A little history

I’ve been studying charts for a while now and I’ve notice that most charts only go as far as 1994, would it be to avoid an overload of data or is there a different reason? Any thoughts?

And before MT4 and Fxpro ctrader was there only the trading pits or were there other options to trade?

thats around the time when proper computer trading started. retail brokers dont offer more.

historic charts can be found online. just google it.

but what do you need them for? what happened 50 years ago has as little impact on todays pricing as a donkey taking a dump in kambodia impacts the price of eur/usd

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I always used this site:

http://fxtop.com/en/historical-exchange-rates.php

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Just curious, because in theory trading has been around for a long time.

Thank you! I’ll have a look at it!

This site is amazing!

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So has the wheel, but Formula One has only been with us since 1946 :slight_smile:

As MrDe says, its really the advent of computer trading that opened it up to retail traders.

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Wow, indeed, I lot of serious analytical work’s been done since 1994. But on the one hand this is as it should be because many traders work this way and get some positive information for trade=)