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Introducing <a href="https://github.com/microsoft/RD-Agent"><img src="docs/_static/img/rdagent_logo.png" alt="RD_Agent" style="height: 2em"></a>: LLM-Based Autonomous Evolving Agents for Industrial Data-Driven R&D

We are excited to announce the release of RD-Agent📢, a powerful tool that supports automated factor mining and model optimization in quant investment R&D.

RD-Agent is now available on GitHub, and we welcome your star🌟!

To learn more, please visit our ♾️Demo page. Here, you will find demo videos in both English and Chinese to help you better understand the scenario and usage of RD-Agent.

We have prepared several demo videos for you:

ScenarioDemo video (English)Demo video (中文)
Quant Factor MiningLinkLink
Quant Factor Mining from reportsLinkLink
Quant Model OptimizationLinkLink

FeatureStatus
🔥LLM-driven Auto Quant Factory🔥🚀 Released in ♾️RD-Agent on Aug 8, 2024
KRNN and Sandwich models:chart_with_upwards_trend: Released on May 26, 2023
Release Qlib v0.9.0:octocat: Released on Dec 9, 2022
RL Learning Framework:hammer: :chart_with_upwards_trend: Released on Nov 10, 2022. #1332, #1322, #1316,#1299,#1263, #1244, #1169, #1125, #1076
HIST and IGMTF models:chart_with_upwards_trend: Released on Apr 10, 2022
Qlib notebook tutorial📖 Released on Apr 7, 2022
Ibovespa index data:rice: Released on Apr 6, 2022
Point-in-Time database:hammer: Released on Mar 10, 2022
Arctic Provider Backend & Orderbook data example:hammer: Released on Jan 17, 2022
Meta-Learning-based framework & DDG-DA:chart_with_upwards_trend: :hammer: Released on Jan 10, 2022
Planning-based portfolio optimization:hammer: Released on Dec 28, 2021
Release Qlib v0.8.0:octocat: Released on Dec 8, 2021
ADD model:chart_with_upwards_trend: Released on Nov 22, 2021
ADARNN model:chart_with_upwards_trend: Released on Nov 14, 2021
TCN model:chart_with_upwards_trend: Released on Nov 4, 2021
Nested Decision Framework:hammer: Released on Oct 1, 2021. Example and Doc
Temporal Routing Adaptor (TRA):chart_with_upwards_trend: Released on July 30, 2021
Transformer & Localformer:chart_with_upwards_trend: Released on July 22, 2021
Release Qlib v0.7.0:octocat: Released on July 12, 2021
TCTS Model:chart_with_upwards_trend: Released on July 1, 2021
Online serving and automatic model rolling:hammer: Released on May 17, 2021
DoubleEnsemble Model:chart_with_upwards_trend: Released on Mar 2, 2021
High-frequency data processing example:hammer: Released on Feb 5, 2021
High-frequency trading example:chart_with_upwards_trend: Part of code released on Jan 28, 2021
High-frequency data(1min):rice: Released on Jan 27, 2021
Tabnet Model:chart_with_upwards_trend: Released on Jan 22, 2021

Features released before 2021 are not listed here.

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Qlib is an open-source, AI-oriented quantitative investment platform that aims to realize the potential, empower research, and create value using AI technologies in quantitative investment, from exploring ideas to implementing productions. Qlib supports diverse machine learning modeling paradigms, including supervised learning, market dynamics modeling, and reinforcement learning.

An increasing number of SOTA Quant research works/papers in diverse paradigms are being released in Qlib to collaboratively solve key challenges in quantitative investment. For example, 1) using supervised learning to mine the market's complex non-linear patterns from rich and heterogeneous financial data, 2) modeling the dynamic nature of the financial market using adaptive concept drift technology, and 3) using reinforcement learning to model continuous investment decisions and assist investors in optimizing their trading strategies.

It contains the full ML pipeline of data processing, model training, back-testing; and covers the entire chain of quantitative investment: alpha seeking, risk modeling, portfolio optimization, and order execution. For more details, please refer to our paper "Qlib: An AI-oriented Quantitative Investment Platform".

<table> <tbody> <tr> <th>Frameworks, Tutorial, Data & DevOps</th> <th>Main Challenges & Solutions in Quant Research</th> </tr> <tr> <td> <li><a href="#plans"><strong>Plans</strong></a></li> <li><a href="#framework-of-qlib">Framework of Qlib</a></li> <li><a href="#quick-start">Quick Start</a></li> <ul dir="auto"> <li type="circle"><a href="#installation">Installation</a> </li> <li type="circle"><a href="#data-preparation">Data Preparation</a></li> <li type="circle"><a href="#auto-quant-research-workflow">Auto Quant Research Workflow</a></li> <li type="circle"><a href="#building-customized-quant-research-workflow-by-code">Building Customized Quant Research Workflow by Code</a></li></ul> <li><a href="#quant-dataset-zoo"><strong>Quant Dataset Zoo</strong></a></li> <li><a href="#learning-framework">Learning Framework</a></li> <li><a href="#more-about-qlib">More About Qlib</a></li> <li><a href="#offline-mode-and-online-mode">Offline Mode and Online Mode</a> <ul> <li type="circle"><a href="#performance-of-qlib-data-server">Performance of Qlib Data Server</a></li></ul> <li><a href="#related-reports">Related Reports</a></li> <li><a href="#contact-us">Contact Us</a></li> <li><a href="#contributing">Contributing</a></li> </td> <td valign="baseline"> <li><a href="#main-challenges--solutions-in-quant-research">Main Challenges &amp; Solutions in Quant Research</a> <ul> <li type="circle"><a href="#forecasting-finding-valuable-signalspatterns">Forecasting: Finding Valuable Signals/Patterns</a> <ul> <li type="disc"><a href="#quant-model-paper-zoo"><strong>Quant Model (Paper) Zoo</strong></a> <ul> <li type="circle"><a href="#run-a-single-model">Run a Single Model</a></li> <li type="circle"><a href="#run-multiple-models">Run Multiple Models</a></li> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li type="circle"><a href="#adapting-to-market-dynamics">Adapting to Market Dynamics</a></li> <li type="circle"><a href="#reinforcement-learning-modeling-continuous-decisions">Reinforcement Learning: modeling continuous decisions</a></li> </ul> </li> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table>

Plans

New features under development(order by estimated release time). Your feedbacks about the features are very important.

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Framework of Qlib

<div style="align: center"> <img src="docs/_static/img/framework-abstract.jpg" /> </div>

The high-level framework of Qlib can be found above(users can find the detailed framework of Qlib's design when getting into nitty gritty). The components are designed as loose-coupled modules, and each component could be used stand-alone.

Qlib provides a strong infrastructure to support Quant research. Data is always an important part. A strong learning framework is designed to support diverse learning paradigms (e.g. reinforcement learning, supervised learning) and patterns at different levels(e.g. market dynamic modeling). By modeling the market, trading strategies will generate trade decisions that will be executed. Multiple trading strategies and executors in different levels or granularities can be nested to be optimized and run together. At last, a comprehensive analysis will be provided and the model can be served online in a low cost.

Quick Start

This quick start guide tries to demonstrate

  1. It's very easy to build a complete Quant research workflow and try your ideas with Qlib.
  2. Though with public data and simple models, machine learning technologies work very well in practical Quant investment.

Here is a quick demo shows how to install Qlib, and run LightGBM with qrun. But, please make sure you have already prepared the data following the instruction.

Installation

This table demonstrates the supported Python version of Qlib:

install with pipinstall from sourceplot
Python 3.7:heavy_check_mark::heavy_check_mark::heavy_check_mark:
Python 3.8:heavy_check_mark::heavy_check_mark::heavy_check_mark:
Python 3.9:x::heavy_check_mark::x:

Note:

  1. Conda is suggested for managing your Python environment. In some cases, using Python outside of a conda environment may result in missing header files, causing the installation failure of certain packages.
  2. Please pay attention that installing cython in Python 3.6 will raise some error when installing Qlib from source. If users use Python 3.6 on their machines, it is recommended to upgrade Python to version 3.7 or use conda's Python to install Qlib from source.
  3. For Python 3.9, Qlib supports running workflows such as training models, doing backtest and plot most of the related figures (those included in notebook). However, plotting for the model performance is not supported for now and we will fix this when the dependent packages are upgraded in the future.
  4. QlibRequires tables package, hdf5 in tables does not support python3.9.

Install with pip

Users can easily install Qlib by pip according to the following command.

  pip install pyqlib

Note: pip will install the latest stable qlib. However, the main branch of qlib is in active development. If you want to test the latest scripts or functions in the main branch. Please install qlib with the methods below.

Install from source

Also, users can install the latest dev version Qlib by the source code according to the following steps:

Tips: If you fail to install Qlib or run the examples in your environment, comparing your steps and the CI workflow may help you find the problem.

Tips for Mac: If you are using Mac with M1, you might encounter issues in building the wheel for LightGBM, which is due to missing dependencies from OpenMP. To solve the problem, install openmp first with brew install libomp and then run pip install . to build it successfully.

Data Preparation

❗ Due to more restrict data security policy. The offical dataset is disabled temporarily. You can try this data source contributed by the community. Here is an example to download the data updated on 20240809.

wget https://github.com/chenditc/investment_data/releases/download/2024-08-09/qlib_bin.tar.gz
mkdir -p ~/.qlib/qlib_data/cn_data
tar -zxvf qlib_bin.tar.gz -C ~/.qlib/qlib_data/cn_data --strip-components=1
rm -f qlib_bin.tar.gz

The official dataset below will resume in short future.


Load and prepare data by running the following code:

Get with module

# get 1d data
python -m qlib.run.get_data qlib_data --target_dir ~/.qlib/qlib_data/cn_data --region cn

# get 1min data
python -m qlib.run.get_data qlib_data --target_dir ~/.qlib/qlib_data/cn_data_1min --region cn --interval 1min

Get from source

# get 1d data
python scripts/get_data.py qlib_data --target_dir ~/.qlib/qlib_data/cn_data --region cn

# get 1min data
python scripts/get_data.py qlib_data --target_dir ~/.qlib/qlib_data/cn_data_1min --region cn --interval 1min

This dataset is created by public data collected by crawler scripts, which have been released in the same repository. Users could create the same dataset with it. Description of dataset

Please pay ATTENTION that the data is collected from Yahoo Finance, and the data might not be perfect. We recommend users to prepare their own data if they have a high-quality dataset. For more information, users can refer to the related document.

Automatic update of daily frequency data (from yahoo finance)

This step is Optional if users only want to try their models and strategies on history data.

It is recommended that users update the data manually once (--trading_date 2021-05-25) and then set it to update automatically.

NOTE: Users can't incrementally update data based on the offline data provided by Qlib(some fields are removed to reduce the data size). Users should use yahoo collector to download Yahoo data from scratch and then incrementally update it.

For more information, please refer to: yahoo collector

<!-- - Run the initialization code and get stock data: ```python import qlib from qlib.data import D from qlib.constant import REG_CN # Initialization mount_path = "~/.qlib/qlib_data/cn_data" # target_dir qlib.init(mount_path=mount_path, region=REG_CN) # Get stock data by Qlib # Load trading calendar with the given time range and frequency print(D.calendar(start_time='2010-01-01', end_time='2017-12-31', freq='day')[:2]) # Parse a given market name into a stockpool config instruments = D.instruments('csi500') print(D.list_instruments(instruments=instruments, start_time='2010-01-01', end_time='2017-12-31', as_list=True)[:6]) # Load features of certain instruments in given time range instruments = ['SH600000'] fields = ['$close', '$volume', 'Ref($close, 1)', 'Mean($close, 3)', '$high-$low'] print(D.features(instruments, fields, start_time='2010-01-01', end_time='2017-12-31', freq='day').head()) ``` -->

Auto Quant Research Workflow

Qlib provides a tool named qrun to run the whole workflow automatically (including building dataset, training models, backtest and evaluation). You can start an auto quant research workflow and have a graphical reports analysis according to the following steps:

  1. Quant Research Workflow: Run qrun with lightgbm workflow config (workflow_config_lightgbm_Alpha158.yaml as following.

      cd examples  # Avoid running program under the directory contains `qlib`
      qrun benchmarks/LightGBM/workflow_config_lightgbm_Alpha158.yaml
    

    If users want to use qrun under debug mode, please use the following command:

    python -m pdb qlib/workflow/cli.py examples/benchmarks/LightGBM/workflow_config_lightgbm_Alpha158.yaml
    

    The result of qrun is as follows, please refer to Intraday Trading for more details about the result.

    
    'The following are analysis results of the excess return without cost.'
                           risk
    mean               0.000708
    std                0.005626
    annualized_return  0.178316
    information_ratio  1.996555
    max_drawdown      -0.081806
    'The following are analysis results of the excess return with cost.'
                           risk
    mean               0.000512
    std                0.005626
    annualized_return  0.128982
    information_ratio  1.444287
    max_drawdown      -0.091078
    

    Here are detailed documents for qrun and workflow.

  2. Graphical Reports Analysis: Run examples/workflow_by_code.ipynb with jupyter notebook to get graphical reports

    • Forecasting signal (model prediction) analysis

      • Cumulative Return of groups Cumulative Return
      • Return distribution long_short
      • Information Coefficient (IC) Information Coefficient Monthly IC IC
      • Auto Correlation of forecasting signal (model prediction) Auto Correlation
    • Portfolio analysis

      • Backtest return Report
      <!-- - Score IC ![Score IC](docs/_static/img/score_ic.png) - Cumulative Return ![Cumulative Return](docs/_static/img/cumulative_return.png) - Risk Analysis ![Risk Analysis](docs/_static/img/risk_analysis.png) - Rank Label ![Rank Label](docs/_static/img/rank_label.png) -->
    • Explanation of above results

Building Customized Quant Research Workflow by Code

The automatic workflow may not suit the research workflow of all Quant researchers. To support a flexible Quant research workflow, Qlib also provides a modularized interface to allow researchers to build their own workflow by code. Here is a demo for customized Quant research workflow by code.

Main Challenges & Solutions in Quant Research

Quant investment is a very unique scenario with lots of key challenges to be solved. Currently, Qlib provides some solutions for several of them.

Forecasting: Finding Valuable Signals/Patterns

Accurate forecasting of the stock price trend is a very important part to construct profitable portfolios. However, huge amount of data with various formats in the financial market which make it challenging to build forecasting models.

An increasing number of SOTA Quant research works/papers, which focus on building forecasting models to mine valuable signals/patterns in complex financial data, are released in Qlib

Quant Model (Paper) Zoo

Here is a list of models built on Qlib.

Your PR of new Quant models is highly welcomed.

The performance of each model on the Alpha158 and Alpha360 datasets can be found here.

Run a single model

All the models listed above are runnable with Qlib. Users can find the config files we provide and some details about the model through the benchmarks folder. More information can be retrieved at the model files listed above.

Qlib provides three different ways to run a single model, users can pick the one that fits their cases best:

Run multiple models

Qlib also provides a script run_all_model.py which can run multiple models for several iterations. (Note: the script only support Linux for now. Other OS will be supported in the future. Besides, it doesn't support parallel running the same model for multiple times as well, and this will be fixed in the future development too.)

The script will create a unique virtual environment for each model, and delete the environments after training. Thus, only experiment results such as IC and backtest results will be generated and stored.

Here is an example of running all the models for 10 iterations:

python run_all_model.py run 10

It also provides the API to run specific models at once. For more use cases, please refer to the file's docstrings.

Adapting to Market Dynamics

Due to the non-stationary nature of the environment of the financial market, the data distribution may change in different periods, which makes the performance of models build on training data decays in the future test data. So adapting the forecasting models/strategies to market dynamics is very important to the model/strategies' performance.

Here is a list of solutions built on Qlib.

Reinforcement Learning: modeling continuous decisions

Qlib now supports reinforcement learning, a feature designed to model continuous investment decisions. This functionality assists investors in optimizing their trading strategies by learning from interactions with the environment to maximize some notion of cumulative reward.

Here is a list of solutions built on Qlib categorized by scenarios.

RL for order execution

Here is the introduction of this scenario. All the methods below are compared here.

Quant Dataset Zoo

Dataset plays a very important role in Quant. Here is a list of the datasets built on Qlib:

DatasetUS MarketChina Market
Alpha360
Alpha158

Here is a tutorial to build dataset with Qlib. Your PR to build new Quant dataset is highly welcomed.

Learning Framework

Qlib is high customizable and a lot of its components are learnable. The learnable components are instances of Forecast Model and Trading Agent. They are learned based on the Learning Framework layer and then applied to multiple scenarios in Workflow layer. The learning framework leverages the Workflow layer as well(e.g. sharing Information Extractor, creating environments based on Execution Env).

Based on learning paradigms, they can be categorized into reinforcement learning and supervised learning.

More About Qlib

If you want to have a quick glance at the most frequently used components of qlib, you can try notebooks here.

The detailed documents are organized in docs. Sphinx and the readthedocs theme is required to build the documentation in html formats.

cd docs/
conda install sphinx sphinx_rtd_theme -y
# Otherwise, you can install them with pip
# pip install sphinx sphinx_rtd_theme
make html

You can also view the latest document online directly.

Qlib is in active and continuing development. Our plan is in the roadmap, which is managed as a github project.

Offline Mode and Online Mode

The data server of Qlib can either deployed as Offline mode or Online mode. The default mode is offline mode.

Under Offline mode, the data will be deployed locally.

Under Online mode, the data will be deployed as a shared data service. The data and their cache will be shared by all the clients. The data retrieval performance is expected to be improved due to a higher rate of cache hits. It will consume less disk space, too. The documents of the online mode can be found in Qlib-Server. The online mode can be deployed automatically with Azure CLI based scripts. The source code of online data server can be found in Qlib-Server repository.

Performance of Qlib Data Server

The performance of data processing is important to data-driven methods like AI technologies. As an AI-oriented platform, Qlib provides a solution for data storage and data processing. To demonstrate the performance of Qlib data server, we compare it with several other data storage solutions.

We evaluate the performance of several storage solutions by finishing the same task, which creates a dataset (14 features/factors) from the basic OHLCV daily data of a stock market (800 stocks each day from 2007 to 2020). The task involves data queries and processing.

HDF5MySQLMongoDBInfluxDBQlib -E -DQlib +E -DQlib +E +D
Total (1CPU) (seconds)184.4±3.7365.3±7.5253.6±6.7368.2±3.6147.0±8.847.6±1.07.4±0.3
Total (64CPU) (seconds)8.8±0.64.2±0.2

Most general-purpose databases take too much time to load data. After looking into the underlying implementation, we find that data go through too many layers of interfaces and unnecessary format transformations in general-purpose database solutions. Such overheads greatly slow down the data loading process. Qlib data are stored in a compact format, which is efficient to be combined into arrays for scientific computation.

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Contributing

We appreciate all contributions and thank all the contributors! <a href="https://github.com/microsoft/qlib/graphs/contributors"><img src="https://contrib.rocks/image?repo=microsoft/qlib" /></a>

Before we released Qlib as an open-source project on Github in Sep 2020, Qlib is an internal project in our group. Unfortunately, the internal commit history is not kept. A lot of members in our group have also contributed a lot to Qlib, which includes Ruihua Wang, Yinda Zhang, Haisu Yu, Shuyu Wang, Bochen Pang, and Dong Zhou. Especially thanks to Dong Zhou due to his initial version of Qlib.

Guidance

This project welcomes contributions and suggestions.
Here are some code standards and development guidance for submiting a pull request.

Making contributions is not a hard thing. Solving an issue(maybe just answering a question raised in issues list or gitter), fixing/issuing a bug, improving the documents and even fixing a typo are important contributions to Qlib.

For example, if you want to contribute to Qlib's document/code, you can follow the steps in the figure below.

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If you don't know how to start to contribute, you can refer to the following examples.

TypeExamples
Solving issuesAnswer a question; issuing or fixing a bug
DocsImprove docs quality ; Fix a typo
FeatureImplement a requested feature like this; Refactor interfaces
DatasetAdd a dataset
ModelsImplement a new model, some instructions to contribute models

Good first issues are labelled to indicate that they are easy to start your contributions.

You can find some impefect implementation in Qlib by rg 'TODO|FIXME' qlib

If you would like to become one of Qlib's maintainers to contribute more (e.g. help merge PR, triage issues), please contact us by email(qlib@microsoft.com). We are glad to help to upgrade your permission.

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