Free 5 Minute charts?

hello folks,

for backtesting purposes I would like to have free 5 Minute charts for the last 2-3 years.

at the moment I do have MetaTrader, but it only seems to go back to January 2008.
(as an aside: it takes ages to scroll back from the present to January 2008 = is there a better way?)

can somebody help me out?

http://www.alpari-idc.com/en/dc/databank.html
Use the history center in metatrader to generate 5 min data.

Hit the "home" button.

Also you might want to do a search for hot keys, there are a ton of them.

For a list of hotkeys, see here.

David