| Where is the Forex data to be found? |
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The default location for the dataHQ Forex data is C:\Trading Data\Forex. |
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| Which cross-rates do you cover? |
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The service covers 39 leading majors, minors and cross-rates as well as their "flips", or inverses, for a total of 78 items. |
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| Do you provide intra-day data or only end-of-day? |
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Only end-of-day. |
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| What time is the data updated? |
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The data is updated at 8.00 am Australian Eastern Standard Time (10.00 a.m. during daylight saving time). |
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| The forex market trades round-the-clock. What do you base your daily close on? |
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The close is derived from prices prevailing at 5.00 p.m. New York time. Many forex brokers use this time for daily roll-over. Friday 5pm New York time is where the forex brokers close for the weekend. |
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| I am subscribed to your service, and there are discrepancies between your prices and prices I see on the internet. Why is this so? |
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Price reports tend to vary, depending on which banks contribute to a feed and on which notional 24-hour day period the feed covers. There is no central exchange to regulate forex trading, so there are no "official" forex prices. The forex market is extremely liquid and therefore any discrepancies are only likely to be a handful of pips between. |
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| How much data history do you provide? |
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Our historical data goes back to January 1, 1991 for all items excluding those that involve the Euro. Trading in the Euro began on January 4, 1999. |
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| If I use your service, how can I get to see charts of the data? |
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Our data is held in the "MetaStock" format. You will need to have access to a charting program that reads this format (most leading charting packages do). |
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