eSignal History Data
We break history data into four separate categories: daily, standard intraday, extended intraday and tick data. Except for today's daily bar, daily data is updated once per day and includes Open/High/Low/Close and Volume information. Standard and extended intraday data comprises minute intervals (like 1, 3, 5, 30, 60 etc.). Tick data includes raw ticks (like time and sales) and tick bars like 100T or 10000V. The following date ranges are approximations for the majority of symbols in that category. Date range may not apply for all symbols.
Category | Tick | Standard Intraday * |
Extended Tick ** |
Extended Intraday ** |
Daily / Weekly / Monthly |
North American Stocks | 10 days | 120 days | 40 days | Back to Apr 1997 |
Back to 1990 |
North American Futures | 10 days | 120 days | 40 days | Back to Mar 2007 |
Varies by contract, as many as 31 years *** |
North American Options† | 10 days | 120 days | 40 days | -- | Up to 1 year |
North American Indices | 10 days | 120 days | 40 days | Back to Apr 1997 |
Back to 1990 (as far as 1970 for several) |
South America Equities and Indices |
10 days | 120 days | 40 days | Back to Feb 2009 |
3 - 6 years (varies by instrument) |
Mutual Funds / Money Markets |
-- | -- | -- | -- | Back to 1994 |
European & African Equities and Indices |
10 days | 120 days | 40 days | Back to Feb 2009 |
5 - 10+ years (varies by instrument) |
Asia Pacific Equities and Indices |
10 days | 120 days | 40 days | Back to Feb 2009 |
3 - 6 years (varies by instrument) |
European / African & Asia Pacific Futures |
10 days | 120 days | 40 days | Back to Mar 2007 |
Varies by contract, as many as 9 years *** |
Forex (bid / ask data only) | 10 days | 120 days | 40 days | Back to Mar 2007 |
Back to 1983 on major pairs |
GovPx Treasuries | 10 days | 120 days | 40 days | Back to Mar 2007 |
Back to 2006 |
* 120 days of standard intraday history available in eSignal's Advanced Charting. eSignal's standard charting will continue to go back 60 days.
** Extended intraday / tick data is available to eSignal and QCharts users as an add-on service. You can add the service via Account Maintenance. A $14 fee is associated with this level of data. The latest version of eSignal is available for download here.
*** Please note that data on some contracts now goes back as far as 1973. History available varies by contract type.
-- Not currently available
† Historical intraday options data package available for a $50 / mo. add-on fee; daily, weekly, monthly historical options data free