Analytical Tools

Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. 800,000+ economic time series — rates, yields, employment, inflation, FX. Free API available.

Broad universe of equities, ETFs, FX, and futures data accessible via yfinance Python library. Excellent for rapid data collection.

Financial, economic, and alternative data marketplace. Includes futures, options, and premium datasets with a clean Python API.

High-performance backtesting library built on NumPy and Pandas. Vectorized operations make large-scale signal sweeps fast. Excellent for parameter search and portfolio simulation.

Portfolio analytics and risk reporting in Python. Generates tearsheets with Sharpe, Sortino, drawdowns, rolling metrics, and benchmarked performance — one function call.

Open-source investment research platform. Covers equities, macro, crypto, and alternatives with a unified Python SDK and interactive terminal.

Industry-standard open-source library for quantitative finance. Pricing models for fixed income, derivatives, and risk management. Python bindings via QuantLib-Python.

Best-in-class browser charting for FX, equities, and futures. Pine Script allows custom indicator prototyping directly in-browser before porting to Python.

Interactive Python charting library. Excellent for equity curve visualisation, drawdown charts, and parameter heatmaps. Dash extends it to full browser-based dashboards.