Additional open-source Python libraries for algorithmic trading and data collection include (see links on GitHub):
- QuantConnect is a competitor to Quantopian
- WorldQuant offers online competition and recruits community contributors to a crowd-sourced hedge fund
- Alpha Trading Labs offers high-frequency focused testing infrastructure with a business model similar to Quantopian
- Python Algorithmic Trading Library (PyAlgoTrade) focuses on backtesting and offers support for paper-trading and live-trading. It allows you to evaluate an idea for a trading strategy with historical data and aims to do so with minimal effort.
- pybacktest is a vectorized backtesting framework that uses pandas and aims to be compact, ...