Forexite provider (free intraday Forex data)

Modified on 2020/02/26 14:55 by Eugene — Categorized as: Providers

What it is

This is a static data provider that downloads historical intraday data (1-minute, Central European Time GMT+1) for up to 57 Forex currency pairs, cross rates, metals and cryptocurrencies (Bitcoin, Litecoin, Ethereum) from Forexite. The full list can be found at the bottom.

How to use it

First time database creation

First, you need to create a Forexite DataSet. Data vendor stores each day of data in a single ZIP file. When building a Forexite DataSet from scratch, the provider connects to the server and grabs thousands of individual zipped data files. You will need to reserve a considerable amount of disk space to build the database the first time. As of 2018, at least 25Gb free space is required for the cache of temporary files. After successfully building the database, temporary files are removed.

Be patient: initial download and DataSet creation is a very time consuming process that can take up an hour depending on your broadband connection and CPU speed. Should you decide to abort the process for any reason, it can be safely restarted because the provider caches ~1,25 Gigabytes of original data files in Wealth-Lab's data folder to avoid redundant downloads:

Should something go wrong (e.g. network/server error), DataSet creation can be restarted without missing dates in the middle
If you create a partial DataSet and then decide to add more symbols, there will be no time consuming download

Daily updates

Daily updates take almost no network traffic and are much faster (under a minute). Note that the data vendor makes historical data updates available once a day, so updating the data on demand and Strategy Monitor are not supported. Whether you update just a single currency or all eighteen it won't affect the download size, but the less Forex pairs you have in the provider's DataSets, the faster the data will be updated.

Notes and limitations

Make sure your PC is fast, has lots of RAM, and you run 64-bit Wealth-Lab. Each instrument typically has several millions of 1-minute bars, so only a fast PC with 64-bit edition of Wealth-Lab and lots of RAM can handle that.
The size of a Forexite DataSet with just the four Forex "major pairs" may take over a 1GB on your disk.
On demand data updates are not supported due to a considerable download time.
Strategy Monitor is not supported.

Supported symbols

The data for the following instruments are available:

Forex majors

Symbol	Description
EURUSD	Euro / U.S. Dollar
USDJPY	U.S. Dollar / Japanese Yen
USDCHF	U.S. Dollar / Swiss Franc
GBPUSD	British Pound / U.S. Dollar

Forex crosses

Symbol	Description
AUDJPY	Australian Dollar / Japanese Yen
NZDUSD	New Zealand Dollar / US Dollar
EURGBP	Euro / British Pound
EURJPY	Euro / Japanese Yen
EURCHF	Euro / Swiss Franc
GBPJPY	British Pound / Japanese Yen
GBPCHF	British Pound / Swiss Franc
CHFJPY	Swiss Franc / Japanese Yen
EURCAD	Euro / Canadian Dollar
USDCAD	U.S. Dollar / Canadian Dollar
AUDUSD	Australian Dollar / U.S. Dollar
NZDJPY	New Zealand Dollar / Japanese Yen
AUDCAD	Australian Dollar / Canadian Dollar
AUDCHF	Australian Dollar / Swiss Franc
AUDNZD	Australian Dollar / New Zealand Dollar
CADCHF	Canadian Dollar / Swiss Franc
CADJPY	Canadian Dollar / Japanese Yen
EURAUD	Euro / Australian Dollar
EURHKD	Euro / Hong Kong Dollar
EURJPY	Euro / Japanese Yen
EURMXN	Euro / Mexican Peso
EURNZD	Euro / New Zealand Dollar
EURRUB	Euro / Russian Ruble
EURSGD	Euro / Singapore Dollar
EURTRY	Euro / Turkish Lira
EURZAR	Euro / South African Rand
GBPAUD	British Pound / Australian Dollar
GBPCAD	British Pound / Canadian Dollar
GBPCHF	British Pound / Swiss Franc
GBPNZD	British Pound / New Zealand Dollar
NZDCAD	New Zealand Dollar / Canadian Dollar
NZDCHF	New Zealand Dollar / Swiss Franc
USDCNH	U.S. Dollar / Chinese Yuan
USDCZK	U.S. Dollar / Czech Koruna
USDDKK	U.S. Dollar / Danish Krone
USDHKD	U.S. Dollar / Hong Kong Dollar
USDHUF	U.S. Dollar / Hungarian Forint
USDMXN	U.S. Dollar / Mexican Peso
USDNOK	U.S. Dollar / Norwegian Krone
USDPLN	U.S. Dollar / Polish Zloty
USDRUB	U.S. Dollar / Russian Ruble
USDSEK	U.S. Dollar / Swedish Krona
USDSGD	U.S. Dollar / Singapore Dollar
USDTRY	U.S. Dollar / Turkish Lira
USDZAR	U.S. Dollar / South African Rand
USDCNH	U.S. Dollar / Chinese Yuan

Cryptocurrencies, metals

Symbol	Description
XAUUSD	Gold / U.S. Dollar
XAGUSD	Silver / U.S. Dollar
BTCUSD	Bitcoin
ETHUSD	Ethereum
LTCUSD	Litecoin
XAGEUR	Silver / Euro
XAUEUR	Gold / Euro