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1 | | -# traderplusplus |
2 | | -going wild |
| 1 | +# 🚀 Trader++: The Next-Gen Quant Trading Engine |
| 2 | + |
| 3 | +> **Unleash the power of modular, realistic, and extensible portfolio simulation.** |
| 4 | +
|
| 5 | +--- |
| 6 | + |
| 7 | +## ✨ Why Trader++? |
| 8 | + |
| 9 | +Trader++ isn’t just another backtesting tool. It’s a full-fledged quant trading engine built for: |
| 10 | +- **True Portfolio Simulation:** Manage multiple assets, cash, and trades as real portfolios—not just isolated strategies. |
| 11 | +- **Plug-and-Play Modularity:** Swap in new strategies, data sources, or risk guardrails with minimal code. |
| 12 | +- **Event-Driven Realism:** Simulate trades, slippage, and portfolio changes in a way that mimics real markets. |
| 13 | +- **Powerful Guardrails:** Risk management hooks that go beyond stop-losses—unregister assets, enforce capital limits, and more. |
| 14 | +- **Transparent & Hackable:** Built for experimentation, learning, and research. Every core component is swappable and inspectable. |
| 15 | + |
| 16 | +**How is it different from Backtrader, Zipline, or QuantConnect?** |
| 17 | +- 🧩 **Cleaner separation of concerns:** Market data, strategies, execution, and portfolio logic are fully decoupled. |
| 18 | +- 🛡️ **Advanced guardrails:** Custom risk modules, not just basic stop-losses. |
| 19 | +- 💡 **Portfolio as a first-class citizen:** Track capital, trades, and metadata in one place. |
| 20 | +- 🧪 **Designed for research:** Easy to debug, extend, and run controlled experiments. |
| 21 | +- 🌱 **Open, modern, and Pythonic:** No black boxes, no vendor lock-in, and ready for your next big idea. |
| 22 | + |
| 23 | +--- |
| 24 | + |
| 25 | +## 🧠 Objective |
| 26 | + |
| 27 | +Empower quants and developers to: |
| 28 | +- Cleanly separate market data, strategies, execution logic, and portfolio tracking |
| 29 | +- Run realistic, event-driven backtests and simulations |
| 30 | +- Plug-and-play both single-asset and multi-asset strategies |
| 31 | + |
| 32 | +Built for robust experimentation and real-world readiness, with proper portfolio management and capital accounting. |
| 33 | + |
| 34 | +--- |
| 35 | + |
| 36 | +## 🗺️ System Architecture |
| 37 | + |
| 38 | +```mermaid |
| 39 | +flowchart TD |
| 40 | + subgraph Data Layer |
| 41 | + A[MarketData] |
| 42 | + end |
| 43 | + subgraph Strategy Layer |
| 44 | + B[StrategyBase] |
| 45 | + end |
| 46 | + subgraph Execution Layer |
| 47 | + C[PortfolioExecutor] |
| 48 | + D[Guardrails] |
| 49 | + end |
| 50 | + subgraph Portfolio & Analytics |
| 51 | + E[Portfolio] |
| 52 | + F[Performance Analytics] |
| 53 | + end |
| 54 | + A -- Price/Volume Data --> B |
| 55 | + B -- Signals --> C |
| 56 | + C -- Orders/Trades --> E |
| 57 | + C -- Risk Checks --> D |
| 58 | + D -- Approve/Block Trades --> C |
| 59 | + E -- Holdings/PnL --> F |
| 60 | + F -- Reports --> E |
| 61 | +``` |
| 62 | + |
| 63 | +--- |
| 64 | + |
| 65 | +## 🔧 Core Components |
| 66 | + |
| 67 | +| Module | Purpose | |
| 68 | +|-------------------|-------------------------------------------------------------------------| |
| 69 | +| Portfolio | Tracks assets, cash, trades, and strategy metadata. Self-contained unit. | |
| 70 | +| PortfolioExecutor | Orchestrates strategy execution, manages trade logic, evaluates guards. | |
| 71 | +| MarketData | Historical price data & sliding window views for strategies. | |
| 72 | +| StrategyBase | Interface for strategy design, single/multi-asset support. | |
| 73 | +| Backtester | Runs simulations, exports performance reports and logs. | |
| 74 | + |
| 75 | +--- |
| 76 | + |
| 77 | +## 💡 Main Features |
| 78 | + |
| 79 | +- 📈 **Backtesting Engine** — Realistic execution, guardrails, cash balance checks |
| 80 | +- 🧠 **Pluggable Strategy Interface** — Stateful/stateless signal generation |
| 81 | +- 💼 **Portfolio Tracking** — Accurate PnL with trade logs, equity curves |
| 82 | +- 🛡️ **Guardrail System** — Risk management hooks (stop-loss, asset unregister) |
| 83 | +- 📊 **Performance Reporting** — Sharpe, max drawdown, win rate, CAGR, more |
| 84 | +- 🔬 **Benchmark Comparison** — Alpha, beta, vs SPY or other tickers |
| 85 | +- 🧪 **Test Strategies** — Debug pipeline (e.g., “buy once on day 1”) |
| 86 | + |
| 87 | +--- |
| 88 | + |
| 89 | +## 🚀 Quick Start |
| 90 | + |
| 91 | +```sh |
| 92 | +# Install dependencies |
| 93 | +pip install -r requirements.txt |
| 94 | + |
| 95 | +# Run a backtest |
| 96 | +python run_backtest.py --strategy momentum --tickers AAPL,MSFT --start 2023-01-01 --end 2023-12-31 --plot |
| 97 | + |
| 98 | +# Or use the Streamlit UI |
| 99 | +streamlit run streamlit_app.py |
| 100 | +``` |
| 101 | + |
| 102 | +--- |
| 103 | + |
| 104 | +## 🧩 Project Structure |
| 105 | + |
| 106 | +```text |
| 107 | +📦traderplusplus |
| 108 | +├── contracts |
| 109 | +│ ├── asset.py # Asset & CashAsset classes |
| 110 | +│ └── portfolio.py # Portfolio definition |
| 111 | +├── core |
| 112 | +│ ├── backtester.py # Runs simulation |
| 113 | +│ ├── executor.py # Executes trades |
| 114 | +│ ├── market_data.py # Loads, stores & queries market data |
| 115 | +│ ├── data_loader.py # Yahoo/Polygon loaders + caching |
| 116 | +│ ├── guardrails # Risk guardrail classes |
| 117 | +│ └── visualizer.py # Matplotlib + Plotly charts |
| 118 | +├── strategies |
| 119 | +│ ├── base.py # StrategyBase + factory |
| 120 | +│ └── stock |
| 121 | +│ ├── momentum.py # Example strategy |
| 122 | +├── analytics |
| 123 | +│ └── performance.py # Sharpe, Alpha etc. |
| 124 | +├── run_backtest.py # CLI tool |
| 125 | +└── streamlit_app.py # UI |
| 126 | +``` |
| 127 | + |
| 128 | +--- |
| 129 | + |
| 130 | +## 🌱 Vision for Future Work |
| 131 | + |
| 132 | +### 🎯 Execution & Simulation |
| 133 | +- Live trading interface (Alpaca, IBKR) |
| 134 | +- Slippage and commission modeling |
| 135 | +- Real-time execution with event-based feed |
| 136 | + |
| 137 | +### 🧠 Strategy Framework |
| 138 | +- Portfolio optimization (Risk Parity, Markowitz) |
| 139 | +- Signal pipelines (multi-indicator, ML-based) |
| 140 | +- RL and LLM-based adaptive strategies |
| 141 | + |
| 142 | +### 📊 Analytics & Visualization |
| 143 | +- Interactive dashboard (Streamlit/Plotly) |
| 144 | +- Trade replay, diagnostics |
| 145 | +- Alpha decomposition, factor attribution |
| 146 | + |
| 147 | +### 🧱 Engine Internals |
| 148 | +- Custom logging, debugging, test harness |
| 149 | +- Multiprocess strategy evaluation |
| 150 | +- Config-driven simulation pipelines |
| 151 | + |
| 152 | +--- |
| 153 | + |
| 154 | +## 🙌 Contributing |
| 155 | + |
| 156 | +Pull requests and suggestions are welcome! For major changes, please open an issue first to discuss what you’d like to change. |
| 157 | + |
| 158 | +--- |
| 159 | + |
| 160 | +## 📄 License |
| 161 | + |
| 162 | +Distributed under the MIT License. |
| 163 | + |
| 164 | +--- |
| 165 | + |
| 166 | +## 📬 Contact |
| 167 | + |
| 168 | +Open an issue or reach out via GitHub for questions and collaboration! |
| 169 | + |
| 170 | +--- |
| 171 | + |
| 172 | +Enjoy building and experimenting with Trader++! 🚀 |
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