Welcome to The QuantConnect Research Page

Refer to this page for documentation https://www.quantconnect.com/docs#Introduction-to-Jupyter

Contribute to this template file https://github.com/QuantConnect/Lean/blob/master/Research/BasicQuantBookTemplate.ipynb

QuantBook Basics

Start QuantBook

Add the references and imports
Create a QuantBook instance



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%matplotlib inline
# Imports
from clr import AddReference
AddReference("System")
AddReference("QuantConnect.Common")
AddReference("QuantConnect.Research")
AddReference("QuantConnect.Indicators")
from System import *
from QuantConnect import *
from QuantConnect.Data.Custom import *
from QuantConnect.Data.Market import TradeBar, QuoteBar
from QuantConnect.Research import *
from QuantConnect.Indicators import *
from datetime import datetime, timedelta
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import pandas as pd

# Create an instance
qb = QuantBook()

# Select asset data
spy = qb.AddEquity("SPY")

Historical Data Requests

We can use the QuantConnect API to make Historical Data Requests. The data will be presented as multi-index pandas.DataFrame where the first index is the Symbol.

For more information, please follow the link.



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# Gets historical data from the subscribed assets, the last 360 datapoints with daily resolution
h1 = qb.History(qb.Securities.Keys, 360, Resolution.Daily)

# Plot closing prices from "SPY" 
h1.loc["SPY"]["close"].plot()

Indicators

We can easily get the indicator of a given symbol with QuantBook.

For all indicators, please checkout QuantConnect Indicators Reference Table



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# Example with BB, it is a datapoint indicator
# Define the indicator
bb = BollingerBands(30, 2)

# Gets historical data of indicator
bbdf = qb.Indicator(bb, "SPY", 360, Resolution.Daily)

# drop undesired fields
bbdf = bbdf.drop('standarddeviation', 1)

# Plot
bbdf.plot()