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Hi,
Complete newbie. I just want to test that my assumption is true:
Can I backtest my algo on historical US futures data from 2009 - for free?
Or do I have to buy this data?
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Jared Broad
Correct through the website you can backtest using it for free at the moment! We might charge for this feature at a later date. You can also download FX and CFD data for free from the Data Library which you can use with the open source project.
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Daniel IMTI
Hello Jared,
i would like to get some clarity arround accessing the data via API, i would like to download live data and symbols into our custom charting library for further analysis. If i am correct it says somewhere data download is free for members. please confirm.
Jared Broad
HI Daniel, Members can download FX and CFD data for free from the Data Library which you can use with the open source project LEAN.
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Daniel IMTI
Thak you,
could i have the a full access API address which normally look like this below, There is nothing like this on github for QuantConnect.
GET https://www.quandl.com/api/v3/datasets/WIKI/AAPL.csv?api_key=YOURAPIKEY
Regards
Daniel
Andrew Hart
Daniel,
You can find an example of how to download data from the QC data library in the open source project here: https://github.com/QuantConnect/Lean/blob/master/Api/Api.cs#L574
This is only for FX and CFD data you have already purchased through QuantConnect. This method also assumes you have set your "job-user-id" and "api-access-token" in config.json.
Daniel IMTI
Hi Andrew,
Thank you for the reply.
Do we have a RESTful API endpoints for this, i see reference to some C# code? our platform if written in PHP will be practical to access RESTful API endpoints using our "job-user-id" and "api-access-token" in config.json.
William Wilkins
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