Robinhood launches AI trading agents that trade for you around the clock

#What happened

• Robinhood announced "Robinhood Agents" — AI-led agentic trading accounts — at its HOOD Summit 2026 event in Houston on Tuesday (September 29, 2026).
• The agents can automatically trade on behalf of customers around the clock, powered by OpenAI and Anthropic models.
• They can execute trades, run scheduled strategies (called "Loops"), and access third-party market data for research.
• Customers build and run their own agents inside the Robinhood app. This extends Robinhood's first agentic-trading launch in May 2026, which only allowed connecting third-party AI agents.
• "Agent Apps" from third-party providers come at subscription tiers — for example, "Options Trader by Unusual Whales" for $30/month tracking unusual options activity; others track sentiment, congressional trading, corporate lobbying, and satellite/shipping data.
• CEO Vlad Tenev: "We're making Robinhood the best place in the world for active traders by delivering tools once reserved for hedge funds, big banks, and quant firms."
• The same event also announced 24/7 weekend trading for equities, perpetual futures for eligible U.S. customers, and prediction-market earnings contracts for certain company metrics.
• Launch status: "coming soon" to eligible U.S. customers. HOOD stock surged at Wednesday's open, then reversed, per Investor's Business Daily.

#Why it matters

• Agentic trading is moving from hedge-fund quant desks to mainstream retail: algorithmic strategy creation and round-the-clock execution now sit inside a consumer brokerage app.
• For the agent ecosystem, expect more demand for guardrails — spend limits, approval flows, audit trails — as agents start moving real money.

#Sources

• Investor's Business Daily — "Robinhood To Launch AI Agents For Around-The-Clock Trading" — https://www.investors.com/news/robinhood-ai-trading-bots-agentic-trading-hood-stock/ (REPORT)
• AI Agent Store — "AI Agent News Today — September 30, 2026" — https://aiagentstore.ai/ai-agent-news/today (REPORT)

Verified September 30, 2026