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Libraries and packages

A curated list of awesome libraries, packages, strategies, books, blogs, tutorials for systematic trading.

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Backtesting and Live Trading >General - Event Driven Frameworks

vnpy

Python-based open source quantitative trading system development framework, officially released in January 2015, has grown step by step into a full-featured quantitative trading platform

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zipline

Zipline is a Pythonic algorithmic trading library. It is an event-driven system for backtesting.

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backtrader

Event driven Python Backtesting library for trading strategies

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QUANTAXIS

QUANTAXIS 支持任务调度分布式部署的股票/期货/期权/港股/虚拟货币数据/回测/模拟/交易/可视化/多账户纯本地量化解决方案

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QuantConnect

Lean Algorithmic Trading Engine by QuantConnect (Python, C#)

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Rqalpha

A extendable, replaceable Python algorithmic backtest && trading framework supporting multiple securities

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finmarketpy

Python library for backtesting trading strategies & analyzing financial markets (formerly pythalesians)

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Backtesting.py is a Python framework for inferring viability of trading strategies on historical (past) data. Improved upon the vision of Backtrader, and by all means surpassingly comparable to other accessible alternatives, Backtesting.py is lightweight, fast, user-friendly, intuitive,…

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zvt

Modular quant framework

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WonderTrader

WonderTrader——量化研发交易一站式框架

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nautilus_trader

A high-performance algorithmic trading platform and event-driven backtester

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PandoraTrader

High-frequency quantitative trading platform based on c++ development, supporting multiple trading APIs and cross-platform

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HFTBacktest

Highly precise backtest on HFT data in Python+Numba

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PyBroker

Algorithmic trading in Python with machine learning: rule based and model driven strategies, walkforward analysis and bootstrapped significance tests on the results

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Hikyuu

C++/Python quantitative research framework built around reusable strategy components, with its own bar and indicator engine

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barter-rs

Open source Rust framework for building event driven live trading and backtesting systems, running strategies on a near identical engine on both sides

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Investing Algorithm Framework

Framework for developing, backtesting and deploying automated trading algorithms and trading bots

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qf-lib

Modular event driven backtester with data vendor and broker integrations, portfolio construction tools and automated PDF reporting

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trade-frame

C++17 library and sample applications for automated trading of equities, futures, currencies, ETFs and options on IQFeed and Interactive Brokers data

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QuantFabric

Linux/C++ mid and high frequency trading system for the Chinese futures, stock and bond exchanges

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aat

An asynchronous, event-driven framework for writing algorithmic trading strategies in python with optional acceleration in C++. It is designed to be modular and extensible, with support for a wide variety of instruments and strategies, live trading across (and between) multiple exchanges.

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sdoosa-algo-trade-python

This project is mainly for newbies into algo trading who are interested in learning to code their own trading algo using python interpreter.

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lumibot

A very simple yet useful backtesting and sample based live trading framework (a bit slow to run...)

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quanttrader

Backtest and live trading in Python. Event based. Similar to backtesting.py.

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gobacktest

A Go implementation of event-driven backtesting framework

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PineForge

Transpiles PineScript v6 strategies to C++ and runs deterministic offline backtests on user-provided OHLCV data.

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FlashFunk

High Performance Runtime in Rust

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Backtesting and Live Trading >General - Vector Based Frameworks

QTradeX

A powerful and flexible Python framework for designing, backtesting, optimizing, and deploying algotrading bots

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vectorbt

vectorbt takes a novel approach to backtesting: it operates entirely on pandas and NumPy objects, and is accelerated by Numba to analyze any data at speed and scale. This allows for testing of many thousands of strategies in seconds.

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pysystemtrade

Systematic Trading in python from book Systematic Trading by Rob Carver

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bt

Flexible backtesting for Python based on Algo and Strategy Tree

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ml-quant-trading

PyTorch research stack for ML multi-factor trading with 213 factors, bias correction, portfolio optimization, vectorized backtesting, and public validation reports

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Backtesting and Live Trading >Cryptocurrencies

Freqtrade

Freqtrade is a free and open source crypto trading bot written in Python. It is designed to support all major exchanges and be controlled via Telegram. It contains backtesting, plotting and money management tools as well as strategy optimization by machine learning.

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Jesse

Jesse is an advanced crypto trading framework which aims to simplify researching and defining trading strategies.

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OctoBot

Cryptocurrency trading bot for TA, arbitrage and social trading with an advanced web interface

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Kelp

Kelp is a free and open-source trading bot for the Stellar DEX and 100+ centralized exchanges

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basana

Python async and event driven framework for algorithmic trading, with a focus on crypto currencies

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openlimits

A Rust high performance cryptocurrency trading API with support for multiple exchanges and language wrappers.

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bTrader

Triangle arbitrage trading bot for Binance

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crypto-crawler-rs

Crawl orderbook and trade messages from crypto exchanges

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Hummingbot

A client for crypto market making

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cryptotrader-core

Simple to use Crypto Exchange REST API client in rust.

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Trading bots

Blackbird

Blackbird Bitcoin Arbitrage: a long/short market-neutral strategy

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bitcoin-arbitrage

Bitcoin arbitrage - opportunity detector

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ThetaGang

ThetaGang is an IBKR bot for collecting money

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czsc

缠中说禅技术分析工具；缠论；股票；期货；Quant；量化交易

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R2 Bitcoin Arbitrager

R2 Bitcoin Arbitrager is an automatic arbitrage trading system powered by Node.js + TypeScript

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Intelligent Trading Bot

Intelligent Trading Bot: Automatically generating signals and trading based on machine learning and feature engineering

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analyzingalpha

Implementation of simple strategies

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PyTrendFollow

PyTrendFollow - systematic futures trading using trend following

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TradeSight

AI-powered algorithmic trading platform with RSI/MACD signals, overnight strategy tournaments, paper trading via Alpaca, multi-stock scanning, and web dashboard

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PRISM-INSIGHT

AI-powered stock analysis with 13 specialized agents, automated trading via KIS API (Korean & US markets)

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Analytics >Indicators

ta-lib

Perform technical analysis of financial market data

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go-tart

A Go implementation of the [ta-lib]((https://github.com/mrjbq7/ta-lib) with streaming update support

pandas-ta

Pandas Technical Analysis (Pandas TA) is an easy to use library that leverages the Pandas package with more than 130 Indicators and Utility functions and more than 60 TA Lib Candlestick Patterns

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finta

Common financial technical indicators implemented in Pandas

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ta-rust

Technical analysis library for Rust language

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kand

Technical analysis library written in Rust with Python and WASM bindings, exposing both batch and incremental streaming updates

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wickra

Streaming-first technical-analysis library with a Rust core and native Python/Node/WASM bindings plus a C ABI (C, C++, C#/.NET, Go, Java, R); 514 O(1)-per-tick indicators across 24 families, bit-exact batch and streaming

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Analytics >Metrics computation

quantstats

Portfolio analytics for quants, written in Python

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ffn

A financial function library for Python

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Analytics >Optimization

skfolio

Portfolio optimization built on top of scikit-learn. It provides a unified interface and sklearn compatible tools to build, tune and cross-validate portfolio models.

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PyPortfolioOpt

Financial portfolio optimizations in python, including classical efficient frontier, Black-Litterman, Hierarchical Risk Parity

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Riskfolio-Lib

Portfolio Optimization and Quantitative Strategic Asset Allocation in Python

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empyrial

Empyrial is a Python-based open-source quantitative investment library dedicated to financial institutions and retail investors, officially released in March 2021

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cvxportfolio

Portfolio optimization and back-testing from the Stanford convex optimization group, implementing the multi-period framework of Boyd et al.

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Deepdow

Python package connecting portfolio optimization and deep learning. Its goal is to facilitate research of networks that perform weight allocation in one forward pass.

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spectre

Portfolio Optimization and Quantitative Strategic Asset Allocation in Python

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Analytics >Pricing

tf-quant-finance

High-performance TensorFlow library for quantitative finance from Google

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FinancePy

A Python Finance Library that focuses on the pricing and risk-management of Financial Derivatives, including fixed-income, equity, FX and credit derivatives

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PyQL

Python wrapper of the famous pricing library QuantLib

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Analytics >Risk

pyfolio

Portfolio and risk analytics in Python

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Broker APIs

ccxt

A JavaScript / Python / PHP cryptocurrency trading API with support for more than 100 bitcoin/altcoin exchanges

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Ib_insync

Python sync/async framework for Interactive Brokers.

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pmxt

Unified prediction market trading API across Polymarket, Kalshi and other venues, in the spirit of ccxt

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Coinnect

Coinnect is a Rust library aiming to provide a complete access to main crypto currencies exchanges via REST API.

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PENDAX

Javascript SDK for Trading, Data, and Websockets for FTX, FTXUS, OKX, Bybit, & More.

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Data Sources >General

Fincept Terminal

Fincept Terminal is a comprehensive CLI tool that provides financial insights, market analysis, and a host of other financial services such as technical analysis, fundamental analysis, sentiment analysis, quantitative analysis, and economic data services.

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OpenBB Terminal

Investment Research for Everyone, Anywhere.

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TuShare

TuShare is a utility for crawling historical data of China stocks

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yfinance

yfinance offers a threaded and Pythonic way to download market data from Yahoo!Ⓡ finance.

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AkShare

AKShare is an elegant and simple financial data interface library for Python, built for human beings!

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FinanceDatabase

Database of 300,000+ symbols covering equities, ETFs, funds, indices, currencies, cryptocurrencies and money markets

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FinanceToolkit

200+ financial metrics, ratios, technical indicators and risk measures computed from Financial Modeling Prep and Yahoo Finance data

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pandas-datareader

Up to date remote data access for pandas, works for multiple versions of pandas.

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edgartools

SEC EDGAR filings in Python: XBRL fundamentals, 13F institutional holdings, insider transactions (Forms 3/4/5) and 8-K events

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Quandl

Get millions of financial and economic dataset from hundreds of publishers via a single free API.

findatapy

findatapy creates an easy to use Python API to download market data from many sources including Quandl, Bloomberg, Yahoo, Google etc. using a unified high level interface.

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Investpy

Financial Data Extraction from Investing.com with Python

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Fundamental Analysis Data

Fully-fledged Fundamental Analysis package capable of collecting 20 years of Company Profiles, Financial Statements, Ratios and Stock Data of 20.000+ companies.

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Wallstreet

Wallstreet: Real time Stock and Option tools

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pwb-toolbox

Loader for the 32 Papers With Backtest datasets on Hugging Face: daily prices back to 1962 for stocks, ETFs, indices, currencies and commodities, sovereign yield curves, quarterly fundamentals, FRED-MD macro series, and 5.7 billion rows of 1-minute US equity bars. Cards and schemas are open to…

Data Sources >Cryptocurrencies

Cryptofeed

Cryptocurrency Exchange Websocket Data Feed Handler with Asyncio

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Gekko-Datasets

Gekko trading bot dataset dumps. Download and use history files in SQLite format.

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CryptoInscriber

A live crypto currency historical trade data blotter. Download live historical trade data from any crypto exchange.

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Crypto Lake

High frequency order book & trade data for crypto

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Data Science

TensorFlow

Fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python

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Pytorch

Tensors and Dynamic neural networks in Python with strong GPU acceleration

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Keras

The most user friendly Deep Learning for humans in Python

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Scikit-learn

Machine learning in Python

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Pandas

Flexible and powerful data analysis / manipulation library for Python, providing labeled data structures similar to R data.frame objects, statistical functions, and much more

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JAX

Composable transformations of Python+NumPy programs: automatic differentiation, vectorization and JIT compilation to GPU/TPU

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Numpy

The fundamental package for scientific computing with Python

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Scipy

Fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python

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PyMC

Probabilistic Programming in Python: Bayesian Modeling and Probabilistic Machine Learning with Aesara

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Cvxpy

A Python-embedded modeling language for convex optimization problems.

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Databases

DuckDB

In-process analytical SQL database that queries Parquet and Arrow files directly, a common backend for research datasets

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Marketstore

DataFrame Server for Financial Timeseries Data

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Tectonicdb

Tectonicdb is a fast, highly compressed standalone database and streaming protocol for order book ticks.

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ArcticDB (Man Group)

High performance datastore for time series and tick data

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PyStore

Fast datastore for Pandas time series data, built on Dask and Parquet

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Graph Computation

Ray

An open source framework that provides a simple, universal API for building distributed applications.

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Dask

Parallel computing with task scheduling in Python with a Pandas like API

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Incremental (JaneStreet)

Incremental is a library that gives you a way of building complex computations that can update efficiently in response to their inputs changing, inspired by the work of Umut Acar et. al. on self-adjusting computations. Incremental can be useful in a number of applications

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csp (Point72)

High performance reactive stream processing library written in C++ and Python, where the same graph runs in backtest and in real time

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Man MDF

Data-flow programming toolkit for Python

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GraphKit

A lightweight Python module for creating and running ordered graphs of computations.

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Tributary

Streaming reactive and dataflow graphs in Python

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Machine Learning

AI Hedge Fund

Educational hedge fund simulator where a team of LLM agents modelled on well known investors debates and takes positions

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QLib (Microsoft)

Qlib is an AI-oriented quantitative investment platform, which aims to realize the potential, empower the research, and create the value of AI technologies in quantitative investment. With Qlib, you can easily try your ideas to create better Quant investment strategies. An increasing number of…

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FinGPT

Open source financial large language models, with the fine-tuned weights released on HuggingFace

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Machine Learning for Trading

Code for Machine Learning for Trading (3rd edition), from data sourcing and alpha factor research to live execution

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Qbot

AI powered quantitative investment platform covering data collection, strategy research, backtesting and live trading

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FinRL

FinRL is the first open-source framework to demonstrate the great potential of applying deep reinforcement learning in quantitative finance.

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MlFinLab (Hudson & Thames)

MlFinLab helps portfolio managers and traders who want to leverage the power of machine learning by providing reproducible, interpretable, and easy to use tools.

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