20 open-source trading tools for Grok Bot traders

Arcvale @itsarcvaleOriginally posted 2026.10.27

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GROK BOT TRADERS ARE SITTING ON A F*CKING GOLDMINE AND MOST OF THEM HAVE NEVER OPENED IT traders pay up to $32,000 a year for a terminal seat. these 20 open-source trading tools cost $0. 174K+ GitHub stars between them data, research agents, backtests, risk and the order ticket. your bot installs them on its own computer or plugs them in over MCP. the whole desk is already built, it's just waiting for someone to switch it on 20 GitHub projects for Grok Bot traders, open these first: 01 tradingview-mcp → screeners and multi-timeframe technical analysis as an MCP server your bot can call https://github.com/atilaahmettaner/tradingview-mcp 02 Financial Datasets MCP → stock market data from the Financial Datasets API, served over MCP. ask for it, don't scrape it https://github.com/financial-datasets/mcp-server 03 MaverickMCP → Yahoo Finance data, technical analysis, portfolio tracking and Python backtests over MCP. no API key for the core tools https://github.com/wshobson/maverick-mcp 04 yfinance → Yahoo Finance prices in a few lines of Python. the data layer a lot of these tools sit on https://github.com/ranaroussi/yfinance 05 OpenNews MCP → 85+ real-time news sources with AI ratings and trading signals, piped into your bot https://github.com/6551Team/opennews-mcp 06 Vibe-Trading → an open-source personal trading agent from HKU, with MCP, backtests and portfolio tools built in https://github.com/HKUDS/Vibe-Trading 07 Claude Trading Skills → skills for market review, risk management, trade planning and journaling. built to structure decisions, not hand them to AI https://github.com/tradermonty/claude-trading-skills 08 LangAlpha → agents that research the market, write a thesis and what would prove it wrong, then act only within the permissions you set https://github.com/ginlix-ai/LangAlpha 09 Dexter → an autonomous financial research agent that plans, checks its own work and pulls real-time market data https://github.com/virattt/dexter 10 AI-Trader → a trading arena built for AI agents. send your bot one message and it joins https://github.com/HKUDS/AI-Trader 11 TA-Lib → the standard technical-indicator library: RSI, MACD, Bollinger Bands and the rest, without writing them yourself https://github.com/TA-Lib/ta-lib-python 12 QuantStats → sharpe, drawdowns and a full performance tearsheet from a list of returns https://github.com/ranaroussi/quantstats 13 Riskfolio-Lib → portfolio optimization that sizes positions by risk instead of gut feeling https://github.com/dcajasn/Riskfolio-Lib 14 hftbacktest → backtests high-frequency and market-making strategies with queue position and latency, not perfect fills https://github.com/nkaz001/hftbacktest 15 pysystemtrade → a full systematic trading framework in Python, from forecasts to position sizing https://github.com/pst-group/pysystemtrade 16 OpenAlgo → a free, self-hosted trading platform in front of your broker: design, host and run strategies https://github.com/marketcalls/openalgo 17 ib_async → the Python framework for the Interactive Brokers API, the successor to ib_insync https://github.com/ib-api-reloaded/ib_async 18 Interactive Brokers MCP → an unofficial IBKR server your bot can talk to. alpha software, so paper account first https://github.com/code-rabi/interactive-brokers-mcp 19 OctoBot → a free crypto bot for AI, grid, DCA and TradingView strategies on Binance, Hyperliquid and more https://github.com/Drakkar-Software/OctoBot 20 Condor → Hummingbot's open-source harness for creating and managing AI trading agents https://github.com/hummingbot/condor start with 3, not 20: one for data (MaverickMCP), one for the truth about your returns (QuantStats), one for the order ticket (OpenAlgo on paper) run the same idea before and after. keep a tool only if the result gets clearer or cheaper every connector you add is access. nothing here touches a real dollar without your yes before you pay for another signal app, check whether your bot can already do it with these. a new list lands every night the article below runs a world champion's strategy through 700,000 gold trades. that's the kind of test these tools let your bot run ↓

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