# Guides

> Index · Web version: https://finance-agents.dev/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](/compare/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](/compare/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](/compare/financial-research-agents) — Research and report agents from chapter 2, plus two workbenches, with GitHub facts from 2026-10-22.

## Project pages

- [OpenBB](/projects/openbb) — What the OpenBB repository is, which directories it ships, and the GitHub facts recorded on 2026-10-22.
- [AKShare](/projects/akshare) — What the AKShare Python data library covers, and the GitHub facts recorded on 2026-10-22.
- [Dexter](/projects/dexter) — What the Dexter research agent repository contains, and the GitHub facts recorded on 2026-10-22.
- [FinRobot](/projects/finrobot) — What the FinRobot agent platform repository contains, and the GitHub facts recorded on 2026-10-22.
- [TradingAgents](/projects/tradingagents) — What the TradingAgents multi-agent framework contains, and the GitHub facts recorded on 2026-10-22.
- [ai-hedge-fund](/projects/ai-hedge-fund) — What the ai-hedge-fund simulation contains, and the GitHub facts recorded on 2026-10-22.
- [nofx](/projects/nofx) — What the nofx trading terminal repository contains, and the GitHub facts recorded on 2026-10-22.
- [FinRL-Trading](/projects/finrl-trading) — What the FinRL-Trading (FinRL-X) repository contains, and the GitHub facts recorded on 2026-10-22.
- [Qlib](/projects/qlib) — What the Qlib quant platform is, and the GitHub facts recorded on 2026-10-22.
- [RD-Agent](/projects/rd-agent) — What the RD-Agent research loop covers in quant scenarios, and the GitHub facts recorded on 2026-10-22.
- [Beancount](/projects/beancount) — What the Beancount ledger is, and the GitHub facts recorded on 2026-10-22.
- [Actual](/projects/actual) — What the Actual budget app is, and the GitHub facts recorded on 2026-10-22.
- [FinGPT](/projects/fingpt) — What the FinGPT financial-LLM repository contains, and the GitHub facts recorded on 2026-10-22.
- [FinRL](/projects/finrl) — What the FinRL reinforcement-learning repository contains, and the GitHub facts recorded on 2026-10-22.
- [NautilusTrader](/projects/nautilus-trader) — What the NautilusTrader engine is, and the GitHub facts recorded on 2026-10-22.

## Category notes

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

---

GitHub facts: 2026-10-22. CC0 1.0 · https://github.com/aowang-ai/awesome-finance-agents

Maintained by Ao Wang (https://aowang.ai).