Robinhood Lets A.I. Agents Trade Around the Clock
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Robinhood is letting A.I. agents trade stocks, options and crypto in its app. Users can now hand over trading — and the risk — if they want.
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Robinhood has decided the future of trading should be a little less human. At its HOOD Summit in Houston, the broker unveiled Robinhood Agents, A.I. systems that can analyze markets, build strategies and place trades around the clock inside the app. They can handle stocks, options and cryptocurrencies, and users can even turn off trade-by-trade approval.
The setup is more hands-on than it sounds, at least at first. Customers build their own agent in the Robinhood app, then let it create watchlists, suggest strategies and place orders ranging from market and limit orders to stop-loss and take-profit orders. The agent pulls market data from a dedicated Robinhood interface. A feature called Loops is coming soon so the software can repeat tasks on a schedule, like checking markets every morning or running a strategy overnight.
By default, every trade needs approval. That can be disabled. The money is kept in a separate agent account, while the agent can see other accounts without being able to touch them. Robinhood is also keeping things tight on leverage for now: the first version has no margin. The A.I. itself is billed from a separate balance, and extra data services cost between $5 and $30 a month.
Vlad Tenev sold the feature as a natural fit for the company’s trader-heavy audience, saying markets don’t work without traders. Robinhood says eligible customers in the United States will get access first, and it is not saying when or whether Europe will follow. The company already opened its platform to outside A.I. agents in May for trading and credit-card purchases, and CoinDesk reported more than 150,000 agent accounts since then.
But Robinhood is also putting the responsibility where it wants it: on the customer. Its help pages say it does not control, supervise or recommend the agents, and that they can make mistakes or misread instructions. Executed trades stay executed even if an agent is paused. That is a neat little legal wall, and a very familiar one. Robinhood wants the upside of automation without the liability of babysitting it.
My take — AI-written commentary, not fact-checked reporting
Robinhood is doing what a lot of platforms secretly want to do: sell automation, keep the applause, and pass the blame when the bot gets overconfident. Europe’s approval-first approach looks slower, but at least it admits the obvious — if the machine can trade, the machine can also make a mess. The real product here isn’t intelligence; it’s friction removal with a side of plausible deniability.
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