Live Trading

Follow these steps to start local live trading with the Kraken brokerage:

1. Open a terminal in your CLI root directory.
2. Run lean live "<projectName>" to start a live deployment wizard for the project in ./<projectName> and then enter the brokerage number.

   $ lean live 'My Project'
   Select a brokerage:
   1) Paper Trading
   2) Interactive Brokers
   3) Tradier
   4) OANDA
   5) Bitfinex
   6) Coinbase Pro
   7) Binance
   8) Zerodha
   9) Samco
   10) Terminal Link
   11) Atreyu
   12) Trading Technologies
   13) Kraken
   14) FTX 
   Enter an option:

3. Enter the number of the organization that has a subscription for the Kraken module.

   $ lean live "My Project"
   Select the organization with the Kraken module subscription:
   1) Organization 1
   2) Organization 2
   3) Organization 3
   Enter an option: 1

4. Enter your API key and API secret. You can gather these credentials from the API Management Settings page on the Kraken website.

   $ lean live "My Project"
   API key: 
   API secret: 

5. Enter your verification tier. For more information about verification tiers, see Verification levels explained on the Kraken website.

   $ lean live "My Project"
   Select the Verification Tier:
   1) Starter
   2) Intermediate
   3) Pro
   Enter an option:

6. View the result in the <projectName>/live/<timestamp> directory. Results are stored in real-time in JSON format. You can save results to a different directory by providing the --output <path> option in step 2.

If you already have a live environment configured in your Lean configuration file, you can skip the interactive wizard by providing the --environment <value> option in step 2. The value of this option must be the name of an environment which has live-mode set to true.

Follow these steps to start live trading a project in the cloud with the Kraken brokerage:

1. Log in to the CLI if you haven't done so already.
2. Open a terminal in your CLI root directory.
3. Run lean cloud live '<projectName>' --push --open to push ./<projectName>. to the cloud, start a live deployment wizard, and open the results in the browser once the deployment starts.

   $ lean cloud live "My Project" --push --open
   [1/1] Pushing 'My Project'
   Successfully updated cloud file 'My Project/main.py'
   Started compiling project 'My Project'
   Successfully compiled project 'My Project'
   Select a brokerage:
   1) Paper Trading
   2) Interactive Brokers
   3) Tradier
   4) OANDA
   5) Bitfinex
   6) Coinbase Pro
   7) Binance
   8) Kraken
   9) FTX
   10) Zerodha
   11) Samco
   Enter an option:

4. Enter the number of the Kraken brokerage.
5. Enter your API key and API secret. You can gather these credentials from the API Management Settings page on the Kraken website.

   $ lean cloud live "My Project" --push --open
   API key: 
   Secret key: 

6. Enter your verification tier. For example, Starter. For more information about verification tiers, see Verification levels explained on the Kraken website.

   $ lean cloud live "My Project" --push --open
   Verification Tier:

7. Select the live node that you want to use. If you only have one idle live trading node, it is selected automatically and this step is skipped.

   $ lean cloud live "My Project" --push --open
   Select a node:
   1) L-MICRO node 89c90172 - 1 CPU @ 2.4GHz, 0.5GB Ram
   2) L-MICRO node 85a52135 - 1 CPU @ 2.4GHz, 0.5GB Ram
   Enter an option: 1

8. Configure your notification settings. You can configure any combination of email notifications, webhook notifications, and SMS notifications for order events and emitted insights.

   $ lean cloud live "My Project" --push --open
   Do you want to send notifications on order events? [y/N]: y
   Do you want to send notifications on insights? [y/N]: y
   Email notifications: None
   Webhook notifications: None
   SMS notifications: None
   Select a notification method:
   1) Email
   2) Webhook
   3) SMS
   Enter an option: 1
   Email address: john.doe@example.com
   Subject: Algorithm notification
   Email notifications: john.doe@example.com
   Webhook notifications: None
   SMS notifications: None
   Do you want to add another notification method? [y/N]: n

9. Enable or disable automatic algorithm restarting. This feature attempts to restart your algorithm if it fails due to a runtime error, like a brokerage API disconnection.

   $ lean cloud live "My Project" --push --open
   Do you want to enable automatic algorithm restarting? [Y/n]: y

10. Verify the configured settings and confirm them to start the live deployment in the cloud.

    $ lean cloud live "My Project" --push --open
    Brokerage: Kraken
    Project id: 1234567
    Environment: Live
    Server name: L-MICRO node 89c90172
    Server type: L-MICRO
    Data provider: QuantConnect
    LEAN version: 11157
    Order event notifications: Yes
    Insight notifications: Yes
    Email notifications: john.doe@example.com
    Webhook notifications: None
    SMS notifications: None
    Automatic algorithm restarting: Yes
    Are you sure you want to start live trading for project 'My Project'? [y/N]: y

11. Inspect the result in the browser, which opens automatically after the deployment starts.

Follow these steps to see the live status of a project:

1. Log in to the CLI if you haven't done so already.
2. Open a terminal in your CLI root directory.
3. Run lean cloud status "<projectName>" to show the status of the cloud project named "<projectName>".

   $ lean cloud status "My Project"
   Project id: 1234567
   Project name: My Project
   Project url: https://www.quantconnect.com/project/1234567
   Live status: Running
   Live id: L-1234567a8901d234e5e678ddd9b0123c
   Live url: https://www.quantconnect.com/project/1234567/live
   Brokerage: Paper Trading
   Launched: 2021-06-09 15:10:12 UTC