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 |
Credits
- Powered by BloodHound: an open-source multi-threaded file download manager