How is histdata.com for historical forex?

Using tick volume turns out to be a decent representation of forex volume, so I'm wondering what people think about the historical volume from histdata.com

I actually cannot find volume I can pay for... It seems to all be free, which is worrying, a little.

http://www.histdata.com/download-free-forex-data/?/ascii/tick-data-quotes

 

Using tick volume is not a decent representation of volume. It just shows you how many requotes are occurring.

With knowledge of the source of data, I don't think it's worthwhile to use it. They could completely change sources from day-to-day and you'd be trying to infer relationships that aren't there.

Can't beat the price, but the provenance is questionable.

 

Search CLS on www.quandl.com for fx volume data.

 

Have you purchased this? They won't sell it to me

 

Tick volume is not perfect by a long shot but lacking volume data what would you use?

 

Why is that? I have not purchasd either.

 

Futures volume or CLS.

 

According to them they only sell to institutions. Makes sense, retail traders likely are a pain.

 

Do you have access to CLS? I can't get it.

There was a study I read about which showed a 90% correlation between tick volume and real volume. Let's say that is now decayed to 80%. That's still decent!

Futures volume is difficult to map well as finding volume for expired contracts is a pain. But I also did look into this and may run a study at some point to see their correlation.

 

Where do you get tick volume for FX?