IB removed in LEAN

Hey Georgea, 

Correct we've removed it as we couldn't scale adding all the brokerages directly in LEAN. Now the brokerages and data sources are plugins that are loaded into LEAN on start-up. We're almost ready to reopen the plugin repositories and the LEAN CLI will pull those plugins in to make using LEAN easier. 

We're exploring delaying the public bug fixes/features of LEAN by 3 months, unless in a beta program for access to early releases. This way we can keep it all Apache 2 licensed and have a way to make the open-source local version of LEAN sustainable. Users in the cloud would be running the latest build, and users could pay for the LEAN CLI plugins to access the latest as well. 

Best,

Jared 

Great thank you. Do you have an eta on when it will be added back, and is there a way to access the beta program by any chance?

Thank you

Hi @georgea-trading ,

Unfortunately, we cannot give ETA as of now. We will update the community regarding any progress.
Please let us notice that you can trade with Interactive Brokers locally using Lean-CLI.

Best,
Varad Kabade

Hi Varad Kabade ,

Thank you for your answer. So basically, IB is still available if I use the Lean-CLI but it is not available when using only Lean? Is this correct?

I have never used the Lean-CLI, only using an old version of Lean compiled with Visual Studio, I guess that it is not the best way to do this and I should use the docker environment.

Thank you

Hi Georgea Trading

Correct. For now, please switch to the CLI for the function, we'd recommend using that continuously as to receive continuous updates in LEAN automatically.

Best
Louis

Will “plugin repositorie" be open source or paid paid subscription like LeanCli.  What is the status on plugin repositorie?

FYI: I came accors this QuantConnect/Lean.Brokerages.InteractiveBrokers github repository.  
I was able to pull and build.  I am assuming this is right repository, if someone can confirm that will be helpful.

Thanks.