Robinhood (HOOD) Stock: What the New AI Trading Agents Mean for Customers

TLDR

• Robinhood unveiled Robinhood Agents, an AI tool that can research, build strategies and place trades on a customer’s behalf around the clock.
• The company will also offer crypto perpetual futures with up to 10x leverage on bitcoin and ether through Bitstamp.
• More than 150,000 customers already use agentic trading accounts, with agents tapping Robinhood’s tools nearly 30 million times a day.
• Robinhood plans 24/7 weekend equity trading, earnings contracts and extended options hours starting in October.
• HOOD stock closed at $116.22 as the company detailed its plans at the HOOD Summit in Houston.

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Robinhood stock (HOOD) closed at $116.22 on Tuesday as the company laid out its biggest product push yet for active traders. The announcements came at its HOOD Summit event in Houston.

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The centerpiece is Robinhood Agents. It’s an AI tool built into the app that can research markets, build strategies and place trades without a customer lifting a finger.

This is different from a chatbot. A chatbot only answers questions. An agent actually acts, buying and selling within limits the customer sets in advance.

Robinhood already tested this idea in May, letting tech-savvy users connect outside AI agents to their accounts. Over 150,000 customers signed up, and those agents now use Robinhood’s tools almost 30 million times a day.

Introducing Robinhood Agents. 🔥

With Agents, anyone can now build their own agent directly inside Robinhood and get started with agentic trading. You can:

– Create an agent in just a few taps, no technical setup required
– Analyze, strategize, and execute through your agent
-…

— Robinhood (@RobinhoodApp) September 29, 2026

Now the feature moves into the main app for everyone. Customers name their agent, open a separate account for it, and pick a model from labs including OpenAI.

OpenAI’s GPT-Luna model will be free to use through the end of the year. Trade approval is on by default, though customers can turn it off if they want full automation.

AI Agents Face New Risks

A coming feature called Loops will let customers turn a strategy into a standing instruction. The agent then runs it on repeat, checking conditions and trading while the customer sleeps.

Analysts have flagged one concern with agentic trading broadly. If many agents run similar models on similar data, they could pile into the same trade at once and turn a small move into a sharp one.

For now, that risk stays theoretical since the technology is still new. Robinhood says safety controls, including per-trade approval, are meant to keep customers in charge.

Apollo’s chief economist raised a separate warning last weekend about AI agents shifting cash between banks automatically. He said it could strip banks of the cheap deposits they rely on for lending.

Crypto Perps and More Trading Hours

Robinhood is also bringing perpetual futures, called perps, to eligible U.S. customers. These are crypto bets with no expiration date, and they make up the bulk of global crypto trading volume.

Customers will get up to 10x leverage on bitcoin and ether, and 3x on tokens like SOL, XRP and DOGE. Robinhood will offer the product through Bitstamp, the exchange it bought last year, at just 0.01% per trade through year end.

Weekend equity trading is coming too, pending regulatory review. It builds on the 24 Hour Market Robinhood launched in 2023, which already covers weekday overnight sessions.

Earnings contracts are also on the way ahead of Q3 earnings season. These let customers bet on outcomes like whether a company beats revenue targets, offered through Cboe with no fees through year end.

Other changes include extended options hours starting in October, running from 7:30 a.m. to 4:15 p.m. Eligible margin customers will also get access to 4x intraday buying power next month, up from 2x today.

CEO Vlad Tenev said the goal is putting hedge fund style tools into regular traders’ hands. Robinhood Agents is expected to roll out soon to eligible U.S. customers, with perps following in the coming months.