this github repo should honestly be ILLEGAL for retail traders to have for free
hedge funds pay quant PhDs six figures to find alphas, backtest them and stress-test every trade - this repo turns the whole quant desk into one sentence you type in a terminal
it's called Vibe-Trading. built by a University of Hong Kong lab, 36.4k stars and it hit
#1 repo of the day
first understand how it works:
> you type one sentence in plain English
> a team of AI agents takes it: quant, crypto, macro, risk > they pull the data, write the strategy code and run the backtest
> then they try to break it: Monte Carlo, Bootstrap, Walk-Forward
> it tests 478 famous quant alphas in one line and tells you which are still ALIVE and which are DEAD
> what survives exports straight to TradingView Pine Script or MetaTrader 5
> it's a full quant desk. it just runs on your laptop
here is how to run it yourself for FREE:
1. open your terminal and install it: pip install vibe-trading-ai
2. run vibe-trading init and pick Claude Code as the brain. it runs on your Claude Code login, no separate API key
3. type one sentence: vibe-trading run -p "Backtest a BTC-USDT 20/50 moving-average strategy for 2024 and summarize return and drawdown"
4. watch the agents pull the data, write the code and run the backtest live
5. bench the alpha zoo in one line: vibe-trading alpha bench --zoo gtja191 --universe csi300 --period 2018-2025 --top 20
6. call a whole crypto desk: vibe-trading --swarm-run crypto_trading_desk '{"asset": "ETH-USDT", "timeframe": "1w"}' funding, liquidations and flow all go to a risk manager before anything moves
7. walk-forward it. if the edge only works on one window, it's not an edge
8. export what survives to TradingView: vibe-trading --pine <run_id>
9. paper trade it with vibe-trading paper for a few weeks before you trust a single backtest
i won't say anything more: