Thank you for your response. Notice in my post above I said "...or they want a fee which is fair."
I understand why there are reasons for a fee to be charged. It seems odd though that I can get mountains of historical data off of yahoo finance for example concerning stocks and indexes, but...
I realize the "where can I get historical data?" question has been posed numerous times. I found multiple posts from way in the past through a quick search here.
My questions is this, why is futures historical data so closely guarded?
It seems as if everywhere I've looked eoddata, cme group...
I do not endorse or have an opinion concerning the following...
But check the following:
1. tradingblox (turtleblox)
2. getfolio
Google that name and make an informed decision.
And to not further derail the conversation I'll stop there.
Goodluck