Best Financial Research Software for Windows

TipRanks is a multi-award-winning stock research platform designed to help retail investors make data-driven decisions. The platform provides investors with institutional-level data and tools, presented in a visual and easy-to-use way. TipRanks levels the playing field for retail investors by giving them the same research power as the biggest asset managers. Its unique data includes analyst rating consensus, news analysis, a stock score called the Smart Score, and more. Additionally, TipRanks tracks the buy and sell recommendations and transactions of over 100,000 financial experts and ranks experts according to their performance track record. This transparency enables investors to see how experts rank. TipRanks even shows how experts perform on a per-stock basis. TipRanks has become the standard for Wall Street accountability. More than 50 leading global banks, institutions, and exchanges integrate TipRanks tools for their clients. TipRanks also provides data to hedge funds.

QuantRocket is a Python-based platform for researching, backtesting, and trading quantitative strategies. It provides a JupyterLab environment, offers a suite of data integrations, and supports multiple backtesters: Zipline, the open-source backtester that originally powered Quantopian; Alphalens, an alpha factor analysis library; Moonshot, a vectorized backtester based on pandas; and MoonshotML, a walk-forward machine learning backtester. Built on Docker, QuantRocket can be deployed locally or to the cloud and has an open architecture that is flexible and extensible.