The only place I know where you can get free forex tick data is at Gain Capital's site, http://ratedata.gaincapital.com but from my experience and from other traders I've spoken too, the data is spotty at best.  There are gaps, format differences, and data overlaps.  What can you expect though, the data free.  I tried for a long time to fill gaps and clean up the data but I gave up.  There was just too much data and it was going to be impossible to verify.

A trader sent me an email a couple of days ago about Oanda providing tick data.  It's free but with a condition.  You have to have at least a $1000 account with Oanda.  You then can request tick data for one currency pair (GBP/USD, EUR/USD, USD/JPY, USD/CAD, or USD/CHF) that goes as far back as January 1st, 2004.  Oanda's states that it may take up to two weeks for them to send the data to you and you can only have one request open at a time.  So if you want tick data for all five currency pairs, it will take about ten weeks.  

If you're an academic faculty member, you don't need an account open with Oanda.  You can get an exemption and obtain the data for free. 

More details are available at https://fxtrade.oanda.com/cgi/fxticks/order.cgi

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No. 1 :

i ordered OandA data last week for 2 pairs, got it within 2 days.

Submitted by Forex Trader • 2008-03-03 13:52:07

No. 2 :

nice. Thanks for the info.

Submitted by Rich • 2008-03-03 14:16:09

No. 3 : Nice Post

Nice Post

Submitted by cholesterol-news • 2008-03-20 06:16:54

No. 4 : data

why do you need ALL these numbers ??
i saw many traders screens with 5-10 indicators, data running around and of course lossing money ...
make trading very simple
I dont need any of them, I just try to stay out of Fridays morning (data US)
you can not be pip trader - if you dont have huge amount
5, 15, 30 minutes time frames will kill you all..

Submitted by Forex Trader • 2008-03-20 14:51:58

No. 5 :

I trade no lower than 60-minute.

Submitted by Rich • 2008-03-20 15:09:29

No. 6 : time frame

I always recomende daily charts
easy to understand trend, all signals are more serioz (candles)and very easy to find your limits and stop loss.
daily charts are master - book - for all trade !!!!
more pips, more money, less stress ..
dont trade eur/$ bc all world trade this pair and = more supports and ress. lines than others ...
too hard to go over these lines every day ...
very easy pairs as $/CAD & AUD/$ give you money every day
ask your mentor Rob about these pairs
ALL are trading these simple pairs bc their lines are very clear, no mess around...
good luck to you

Submitted by Forex Trader • 2008-03-20 21:39:10

No. 7 : $/cad

i try to add pics of daily charts with easy indicators of course on daily charts but i dont know how??
can you help me to find way ??

Submitted by Forex Trader • 2008-03-20 21:54:54

No. 8 : thanks

That it

Submitted by Rafik • 2008-07-05 20:50:16

No. 9 : Crunching massive amounts of real-time and historical data in mi

Free is good but what about the speed of obtaining the tick data? Vhayu Velocity for Equities gives users the ability to crunch massive amounts of real-time and historical data in milliseconds for concise analysis that provides brokers and hedge funds with a clear competitive trading advantage.

Submitted by Forex Trader • 2008-07-27 21:24:11

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