Our Top Forex Data Provider
What I particularly liked about DataHQ’s forex feed was that it was easily integrated into Wealth-Lab (my backtesting software of choice). The historical data provided is easily integrated into the Wealth-Lab testing environment and allowed me to trade live signals from the system(s) that I had designed.
Support is good, with the designer of the adapter attentive to the wishes of the client base.
The datasource that Forex.DataHQ use is from FXCM and you may customize the feed to represent bid, mid or ask-type pricing plus also the time stamp (i.e NY EST, GMT). To obtain historical data the user may purchase a 100k plan and receive 100,000 bars of history for back-testing purposes, or other plans such as the 10k or 1k plan. If you have no historical data we would recommend the 100k plan as it provides over 18 months of 5 minute data, and 3 years of 10 minute data.
Currencies offered are those directly obtained from FXCM’s platform, namely:
AUDCAD
AUDJPY
AUDUSD
CHFJPY
EURAUD
EURCAD
EURCHF
EURGBP
EURJPY
EURUSD
GBPCHF
GBPJPY
GBPUSD
NZDUSD
USDCAD
USDCHF
USDJPY
Forex.DataHQ also offer an end of day service at their parent site DataHQ. Here you may subscribe to receive end of day historical data at 1700 NY EST. They provide an extensive daily history going back to January 1, 1991! They offer 39 currency pairs, plus the inverse of each pair totalling 78 pairs.
Forex.DataHQ is our premium forex data of choice. If you use Wealth-Lab Developer and are looking for a good data provider without the high end price tag then be sure to subscribe to this
organization’s live feed adapter.
If you have the money to pay for their monthly subscriptions I would highly endorse this organization, otherwise if you are new to the forex market I would encourage starting with the end-of-day service.
Tags: DataHQ, Forex Data, Forex Historical Data
May 14th, 2005 at 6:50 am
[...] forex providers we have looked at which vendor met our needs best and this ended up being DataHQ, although Olsen was a very close second (and could& [...]
June 19th, 2005 at 9:36 am
Looks like dataHQ doesn’t provide intraday forex data anymore.
July 5th, 2005 at 5:01 am
To clarify, “dataHQ” has never provided intraday forex data, however our subsidary, “forex.dataHQ” has. URL above
Olsen is a great choice for historical tick data, but good luck getting the data into Wealthlab, let alone in realtime.
Cheers, Rob.
March 22nd, 2006 at 4:46 pm
DataHQ will request that you have real-money trading account with FXCM.
August 6th, 2007 at 10:19 am
Does ANYONE provide / sell data where you DON’T require a forex account? All I want is the data, and I’m willing to pay for it, but I haven’t found any company willing to do this.
August 6th, 2007 at 5:28 pm
Hi Mleck,
You may want to check here.
Ryan