Grademark/grademarkGitHub
choose if you need to backtest in JavaScript/TypeScript instead of Python.
An API for backtesting trading strategies in JavaScript and TypeScript.
- 315
- TypeScript
- MIT
dormant1.9y ago
mementum/backtrader Alternatives
trading strategy backtesting
backtrader is a Python backtesting library for developing and testing trading strategies with support for data feeds, indicators, and strategy composition.
Same job, different approach
Solves the same problem with a different architecture or at a different layer. Expect to rewrite the integration.
kieran-mackle/AutoTraderGitHub
choose if you need an integrated backtesting and live trading platform with optimization.
A Python-based development platform for automated trading systems - from backtesting to optimisation to livetrading.
- 1.3k
- Python
- GPL-3.0
archived1.4y ago
nkaz001/hftbacktestGitHub
choose for high-frequency trading and market-making backtests using full tick data in Rust/Python.
Free, open source, a high frequency trading and market making backtesting and trading bot, which accounts for limit orders, queue positions, and latencies, utilizing full tick data for trades and order books(Level-2 and Level-3), with real-world crypto trading examples for Binance and Bybit
- 4.7k
- Rust
- MIT
slowing10mo ago
51bitquant/howtraderGitHub
choose for a crypto-focused Python framework with backtesting and live trading integration.
Howtrader: A crypto quant framework for developing, backtesting, and executing your own trading strategies. Seamlessly integrates with TradingView and other third-party signals. Simply send a post request to automate trading and order placement. Supports Binance and Okex exchanges.
- 959
- Python
- MIT
active4mo ago
Older generation, or narrower
An earlier or more limited way to do the job. Still the right call when you need something small, proven, or CPU-only.
constverum/QuantdomGitHub
choose for an older Python backtesting framework with a GUI if you want a visual interface and don't need recent maintenance.
Python-based framework for backtesting trading strategies & analyzing financial markets [GUI :neckbeard:]
- 773
- Python
- Apache-2.0
dormant4.3y ago
uniVocity/univocity-traderGitHub
choose for Java-based backtesting if you accept an older, unmaintained framework.
open-source trading framework for java, supports backtesting and live trading with exchanges
- 599
- Java
- none
dormant4.3y ago
eliasswu/AlphaPurifyGitHub
choose for factor-focused backtesting on Polars if your work is cleaning and testing alpha factors.
Extremely fast quantitative factor cleaning and backtesting library, based on Polars
- 550
- Python
- MIT
active3mo ago
Kismuz/btgymGitHub
choose for deep-learning-friendly backtesting, but it's old and unmaintained.
Scalable, event-driven, deep-learning-friendly backtesting library
- 1.0k
- Python
- LGPL-3.0
dormant5.1y ago
End-user tools
Does the same job, but ships as an app. Useful to a person, not swappable into a codebase.
austin-starks/NextTradeGitHub
choose if you want a no-code algorithmic trading system instead of coding in Python.
(Predecessor to NexusTrade) A no-code algorithmic trading system
- 1.8k
- TypeScript
- MIT
slowing1.4y ago
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These projects were analysed and named backtrader among their alternatives. The relationship is not symmetric — how backtrader rates them is a separate judgement, made when backtrader is analysed in its own right.
HKUDS/Vibe-TradingGitHub
calls backtrader “Choose if you want a battle-tested backtesting-only library and accept no recent maintenance.”
"Vibe-Trading: Your Personal Trading Agent"
31.9kPythonactive
kieran-mackle/AutoTraderGitHub
calls backtrader “Mature Python backtesting/live library that could replace AutoTrader's simulator, but frozen for ~2 years so no dependency patches.”
A Python-based development platform for automated trading systems - from backtesting to optimisation to livetrading.
1.3kPythonarchived