Place to get free live Forex quotes via API?

External question — Quantitative Finance Stack Exchange Author: Robert F Original post: https://quant.stackexchange.com/questions/34433 License: CC BY-SA 3.0 — https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ Adaptation: HTML converted to plain text; contact email addresses removed. Are any free Forex data APIs available? There are a ton of historical data repositories that are freely available but what about a live, streaming data API? 1 minute updates or tick data would be great.

External answer — Quantitative Finance Stack Exchange Author: jtd0492 Original post: https://quant.stackexchange.com/a/34434 License: CC BY-SA 3.0 — https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ Adaptation: HTML converted to plain text; contact email addresses removed. Your options for real-time tick data are limited, but there are some: Limited pairs, multiple updates per minute (HTML format) http://webrates.truefx.com/rates/connect.html?f=html The only reliable/free JSON API: http://1forge.com/forex-data-api

External answer — Quantitative Finance Stack Exchange Author: Xpector Original post: https://quant.stackexchange.com/a/37708 License: CC BY-SA 3.0 — https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ Adaptation: HTML converted to plain text; contact email addresses removed. I think the easiest way is to open a trading account, the choice of brokers is huge. Some of them even offer next to their own API also FIX protocol. Minimal deposit could be as low as couple of hundred dollars, datafeed is then free. Not free but affordable are dedicated datafeeds, about forty dollars per months.

External answer — Quantitative Finance Stack Exchange Author: Arthur Wright Original post: https://quant.stackexchange.com/a/42852 License: CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ Adaptation: HTML converted to plain text; contact email addresses removed. There is a new currency API I have seen by https://fxmarketapi.com it's free and real-time for even a basic version.

External answer — Quantitative Finance Stack Exchange Author: jackrc Original post: https://quant.stackexchange.com/a/45034 License: CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ Adaptation: HTML converted to plain text; contact email addresses removed. For real-time prices: http://1forge.com/forex-data-api . For historical data: http://datadt.com . Both sources are free. Update: datadt.com seems dead for some good time. Domain up for sale...

External answer — Quantitative Finance Stack Exchange Author: StanislavKo Original post: https://quant.stackexchange.com/a/60238 License: CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ Adaptation: HTML converted to plain text; contact email addresses removed. Real-time forex and crypto (ticks and bars (21 periods from 1 minute to 1 month)): https://cerebro1.com It provides also technical indicators values live.

External answer — Quantitative Finance Stack Exchange Author: silverdr Original post: https://quant.stackexchange.com/a/69262 License: CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ Adaptation: HTML converted to plain text; contact email addresses removed. Haven't used it myself (yet) but https://fcsapi.com/ looks promising