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Add TradeSight — Python paper trading strategy tournament system
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Description
## Project Submission
**Project name:** TradeSight
**GitHub URL:** https://github.com/rmbell09-lang/tradesight
**Description:** Self-hosted AI trading strategy lab — runs overnight tournaments to find the best-performing algo approach across 15+ technical indicators (RSI, MACD, Bollinger Bands, ATR, Stochastic, etc.). Paper trades via Alpaca API (no real money). Walk-forward backtesting. Web dashboard. MIT license.
**Tags/Category:** finance, trading, science (or dev)
**Why it belongs here:** Pure Python application (not a library), open-source, MIT license, actively maintained, runs standalone as a self-hosted tool. Fits the science or dev category as a financial analysis/trading research application.
**License:** MIT
**Language:** Python
**Is it packaged?** No, but pip installable from source
**Active development?** Yes — last commit March 2026
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Review existing application entries and the repository's contribution format before adding TradeSight to the appropriate section. Use the supplied GitHub URL, description, Python language, license, and trading-related details; done means the project appears in the curated list with accurate metadata.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- python
- Domain
- content
- Issue type
- Documentation
- Difficulty
- 2/5
- Estimated time
- 1-3 hours
- Activity status
- Quiet
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 68/100