Forex Relative History from 1990

Interactive page: for an interactive page.

Forex rates can vary massively for different currencies so I scaled them all from -1 to +1 (i.e relative values) so they could all be displayed on the same scale on the same graph.

+1 represents currencies that are at their highest relative to the USD for the history available (and they appear green)

-1 represents currencies that are at their lowest relative to the USD for the history available (and they appear red)

The USD = 0 (yellow) for the entire time period because it's the base currency

The USD is relatively strong against many currencies in 2009 (resulting in a lot of the map being red-ish) and relatively week in 2008 (resulting in a lot of the map being green-ish). 2019 is another period where the USD is relatively strong against many currencies.

These displays could also potentially be used as input to a hedging strategy because it's easy to see which currencies are relatively high and low against the USD for the history available.

The base currency can be changed in the interactive page.

If you can tell me about other forex sources that could be added to this please let me know (and the source would need to be ok with me publishing the data on mapipedia). I'd also like to put some events on this page to indicate some of the reasons for currency changes (e.g. sanctions, quant. easing, trade wars, rate changes ...) so if anyone has a list of those that would also be super sweet.

This page was made by getting Forex data from (published with permission ... thanks dukascopy!):



(you can also download the data directly for all currencies in one go by going to the following interactive page and clicking "Export CSV Data"

The visuals in the mapipedia platform were written using d3.

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