Robinhood Markets Unveils 24/7 Trading, AI Agents and Private-Market Push at HOOD Summit

Key Points

• Robinhood plans to expand around-the-clock stock trading, including filling the remaining weekend gap through a partnership with Bruce Markets. The rollout is expected to begin with a limited number of stocks and primarily limit orders, pending regulatory and infrastructure approvals.
• The company unveiled Robinhood Agents and Agent Apps, which use natural-language prompts and alternative data—such as congressional disclosures and options-market metrics—to support research and trade development. Future capabilities may include multiple agents, recurring screens and automated actions based on preset criteria.
• Robinhood is also pushing into private-market investing and prediction products, offering diversified funds with daily liquidity and no accreditation requirement, while highlighting products such as perpetual futures, earnings-related prediction markets and Saturday stock trading.

Robinhood Markets NASDAQ: HOOD used its 2026 HOOD Summit in Houston to highlight planned expansions in around-the-clock trading, AI-driven research and trading tools, prediction markets and private-market investing, while executives emphasized customer feedback and trader education as central to the company’s product strategy.

Chairman and CEO Vlad Tenev told attendees that Robinhood’s role is to provide customers with “the best tools and capabilities possible,” framing the company’s strategy around investor agency. Tenev cited newly announced products including perpetual futures, earnings-related prediction products, regulated key performance indicator trading for earnings, Saturday stock trading and Robinhood Agents.

“We all believe that you should be able to do whatever you want with your money,” Tenev said. “Our job, as creators of this platform, is to make sure you have the best tools and capabilities possible.”

Chief Brokerage Officer Steve Quirk said the company is working to provide retail traders with access to tools historically associated with professional investors. He also highlighted Robinhood’s social features as a way for users to learn from one another, particularly amid volatile markets.

Robinhood Agents and alternative data

Abhishek Fatehpuria, Robinhood’s vice president of product management, demonstrated Robinhood Agents and Agent Apps, which are designed to combine trading workflows with specialized third-party data sources. The tools can use natural-language prompts to analyze information and potentially help users develop trade ideas.

During a live demonstration, Quiver Quantitative CEO James Kardatzke showed how users could research congressional trading, lobbying disclosures and proposed legislation related to a company. SpotGamma founder Brent Kochuba demonstrated options-market analysis, including implied-volatility rankings, skew data and changes in options positions.

Kris Abdelmessih, co-founder of Moontower.ai and a professional options trader, said the tools could help investors connect a market thesis with potential options structures, while cautioning that information such as congressional transactions should be considered in context.

Fatehpuria said Robinhood expects to expand capabilities over time, including multiple agents within the app. He said the company plans to introduce “loops” that could run recurring screens and potentially take actions based on pre-set criteria. Robinhood also intends to maintain support for external accounts and MCP connections, according to Fatehpuria.

24/7 equities trading infrastructure

Quirk also discussed Robinhood’s planned move toward 24/7 equities trading with Jason Wallach, CEO of Bruce Markets, an alternative trading system that currently operates overnight sessions from 8 p.m. Eastern on Sunday through 4 a.m. Friday.

Wallach said Bruce Markets plans to support Robinhood’s effort to fill the remaining weekend gap in equities trading. He said the company expects the rollout to begin with a limited number of symbols before broadening access, subject to regulatory review and market infrastructure requirements.

According to Wallach, trading volume across three overnight alternative trading systems rose from 22 million shares per night in August of the prior year to roughly 109 million shares per night this August. Executed notional value increased from about $1.2 billion to $5 billion over the same period, he said.

Quirk said Sunday night has become the busiest part of the current overnight market because news accumulates while traditional markets are closed. He said customers increasingly expect continuous access because other electronic markets and services operate around the clock.

“Amazon doesn’t close,” Quirk said. “Why would they? It’s an electronic marketplace.”

Wallach said the expansion requires more than keeping systems open for two additional days. It involves clearing processes, regulatory coordination, market-data dissemination and liquidity-provider participation. Initially, extended-hours trading is expected to remain limited to limit orders rather than market orders, he said.

Markets, ETFs and trading education

Market panels at the summit reflected differing views on rates, energy, artificial intelligence and market concentration. Stephanie Guild, Robinhood’s chief investment officer, said rising costs and narrower market breadth have created a more bifurcated market, with larger technology companies appearing less exposed to some pressures affecting consumers and smaller companies.

Vincent Daniel and Porter Collins of Seawolf Capital discussed concentration in large-cap indexes, higher rates and the potential for energy-sector opportunities. Daniel pointed to fiscal deficits and flows into capitalization-weighted funds as factors supporting a relatively small number of major stocks. Collins said the energy sector could remain attractive for dividends and cash flow despite gains in oil-related equities.

State Street Investment Management’s Matt Bartolini said U.S. exchange-traded funds had attracted $1.53 trillion in net inflows year-to-date as of the event, surpassing the prior full-year record of $1.52 trillion. Bartolini said investors should begin ETF selection by identifying the portfolio outcome they seek, such as income, risk management or exposure to a specific market theme.

In a futures-trading session, Robinhood Education Lead Michael Obucina and CME Group’s Craig Bewick emphasized position sizing and risk management. Obucina said retail futures traders can choose their own timing, product and risk level, but warned that excessive position sizes can quickly produce margin pressure.

“Your trading capital is your lifeblood,” Obucina said. “If you don’t have it, you can’t trade.”

Private markets and customer feedback

Robinhood CFO Shiv Verma and Robinhood Ventures President Sara Pinto discussed the company’s private-market funds, which aim to give retail investors exposure to private companies through diversified vehicles. Verma said Robinhood designed the offerings around four principles: access to high-quality companies, daily liquidity, no accreditation requirement and competitive fees.

Pinto said private companies are remaining private longer, leaving more potential value creation outside public markets. She said Robinhood’s late-stage growth portfolio includes companies such as Databricks, OpenAI and Stripe, while its early-stage offering focuses on companies connected to Y Combinator.

Tenev closed the event by saying Robinhood would continue gathering customer feedback as it develops products. “Our goal is to make it so that you’re at a disadvantage keeping your money elsewhere, trading elsewhere, managing your finances,” he said.

About Robinhood Markets (NASDAQ:HOOD)

Robinhood Markets, Inc NASDAQ: HOOD operates a financial services platform designed to provide investing and trading products through mobile applications and a website. Its offerings include commission-free trading in stocks and exchange-traded funds, options trading, cryptocurrency services, margin investing, and retirement accounts. The company also provides cash management features and other tools intended to help customers manage and invest their money.

Founded in 2013 by Vlad Tenev and Baiju Bhatt, Robinhood gained prominence by expanding access to investing through a low-cost, easy-to-use digital platform.

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