Best-of Algorithmic Trading

🏆 A ranked list of algorithmic trading open-source libraries, frameworks, bots, tools, books, communities, education materials. Updated weekly.

This curated list contains 89 awesome open-source projects with a total of 180K stars grouped into 7 categories. All projects are ranked by a project-quality score, which is calculated based on various metrics automatically collected from GitHub and different package managers. If you like to add or update projects, feel free to open an issue, submit a pull request, or directly edit the projects.yaml. Contributions are very welcome!

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Contents

Bots & Frameworks 19 projects
Libraries & API 21 projects
Technical analysis & Indicators 11 projects
Books 19 projects
Youtube 8 projects
Courses 8 projects
Communities 3 projects

Explanation

🥇🥈🥉 Combined project-quality score
⭐️ Star count from GitHub
🐣 New project (less than 6 months old)
💤 Inactive project (6 months no activity)
💀 Dead project (12 months no activity)
📈📉 Project is trending up or down
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👨‍💻 Contributors count from GitHub
🔀 Fork count from GitHub
📋 Issue count from GitHub
⏱️ Last update timestamp on package manager
📥 Download count from package manager
📦 Number of dependent projects
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NodeJS projects
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C projects
C++ projects
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PHP projects
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Bots & Frameworks

Freqtrade (🥇33 · ⭐ 26K) - Free, open source crypto trading bot. ❗️GPL-3.0

GitHub (👨‍💻 330 · 🔀 5.5K · 📦 56 · 📋 4.5K - 0% open · ⏱️ 06.06.2024):
```
 git clone https://github.com/freqtrade/freqtrade
```

Lean (🥇30 · ⭐ 8.8K) - Lean Algorithmic Trading Engine by QuantConnect (Python, C#). Apache-2

GitHub (👨‍💻 200 · 🔀 3K · 📦 21 · 📋 3.1K - 6% open · ⏱️ 06.06.2024):
```
 git clone https://github.com/QuantConnect/Lean
```

Hummingbot (🥈28 · ⭐ 7.5K) - Open source software that helps you create and deploy high-.. Apache-2

GitHub (👨‍💻 260 · 🔀 2.4K · 📥 30 · 📋 3K - 11% open · ⏱️ 31.05.2024):
```
 git clone https://github.com/hummingbot/hummingbot
```

Superalgos (🥈27 · ⭐ 3.9K · 📉) - Free, open-source crypto trading bot, automated bitcoin.. Apache-2

GitHub (👨‍💻 230 · 🔀 5.4K · 📥 8.8K · 📋 440 - 14% open · ⏱️ 31.01.2024):
```
 git clone https://github.com/Superalgos/Superalgos
```

OctoBot (🥈24 · ⭐ 3K) - Open source crypto trading bot. ❗️GPL-3.0

GitHub (👨‍💻 25 · 🔀 700 · 📥 9.1K · 📋 730 - 11% open · ⏱️ 06.06.2024):
```
 git clone https://github.com/Drakkar-Software/OctoBot
```

Jesse (🥈22 · ⭐ 5.3K) - An advanced crypto trading bot written in Python. MIT

GitHub (👨‍💻 47 · 🔀 670 · 📦 6 · 📋 100 - 1% open · ⏱️ 29.05.2024):
```
 git clone https://github.com/jesse-ai/jesse
```

Node Binance Trader NBT (🥉18 · ⭐ 1.2K) - Cryptocurrency Trading Strategy & Portfolio.. MIT

GitHub (👨‍💻 27 · 🔀 360 · 📥 150 · 📋 62 - 3% open · ⏱️ 22.05.2024):
```
 git clone https://github.com/bitcoinvsalts/node-binance-trader
```

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Gekko (🥈29 · ⭐ 10K · 💀) - A bitcoin trading bot written in node - https://gekko.wizb.it/. MIT
Zenbot (🥈24 · ⭐ 8.2K · 💀) - Zenbot is a command-line cryptocurrency trading bot using Node.js.. MIT
Crypto Signal (🥉19 · ⭐ 4.7K · 💀) - Github.com/CryptoSignal - Trading & Technical Analysis.. MIT
K (🥉19 · ⭐ 3.3K · 💀) - Self-hosted crypto trading bot (automated high frequency market.. ❗Unlicensed
Kelp (🥉18 · ⭐ 1.1K · 💀) - Kelp is a free and open-source trading bot for the Stellar.. ❗Unlicensed
Crypto Trading Bot (🥉16 · ⭐ 3K · 💀) - Cryptocurrency trading bot in javascript for.. MIT
Qt Bitcoin Trader (🥉14 · ⭐ 720) - Secure multi crypto exchange trading client. ❗Unlicensed
Magic8bot (🥉14 · ⭐ 340 · 💀) - Magic8bot is a cryptocurrency trading bot using Node.js and.. MIT
WolfBot (🥉13 · ⭐ 690 · 💀) - Crypto currency trading bot written in TypeScript for.. ❗️AGPL-3.0
Wolfinch (🥉12 · ⭐ 260 · 💀) - Wolfinch is your friendly trader Bot written in Python. ❗️GPL-3.0
TriangularArbitrage (🥉11 · ⭐ 540 · 💀) - Detect triangular arbitrage opportunities within.. ❗Unlicensed
bTrader (🥉8 · ⭐ 280 · 💀) - Triangle arbitrage trading bot for Binance. ❗️GPL-3.0

Libraries & API

CCXT (🥇45 · ⭐ 32K · 📈) - A JavaScript / TypeScript / Python / C# / PHP.. MIT

GitHub (👨‍💻 800 · 🔀 7.1K · 📥 740 · 📦 5.1K · 📋 9.9K - 8% open · ⏱️ 06.06.2024):
```
 git clone https://github.com/ccxt/ccxt
```
npm (📥 100K / month):
```
 npm install ccxt
```

python-binance (🥇30 · ⭐ 5.8K · 💤) - Binance Exchange API python implementation for.. MIT

GitHub (👨‍💻 160 · 🔀 1.8K · 📦 7.4K · 📋 1.1K - 44% open · ⏱️ 22.09.2023):
```
 git clone https://github.com/sammchardy/python-binance
```

Node.js & Typescript Binance API SDK (🥈27 · ⭐ 730) - Node.js & JavaScript SDK for Binance REST APIs &.. MIT

GitHub (👨‍💻 58 · 🔀 240 · 📦 1.1K · 📋 180 - 16% open · ⏱️ 06.06.2024):
```
 git clone https://github.com/tiagosiebler/binance
```
npm (📥 8.8K / month):
```
 npm install binance
```

Node.js & Typescript Bybit API SDK (🥈25 · ⭐ 220) - Node.js SDK for the Bybit APIs and WebSockets, with.. MIT

GitHub (👨‍💻 30 · 🔀 76 · 📦 300 · 📋 140 - 6% open · ⏱️ 05.06.2024):
```
 git clone https://github.com/tiagosiebler/bybit-api
```
npm (📥 9.6K / month):
```
 npm install bybit-api
```

Node Binance API (🥈24 · ⭐ 1.6K) - Node Binance API is an asynchronous node.js library for.. MIT

GitHub (👨‍💻 95 · 🔀 600 · 📦 2.8K · 📋 670 - 39% open · ⏱️ 11.01.2024):
```
 git clone https://github.com/jaggedsoft/node-binance-api
```

binance-java-api (🥉16 · ⭐ 840 · 💤) - binance-java-api is a lightweight Java library for.. MIT

GitHub (👨‍💻 44 · 🔀 630 · 📋 300 - 38% open · ⏱️ 27.10.2023):
```
 git clone https://github.com/binance-exchange/binance-java-api
```

Fast Trade (🥉11 · ⭐ 350) - low code backtesting library utilizing pandas and.. ❗️AGPL-3.0

GitHub (👨‍💻 5 · 🔀 35 · 📋 6 - 16% open · ⏱️ 27.03.2024):
```
 git clone https://github.com/jrmeier/fast-trade
```

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backtrader (🥈24 · ⭐ 13K · 💀) - Python Backtesting library for trading strategies. ❗️GPL-3.0
Catalyst (🥈22 · ⭐ 2.5K · 💀) - An Algorithmic Trading Library for Crypto-Assets in Python. Apache-2
CryptoCurrency eXchange WebSockets (🥈20 · ⭐ 620 · 💀) - WebSocket client for 38 cryptocurrency exchanges. MIT
Block Atlas by Trust Wallet (🥈20 · ⭐ 370 · 💀) - Clean and lightweight cross-chain transaction API. MIT
Coinnect (🥉15 · ⭐ 150 · 💀) - Coinnect is a Rust library aiming to provide a complete access.. MIT
ftx-api (🥉15 · ⭐ 120 · 💀) - Node.js connector for the FTX.com & FTX.us APIs and WebSockets,.. MIT
Node.js & Typescript OKX (OKEX) API SDK (🥉15 · ⭐ 68 · 📉) - Node.js SDK for the OKX APIs and WebSockets, with.. MIT
Node.js & Typescript Bitget API SDK (🥉15 · ⭐ 38 · 📈) - Node.js SDK for the Bitget APIs and WebSockets, with.. MIT
crypto-exchanges-gateway (🥉14 · ⭐ 580 · 💤) - Your gateway to the world of crypto !. ❗Unlicensed
binance-api-node (🥉14 · ⭐ 570 · 💤) - A complete and heavily tested API wrapper for the.. ❗Unlicensed
stocklook (🥉9 · ⭐ 160 · 💀) - crypto currency library for trading & market making bots,.. MIT
KuCoin WS (🥉9 · ⭐ 7 · 📈) - Node.js websocket client for KuCoin. MIT
BitPanda WS (🥉5 · ⭐ 5 · 💀) - Node.js websocket client for BitPanda. MIT
aio-kraken-ws ( ⭐ 1 · 💀) - Get ohlc from kraken web sockets. Documentation.. ❗Unlicensed

Technical analysis & Indicators

Technical Analysis Library in Python (🥇28 · ⭐ 4.1K · 💤) - Technical Analysis Library using Pandas and Numpy. MIT

GitHub (👨‍💻 34 · 🔀 830 · 📦 3.5K · 📋 210 - 51% open · ⏱️ 02.11.2023):
```
 git clone https://github.com/bukosabino/ta
```
PyPi (📥 130K / month):
```
 pip install ta
```

TA-Lib (🥈24 · ⭐ 9.1K · 📉) - Python wrapper for TA-Lib (http://ta-lib.org/). ❗Unlicensed

GitHub (👨‍💻 30 · 🔀 1.7K · 📋 570 - 28% open · ⏱️ 01.06.2024):
```
 git clone https://github.com/mrjbq7/ta-lib
```
PyPi (📥 86K / month):
```
 pip install TA-Lib
```
Conda:
```
 conda install -c anaconda ta-lib
```

Tulip Indicators (🥉14 · ⭐ 810) - Technical Analysis Indicator Function Library in C. ❗️LGPL-3.0

GitHub (👨‍💻 4 · 🔀 150 · 📋 73 - 43% open · ⏱️ 08.01.2024):
```
 git clone https://github.com/TulipCharts/tulipindicators
```

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Pandas TA (🥇31 · ⭐ 4.9K · 💀) - Technical Analysis Indicators - Pandas TA is an easy to use.. MIT
FinTA (Financial Technical Analysis) (🥈24 · ⭐ 2.1K · 💀) - Common financial technical indicators implemented in.. ❗️LGPL-3.0
ta4j (🥈24 · ⭐ 2K · 📈) - A Java library for technical analysis. ❗Unlicensed
TechnicalIndicators (🥉20 · ⭐ 2.1K · 💀) - A javascript technical indicators written in.. MIT
pyti (🥉17 · ⭐ 650 · 💀) - Python library of various financial technical indicators. MIT
Techan (🥉14 · ⭐ 800 · 💀) - Technical Analysis Library for Golang. MIT
Technical Analysis for Rust (🥉12 · ⭐ 630 · 💀) - Technical analysis library for Rust language. MIT
Tulip Node (🥉11 · ⭐ 490 · 💀) - Tulip Node is the official node.js wrapper for Tulip.. ❗️LGPL-3.0

Books

🔗 ALGO TRADING CHEAT CODES - Techniques For Traders To Quickly And Efficiently Develop Better..

🔗 Entry and Exit Confessions of a Champion Trader - 52 Ways A Professional Speculator Gets In And Out Of..

🔗 Introduction To Algo Trading - How Retail Traders Can Successfully Compete With Professional..

🔗 Algo Trading 2022 - Techniques and Algorithmic Trading Systems for Successful Investing.

🔗 Machine Learning for Algorithmic Trading - Predictive models to extract signals from market and..

🔗 Algorithmic Trading - A Practitioners Guide.

🔗 Developing High-Frequency Trading Systems - Learn how to implement high-frequency trading from..

🔗 Algorithmic Trading: Winning Strategies and Their Rationale - Winning Strategies and Their Rationale.

🔗 Python for Algorithmic Trading - From Idea to Cloud Deployment.

🔗 Quantitative Trading - How to Build Your Own Algorithmic Trading Business (Wiley Trading).

🔗 Algorithmic Trading with Interactive Brokers - (Python and C++).

🔗 Automated Stock Trading Systems - A Systematic Approach for Traders to Make Money in Bull, Bear..

🔗 Inside the Black Box - A Simple Guide to Quantitative and High Frequency Trading (Wiley Finance Book..

🔗 Finding Alphas - A Quantitative Approach to Building Trading Strategies 1st Edition.

🔗 Algorithmic Trading and DMA - An introduction to direct access trading strategies.

🔗 Building Winning Algorithmic Trading Systems - A Traders Journey From Data Mining to Monte Carlo..

🔗 Python for Finance - Mastering Data-Driven Finance 2nd Edition.

🔗 Technical Analysis Explained, Fifth Edition - The Successful Investors Guide to Spotting Investment..

🔗 Quantitative Investing - Strategies to exploit stock market anomalies for all investors.

Youtube

🔗 Part Time Larry - Write programs to analyze, visualize, integrate, and utilize market data, APIs, and..

🔗 Moon Dev - I like coding & finance a lot and i really love teaching!.

🔗 Coding Jesus - Channels purpose is to shine a positive light on the often difficult to navigate world..

🔗 The Art of Trading - Strategy creation, Pine Script coding and of course my personal favorite -..

🔗 Algo Trading With Kevin Davey - Futures trading, trading systems, trading strategies and also..

🔗 Algo-trading with Saleh - Practical tutorials about algo-trading with Python.

🔗 TradeSmart - Backtesting and optimizing day trading strategies.

🔗 EcoEngineering - Algorithmic trading and optimizing the trading strategies by using MQL and Python..

Courses

🔗 Algorithmic Trading A-Z with Python, Machine Learning & AWS - Build your own truly Data-driven Day Trading Bot |..

🔗 Investment Management with Python and Machine Learning Specialization - Write custom Python code and use existing Python..

🔗 Algorithmic Trading on KiteConnect Platform - Design and deploy trading strategies on Kiteconnect..

🔗 Complete algorithmic forex trading and back testing system - Develop robust systems for trading, backtesting, web..

🔗 Algorithmic Trading & Quantitative Analysis Using Python - Build fully automated trading system and Implement..

🔗 Technical Analysis with Python for Algorithmic Trading - Use Technical Analysis and Indicators for (Day)..

🔗 Cryptocurrency Algorithmic Trading with Python and Binance - Create powerful Trading Strategies and fully..

🔗 Forex Algorithmic Trading Course: Code a Forex Robot! - Build a Completely Automated Trading Robot (Expert..

Communities

🔗 Node.js Algo Traders - Collaborate in the world of algo trading with fellow..

🔗 Algotrading Crypto - Ideas, tools, strategies discussion.

🔗 PineScripters - The biggest and most active independent community of TradingView programmers in..

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