Hello,
I saw that live-trading is no longer free for students from a previous post. Would there be any available student discounts for the researcher tier with a live trading node?
Also, as I'm quite new to QuantConnect, would it be possible to pull in historical data and do our backtests locally, or do we have to manually download historical data before conducting our backtests on LEAN?
Thanks a lot! Appreciate any form of advice/ help :)
Derek Melchin
Hi Marcus,
Welcome to QC!
In regards to the student discount, contact support@quantconnect.com.
Lean comes with some free sample data to test out locally. It's available in the repo here. To use more data locally, checkout the data from the Data Library and use the API File Provider to retrieve the data.
Best,
Derek Melchin
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Marcus
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