Robinhood pushes stock trading toward a 24/7 future

Robinhood plans to let customers trade select US  stocks and exchange-traded funds 24 hours a day, seven days a week, pushing the brokerage further toward a market where retail investors can react to news whenever it breaks.

The company announced the expansion on Sept. 29 at its HOOD Summit ’26 in Houston, where Chief Executive Vlad Tenev and other executives unveiled a series of products aimed at making trading more continuous, automated and accessible to individual investors.

Robinhood currently offers trading from Sunday evening through Friday evening. The planned rollout would add weekend access, allowing customers to respond to geopolitical developments, economic news or company announcements before traditional U.S. markets reopen Monday morning.

“Breaking news doesn’t wait for an opening bell,” Robinhood Chief Brokerage Officer Steve Quirk said at the summit. The company is building a platform centered on “living hours” rather than “work hours,” with increasingly sophisticated trading products.

The weekend rollout is still pending regulatory review and will initially cover a limited group of stocks and ETFs. Robinhood said the trades will be handled through Bruce ATS, an alternative trading system used for off-exchange trading.

The move is part of a broader effort by Robinhood to remove traditional limits on when and how retail investors trade. At the summit, the company also announced earlier options trading, higher intraday margin limits and cryptocurrency perpetual futures, which allow investors to take leveraged positions without an expiration date.

Robinhood is also introducing AI-powered trading agents that can research markets, screen data and carry out multistep strategies. The agents use advanced AI models, including OpenAI’s GPT-6 Luna. Robinhood says its AI trading agents will be free for users through the end of the year.

The company said the agents will be able to connect with outside data providers, including Nasdaq, Unusual Whales, which tracks unusual options trading activity, and Quiver Quantitative, a tracker of congressional stock trades and corporate lobbying. Users will also be able to set trade approvals and other limits.

The expansion could give investors more flexibility, but it also introduces additional risks. Trading outside regular market hours can involve thinner liquidity, wider bid-ask spreads and sharper price swings. The same is true of leveraged products such as perpetual futures and margin trading, where losses can build quickly if markets move against an investor.

For a platform built on commission-free brokerage and democratizing finance, the summit signaled an ambition to bridge the gap between everyday retail investors and sophisticated Wall Street infrastructure.

“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,” said Tenev.