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Hello everybody,

this is my first mail here. I have been invested for about 2.5 years, but without much success.

Currently I would like to try out some strategies. For this I need the Bitcoin -$ values of the past 1 to 2 years and this not as daily values (which you can see and download on many finance sites) but hourly data sets. Is there a way to access the data easily via a website or stock exchange?

kind regards
ALM

Check CryptoDataDownload (https://www.cryptodatadownload.com/). I've checked a couple of exchanges (out of 24), and they seem to offer what you're looking for (hourly data since 2017).

If you ever need older data for more pairs and exchanges, you can check CoinAPI.io (https://www.coinapi.io/pricing).

Thanks for the useful link.

I am wondering how they extract so much data from hourly to daily basis ?

Not just for single site but they do have multiple major exchanges data. (CryptoDataDownload). This was a cool share.

I don't know how but I doubt that they get the data from bitcoincharts.com since they are offering free API to retrieve historical data they might be developing a script to scrape data from bitcoincharts.com and then they convert unixtime to hourly/daily basis.

Are you planning to develop something related to historical data?

You can use their API for free from here https://bitcoincharts.com/about/markets-api/
They update their data twice a day with a few seconds interval.

A sample one is this http://api.bitcoincharts.com/v1/trades.csv?symbol=bitstampUSD with bitstamp BTC/USD

Great to see heads up!

No I am not planning to do anything about it but it was something new for me so just asked out of curiosity.


Got the hint how they do it. But i guess its involved with many stuff such as background coding, and putting all the data in organised or readable form.

wow great this will help me out!!!  ;D

I think you need some technical skills in coding here? Especially if you will interact on some API endpoints to get some historical data.
Like if you will plan to get easier to maintain and more accurate data, you gonna probably do some coding here?
Unless you will hire some coders to process your data from other websites/services.

By that, it is better if you can make a lot of research and visiting other platform that is you can get a lot of history of the market price of the bitcoin because if you just gather information here sometimes there is limited and also base on our experience only and one of the good things you can do is try to visit or explore more into the world of the bitcoin history price because by that you can now make a lot of ideas that you can use to the things you want too to get more income in bitcoin.

Coingecko or Coinmarketcap provides free to use API to acquire data such as trade volume, prices, exchanges, and historical data.
check out if it works,mostly they have limited api queries because they're free. So you might try out they're premium services.

This is your first "post" here and not mail. You can find the yearly ones almost everywhere, you can literally google "bitcoin historical prices" and find results, it is not a hidden stat, it is not a secret data, it is wide open public thing that you can reach.

However, make sure that your strategy would work with some sort of simulation first, try to make like a "play money" investment first depending on your strategy and see if it works in real life, do not actually invest, just act as if you invested and wait around, if it looks like it worked that is great, if it looks like it didn't worked then you should maybe try another strategy. What you should know about bitcoin that no one strategy can always be true, some of them are just never working out for anyone.

great advice, thank you! i already have some coding skills in matlab and python. I am currently working on tensorflow. And of course I always do backtests with the data to choose the best possible strategy