EURUSD since 1971?
- From theory to practice
- Good EURUSD analysis site?
- Multiple EA backtesting
Just wondering how and why our backtester inclues info on the euro dating back before the euro was created? I would like to know if it was done with the same basket of currencies valued against the USD, or if it's something else entirely.
"They" are the banks and other financial institutions! Before the "Euro", each country had its own currency and banks carried out exchanges just as they do now.
The main difference however, is that they did calculations and kept records on things like paper, microfiche, etc.
As the digital era came about, those banks converted that information into electronic form, allowing it to be accessed more easily and be analysed.
That is basically it!