FRED Not working in LIVE mode

Hi Varun,

The error message you're seeing indicates that the API key for the FRED data source is missing. This is required to access the data for live trading.

In your GetSource method, you need to include your API key in the URL. Here's an example from one of the discussions:

def GetSource(self, config, date, isLiveMode):
    source = f"https://api.stlouisfed.org/fred/series/observations?series_id=DFF&api_key=YOUR_API_KEY&file_type=json&observation_start=2022-01-01"
    return SubscriptionDataSource(source, SubscriptionTransportMedium.RemoteFile, FileFormat.UnfoldingCollection)

Replace YOUR_API_KEY with your actual FRED API key.

Also, for live trading with custom data, you might need to ensure your data is remotely accessible and use the SubscriptionTransportMedium.Rest property to retrieve data from the custom data source periodically. This property causes the URL provided to the custom data source to be polled at each timestep in the algorithm.

Here's a reference from one of the discussions:

# To retrieve data from the custom data source periodically
SubscriptionTransportMedium.Rest

Please refer to the documentation on importing custom data for more details.

I hope this helps!

Sources:

• Discussion 13266
• Discussion 11220
• Discussion 14199