# How far back does 1D "Bars" go?

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**Category:** Alpaca Market Data\
**Created:** [November 27, 2020, 4:18pm UTC](https://forum.alpaca.markets/t/how-far-back-does-1d-bars-go/3445 "2020-11-27T16:18:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![DSA](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/898d66/32.png) [@DSA](https://forum.alpaca.markets/u/DSA)\
**Post date:** [November 27, 2020, 4:18pm UTC](https://forum.alpaca.markets/t/how-far-back-does-1d-bars-go/3445/1 "2020-11-27T16:18:14Z")

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I’ve been writing GET requests to pull data via the “Bars” query:

> **[Bars - Documentation | Alpaca](https://alpaca.markets/docs/api-documentation/api-v2/market-data/bars/)**
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> Alpaca API lets you build and trade with real-time market data for free.

The docs state a maximum of 1000 bars per symbol and 200 symbols per query. However, nothing is written about how far back daily data go.

When I use either my paper/live API keys it looks like I can only go back ~2 years for “1D” data.

1. Is this correct?
2. What is a good cheap alternative source of daily OHLC & Volume data?