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Robinhood is letting AI trade for you so you don’t have to keep checking the marketsMarkets

What to know:

  • Robinhood is rolling out Agentic Trading and an Agentic Credit Card that let customers connect third-party AI agents to their accounts to automate investing and purchases.
  • The AI agents can monitor markets, rebalance portfolios, execute stock trades, and complete virtual credit card purchases under user-defined strategies and conditions.
  • Robinhood says it has built guardrails such as separate, limited-fund trading accounts, spending controls, notifications, and instant shutoff, as it brings Wall Street-style AI automation to retail investors.

As a crypto investor, I’m watching Robinhood closely because they’re now letting users use AI to automatically invest for them. Basically, the AI can make trading decisions and execute trades without any direct input from the user. It’s an interesting development and could make investing more accessible, but I’m also cautious about handing over control to an algorithm.

Robinhood now lets customers link AI assistants to their accounts, allowing them to trade stocks and make purchases using virtual credit cards. This new feature comes with two products: Agentic Trading and the Agentic Credit Card.

These tools allow AI assistants to handle your finances automatically – they can watch the market, adjust your investments, and carry out financial plans without you needing to constantly oversee them.

If someone wants to invest in artificial intelligence companies, they could use an AI-powered tool to create and manage a stock portfolio specifically for that sector. Alternatively, an investor could program the tool to automatically purchase stocks when prices drop, following a pre-set plan.

Automated AI trading

The company announced that users will be able to set up automatic purchases using AI-powered virtual credit cards. Customers can instruct the system to track prices or make a purchase when specific criteria are satisfied.

Robinhood is promoting these features as a time-saver, helping customers spend less time on investment research and deal tracking.

These new products demonstrate how artificial intelligence is now bringing automated financial tools—once used only by large firms—to everyday investing apps.

For a long time, AI-powered trading was mostly limited to large financial companies with specialized teams and advanced technology. Robinhood is now making these tools available to everyday investors through simpler, user-friendly AI.

This change also brings up important questions about how much power individual investors should give to automated systems, particularly when markets are unstable.

As a crypto investor, I’m glad to see Robinhood building in some safety features with their AI trading tools. Basically, these AI agents trade using separate accounts – you only give them access to the funds *you* specifically set aside for them. Plus, I’ll get notified every time a trade happens, and I can shut the whole thing down immediately if I want. It’s reassuring to know I’m still in control.

The company also added spending controls and optional manual approvals for AI-driven purchases.

At first, Agentic Trading will only allow users to trade stocks while it’s being tested. Robinhood plans to add support for options, cryptocurrency, and futures trading at a later time.

Following the announcement on Wednesday morning in the U.S., HOOD stock increased by 1.5%, reaching $75.20.

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2026-05-27 17:22