Unable to render charts in local research environment

[shanemcd]

Expected Behavior

Hello. I am trying to run a local research environment and am having trouble when running the example code at https://www.quantconnect.com/docs/v2/cloud-platform/research/getting-started.

This works fine when I run it on the quantconnect website:

Actual Behavior

When I run it on my system, I get a series of warnings and a blank chart:

Reproducing the Problem

I ran the following commands to start lean:

$ pip install lean
$ lean init
$ lean create-project "My Project"
$ lean research "My Project"

I then went into research.ipynb and pasted in:

# Create a QuantBook
qb = QuantBook()

# Create a security subscription
spy = qb.AddEquity("SPY")

# Request some historical data
history = qb.History(qb.Securities.Keys, 360, Resolution.Daily)

# Calculate the Bollinger Bands
bbdf = qb.Indicator(BollingerBands(30, 2), spy.Symbol, 360, Resolution.Daily)

# Plot the data
bbdf.drop('standarddeviation', 1).plot()

... and then tried running it.

System Information

• macOS 13.2.1
• Docker Desktop

Checklist

• I have completely filled out this template
• I have confirmed that this issue exists on the current master branch I am using lean w/ the quantconnect/research:latest image.
• I have confirmed that this is not a duplicate issue by searching issues

• I have provided detailed steps to reproduce the issue

[shanemcd]

Sorry, I think I understand now... I don't have access to the dataset.

What follows is a documentation of my confusion / feedback. Please let me know if there is a better place to share this than on GitHub Issues.

I tried running this

$ lean data download --dataset "US Equities"

Which printed:

Error: Your organization needs to have an active Security Master subscription to download data from the 'US Equities' dataset
You can add the subscription at https://www.quantconnect.com/datasets/quantconnect-security-master/pricing

Upon visiting that link, I am redirected to https://www.quantconnect.com/datasets... a little confusing, but I figure maybe just a bug in the CLI.

I searched for US Equities there, and under pricing I see "Hourly and Daily Updates" which is "Free with Subscription".

I then proceeded to purchase a $10/month "Researcher" subscription and tried to re-run the lean data download command and got the same "Your organization needs to have an active Security Master subscription" error as before.

After this I didn't really know what to do. Just randomly clicking around in my account settings searching for any kind of clue,I found and clicked "Edit Plan". In here I noticed a Data tab. I noticed "US Equity Hourly & Daily Updates by AlgoSeek" which is $0. When trying to click this, the page pauses for a moment and then displays "To purchase US Equity Hourly & Daily Updates by AlgoSeek you need to have first ever purchased US Equity Hourly & Daily History by AlgoSeek." ... which is $2,136.

It's a little unfortunate that I had to spend $10 to figure this out, but maybe my feedback here either helps you improve the UX of the website... or at least might save someone else a little time or money in the future.