Robinhood is rolling out in-app AI trading agents that can research markets, build strategies and place trades, bringing automated execution closer to everyday stock and crypto users.
Key Points:
- More than 150,000 customers have opened agentic trading accounts since May, according to Robinhood.
- Connected agents now use Robinhood tools almost 30 million times each day.
- Customers can keep manual trade approvals enabled, while the coming Loops feature will let agents repeat standing instructions around the clock.
Robinhood AI Agents
Robinhood unveiled the expanded system at its HOOD Summit, moving agent creation directly into its app after initially requiring users to connect outside AI tools. Customers can choose a model from providers including OpenAI, fund a dedicated agentic account and set limits for the agent to follow.
The agent can research markets, build watchlists and trade stocks, options and crypto. Trade approvals are switched on by default, although customers can disable them and allow orders to execute without confirmation, according to Robinhood and CoinDesk. That choice makes the system more autonomous.
The brokerage is also rolling out crypto perpetual futures for eligible U.S. customers, with Bitcoin (BTC) and Ether (ETH) contracts offering leverage of up to 10 times. Other supported crypto assets will start with lower leverage.
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Crypto Automation Risks
Robinhood product executives say users should still oversee the technology, even when automated execution is enabled, because the agents act within instructions and settings chosen by the customer.
Gina Pasqua-Abeles, senior director of product management, said that Robinhood expects users to maintain “some level of oversight” over their agents.
Robinhood says customers assume the risk for trades executed by AI agents. The company also says it does not control, supervise, monitor, recommend or audit outside agents, a distinction that becomes more important when users disable approvals. Automated execution can therefore remove a confirmation step without removing the investor’s responsibility for the trade.
Robinhood first opened its trading infrastructure to third-party AI agents on May 27, when agentic trading launched in beta with equities only. At the time, the company listed crypto, options, event contracts and futures among the products expected to follow as the system moved beyond its initial beta.
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