Interactive Brokers announced IBKR Autonomous Trading on October 21, 2026, a new capability enabling eligible clients to authorize connected AI platforms to identify and execute trades across more than 75,000 listed stocks, options, and ETFs worldwide. The feature allows investors to define trading strategies through natural language instructions, which the AI then monitors and executes without requiring individual order approvals, subject to account restrictions and risk safeguards.
- Coverage: 75,000+ listed stocks, options, and ETFs globally
- Account Setup: Clients create a dedicated AI Partition by transferring funds from their main IBKR account
- Available Regions: United States, United Kingdom, Europe, Singapore, and Australia
- Execution: AI monitors markets and submits supported stock and equity-option orders based on client-defined criteria
For decades, Interactive Brokers has used automation to give investors greater access, efficiency and control. IBKR Autonomous Trading builds on that approach, allowing clients to define their trading strategies and safeguards while connected AI monitors markets and executes trades within those parameters.
– Milan Galik, Chief Executive Officer, Interactive Brokers
The platform enables investors to configure AI behavior using various instructions. Clients can direct the system to monitor companies for specific financial metrics, evaluate market developments against preset conditions, manage portfolio allocation thresholds, and automatically submit orders when criteria are met. For example, a client might instruct the AI to sell covered calls when implied volatility reaches its 52-week 90th percentile, or trim positions exceeding 10 percent of portfolio weight back to 8 percent each morning.
IBKR Autonomous Trading builds on Interactive Brokers‘ existing AI Integration feature, which permits clients to link their accounts to platforms including ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, and Perplexity for trade instruction generation and review. The broker also offers AI Screeners for natural-language stock searches and Investment Themes tools for thematic investing discovery. The autonomous trading capability is subject to entity, country, regulatory, and account eligibility requirements, with funding and account limits at launch that may evolve. Interactive Brokers Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: IBKR) is a member of the S&P 500, providing automated trade execution and custody across more than 175 markets worldwide.
Milan Galik, Chief Executive Officer at Interactive Brokers. Source: interactivebrokers.com
