programs. If the requested data extends beyond Yahoo Finance's available historical range, only the data within the available timeframe will be displayed. Typically, historical prices do not go back further than 1970.

1. Go to Yahoo Finance.
2. Enter a quote into the search field.
3. Choose a quote in the search results to view it.
4. Click Historical Data.
5. Select a Period, data to Show, and Frequency.
6. Quote data will refresh automatically.
7. To use the data offline, click Download.

Need Help Converting Data?

If you need help converting the Yahoo finance data CSV file to import into cTrader Algo for backtesting, contact our team.

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