best-of-algorithmic-trading

What you get: 109 curated projects across 7 categories, with roughly 310K combined GitHub stars. Rankings use an automated quality score built from GitHub activity, package-manager stats, and other public signals (see the best-of generator ecosystem for details).

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Contents

• Bots & Frameworks 23 projects
• Libraries & API 28 projects
• Technical analysis & Indicators 10 projects
• Books 19 projects
• Youtube 10 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
• ➕  Project was recently added
• ❗️  Warning (e.g. missing/risky license)
• 👨‍💻  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
•   Python projects
•   NodeJS projects
•   JavaScript projects
•   C projects
•   C++ projects
•   C# projects
•   PHP projects
•   Java projects
•   Rust projects
•   Go projects
•   Telegram

Bots & Frameworks

• GitHub (👨‍💻 390 · 🔀 9.8K · 📦 130 · 📋 5.6K - 0% open · ⏱️ 26.03.2026):

  git clone https://github.com/freqtrade/freqtrade
  

• GitHub (👨‍💻 310 · 🔀 4.3K · 📥 64 · 📦 16 · 📋 3.4K - 8% open · ⏱️ 02.03.2026):

  git clone https://github.com/hummingbot/hummingbot
  

• GitHub (👨‍💻 27 · 🔀 2K · 📥 11K · 📦 21 · 📋 180 - 4% open · ⏱️ 24.03.2026):

  git clone https://github.com/StockSharp/StockSharp
  

• GitHub (👨‍💻 230 · 🔀 4.5K · 📦 21 · 📋 3.6K - 6% open · ⏱️ 25.03.2026):

  git clone https://github.com/QuantConnect/Lean
  

• GitHub (👨‍💻 26 · 🔀 1.1K · 📥 31K · 📋 800 - 13% open · ⏱️ 17.03.2026):

  git clone https://github.com/Drakkar-Software/OctoBot
  

• GitHub (👨‍💻 53 · 🔀 1.1K · 📦 6 · 📋 140 - 3% open · ⏱️ 21.03.2026):

  git clone https://github.com/jesse-ai/jesse
  

• GitHub (👨‍💻 17 · 🔀 970 · 📋 210 - 51% open · ⏱️ 01.03.2026):

  git clone https://github.com/Haehnchen/crypto-trading-bot
  

• GitHub (👨‍💻 6 · 🔀 25 · 📥 140 · 📋 52 - 32% open · ⏱️ 23.03.2026):

  git clone https://github.com/alexanderwanyoike/the0
  

• GitHub (🔀 83 · ⏱️ 23.12.2025):

  git clone https://github.com/Erio-Harrison/rust-trade
  

• Gekko (🥈29 · ⭐ 10K · 💀) - A bitcoin trading bot written in node - https://gekko.wizb.it/. MIT
• Superalgos (🥈25 · ⭐ 5.4K · 💀) - Free, open-source crypto trading bot, automated bitcoin.. Apache-2
• Zenbot (🥈24 · ⭐ 8.3K · 💀) - Zenbot is a command-line cryptocurrency trading bot using Node.js.. MIT
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