By default, data downloaded for each symbol is saved in a file having the name of that symbol and the extension csv by default. This can be adjusted however by using the Output settings: strings can be prepended and/or appended to the symbol part of the file name and the file extension can be changed.

The format described below is relevant mostly if fixed formatting settings are used. If regex formatting is used, data can be saved in virtually any format.

The date format depends on several settings (see the Settings section). They can be in US or European format, and or they can have the month and day fields padded with 0s up to 2 digits.

Bar data format

Historical data files are saved in CSV format with the following columns:

Date

Open

High

Low

Close

Volume

 

There is no title row in the data files.

Data example when using the US date format 

11/15/2010	49.8578	50.3459	49.4693	49.6884	2806900
11/16/2010	50.8041	51.8999	50.7443	50.9535	5451100
11/17/2010	50.6547	50.7244	49.9773	50.3957	4875700
11/18/2010	50.6049	51.1727	50.2164	50.9535	4379900
11/19/2010	50.9535	52.2784	50.8639	51.87	4025700

 

The same data using the European date format:

15/11/2010	49.8578	50.3459	49.4693	49.6884	2806900
16/11/2010	50.8041	51.8999	50.7443	50.9535	5451100
17/11/2010	50.6547	50.7244	49.9773	50.3957	4875700
18/11/2010	50.6049	51.1727	50.2164	50.9535	4379900
19/11/2010	50.9535	52.2784	50.8639	51.87	4025700

 

In case the option to add the symbol name to the file to column is on, and the column number is 1 for example, the resulting data will be:

11/15/2010	symbol	49.8578	50.3459	49.4693	49.6884	2806900
11/16/2010	symbol	50.8041	51.8999	50.7443	50.9535	5451100
11/17/2010	symbol	50.6547	50.7244	49.9773	50.3957	4875700
11/18/2010	symbol	50.6049	51.1727	50.2164	50.9535	4379900
11/19/2010	symbol	50.9535	52.2784	50.8639	51.87	4025700