Former Citadel Trader is Now Betting on Retail | Neil McDonald
The Pomp Podcast
Anthony Pompliano
4.6 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 16 April 2026
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Neil McDonald is the CEO of Moomoo US and a former executive at Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan, and Citadel. In this conversation, we break down how retail investing has evolved—from access and information to powerful tools and AI that are leveling the playing field with Wall Street. We also discuss crypto, tokenized stocks, and what the future of investing looks like.
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- 0:00 - Intro
- 1:05 - Why Moomoo is growing so fast
- 4:38 - How trading tools changed everything & why most traders fail
- 9:28 - AI & the future of trading
- 12:31 - Stocks vs crypto on the platform
- 14:12 - Tokenized stocks explained
- 18:33 - Options trading & retail behavior
- 22:30 - Career lessons from working on Wall Street
- 24:35 - Building a fintech in a regulated world
- 26:30 - How retail investors are evolving
- 28:07 - Risk management on Wall Street vs retail
- 30:20 - Biggest challenges ahead
Transcript
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| 1:28.6 | These guys are on fire and he's here to explain to us exactly conversation with Neil McDonald. He's the CEO of Moomu US and Moomu is taken over the United |
| 1:28.0 | States. These guys are on fire and he's here to explain to us exactly what's happening, |
| 1:32.4 | why so many retail traders now have sophisticated tools, what are they doing on the platform? |
| 1:36.5 | How is he thinking about tokenized stocks, crypto and various other new technologies? And then we |
| 1:40.8 | even get into what he's doing himself on the platform. Neil's very interesting because he used to work at a bunch of very large financial institutions. He was a big dog there. He ran some of the teams. He's going to explain to us what was going on there, how the cultures work. But now he's the CEO of a retail trading platform and he's trying to bring a lot of those types of tools or those types of approaches to the retail trader. That's you, that's me, |
| 2:18.7 | and there's a lot of people who are listening. Here's my conversation with Neil McDonald. All right, Neil, I thought a great place to start the conversation. Mumu is taking over the world. I think that people in the United States a couple years ago, they had never heard of this thing before. They had heard of, you know, all the other retail brokerage platforms that you guys burst on the scene. You're taking over the subway. You got a Mets partnership, all this stuff that is marketing. But I looked into the numbers. |
| 2:21.3 | You guys are massive. Talk a little bit as to why is Mumu being so successful on a global |
| 2:26.8 | stage behind this whole retail trader movement? |
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