lynx1231/historical-commodity-pacific-fx-sample

Historical Commodity & Pacific FX Sample

A free evaluation sample of historical Forex data focused on selected Australian dollar, Canadian dollar, and New Zealand dollar pairs.

Full historical Forex catalog, broader pair coverage, downloadable datasets, and pricing:
https://futuresforexandsomeindexes.com/

This repository is a free evaluation sample intended for schema inspection, data-quality evaluation, integration testing, and quantitative research prototyping. It is not the complete commercial dataset.

Sample coverage

This release contains 4 currency pairs, 12 distinct monthly partition codes, and 1,488,942 observations across daily and minute frequencies.

Currency pair	Base currency	Daily partitions	Minute partitions
AUDNZD	AUD	01-25, 02-25, 03-25, 04-25, 05-25, 06-25, 07-25, 08-25, 09-25, 10-25, 11-25, 12-25	01-25, 02-25, 03-25, 04-25, 05-25, 06-25, 07-25, 08-25, 09-25, 10-25, 11-25, 12-25
AUDUSD	AUD	01-25, 02-25, 03-25, 04-25, 05-25, 06-25, 07-25, 08-25, 09-25, 10-25, 11-25, 12-25	01-25, 02-25, 03-25, 04-25, 05-25, 06-25, 07-25, 08-25, 09-25, 10-25, 11-25, 12-25
NZDUSD	NZD	01-25, 02-25, 03-25, 04-25, 05-25, 06-25, 07-25, 08-25, 09-25, 10-25, 11-25, 12-25	01-25, 02-25, 03-25, 04-25, 05-25, 06-25, 07-25, 08-25, 09-25, 10-25, 11-25, 12-25
USDCAD	USD	01-25, 02-25, 03-25, 04-25, 05-25, 06-25, 07-25, 08-25, 09-25, 10-25, 11-25, 12-25	01-25, 02-25, 03-25, 04-25, 05-25, 06-25, 07-25, 08-25, 09-25, 10-25, 11-25, 12-25

The sample manifest determines which monthly partitions are included. The complete catalog may contain substantially broader pair and historical coverage.

Package contents

• data/daily/*.parquet — normalized daily Forex observations.
• data/minute/*.parquet — normalized minute-level Forex observations.
• catalog.csv / catalog.parquet — one row per sampled pair/frequency/month source file with observation counts, timestamp bounds, output shard, and SHA-256.
• metadata.json — release-level coverage and file statistics.
• manifest.json — sanitized public sample manifest; internal source IDs are excluded.
• schema.json — column definitions and timestamp semantics.
• checksums.sha256 — package integrity hashes.
• dataset-metadata.json — Kaggle publication metadata.
• examples/ — Polars, pandas, and DuckDB loading examples.

Data format

The release uses Apache Parquet with ZSTD compression.

Daily and minute files share the same normalized columns:

timestamp, open, high, low, close, volume, pair_name, dataset, base, file_code

Daily observations in this release: 1,040
Minute observations in this release: 1,487,902

file_code preserves the monthly source partition label, such as 01-25.

Timestamp semantics

timestamp is the original source timestamp integer and is preserved unchanged. The public release builder does not perform timezone conversion.

Quick start

Polars

import polars as pl

minute = pl.scan_parquet("data/minute/*.parquet")
sample = minute.filter(pl.col("pair_name") == "EURUSD").collect()
print(sample.head())

pandas

from pathlib import Path
import pandas as pd

files = sorted(Path("data/minute").glob("*.parquet"))
df = pd.concat((pd.read_parquet(p) for p in files), ignore_index=True)
print(df.head())

DuckDB

SELECT pair_name, COUNT(*) AS observations
FROM read_parquet('data/minute/*.parquet')
GROUP BY pair_name
ORDER BY observations DESC;

Typical uses

• Research involving AUD, CAD, and NZD currency relationships.
• Intraday and daily analysis of selected commodity-sensitive and Pacific FX pairs.
• Backtesting and feature engineering for multi-pair FX workflows.
• Schema and data-quality evaluation before obtaining broader historical coverage.

Integrity and reproducibility

Every Parquet shard is referenced in the catalog and the package includes checksums.sha256. The release builder validates required columns, manifest identifiers, required non-null fields, basic OHLC bounds, and manifest source-ID uniqueness before writing the release.

Internal Forex source identifiers are excluded from public release metadata.

Complete dataset

This package is intentionally limited to a small evaluation subset. For the complete Forex catalog, broader historical coverage, availability, samples, and pricing, visit:

https://futuresforexandsomeindexes.com/

Release information

• Release version: 2026-09-18
• Generated: 2026-09-18T16:11:21.321650+00:00
• Dataset family: Commodity & Pacific FX Pairs
• Compression: zstd
• License metadata: other