Lean CLI

Local Development, Cloud Backtesting

lean init
lean create-project “My Project”
lean backtest “My Project”

Installation: pip install lean

Lean more about Lean CLI

Watch this video for this in-depth introduction to the Lean CLI

QuantConnect CLI

Cli Cloud

Harness The Power of LEAN Locally or in The cloud

Seamlessly develop locally in your favorite development environment, with full autocomplete and debugging support to quickly and easily identify problems with your strategy

Setup Your Local Environment

Supported IDE's

pycharm

rider

vscode

visual studio

LEAN CLI

>_ lean backtest

>_ lean cloud backtest

Easy Synchronization

Synchronize your projects to the cloud to work on the go with QuantConnect’s Web-IDE or to perform cross validation of your results.

Want more processing power than your local environment? Push your code to cloud and then spin up a cluster to run your backtesting.

LEAN CLI

>_ lean cloud push

>_ lean cloud pull

Fully Featured Tool

LEAN CLI is a feature-complete tool to leverage the LEAN technology for your algorithmic trading research.

Kick off with our Getting Started Tutorial today.

LEAN CLI

>_ Feature List

Local / cloud backtesting
Autocomplete and debugging environments
Local / cloud optimization
Local / cloud live trading
Jupyter research environments
Generate or download data
Synchronize projects with cloud
Create algorithm reports
Install Lean CLI: pip install lean

Cli Sync

Download Financial Data

Download QuantConnect’s peer reviewed cloud financial data to run backtests and research with LEAN locally. Data is packaged and sold per symbol-day to keep costs low, and can be setup to automatically download all the data you need.

Supported Data Types

US Equities and Coarse Universes
OANDA Forex and CFD
US Options
Crypto
Alternative Data Integrations

Upgrade LEAN with Plugins

Super charge your LEAN CLI installation with plugins from QuantConnect to popular institutional data sources and markets

Type: Data Source, Brokerage

Route orders to any of the Bloomberg EMSX network destinations, and source data for your research with Bloomberg datafeeds.

Research, Backtest, and Live Data Sources
Live Trade with LEAN through EMSX Network
1300+ Execution Destinations

LEAN GUI and QuantConnect Corporate Actions dataset required for best experience.

Purchase Plugin

Type: Brokerage Router

Route orders to 30+ destinations in Trading Technologies network for best in class futures contract execution.

Route to 30+ Brokerage Destinations
Stateful Restart with Portfolio Management
UAT or Live Mode Support

Purchase Plugin

Type: Brokerage Router

US Equities brokerage for volume trading with the lowest latency and fees possible. Cross-connected with QuantConnect's racks.

Routing to US Prime Brokerages
Stateful Restart with Portfolio Management
Cross-Connect in QuantConnect Racks

Purchase Plugin