Expected Behavior:
Be able to run local live trading with Interactive Brokers using LEAN CLI on an Apple Silicon Mac (M‑series), without needing a separate x86 machine.
Concretely, I’d like a supported way to: Use LEAN on Apple Silicon (ARM), and Connect to IBKR (either via an ARM image that includes IB Gateway, or by connecting to a locally installed macOS IB Gateway/TWS).
Actual Behavior:
From the docs, Interactive Brokers is not supported for local live trading on ARM and the ARM Docker image does not include IB Gateway, so LEAN CLI cannot run local IB live on my MacBook Pro M‑series.
In practice this means my options are: Use QuantConnect Cloud for IB live, or Run LEAN + IB Gateway on a separate x86‑64 machine/VPS.
As an experiment, I ran the x86 LEAN Docker image under Colima/QEMU on my M‑series Mac. LEAN + IB Gateway worked functionally with IBKR, but performance under emulation was too slow.
Potential Solution:
This is mainly a roadmap / support question: Is local IBKR support on Apple Silicon (M‑series Macs) planned or considered?
If so, would it be via: An ARM LEAN image that includes IB Gateway, or Official support for running LEAN on ARM and connecting to a locally installed macOS IB Gateway/TWS (outside the container)?
I’m a Quant Researcher subscriber and really enjoy the platform; I was excited making progress with research/backtests until I tried to run my bots locally and hit this limitation on my M‑series Mac.
If ARM local IB is firmly out of scope, it would be helpful to know, so users can plan around using QC Cloud for IB or a dedicated x86 host.
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Expected Behavior:
Be able to run local live trading with Interactive Brokers using LEAN CLI on an Apple Silicon Mac (M‑series), without needing a separate x86 machine.
Concretely, I’d like a supported way to: Use LEAN on Apple Silicon (ARM), and Connect to IBKR (either via an ARM image that includes IB Gateway, or by connecting to a locally installed macOS IB Gateway/TWS).
Actual Behavior:
From the docs, Interactive Brokers is not supported for local live trading on ARM and the ARM Docker image does not include IB Gateway, so LEAN CLI cannot run local IB live on my MacBook Pro M‑series.
In practice this means my options are: Use QuantConnect Cloud for IB live, or Run LEAN + IB Gateway on a separate x86‑64 machine/VPS.
As an experiment, I ran the x86 LEAN Docker image under Colima/QEMU on my M‑series Mac. LEAN + IB Gateway worked functionally with IBKR, but performance under emulation was too slow.
Potential Solution:
This is mainly a roadmap / support question: Is local IBKR support on Apple Silicon (M‑series Macs) planned or considered?
If so, would it be via: An ARM LEAN image that includes IB Gateway, or Official support for running LEAN on ARM and connecting to a locally installed macOS IB Gateway/TWS (outside the container)?
I’m a Quant Researcher subscriber and really enjoy the platform; I was excited making progress with research/backtests until I tried to run my bots locally and hit this limitation on my M‑series Mac.
If ARM local IB is firmly out of scope, it would be helpful to know, so users can plan around using QC Cloud for IB or a dedicated x86 host.
Checklist:
I have completely filled out this template
I have confirmed that this issue exists on the current master branch
I have confirmed that this is not a duplicate issue by searching issues