I need to get live forex exchange rates for my personal application. I know that there's no free service that has this data available for download. I've been using yahoo's finance, but i've just found out that it has a delay of 15 minutes or so. Is there any way i could somewnere get a little fresher rates? Say ... 5 minutes old instead of 15? Many forex brokers offer free "informers" that autoload data in an interval of seconds, so maybe there's a few that allow this data to be downloaded in bigger intervals without the use of their informers strictly for personal use?
you may also want to see http://www.fxstreet.com/about/terms-and-conditions/
Colin Pickard
2010-07-26 13:15:15
I don't think they allow gathering their data. There's actually lots of live charts like the one in your link, but what i'm looking for is a website that doesn't care if i download this data every 5 minutes or so.
Marius
2010-07-26 22:22:56
A:
download metatrader from any broker, and write an expert adviser to log all the data you want to a file. have another process that read the file. if you really want to get fancy, you can call c functions from mt4 code. its not that hard to write some c code to store data to a db instead of logging it to a file.
bostonBob
2010-08-15 03:28:25
Thought about that. The platform runs linux though so ... won't be able to do that.
Marius
2010-08-15 15:11:23
+1
A:
TrueFX has free real-time (multiple updates per second) forex quotes, but only for a limited number of pairs: http://webrates.truefx.com/rates/connect.html?f=html
They also have free downloadable tick data for the same pairs, going back to May 2009: http://truefx.com/?page=downloads
You can get real-time quotes for a larger selection of pairs from FXCM: http://rates.fxcm.com/RatesXML
They also have free downloadable tick-data, going back to 2007, but you need to create a demo account and use a COM based Windows API called Order2Go to retrieve it.
They promised that they will make available the same tick data in CSV format for free sometime this year here: http://www.forexcodesource.com/index.php/Category:Historical_Data
Adal
2010-10-13 22:38:28