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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 - toolsOpen source
NautilusTrader
Rust-native, event-driven trading platform with identical backtest and live code paths
GitHub stars29.8kStars · 7d+251Nautech Systems - toolsOpen source
Backtrader
The long-standing Python backtesting and live-trading framework
GitHub stars23.4kStars · 7d+76mementum - toolsOpen source
QuantConnect LEAN
Institutional-grade event-driven backtesting and live-trading engine
GitHub stars22.0kStars · 7d+114QuantConnect - toolsOpen source
Hummingbot
Open-source framework for market making and algorithmic trading on crypto exchanges
GitHub stars20.4kStars · 7d+104Hummingbot Foundation - toolsOpen source
TA-Lib (Python)
Python wrapper for the standard technical-analysis indicator library
GitHub stars12.3kStars · 7d+14TA-Lib - 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 - 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 - toolsOpen source
skfolio
Portfolio optimisation built on the scikit-learn API, with proper cross-validation
GitHub stars2.5kStars · 7d+19skfolio - 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 - 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