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Is there something Lean can do but Lean CLI can't?
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Jasper van Merle
Hi Yi,
LEAN is the algorithmic trading engine, the CLI is the recommended way to run it locally. You can find a list of the CLI's features on GitHub, as well as in its documentation.
The only thing that comes to mind that is in LEAN that is not available in the CLI at the moment are many of the programs in the ToolBox project. The random data generator in there is already exposed through the `lean data generate` command, but if you need any of the other programs in there you'll have to run LEAN manually and move the downloaded/parsed data to the CLI's data directory.
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