Community

Discussions are a set of forum posts and comments about a targeted subject. We occasionally post to forum discussions to announce new features, tutorials, and examples. If you have completed 30% of the Bootcamp lessons, you can contribute to discussions. Create discussions to connect with other members or to ask for guidance on a specific problem that you are facing, but always perform your own research and tests before asking other members for assistance.

The forum supports the following functionality:

• Attaching backtest results and research notebooks
• Bookmarking discussions
• Generating links to comments to share
  
• Publishing text content that includes bold, italics, lists, links, emojis, and LaTeX
• Rewarding discussion content with QuantConnect Credit and upvotes
• Sharing code snippets, photos, videos, and files
• Tagging other members

You can attach project files and backtest results to your forum comments. Sharing your project files is helpful in the following situations:

• Contributing to a discussion about trading strategies and implementations
  
• Highlighting an issue with data or Lean
• Requesting assistance with an algorithm or research notebook
  
• Sharing your interesting research and backtests with the community

Sharing backtests is helpful in these situations because it enables other members to reproduce your results. However, since Lean is under constant development, old backtests that are attached to forum discussions can sometimes produce different results than they did in the past.

You can only attach backtests to the forum if they don't throw errors. If you want to share a backtest that throws errors, call the Quit method before the error occurs.

To show your appreciation for contributions in the forum, give some QuantConnect Credit (QCC) rewards. The following table shows the available QCC rewards:

Award	Description	Cost (QCC)
Silver Award	A simple token of recognition from one quant to another. Keep up the great work.	80
Gold Award	This is some great work! Gold star!	600
Platinum Award	Highly resistant to oxidation, this award is for those contributions which will stand the test of time. Strong, classic, and useful for most high technology products.	1,200
Medal for Excellence	The QuantConnect Medal for Excellence is awarded by a member of the QuantConnect staff for exceptional contributions to the QuantConnect community.	3,000
Plutonium Award	Nuclear hot! This post is incredible and deserves recognition as such. Show the author your appreciation for their work.	2,000
Docs Shakespeare	You've left a mark by a contribution to the documentation for the community. Your edits and examples will be followed for generations to come.	500
Nobel Laureate	Bestowed in recognition of quantitative advances.	80
Spaghetti Code Award	Following the intricate flows of code noodle, this code compiles and runs.	300
Jedi Quant	Quant promise you show. Your code channel the force into. Hmmmmmm.	200
Live Trader	That looks like a wild ride.	50
Today I Learned	Thank you for upgrading my brain.	50
Machine Unlearning	I plan on letting the computers do all the work for me.	150
Totally Overfit	I see parameters everywhere.	80
Mind Blown Award	Something incredibly amazing, mind-boggling, and you're shocked senseless.	80
Research Rembrandt	A Jupyter notebook work of art, pulling together all the right hues and plots to be a true masterpiece.	100
Cayman Island Award	Let's get a boat and start a fund together. Did I mention the boat?	800
Printing Money Award	Awarded to profitable algorithms.	100
Stronger Together Award	We're stronger together. Let's make this happen!	120
Appreciate the Support Award	Quant trading is a hard road, we could all use a hand.	250
Master Craftsman	You're a master craftsman, taking raw materials and molding them into works of art for the good of the world.	600

Follow discussions to receive email notifications when members post new content. You can follow all forum discussions or individual discussions.

All Discussions

Follow these steps to subscribe or unsubscribe from all forum discussions:

1. Log in to your account.
2. Open the community feed.
3. In the Community Mailing List section, click Subscribe or Manage Subscriptions.

Individual Discussions

To toggle your subscription to individual discussions, add or remove a bookmark to the discussions.

Follow these steps to search the forum:

1. Open the forum homepage.
2. Click the magnifying glass icon.
3. Enter some keywords to use in the search.

Follow these steps to create a new forum discussion:

1. Log in to your account.
2. Open the forum homepage.
3. Click Start New Discussion.
4. Enter the discussion title.
5. Enter the discussion content.
6. (Optional) Follow these steps to attach a backtest:
1. Click Attach Backtest.
2. Click the Project field and then select the project that contains the backtest that you want to attach from the drop-down menu.

You can only attach projects that you own.

3. Click the Backtest field and then select a backtest from the drop-down menu.

When you attach a backtest, you're sharing all of the project files that were used to generate the backtest results.

7. (Optional) Under the Discussion Tags section, click Show All and then click all of the tags that are relevant to the discussion.
8. Click Publish Discussion.

You can only post comments on open forum discussions. To open a closed discussion, contact us.

Follow these steps to post a comment on a forum discussion:

1. Log in to your account.
2. Open the forum homepage.
3. Click the discussion on which you want to comment.
4. If you want to reply to a comment in the discussion, click Reply at the bottom of the comment.
5. If you want to comment on the top-level discussion, scroll to the bottom of the discussion page and enter your comment.
6. (Optional) If you comment on the top-level discussion, follow these steps to attach a backtest:
1. Click Attach Backtest.
2. Click the Project field and then select the project that contains the backtest you want to attach from the drop-down menu.

You can only attach projects that you own.

3. Click the Backtest field and then select a backtest from the drop-down menu.

When you attach a backtest, you're sharing all of the project files that were used to generate the backtest results.

7. Click Reply.

Your comment is appended to the discussion.

You can only accept answers on discussions you create.

Follow these steps to accept an answer on your discussion:

1. Log in to your account.
2. Open the forum homepage.
3. Open the discussion that contains the answer that you want to accept.
4. On the comment that you want to accept, click Accept Answer.

The discussion closes and a copy of the accepted answer is added as the first comment in the discussion.

You need sufficient QuantConnect Credit (QCC) in your organization to give QCC rewards.

Follow these steps to reward a discussion or comment:

1. Log in to your account.
2. Open the forum homepage.
3. Open the discussion to which you want to give your reward.
4. If you want to give a QCC reward, follow these steps:
1. On the discussion page, if you want to reward the discussion, click Reward Discussion. If you want to reward a comment in the discussion, on the comment that you want to reward, click Reward Answer.
2. Click a QCC reward.
3. Click Send Reward.

The reward displays and the QCC value of the reward is deducted from your organization's balance.

5. If you want to give an upvote, click the thumbs-up icon on the comment that you want to reward.

Follow these steps to share a link to a comment in the forum:

1. Open the forum homepage.
2. Click the discussion that contains the comment that you want to share.
3. On the discussion page, in the bottom-right corner of the comment that you want to share, click the share icon and then click one of the share options.

You can edit comments only within five minutes after publishing the comments.

Follow these steps to edit a comment:

1. Log in to your account.
2. Open the forum homepage.
3. Click the discussion that contains the comment that you want to edit.
4. On the discussion page, in the top-right corner of the comment that you want to edit, click the three dots icon and then click Edit.
5. (Optional) Update the comment text.
6. (Optional) Follow these steps to update the attached backtest:
1. Click Update Backtest.
2. Click the Project field and then select the project that contains the backtest that you want to attach from the drop-down menu.

You can only attach projects that you own.

3. Click the Backtest field and then select a backtest from the drop-down menu.
7. Click Update.

The updated comment displays.

Email us the comment URL and a reason for deleting the comment. We will consider deleting the comment.

Open the forum homepage, click a discussion, and then click a member's profile image to view the member's profile page.

Follow these steps to bookmark a discussion:

1. Log in to your account.
2. Open the forum homepage.
3. Click on the discussion that you want to bookmark.
4. On the discussion page, in the bottom-right corner of the first comment, click the bookmark icon.

Click the bookmark icon again to remove the discussion from your bookmarks.

On the forum homepage, click Bookmarked to view all of the discussions that you have bookmarked.