Vibe-Trading turns a chat box into a quant desk
HKUDS, the Hong Kong data science group that keeps shipping open-source agents, just put out Vibe-Trading, and it's already at 9.8k stars. The pitch: type a finance question in plain language, get back executable analysis, backtests, and trading strategies. It covers A-shares, Hong Kong, US equities, crypto, futures, and forex, and it'll plug into your actual broker.
What makes it more than a toy is what's bundled. 77 finance skills across 8 categories, an Alpha Zoo of 452 pre-built quant alphas pulled from academic papers and industry, and 29 swarm presets for running multi-agent research teams. There's a Shadow Account feature that reads your broker export, extracts the rules you've actually been trading by, and backtests them against you. It talks to 12-plus LLM providers and exposes itself over MCP, so you can drive the whole thing from Claude Desktop.
This is the same playbook HKUDS ran with AI-Trader and ViMax: take a domain, package it as a pile of agent skills, open-source all of it. The skills-as-distribution idea is everywhere right now, but trading is where it bites hardest. A retail trader with this is borrowing 452 alphas and a research swarm for free. Whether that's empowering or terrifying depends on which side of the trade you're on. Repo: github.com/HKUDS/Vibe-Trading
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What makes it more than a toy is what's bundled. 77 finance skills across 8 categories, an Alpha Zoo of 452 pre-built quant alphas pulled from academic papers and industry, and 29 swarm presets for running multi-agent research teams. There's a Shadow Account feature that reads your broker export, extracts the rules you've actually been trading by, and backtests them against you. It talks to 12-plus LLM providers and exposes itself over MCP, so you can drive the whole thing from Claude Desktop.
This is the same playbook HKUDS ran with AI-Trader and ViMax: take a domain, package it as a pile of agent skills, open-source all of it. The skills-as-distribution idea is everywhere right now, but trading is where it bites hardest. A retail trader with this is borrowing 452 alphas and a research swarm for free. Whether that's empowering or terrifying depends on which side of the trade you're on. Repo: github.com/HKUDS/Vibe-Trading
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