rl-and-ml-tradinglisted

Reinforcement learning and deep learning for trading: what installs, and what the evidence says. TRIGGER - reinforcement learning, RL agent, trading gym, custom trading environment, reward function, PPO or DQN for trading; FinRL, FinRL-Meta, ElegantRL, stable-baselines3, gymnasium, gym, gym-anytrading, TensorTrade; LSTM, GRU, TCN or Transformer for return prediction; "does deep learning beat a linear model"; FinRL or gym failing to import with ModuleNotFoundError. FinRL's published wheel declares no dependencies and cannot import, and linear models beat deep ones in the published return-prediction comparisons. SKIP for LLM agents specifically (llm-finance-agents).
howard-lynn-ye/fin-skills · ★ 1 · AI & Automation · score 77

Install: claude install-skill howard-lynn-ye/fin-skills

# RL and deep learning for trading Two separate questions, both with unwelcome answers: **does the software work**, and **does the method work**. Section 1 is verified installation state; section 2 is the evidence. ## 1. 🚨 What actually installs | Package | Version | Released | `requires_dist` | State | |---|---|---|---|---| | 🔴 **`finrl`** | 0.3.7 | 2024-04-12 | **NONE** | **BROKEN — see below** | | 🔴 `elegantrl` | 0.3.6 | 2023-02-07 | **NONE** | same failure mode, frozen | | 🔴 `finrl-meta` | 0.3.6 | 2023-02-07 | — | frozen | | 🔴 `gym` | 0.26.2 | 2022-10-04 | NONE | **repo `archived: true`** — dead | | 🔴 `tradinggym` | — | — | — | **does not exist on PyPI (404)** | | ⚠️ `tensortrade` | 1.0.4 | 2026-02-06 | 21 deps | needs **Python ≥3.12 + TensorFlow**; its own deps (`ta`, `stochastic`) are stale two levels deep | | ✅ **`gymnasium`** | 1.3.0 | 2026-04-22 | 56 deps | the live successor to `gym` | | ✅ **`stable-baselines3`** | 2.9.0 | 2026-06-15 | 27 deps | healthy | | ✅ `gym-anytrading` | 2.0.0 | 2023-08-27 | — | small, works with gymnasium | 🚨 **FinRL is broken, not merely stale.** ✅ Independently verified twice: the 0.3.7 wheel declares **`requires_dist: None`**, so **`pip install finrl` installs zero dependencies** and `import finrl` dies on `ModuleNotFoundError: gymnasium`. Reproduced in a clean virtualenv. PyPI has been frozen since 2024-04-12; `setup.py` says 0.3.8, which was never published. ⚠️ **AI4Finance's apparent activity is README churn.** FinRL's last