TL;DR:
- Robinhood is rolling out an AI agent that can research markets, build strategies and place trades at any hour, with users able to require or disable trade approvals.
- Its upcoming Loops feature can execute standing strategies while customers are away, but Robinhood says users remain responsible for trades and third-party LLM data use.
- The brokerage is now adding Bitcoin and Ether perps with maximum 10x leverage for eligible U.S. customers.
Robinhood is pushing automated trading much deeper into its retail platform with an AI agent designed to research markets, build strategies and execute orders at any hour. Announced at the HOOD Summit in Houston, the tool is built into the Robinhood app. The launch reaches a customer base: the brokerage had 27.7 million net cumulative funded accounts as of May 2026. The new system moves AI from answering questions to taking market action, with customers defining the limits under which the agent can buy or sell.
Automation Raises the Stakes for Robinhood Users
The rollout builds on Robinhood’s earlier AI agent trading infrastructure, introduced in May for users connecting their own agents. More than 150,000 customers have since opened agentic trading accounts, and those agents access Robinhood’s tools nearly 30 million times daily. With approvals enabled, an order cannot proceed until the customer signs off, while switching approvals off removes that transaction-by-transaction checkpoint. Customers can choose whether each trade requires approval, or disable confirmations and allow the agent to place orders independently once configured.
A forthcoming feature called Loops will turn strategies into standing instructions that can run repeatedly, including overnight or while a customer is away. Loops may place, modify or cancel trades without requesting approval for every transaction, while continuing to follow the user’s preset rules during volatile periods. Robinhood does not guarantee how automated strategies will perform in markets, and stopping a Loop will not automatically reverse trades that were already submitted.
The responsibility boundary is explicit. Robinhood says customers assume the risk for trades executed by AI agents and for third-party large language model use of their data. The company also says it does not control, supervise, monitor, recommend or audit the agents. That leaves investors exposed to the consequences of automation even when they are not actively watching their accounts, sharpening the trade-off between convenience and direct oversight.
Robinhood is simultaneously adding crypto perpetual futures with leverage of up to 10x on Bitcoin and Ether for eligible U.S. customers, extending its broader crypto trading ambitions. Both products are being rolled out to eligible U.S. customers. The product also places higher-risk leveraged exposure alongside increasingly automated execution, echoing the platform’s growing connection with perpetual trading products. The combination gives active traders more powerful tools, while making configuration, monitoring and risk tolerance increasingly consequential.
