For some time now I've been interested in trading and lately I've been trying to do some ground work to help me decide which direction I might take, with Forex being one possible path.
In an ideal world I'd like to aquire a significant chunk of historical intraday data (an absolute minimum of 1 year worth of maybe 10 seconds, 5 seconds or tick by tick) and use it to test out potential strategies. It would also be useful to have a charting package to go with this, though as it's only early research I'm not keen to outlay hundreds of dollars or pounds.
Years ago I purchased MetaStock for stocks and a library of historical data for UK equities along with it, but they now seem to have switched to subscription based pricing models. Their Forex package is priced at $179 p/month including a data feed from QuoteCenter. That's way too pricey for my purposes at this stage.
Can anyone make any suggestions?
In an ideal world I'd like to aquire a significant chunk of historical intraday data (an absolute minimum of 1 year worth of maybe 10 seconds, 5 seconds or tick by tick) and use it to test out potential strategies. It would also be useful to have a charting package to go with this, though as it's only early research I'm not keen to outlay hundreds of dollars or pounds.
Years ago I purchased MetaStock for stocks and a library of historical data for UK equities along with it, but they now seem to have switched to subscription based pricing models. Their Forex package is priced at $179 p/month including a data feed from QuoteCenter. That's way too pricey for my purposes at this stage.
Can anyone make any suggestions?
