Grouped after the Awesome AI4Finance taxonomy, expanded with our Tech Stack and blog. Scores mirror that list’s “Recommendation” column (community curation, not performance advice).
Awesome AI4Finance: Structure, categories, and 1-5 scores follow the community-maintained list below; we added an extra section for infrastructure and research tools we reference on MarketMaker.cc.
Score 1-5 = strength of signal in the Awesome list (weekly review process described there). GitHub star counts are indicative - check each repo for live numbers.
Financial Big Data 11
Data sources
Metaverse of market simulators for DRL - stocks, crypto, FX, paper and live connectors.
Unified REST/WebSocket exchange APIs in JS/Python/PHP - baseline for many crypto connectivity prototypes.
China A-share and macro data access - useful when your universe includes mainland listings.
Reference implementations and API docs for one of the deepest crypto liquidity pools.
Columnar market datastore plus brokerage APIs for equities/crypto paper and live workflows.
Features & technical indicators
Symbol metadata across equities, ETFs, funds, FX, crypto, and money markets.
Artificial Intelligence 12
Machine learning
Companion code to Stefan Jansen’s book - end-to-end ML workflows for trading research.
Large zoo of classical and deep forecasting baselines for benchmarking.
Worked solutions tied to Marcos López de Prado’s Advances in Financial Machine Learning.
Feature engineering + modeling utilities aimed at discretionary and quant researchers.
Reinforcement learning
Full DRL pipeline for finance - data, environments, training, and deployment stories.
Ensemble DRL strategies with a published live-trading experiment path.
Finance 9
Stock recommendation
Reference implementation for a classical supervised recommendation baseline.
Trading
Full order-book tick ML baselines - useful when studying microstructure-heavy datasets.
Portfolio management
High performance computing
Trading platforms
Open-source algorithmic engine with research, backtest, and live brokerage adapters.
Rendering & visualization
Open-source native desktop orderflow platform in Rust (Iced): DOM heatmap, footprint, time & sales, and depth ladder. Binance, Bybit, Hyperliquid, OKX, MEXC.
Extended stack (MarketMaker.cc & blog) 12
Databases, APIs, messaging, and research libraries we use in articles and on the landing - editorial picks with informal scores for orientation only.
Time-series databases & OLAP
Columnar engines for ticks, bars, and analytics - called out in our Tech Stack section.
APIs, RPC & streaming
Typed data APIs over Postgres - matches our GraphQL/Hasura pairing on the landing.
Binary RPC between microservices; discussed alongside WebSocket/OpenAPI in our architecture posts.
Low-latency messaging
Backtesting, features & research
Vectorized research loops; VectorBT covered in a dedicated article.
Open financial LLM/NLP lines for sentiment and document prototypes.
Educational overview. Third-party names and scores do not imply endorsement; verify licenses, latency, and compliance before production use.