Moomoo, an investment and trading platform based in Jersey City, announced the launch of Moomoo API Skills, a new capability it says is designed to help retail investors use personal AI agents to build and execute trading strategies without coding.
The company said the feature is intended to move investors toward “agentic investing,” in which users connect their preferred AI platform through moomoo’s Skills API to initiate algorithmic trading. Moomoo said the system converts natural-language instructions into structured logic that can be executed within its professional-grade trading infrastructure.
“For years, algo trading has largely been accessible only to users with strong technical and coding expertise,” the company said in its announcement, positioning API Skills as a way to lower that barrier by allowing AI agents to act as around-the-clock assistants that monitor market conditions and prepare trades based on a user’s intent.
Moomoo said the capability is designed for broad compatibility with “leading AI agent frameworks,” enabling agents to interpret market data and take action in its trading environment.
Among the functions highlighted were the translation of plain-English trading intentions into executable logic, continuous monitoring of volatility and market shifts, and automated backtesting against historical data so users can evaluate strategies before live deployment.
The company said the monitoring feature is intended to support responses to conditions across multiple markets, including the United States, Canada, Hong Kong, Singapore and Japan.
Moomoo also emphasized privacy and security controls, describing a “Safety First” architecture built on its proprietary OpenD technology. The company said users remain the “ultimate authority” over transactions, with safeguards including keeping trading credentials and sensitive account data in the user’s local environment, rather than routing them through third-party AI servers.
It also said the system is designed to default to paper trading to allow users to test strategy logic with virtual funds before moving to live markets.
“We are seeing a fundamental shift where investors are moving from simply accessing information to seeking structured, intelligent ways to act on it,” Neil McDonald, CEO of Moomoo US, said.
“With Moomoo API Skills, we are reducing the technical barriers that once stood between an idea and its execution, enabling clients’ personal AI agents to connect directly with our platform while ensuring investors retain full control of every decision,” Michael Arbus, CEO of Moomoo Canada, said.
The company noted that algorithmic and quantitative trading can amplify risk, and that automated investment strategies do not guarantee profits or protect against losses. In the U.S., securities are offered through Moomoo Financial Inc., Member FINRA/SIPC, the company said.