I understand that we cannot download equities into our data library. How can we stream the data just as the browser version?
I set the configuration as so:
"environment": "backtesting-desktop", // "live-paper", "backtesting", "live-interactive", "live-interactive-iqfeed"
And it looks like I have to download the zip files to the ../Data folder. There are some example files already there for example 'AIG'.
private Symbol _aig = QuantConnect.Symbol.Create("AIG", SecurityType.Equity, Market.USA);
bool holdingARDMPosition = false;
//string _symbol = "AIG";
BollingerBands _bb;
RelativeStrengthIndex _rsi;
AverageTrueRange _atr;
ExponentialMovingAverage _ema;
SimpleMovingAverage _sma;
MovingAverageConvergenceDivergence _macd;
decimal _price;
/// <summary>
/// Initialise the data and resolution required, as well as the cash and start-end dates for your algorithm. All algorithms must initialized.
/// </summary>
public override void Initialize()
{
SetStartDate(2013, 10, 07); //Set Start Date
SetEndDate(2013, 10, 11); //Set End Date
SetCash(100000); //Set Strategy Cash
// Find more symbols here: http://quantconnect.com/data
AddEquity("AIG", Resolution.Minute);
//Set up Indicators:
_bb = BB(_aig, 20, 1, MovingAverageType.Simple, Resolution.Minute);
_rsi = RSI(_aig, 14, MovingAverageType.Simple, Resolution.Minute);
_atr = ATR(_aig, 14, MovingAverageType.Simple, Resolution.Minute);
_ema = EMA(_aig, 14, Resolution.Minute);
_sma = SMA(_aig, 14, Resolution.Minute);
_macd = MACD(_aig, 12, 26, 9, MovingAverageType.Simple, Resolution.Minute);
}
But Can we just stream the data without having to point to this folder? Is there a configuration setting or something?
//"data-provider": "QuantConnect.Lean.Engine.DataFeeds.DefaultDataProvider",
"data-provider": "QuantConnect.Lean.Engine.DataFeeds.ApiDataProvider",
Jared Broad
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Iman Mohtashemi
Ok thanks that's too bad. I did dowload data directly from QuantQuote for a few years of minute resolution data. Are there examples soemwhere how to consume the data? It looks like it has some structure such as symbol name then .zip...
Iman Mohtashemi
Could you also answer my Intellectual Property question? Thanks again and this is really AWESOME!!
Michael Manus
Hi you could check the google downloader provided with lean which produces this zip files.
but wait they provide a quantquote converter too in the toolbox project...........check that out !
Iman Mohtashemi
Oh cool. Thanks!
Iman Mohtashemi
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