Where can I get reliable data for currency pairs (Forex)?

Question

Fintech

There was a problem connected with the analysis of the Forex market. Its solution requires minute-long OHLC data with minimal latency. A quick google gives sources on a paid basis from 50 Euros per month, and even some programs need to be installed and communicated with them through DDE. And I would like to simply access some web service from PHP and parse the data myself. In extreme cases, a program that can be scripted to write data to MySQL or ODBC will also work.
Has anyone faced a similar issue? Please share infoy. It does not matter if the service is paid (within reasonable limits up to 50 Euros), the main thing is that you can communicate with it directly via HTTP
Thank you.

Answer 1

there are no “reliable” quotes on FOREX in principle. One bank sets its own quotes, the other - if the parties come to an agreement - there are transactions that are not recorded centrally by anyone and no one knows for sure about the volume of the transaction, the price and, in general, about the fact of the transaction, apart from competitors. This situation is exploited and exacerbated by forex kitchens, which make their own adjustments to quotes, come up with a spread and distribute this data to their clients (sometimes different for different clients, such cases are known), such as profitable for the kitchen.

Answer 2

What does not suit the variant with DDE?
It works great, reliable and accurate. If necessary, I can give a python script that takes data via dde and puts it in mysql. It is very simple on asyncore

Answer 3

On various world exchanges there are exchange, centralized currency trading, the data from them is public and we can say about them that they are reliable. Those. you must first find the exchange where your pair is traded, and then a way to get this data. Sometimes the exchange itself provides a convenient interface cheaply, sometimes it’s easier and cheaper through a quote provider

Answer 4

Here: fxtrade.oanda.com/lang/ru/trade-forex/api

Answer 5

Does not pretend to be a solution, but jq.forexpf.ru/html/htmlquotes/q can help as a temporary

Answer 6

It can also be called a kitchen, but still, there are quotes in a convenient format via http.

Answer 7

50 euros seems to be not expensive to drink a little beer in a restaurant once.

Answer 8

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Answer 9

You can also look at the data on Quandl:
www.quandl.com/markets/g-10-cross-rates
There is an API for working with them.

Answer 10

In this case, first of all, speed is important, as far as I understand. I will not advise, everyone has their own channels of information) But in any case, I would not 100 percent trust any source, even a mega authoritative one.