Historic Data

Hi. I have read a few of the posts on this forum and would like to test the strategies mentioned. The problem I have is that my charting software only goes back about 3 months on the hourly charts, which I don't think would be statistically reliable for backtesting a system. Could someone please advise where I can obtain historic hourly data for the EUR/JPY and the GBP/USD pairs? If anyone has this information (preferably in Excel format) could you please mail me at [email protected]. Many thanks.

Historical data is very important if you are going to get experienced in Forex trading without forward testing yourself for several years. I assume that you are using MT4, if not get a demo account. You want to open Tools - Historical Data and the rest is a bit self explanatory.

You may get a warning from your broker, especially if you are trading live, that the past data may not match theirs. You should ignore that and get on with it. All that lovely data to practise with. You are in for a treat.

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See if this meets your needs.

http://www.forextester.com/data/datasources.html