Data Providers
Polygon
Introduction
Instead of using the data from your brokerage, you can also use Polygon. This tutorial demonstrates how to set up the Polygon data provider with the QuantConnect Paper Trading brokerage.
To view the implementation of the Polygon integration, see the Lean.DataSource.Polygon repository.
Deploy Local Algorithms
Follow these steps to start local live trading with the Polygon data provider:
- Log in to the CLI if you haven't done so already.
- Open a terminal in the organization workspace that contains the project.
- Run
lean live deploy "<projectName>"
to start a live deployment wizard for the project in . / <projectName> and then enter a brokerage number.$ lean live deploy "My Project" Select a brokerage: 1) Paper Trading 2) Interactive Brokers 3) Tradier 4) OANDA 5) Bitfinex 6) Coinbase Advanced Trade 7) Binance 8) Zerodha 9) Samco 10) Terminal Link 11) Trading Technologies 12) Kraken 13) TD Ameritrade 14) Bybit 15) TradeStation 16) Alpaca Enter an option: 1
- Enter the number of the live data provider(s) to use and then follow the steps required for the data connection.
$ lean live deploy "My Project" Select a live data provider: 1) Interactive Brokers 2) Tradier 3) Oanda 4) Bitfinex 5) Coinbase Advanced Trade 6) Binance 7) Zerodha 8) Samco 9) Terminal Link 10) Trading Technologies 11) Kraken 12) TDAmeritrade 13) IQFeed 14) Polygon 15) IEX 16) CoinApi 17) ThetaData 18) Custom data only 19) Bybit 20) TradeStation 21) Alpaca To enter multiple options, separate them with comma:
- Enter your Polygon API key.
$ lean live "My Project" Configure credentials for Polygon Your Polygon API Key:
To get your API key, see the API Keys page on the Polygon website.
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View the result in the <projectName> / live / <timestamp> directory.
Results are stored in real-time in JSON format.
You can save results to a different directory by providing the
--output <path>
option in step 2.
If you already have a live environment configured in your Lean configuration file, you can skip the interactive wizard by providing the --environment <value>
option in step 2.
The value of this option must be the name of an environment which has live-mode
set to true
.
Deploy Cloud Algorithms
Follow these steps to start live trading a project in the cloud with the QuantConnect Paper Trading brokerage and the Polygon data provider:
- Log in to the CLI if you haven't done so already.
- Open a terminal in the organization workspace that contains the project.
- Run
lean cloud live deploy "<projectName>" --push --open
to push . / <projectName>. to the cloud, start a live deployment wizard, and open the results in the browser once the deployment starts. - Enter 1 to select the QuantConnect Paper Trading brokerage.
- Configure your notification settings.
- Enable or disable automatic algorithm restarting.
- Select the live node that you want to use.
- Enter 14 to select the Polygon data provider.
- Enter your Polygon API key.
$ lean cloud live "My Project" --push --open Configure credentials for Polygon Your Polygon API Key:
To get your API key, see the API Keys page on the Polygon website.
- Verify the configured settings and confirm them to start the live deployment in the cloud.
- Inspect the result in the browser, which opens automatically after the deployment starts.
$ lean cloud live deploy "My Project" --push --open [1/1] Pushing 'My Project' Successfully updated cloud file 'My Project/main.py' Started compiling project 'My Project' Successfully compiled project 'My Project'
$ lean cloud live deploy "My Project" --push --open Select a brokerage: 1) Paper Trading 2) Interactive Brokers 3) Tradier 4) Oanda 5) Bitfinex 6) Coinbase Advanced Trade 7) Binance 8) Zerodha 9) Samco 10) Terminal Link 11) Trading Technologies 12) Kraken 13) TD Ameritrade 14) Bybit 15) TradeStation 16) Alpaca Enter an option: 1
You can configure any combination of email, webhook, SMS, and Telegram notifications for order events and emitted insights. To view the number of notification you can send for free, see the Live Trading Notification Quotas.
$ lean cloud live deploy "My Project" --push --open Do you want to send notifications on order events? [y/N]: y Do you want to send notifications on insights? [y/N]: y Email notifications: None Webhook notifications: None SMS notifications: None Select a notification method: 1) Email 2) Webhook 3) SMS 4) Telegram Enter an option: 1 Email address: john.doe@example.com Subject: Algorithm notification Email notifications: john.doe@example.com Webhook notifications: None SMS notifications: None Telegram notifications: None Do you want to add another notification method? [y/N]: n
This feature attempts to restart your algorithm if it fails due to a runtime error, like a brokerage API disconnection.
$ lean cloud live deploy "My Project" --push --open Do you want to enable automatic algorithm restarting? [Y/n]: y
If you only have one idle live trading node, it is selected automatically and this step is skipped.
$ lean cloud live deploy "My Project" --push --open Select a node: 1) L-MICRO node 89c90172 - 1 CPU @ 2.4GHz, 0.5GB Ram 2) L-MICRO node 85a52135 - 1 CPU @ 2.4GHz, 0.5GB Ram Enter an option: 1
$ lean live "My Project" Select a live data feed: 1) QuantConnect 2) Interactive Brokers 3) Tradier 4) Oanda 5) Bitfinex 6) Coinbase Advanced Trade 7) Binance 8) Zerodha 9) Samco 10) Terminal Link 11) Trading Technologies 12) Kraken 13) TDAmeritrade 14) Polygon 15) IEX 16) CoinApi 17) Bybit 18) TradeStation 19) Alpaca To enter multiple options, separate them with comma: 14
$ lean cloud live deploy "My Project" --push --open Brokerage: QuantConnect Paper Trading Project id: 1234567 Environment: Live Server name: L-MICRO node 89c90172 Server type: L-MICRO Live Data providers: Polygon LEAN version: 11157 Order event notifications: Yes Insight notifications: Yes Email notifications: john.doe@example.com Webhook notifications: None SMS notifications: None Telegram notifications: None Automatic algorithm restarting: Yes Are you sure you want to start live trading for project 'My Project'? [y/N]: y
Follow these steps to see the live status of a project:
- Log in to the CLI if you haven't done so already.
- Open a terminal in the organization workspace that contains the project.
- Run
lean cloud status "<projectName>"
to show the status of the cloud project named "<projectName>".
$ lean cloud status "My Project" Project id: 1234567 Project name: My Project Project url: https://www.quantconnect.com/project/1234567 Live status: Running Live id: L-1234567a8901d234e5e678ddd9b0123c Live url: https://www.quantconnect.com/project/1234567/live Brokerage: QuantConnect Paper Trading Launched: 2021-06-09 15:10:12 UTC
Mutiple Data Providers
When you deploy a live algorithm, you can add multiple data provider. If you use multiple data providers, the order you select them in defines their order of precedence in Lean. For example, if you set Polygon as the first provider and IB as the second provider, Lean only uses the IB data provider for securities that aren't available from the Polygon data provider. This configuration makes it possible to use Polygon data provider for Equity and use IB for Futures.