Awesome Systematic Trading
We are collecting a list of resources papers, softwares, books, articles for finding, developing, and running systematic trading (quantitative trading) strategies.
What will you find here?
- 97 libraries and packages for research and live trading
- 696 strategies described by institutionals and academics
- 55 books for beginners and professionals
- 23 videos and interviews
- And also some blogs and courses
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Libraries and packages
List of 97 libraries and packages implementing trading bots, backtesters, indicators, pricers, etc. Each library is categorized by its programming language and ordered by descending populatrity (number of stars).
Backtesting and Live Trading
General - Event Driven Frameworks
Repository | Description | Stars | Made with |
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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 | ||
zipline | Zipline is a Pythonic algorithmic trading library. It is an event-driven system for backtesting. | ||
backtrader | Event driven Python Backtesting library for trading strategies | ||
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 | ||
QuantConnect | Lean Algorithmic Trading Engine by QuantConnect (Python, C#) | ||
Rqalpha | A extendable, replaceable Python algorithmic backtest && trading framework supporting multiple securities | ||
finmarketpy | Python library for backtesting trading strategies & analyzing financial markets (formerly pythalesians) | ||
backtesting.py | 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, interactive, intelligent and, hopefully, future-proof. | ||
zvt | Modular quant framework | ||
WonderTrader | WonderTrader——量化研发交易一站式框架 | ||
nautilus_trader | A high-performance algorithmic trading platform and event-driven backtester | ||
PandoraTrader | High-frequency quantitative trading platform based on c++ development, supporting multiple trading APIs and cross-platform | ||
HFTBacktest | Highly precise backtest on HFT data in Python+Numba | ||
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. | ||
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. | ||
lumibot | A very simple yet useful backtesting and sample based live trading framework (a bit slow to run...) | ||
quanttrader | Backtest and live trading in Python. Event based. Similar to backtesting.py. | ||
gobacktest | A Go implementation of event-driven backtesting framework | ||
FlashFunk | High Performance Runtime in Rust |
General - Vector Based Frameworks
Repository | Description | Stars | Made with |
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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. | ||
pysystemtrade | Systematic Trading in python from book Systematic Trading by Rob Carver | ||
bt | Flexible backtesting for Python based on Algo and Strategy Tree |
Cryptocurrencies
Repository | Description | Stars | Made with |
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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. | ||
Jesse | Jesse is an advanced crypto trading framework which aims to simplify researching and defining trading strategies. | ||
OctoBot | Cryptocurrency trading bot for TA, arbitrage and social trading with an advanced web interface | ||
Kelp | Kelp is a free and open-source trading bot for the Stellar DEX and 100+ centralized exchanges | ||
openlimits | A Rust high performance cryptocurrency trading API with support for multiple exchanges and language wrappers. | ||
bTrader | Triangle arbitrage trading bot for Binance | ||
crypto-crawler-rs | Crawl orderbook and trade messages from crypto exchanges | ||
Hummingbot | A client for crypto market making | ||
cryptotrader-core | Simple to use Crypto Exchange REST API client in rust. |
Trading bots
Trading bots and alpha models. Some of them are old and not maintained.
Repository | Description | Stars | Made with |
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Blackbird | Blackbird Bitcoin Arbitrage: a long/short |