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I have been using the site for about a year now, mostly to improve my coding ability, but have wanted to test an algorithm I've been working on with real money. I'd like to use a small amount, but the fees structures provided by interactive brokers makes that difficult. I see that alpaca is supported, but is currently under maintence, and am wondering how long I should expect the maintanence to occur.
Thanks!
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Jack Simonson
Hi Conner,
Right now, Alpaca support is in Beta testing and there isn't a finite timeline for when it will be bug-free. We encourage you to use it for Live Paper Trading right now to see how your algorithm(s) run and help us debug any issues that you might come across before live trading with real money.
Pavel Paramonov
Hi Jack - you suggested to use Live Paper Trading with Alpaca. As of 2019-04-23 it is unavailable in QuantConnect Live, with the message saying "maintenance mode". Is this temporary?
Jared Broad
it and tested yesterday, it should be live again today.
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Ali Rajabi
Is there a way to do backtesting and have LEAN get historical data directly from Alpaca (or polygon according to their documentations)? I've been trying to do that, and tried different environments but it looks like it doesn't receive any data.
Miguel Pascual
According to Alpaca documentation, live data from polygon is not provided unless you're using a real money trading account... Seems like a catch 22.
Jared Broad
We could add an API implementation for Polygon. It would be called an IDataQueueHandler in QC-LEAN terms. It is about 1-2 days work for an engineer familiar with the project but we're pretty swamped internally. I'm happy to sponsor a bounty for an open source implementation?Â
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Conner Botte
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