Moomoolaunched a tool today (Thursday) that lets retail customers connect their ownartificial intelligence agents directly to its trading platform, the Futusubsidiary said, formalizing its entry into a corner of retail brokering thateToro and Robinhood have been reshaping over the past several months.Singapore Summit: Meet the largestAPAC brokers you know (and those you still don't!)The tool,called moomoo API Skills, converts plain-English trading intent into executableorders across U.S., Canadian, Hong Kong, Singapore and Japanese markets. Moomoo said the product is aimed at removing the codingrequirement that has historically limited algorithmic trading to a smallergroup of technically proficient users. Natural Language Goes fromPrompt to TradeAt the coreof the product is what Moomoo calls intent-driven development, a pipelinedesigned to interpret English-language instructions and convert them intostructured trading logic. The company said the system monitors volatilityaround the clock and supports backtesting against historical data before anylive deployment."Weare seeing a fundamental shift where investors are moving from simply accessinginformation," Neil McDonald, CEO of moomoo U.S., said in the statement.Theannouncement lands about a month after eToro began letting users delegatetrades to their own AI agents via sub-accounts with defined budgets and risk limits. The parallelsbetween the two rollouts are close enough that they look like a single industrydirection rather than a standalone experiment.eToro, Robinhood andWebull Set the TempoThe retailbrokerage sector has been stacking AI features at a rapid pace since late 2025.eToro's developer App Store, rolled out onApril 14, 2026,offers agent skills, a Model Context Protocol server and no-code publishingtools through a builders portal, putting the Nasdaq-listed broker ahead ofInteractive Brokers, Charles Schwab and Fidelity in packaging agent-facingtooling for end clients.Robinhood'sCortex assistant, unveiled in September 2025, introduced voice-activated orderplacement and AI-generated stock movement summaries. Webull followed in November withVega, an assistantthat reviews user portfolios against stated goals and accepts plain-Englishorder instructions. Interactive Brokers has rolled out AI research coverage forthe entire S&P 1500, free of charge for clients.OpenD Architecture KeepsCredentials Out of Third-Party HandsSecurityframing takes up a large share of the Moomoo announcement. The company said itsproprietary OpenD technology keeps trading credentials and account data insidethe user's local environment rather than routing them through third-party AIservers, a setup it describes as data sovereignty. ThA FinanceMagnates.com panel at FMLS:25flagged explainability and regulatory readiness as the hardest open problems for agent-drivenretail trading, questions the Moomoo announcement did not directly address. Thecompany warned in its own release that "losses can happen more quicklywith quant and algorithmic trading compared to other forms of trading.""Weare reducing the technical barriers that once stood between an idea and itsexecution," Michael Arbus, CEO of moomoo Canada, said.Futu's Record Year Setsthe Stage for the AI PushMoomoo'sagentic push comes off a strong 2025 for its Hong Kong-based parent. Futu Holdings reported net income ofHK$11.3 billion and revenue of HK$22.8 billion for the full year, with total trading volumejumping 89.4% and funded accounts reaching 3.37 million. Total users across theplatform, which spans Moomoo and Futubull, hit 29.2 million by year-end.Thecommercial case for agent tooling is also visible in the industry's coststructures. Both eToro and FXCM have cited agentic AI adoption in their recentlayoff announcements,pointing to automation as a lever for shrinking headcount while keepingcustomer workflows running. The companylaunched a crypto service in theU.S. last yearthrough a Coinbase partnership, extending the platform beyond its traditionalequities focus. The firmdid not disclose pricing, beta user counts, or the specific third-party AIframeworks the tool integrates with at launch.This article was written by Damian Chmiel at www.financemagnates.com.