Index

Guides

Comparisons, category notes, and project pages. Chapter pages remain the full entry lists. The contents table is on the Overview.

Comparisons

• FinGPT vs TradingAgents — FinGPT is a financial LLM repository. TradingAgents is a multi-agent trading framework. Repository facts from the GitHub API on 2026-10-22.
• Best open-source trading agents — Chapter 3 and 4 trading-agent repositories ordered by GitHub stars on 2026-10-22, plus the execution engines filed beside them.
• Open-source financial research/report agents compared — Research and report agents from chapter 2, plus two workbenches, with GitHub facts from 2026-10-22.

Project pages

• OpenBB — What the OpenBB repository is, which directories it ships, and the GitHub facts recorded on 2026-10-22.
• AKShare — What the AKShare Python data library covers, and the GitHub facts recorded on 2026-10-22.
• Dexter — What the Dexter research agent repository contains, and the GitHub facts recorded on 2026-10-22.
• FinRobot — What the FinRobot agent platform repository contains, and the GitHub facts recorded on 2026-10-22.
• TradingAgents — What the TradingAgents multi-agent framework contains, and the GitHub facts recorded on 2026-10-22.
• ai-hedge-fund — What the ai-hedge-fund simulation contains, and the GitHub facts recorded on 2026-10-22.
• nofx — What the nofx trading terminal repository contains, and the GitHub facts recorded on 2026-10-22.
• FinRL-Trading — What the FinRL-Trading (FinRL-X) repository contains, and the GitHub facts recorded on 2026-10-22.
• Qlib — What the Qlib quant platform is, and the GitHub facts recorded on 2026-10-22.
• RD-Agent — What the RD-Agent research loop covers in quant scenarios, and the GitHub facts recorded on 2026-10-22.
• Beancount — What the Beancount ledger is, and the GitHub facts recorded on 2026-10-22.
• Actual — What the Actual budget app is, and the GitHub facts recorded on 2026-10-22.
• FinGPT — What the FinGPT financial-LLM repository contains, and the GitHub facts recorded on 2026-10-22.
• FinRL — What the FinRL reinforcement-learning repository contains, and the GitHub facts recorded on 2026-10-22.
• NautilusTrader — What the NautilusTrader engine is, and the GitHub facts recorded on 2026-10-22.

Category notes

• Data and Tools — Reading note for chapter 1: market and filing data, MCP servers, official broker kits, and skill packs.
• Investment Research — Reading note for chapter 2: research agents and self-hosted workbenches that turn filings and news into memos.
• Multi-Agent Decisions — Reading note for chapter 3: multi-agent desks that debate and hand off a decision.
• Trading and Portfolio — Reading note for chapter 4: from a signal to a sized order, plus prediction markets and broker bridges.
• Quant Automation — Reading note for chapter 5: agents that mine factors, write strategy code, and iterate backtests.
• Accounting — Reading note for chapter 6: ledgers, tax and invoicing, and accounting-system MCP servers.
• Risk and Compliance — Reading note for chapter 7: AML/KYC, due diligence, and firewalls in front of irreversible actions.
• Personal Finance — Reading note for chapter 8: local-first budgets and the bridges agents use to read them.
• Evaluation and Arenas — Reading note for chapter 9: benchmarks, live arenas, and public track records for finance agents.
• Backtesting and Leakage — Reading note for chapter 10: point-in-time data, replay, and look-ahead control for agent loops.