The AI investing stack
Agents, models, tools, data, brokers and research. Every open-source project carries live GitHub metrics; closed products are listed with what can be verified.
- agentsOpen source
TradingAgents
Multi-agent LLM trading framework modelled on a trading-firm org chart
GitHub stars110.6kStars · 7d+889Tauric Research - modelsOpen source
DeepSeek-R1
Open-weights reasoning model widely used as a low-cost brain for trading agents
GitHub stars91.9kStars · 7d+33DeepSeek - agentsOpen source
Daily Stock Analysis
LLM-driven watchlist analysis for A-share, HK, US, Japan, Korea and Taiwan stocks, pushed daily
GitHub stars66.2kStars · 7d+322ZhuLinsen - agentsOpen source
AI Hedge Fund
A team of investor-persona agents that debate a stock and size a paper position
GitHub stars63.9kStars · 7d+115virattt - toolsOpen source
Freqtrade
The most popular open-source crypto trading bot, with FreqAI for ML-driven strategies
GitHub stars55.2kStars · 7d+271Freqtrade - toolsOpen source
Qlib
Microsoft's AI-oriented quant investment platform, from data to backtest to execution
GitHub stars49.3kStars · 7d+163Microsoft - brokersOpen source
CCXT
One API for 100+ crypto exchanges, used by Freqtrade and most crypto bots
GitHub stars44.3kStars · 7d+89CCXT - agentsOpen source
Vibe-Trading
HKU's open-source multi-agent research workspace: natural-language research, backtests, skills and MCP tools
GitHub stars35.2kStars · 7d+559HKU Data Intelligence Lab (HKUDS) - agentsOpen source
TradingAgents-CN
Chinese-language fork of TradingAgents extended for A-shares and Hong Kong
GitHub stars32.2kStars · 7d+119hsliuping - toolsOpen source
NautilusTrader
Rust-native, event-driven trading platform with identical backtest and live code paths
GitHub stars29.8kStars · 7d+251Nautech Systems - dataOpen source
yfinance
The ubiquitous Python library for Yahoo Finance data, and the default feed in most agent demos
GitHub stars25.5kStars · 7d+74Ran Aroussi - toolsOpen source
Backtrader
The long-standing Python backtesting and live-trading framework
GitHub stars23.4kStars · 7d+76mementum - agentsFree tier
AI-Trader
HKU's agent-native trading platform: any agent registers by reading a skill file and trades on a shared venue
GitHub stars22.7kStars · 7d+108HKU Data Intelligence Lab (HKUDS) - toolsOpen source
QuantConnect LEAN
Institutional-grade event-driven backtesting and live-trading engine
GitHub stars22.0kStars · 7d+114QuantConnect - modelsOpen source
FinGPT
Open-source financial LLMs fine-tuned with LoRA on news, filings and social data
GitHub stars21.4kStars · 7d+80AI4Finance Foundation - researchOpen source
Machine Learning for Trading
Code for Stefan Jansen's book: the most complete open ML-for-trading curriculum
GitHub stars21.3kStars · 7d+84Stefan Jansen - toolsOpen source
Hummingbot
Open-source framework for market making and algorithmic trading on crypto exchanges
GitHub stars20.4kStars · 7d+104Hummingbot Foundation - researchOpen source
FinRL
The reference deep-reinforcement-learning framework for trading and allocation
GitHub stars16.6kStars · 7d+75AI4Finance Foundation - agentsOpen source
RD-Agent
Microsoft's research-and-development agent, with a quant factor and model loop built on Qlib
GitHub stars14.9kStars · 7d+57Microsoft - agentsOpen source
NOFX
Self-hosted AI trading terminal with agents that trade crypto, equities, FX and commodities
GitHub stars13.0kStars · 7d+50NoFxAiOS - agentsOpen source
QuantDinger
Open-source "AI trading OS" combining agent trading with a strategy workbench
GitHub stars12.7kStars · 7d+238OpenByte - toolsOpen source
TA-Lib (Python)
Python wrapper for the standard technical-analysis indicator library
GitHub stars12.3kStars · 7d+14TA-Lib - researchOpen source
Stock Prediction Models
Gallery of deep-learning stock-forecasting notebooks from the pre-LLM era
GitHub stars9.5kStars · 7d+6huseinzol05 - toolsOpen source
vectorbt
Vectorised backtesting on NumPy and Numba for testing thousands of parameter sets at once
GitHub stars9.3kStars · 7d+67Oleg Polakow - toolsOpen source
Backtesting.py
Small, readable Python backtesting library for single-asset strategies
GitHub stars9.0kStars · 7d+26kernc - toolsOpen source
Jesse
Crypto research and trading framework focused on strategy development
GitHub stars8.6kStars · 7d+22Jesse - agentsOpen source
FinRobot
Open-source AI agent platform for financial analysis from the AI4Finance Foundation
GitHub stars8.2kStars · 7d+68AI4Finance Foundation - researchFree tier
LLM Trading Lab
A six-month real-money micro-cap experiment run by ChatGPT, with the full forward-only record and an evaluation paper
GitHub stars7.5kStars · 7d+6LuckyOne7777 - agentsOpen source
OpenAlice
TypeScript AI trading agent that covers equities, crypto, commodities and FX
GitHub stars7.3kStars · 7d+75TraderAlice - researchOpen source
Awesome AI in Finance
Long-running curated list of LLMs, deep-learning strategies and tools in finance
GitHub stars6.7kStars · 7d+22georgezouq - dataFree tier
Alpha Vantage
Free-tier API for prices, fundamentals, FX and technical indicators
GitHub stars4.9kStars · 7d+4Alpha Vantage - toolsOpen source
Riskfolio-Lib
Portfolio optimisation library with a very wide set of risk measures
GitHub stars4.5kStars · 7d+9Dany Cajas - toolsOpen source
finance-skills
Collection of agent skills for financial analysis following the Agent Skills open standard
GitHub stars3.4kStars · 7d+22himself65 - Open source
Claude Code skill workflows for individual investors: market review, risk, trade planning and journaling
GitHub stars3.0kStars · 7d+46tradermonty - agentsOpen source
CloddsBot
Autonomous AI trading agent spanning prediction markets, crypto exchanges and more
GitHub stars3.0kStars · 7d+73alsk1992 - dataOpen source
edgartools
Read SEC EDGAR filings in Python, including parsed XBRL financial statements
GitHub stars2.8kStars · 7d+17Dwight Gunning - toolsOpen source
skfolio
Portfolio optimisation built on the scikit-learn API, with proper cross-validation
GitHub stars2.5kStars · 7d+19skfolio - agentsOpen source
ATLAS
Self-improving trading agents whose prompts are rewritten when they lose, from General Intelligence Capital
GitHub stars2.3kStars · 7d+8General Intelligence Capital - Free tier
MCP server exposing the Financial Datasets stock-market API to AI assistants
GitHub stars2.3kStars · 7d+8Financial Datasets - modelsOpen source
FinBERT
The classic BERT model fine-tuned for financial sentiment classification
GitHub stars2.3kStars · 7d+4Prosus AI - agentsOpen source
AI Market Maker (AIMM)
Hedge-fund-style agentic trading stack for crypto with a hard Risk Guard veto before any order
GitHub stars2.1kStars · 7d+6olaxbt - toolsOpen source
Lumibot
Python trading framework that backtests and places orders through a dozen brokers
GitHub stars2.1kStars · 7d+18Lumiwealth - toolsOpen source
Zipline Reloaded
Maintained fork of Quantopian's Zipline backtester
GitHub stars2.0kStars · 7d+12Stefan Jansen - researchOpen source
FinRL-Meta
Dynamic datasets and market environments for FinRL research
GitHub stars1.9kStars · 7d+2AI4Finance Foundation - agentsOpen source
LangAlpha
"Claude Code for financial markets": agent teams that research, keep a thesis workspace and trade within set permissions
GitHub stars1.8kStars · 7d+16Ginlix AI - brokersPaid
Interactive Brokers
Global multi-asset brokerage with TWS, Client Portal and FIX APIs
GitHub stars1.8kStars · 7d+7Interactive Brokers - brokersFree tier
Alpaca
API-first broker with commission-free stocks, options and crypto and an instant paper account
GitHub stars1.5kStars · 7d+7Alpaca - agentsOpen source
TradeMemory Protocol
Decision audit trail and persistent memory layer for AI trading agents
GitHub stars1.4kStars · 7d+4mnemox-ai - agentsOpen source
ALTA
Research-only multi-agent market research platform with scouts, reviewers and a separate execution boundary
GitHub stars1.1kStars · 7d+148kyky2347 - brokersFree tier
Alpaca MCP Server
Alpaca's official MCP server: place and manage orders from an AI assistant
GitHub stars1.0kStars · 7d+13Alpaca - agentsOpen source
FinMem
LLM trading agent with layered memory and a tunable risk character, from the paper of the same name
GitHub stars963Stars · 7d+3Yangyang Yu et al. - modelsOpen source
PIXIU / FinMA
Financial instruction-tuned LLM plus the FinBen evaluation benchmark
GitHub stars893Stars · 7d+3The FinAI - researchOpen source
Awesome Trading Agents
Curated list of LLM trading agents, MCP servers and agent skills, organised by building block
GitHub stars882Stars · 7d+9LLMQuant - modelsOpen source
Fin-R1
7B reasoning model trained for financial problem solving with SFT and RL
GitHub stars821Stars · 7d+2SUFE AI-FLM Lab - researchOpen source
Agentic Trading Lab
Academic platform for prototyping, backtesting and paper-trading LLM agents, built alongside a survey of the field
GitHub stars770Stars · 7d+5Open Finance Lab - dataOpen source
DefeatBeta API
Open-source alternative to Yahoo Finance data, served from a Hugging Face dataset, with an MCP server and skills
GitHub stars768Stars · 7d+8defeat-beta - brokersOpen source
Kraken CLI
Kraken's official AI-native CLI: full exchange API, built-in MCP server, live and paper trading in one binary
GitHub stars752Stars · 7d+15Kraken - Open source
Minimal Python package for bulk-downloading SEC filings
GitHub stars716Stars · 7d+2Jad Chaar - researchOpen source
ContestTrade
Multi-agent trading system where agents compete internally before one view drives the decision
GitHub stars681Stars · 7d+3FinStep AI - agentsOpen source
Kalshi AI Trading Bot
Toolkit for AI-driven strategies on Kalshi prediction markets
GitHub stars614Stars · 7d+14ryanfrigo - researchOpen source
FinanceBench
Benchmark of open-book financial questions answered from company filings
GitHub stars372Stars · 7d+4Patronus AI - Open source
Code for the book on AI trading with Python, QuantConnect and AWS
GitHub stars367Stars · 7d+4QuantConnect - dataPaid
Databento
Normalised tick-level market data with a pay-as-you-go model
GitHub stars305Stars · 7d+3Databento - agentsOpen source
Hummingbot Condor
Harness for creating and managing AI trading agents on top of Hummingbot
GitHub stars226Stars · 7d+10Hummingbot Foundation - researchOpen source
LiveTradeBench
UIUC's live-market evaluation of LLM trading agents across US equities and Polymarket
GitHub stars168Stars · 7d+2UIUC ULab - Free tier
MCP server for Twelve Data's real-time and historical market data
GitHub stars82Stars · 7d+6Twelve Data - Open source
Paper artifacts and aggregate data from a continuous live record of LLM trading agents
GitHub stars80Stars · 7d+1ProjectDXAI - modelsPaid
Claude
Anthropic's frontier models, common in document-heavy financial analysis
Closed source · no GitHub metricsAnthropic - modelsPaid
OpenAI GPT models
The default LLM provider in most open-source trading agents
Closed source · no GitHub metricsOpenAI - modelsPaid
Gemini
Google's multimodal models, used for research agents and large-context document work
Closed source · no GitHub metricsGoogle - modelsEnterprise
BloombergGPT
The 50-billion-parameter proprietary model that started the financial-LLM race
Closed source · no GitHub metricsBloomberg - toolsOpen source
OpenBB
Open data platform for analysts, quants and AI agents, with an MCP server built in
Closed source · no GitHub metricsOpenBB - toolsOpen source
PyPortfolioOpt
Classical and modern portfolio optimisation in Python
Closed source · no GitHub metricsRobert Martin - toolsFree tier
Composer
No-code platform that turns natural-language ideas into automated, rebalanced strategies
Closed source · no GitHub metricsComposer Technologies - Free tier
Official MCP server for Massive market data, formerly Polygon.io
Closed source · no GitHub metricsMassive - Free tier
Official REST and WebSocket client for Massive market data
Closed source · no GitHub metricsMassive - Free tier
Broad fundamentals and pricing API with an MCP server and generous coverage
Closed source · no GitHub metricsFinancial Modeling Prep - brokersPaid
Tradier
Brokerage API with a sandbox and flat-fee options pricing aimed at developers
Closed source · no GitHub metricsTradier