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Futu Skill Beginner's Guide: Let the AI Agent Help You Trade Stocks
As more and more securities platforms integrate AI assistants, users can now quickly check market data and ask questions, making operations even more convenient. However, if one hopes that AI can conduct market analysis tailored to their individual investment strategy—and even automatically execute the entire investment workflow on their personal trading terminal—
This article will provide a detailed introduction to the definition, core capabilities, usage methods, application scenarios, and security measures of Futu Skills.
What is Futu Skills?
Futu Skills is a skill plugin designed specifically for AI Agents, enabling them to acquire specific professional investment capabilities. If we compare AI to a brain, then Skills are like giving it "eyes" to view real-time market quotes, "ears" to listen to market news, and "hands" to execute trading orders.
Futu Skills is directly connected to Futu's trading system and professional-grade market data sources. When you instruct the AI to "analyze Apple's recent performance," the information provided will be first-hand, including real-time quotes, company announcements, and market discussions on the Futu platform, rather than second-hand information gathered from the internet.
What is the difference between Futu Skills and Futubull AI?
You may have already used Futu's Futubull AI, which excels in data query, market analysis, and portfolio interpretation, but it is essentially still a preset interactive mode on the Futubull platform. Futu Skills, however, is markedly different, with the following key advantages:
Futubull AI | Futu Skills (for AI Agent) | |
Customization level | Fixed functionality: Q&A on demand | Fully customizable, supports complex logic |
Execution Location | Within the Niuniu App | Local environment, supports private scripts |
Automation capability | Requires manual triggering | Automated operation, supporting scheduled monitoring and triggering. |
Ecological Integration | Closed system | Supports mainstream AI agents such as Claude, Code, and Cursor. |
In short, Futu AI is an "instant Q&A" assistant, while Futu Skill is a highly customizable professional investment assistant. This is the most fundamental difference between the two for users who want to deeply build a personalized investment workflow.
What capabilities does Futu Skill have?
Futu Skill comprehensively covers the entire investment decision-making chain, from market quotes and trading to information analysis and multi-dimensional market signals, providing AI Agents with brokerage-level professional tool support.
Market Conditions and Trading
The two most fundamental requirements for investing are "accurately assessing market conditions" and "placing orders successfully."futu-apiIt provides comprehensive and robust capabilities in both of these areas.
Market data: You can use natural language to instantly query professional-grade market data, including real-time quotes, candlestick charts, order books, tick-by-tick trades, and intraday charts. All data comes directly from the Futu market data system, covering Hong Kong stocks, U.S. stocks, A-shares, Singapore, and Japanese markets.
Common usage examples:
"What's the current price of Tesla? How much has it risen or fallen today?"
"Display Tencent's candlestick chart for the past 30 days"
"What is the current order book distribution for NVIDIA?"
The system will directly provide professional market data that is consistent with the Futu App.
Trade Execution: Futu Skills supports up to 13 order types, including limit orders, market orders, stop-loss orders, trailing stop-loss orders, and auction orders, which can meet the needs of most trading strategies.
You can use natural language to complete the entire transaction:
"Help me buy 100 shares of Apple at a limit price of $180"
"Cancel the Tencent order I placed yesterday."
"Please check the holdings in my Hong Kong stock account and identify which stocks are currently down more than 10%."
From market data inquiry and order placement to order modification and cancellation, as well as position and account balance queries, the entire trading process can be completed in a single conversation—eliminating the need to constantly switch between the AI assistant and the trading app.
Content Analysis
Looking at price data alone is not enough; investment decisions require a deeper understanding of the logic behind the prices. Futu Skills offers a comprehensive suite of capabilities, from "information acquisition" to "information comprehension."
You can directly search for news, announcements, and research reports on the Futu platform. With just a single command, you can quickly locate the relevant information, significantly saving time that would otherwise be spent manually sifting through materials.
"What's the latest news about Tesla?"
"Want to know the latest news about Google"
When you want to quickly grasp what's been happening with a particular stock and how the market is interpreting it, the Stock Snapshot feature consolidates the latest news into a structured summary, including key events, market consensus views, and links to the original sources.
"Providing a latest analysis of Tesla"
"An Analysis of Nokia's Latest Developments"
What you get is not just a standard news feed, but curated, core insights that let you grasp the latest developments on a stock in just几十 seconds.
Short-term market trends are often influenced by sentiment. Futu Skill can automatically analyze discussions in the Bull Bull Circle, determine bullish or bearish tendencies and discussion popularity, and help identify market sentiment.
"Is the bull market now bullish or bearish on BYD?"
"Niu Niu Circle, has the buzz around Tesla changed recently?"
This is particularly valuable for capturing shifts in market sentiment and timing short-term trades.
Multidimensional Signal Analysis (Coming Soon)
The Signal Analysis Skill is coming soon. Once launched, it will work in tandem with our existing market data, news, and sentiment analysis capabilities, enabling you to conduct a multi-dimensional analysis—covering news, technicals, fund flows, and derivatives—in a single conversation.
In addition to fundamentals and news, sophisticated investors typically also pay attention to technical indicators, capital flows, and signals from derivatives. Futu is developing a new set of signal-based Skills that cover these three dimensions.
Technical Signal (futu-technical-signal)
Intelligently scans candlestick patterns and integrates mainstream technical indicators such as MACD, KDJ, and RSI to instantly identify key signals like overbought/oversold conditions, indicator divergences, and pattern breakouts. No need to constantly monitor charts—our AI does the scanning automatically and promptly alerts you whenever unusual price action occurs.
Funding Market Anomalies (futu-capital-signal)
Track the distribution and flow of capital, as well as short-selling activity, to help you quickly identify where market funds are focused. What major players are buying and selling, and whether the short-interest ratio has deviated from normal levels—this information often reveals market sentiment earlier than price movements do.
Derivative instrument anomaly (futu-derivative-signal)
Integrates options price movements, changes in open interest, volatility, and bull/bear certificate signals. Participants in the derivatives market are typically highly sophisticated, and their signals are often regarded as a leading indicator of "smart money" activity.
How do I install Futu Skills?
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Prepare an AI agent: it can be any tool such as Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Open Claw, or others.
Installing Skills: Simply send a single command to your AI tool, and the installation will be completed automatically: "Install Futu Skills according to the instructions: https://www.futunn.com/skills/futu-install.md"
Connect to OpenD: This is Futu's local market data and trading gateway, through which Skill connects to market data and the trading system.
Start a conversation: Ask your investment question in natural language, and the AI will automatically select the appropriate Skill to handle it.
No programming experience or API documentation reading is required. As long as you can use the Futu App to check market data and place orders, you can master the operation of Futu Skill.
How to Use AI for Stock Trading
A single Skill solves a single problem, but its true power lies in free combination and automated operation. In just three steps, learn how to use Futu Skill to let AI help you trade stocks.
Step 1: A single statement sparks multi-dimensional interpretation.
Suppose you want to delve into Apple; you could say:
"Help me provide a comprehensive analysis of Apple's recent situation."
The AI Agent will automatically orchestrate multiple Skills to generate a comprehensive report for you:
Stock Analysis — What Major Events and Directional Judgments Has Apple Had Recently?
Information Search — Supplement more Apple-related news and announcement details
Emotional Thermometer — User Discussion Heat and Consensus on Apple
Technical and fund flow changes (coming soon) — Has Apple's price pattern broken out? Are funds flowing in or out?
Step 2: Execute a single-trade transaction with one sentence.
Once you've completed the analysis, you can place your order directly:
"The results look good—please place a limit buy order for 50 shares at $190."
From information acquisition and multi-dimensional analysis to trade execution, everything is accomplished within the same conversation.
Step 3: Automated Operation
This is one of the biggest differences between Futu Skill and Futubull AI. Since Skill runs on your own terminal, you can:
Scheduled Automatic Execution: Configure your Agent to automatically perform position checks and news scans before the market opens each day, and have the results pushed directly to you.
Condition-based triggering: Define your own logic—for example, automatically send a notification when the sentiment for a particular stock in the Niuniu Circle shifts from bullish to neutral.
Batch Processing: Perform individual stock analysis on the entire custom watchlist at once and generate a daily investment briefing.
No need to manually open apps, search one by one, or tap each item individually. Let the AI Agent handle repetitive tasks for you, so you can focus on outcomes and decision-making.
More importantly, you can choose to execute the strategy manually yourself, or delegate it entirely to an AI agent for fully automated execution.
How does Futu Skills ensure the security of funds and data?
To enable AI to access real trading accounts, security must come first. Futu Skill has implemented multi-layered design in this regard:
Local Execution: Market data and trading are executed locally via OpenD, with core data never passing through third-party servers.
Transaction Confirmation Required: Every trade order initiated by AI must be explicitly approved by you; no orders will be executed automatically without your confirmation.
Controllable permissions: You can choose to enable only market-data query skills, without granting trading permissions, thereby achieving complete separation between read and write access.
Securities firm-level risk control: The underlying system adopts the risk control system of Futu, a licensed securities firm, providing the same level of security as placing orders in the app.
Investing involves risks; this material is for reference only and does not constitute investment advice. Investors should make decisions based on their own risk tolerance and use AI-generated insights and recommendations with due caution.
