TradingAgents

TradingAgents is a multi-agent framework that simulates a trading firm of LLM analysts, researchers, and managers to evaluate stock trades for researchers and developers.

What it is good for

  • Testing trading ideas against simulated analyst and researcher debates
  • Reviewing stock fundamentals, news, and technical signals in one report
  • Backtesting trading decisions over a range of tickers and dates
  • Comparing how different language models reason about market data

At a glance

Who it is for
Setup
Requires programming

Level 5 of 5. You need to write code to use it.

Cost
Free and open source
Type
Framework or SDK
Tasks
Works with
FRED, Alpha Vantage, Yahoo Finance, SEC EDGAR, OpenAI, Anthropic

Momentum

Rank this week
#7 in builder tools
Best rank
#7 week 44, 2026
Stars gained last week
+4,861
GitHub stars
119,754

GitHub numbers as of Nov 2, 2026. Updated weekly.

107k 114k 121k Sep 24, 2026 Nov 2, 2026
GitHub stars for TradingAgents: 107,817 on Sep 24, 2026, 119,754 on Nov 2, 2026. Source: GitHub.

Ranking history

Official links

Setup steps are on the official pages. We do not repeat them here, since they change.

Questions

Is TradingAgents free?
Yes. It is free and open source (Apache-2.0 license).
Do I need to know how to code to use TradingAgents?
Yes. You need to write code to use it.
What does TradingAgents work with?
According to its own documentation, it works with FRED, Alpha Vantage, Yahoo Finance, SEC EDGAR, OpenAI, and Anthropic.
What is TradingAgents good for?
Testing trading ideas against simulated analyst and researcher debates, reviewing stock fundamentals, news, and technical signals in one report, backtesting trading decisions over a range of tickers and dates, and comparing how different language models reason about market data.

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Last updated Nov 2, 2026. Tracked since Oct 28, 2026. Parts of this summary required judgment because the source material was brief. The summary was written by an AI model from the project's own description and checked against our copy rules. Spotted an error? Tell us.