Robinhood is announcing a set of new trading features aimed at attracting more active investors, including weekend stock trading and automated “AI agents” that can trade outside normal U.S. market hours. The brokerage says its AI agents are designed to execute trades around the clock, and it is also expanding access to additional products.
At its annual HOOD Summit in Houston, Robinhood also unveils new contract offerings described as perpetual futures and earnings contracts, alongside additional leveraged crypto products such as perpetuals. Quartz and CNBC frame the move as an effort to broaden trading access beyond traditional stock market schedules, while CoinDesk emphasizes the combination of always-on automation and expanded crypto trading.
Across the reports, the common thread is Robinhood’s push to compete for active traders by extending availability and adding tools that automate participation in markets. The outlets differ mainly in how they foreground the features—CNBC highlights nonstop trading access, Quartz focuses on the overall active-trader launch, and CoinDesk spotlights AI agent trading and specific crypto perpetuals details.
