You can point your bot at Robinhood instead of tastytrade. It trades single-leg options — buying calls and puts — in Robinhood's Agentic Trading account, which is a separate, walled-off account Robinhood created specifically so outside software can place orders in it.

Robinhood doesn't appear in your broker list by default. It shows up once your bot has been given permission to trade that account, which is a one-time setup you do with us.

Step 1 — Know what you're opening

There is no "Agentic Trading" switch to hunt for in the Robinhood app. Don't go looking for one — the account is created during the connection, not before it.

What you need in place first:

• A Robinhood account in good standing, with an ordinary individual investing account. Robinhood requires that before it will open any additional account.
• A US account. Agentic Trading is US-only, with some state restrictions.
• A desktop computer for the setup. Robinhood is explicit that the agentic account can only be opened, and the connection only authorized, on a desktop — not in the phone app.
• Options enabled. Your usual Robinhood options approval applies; without it the account can hold stock but not trade contracts.

Step 2 — Authorize your bot (we do this with you)

Robinhood's connection is an authorization you grant in your browser, not an API key you copy. There is no developer account, no waitlist, and nothing to paste into this portal.

Contact support to schedule it. We start the connection to Robinhood's trading service, you sign in as yourself, and Robinhood then walks you through opening your Agentic account and funding it — with the amount you intend your bot to trade, kept apart from your main balance. At the end, the access token and your agentic account number are stored in your own bot's app settings. Nobody at Stax ever sees your Robinhood password.

Once your bot restarts, Robinhood appears in Strategies → Broker. Your strategies are unchanged — see Choosing Your Broker for the switch itself.

What you're actually granting

Worth reading before you agree to it, because Robinhood's permission is broader than people expect and there is no way to narrow it:

• Trading is confined to the Agentic account. Your bot cannot place an order anywhere else. That ring-fence is Robinhood's, not ours.
• Reading is not. The same permission grants read access to all of your Robinhood accounts — positions, balances, order and transaction history. It's one all-or-nothing permission; Robinhood offers no finer-grained choice.
• Because of that, your bot filters every single read down to your agentic account id before acting on it, twice over. It's the reason we insist on having that account number, not just the login: without it, something like a killswitch could reach the wrong portfolio.

Warning

Keep the agentic account bot-only. Robinhood puts no tag on an order saying who placed it, so your bot treats everything in that account as its own. Hand-trade in there and a killswitch or Flatten All can close those positions too.

You can disconnect at any time from Robinhood, and that's the emergency brake of last resort. Two things to know: disconnecting does not reliably cancel orders already resting at the broker, so check your open orders afterwards — and it is not the way to pause routine trading. For that, use I Need to Stop Everything, which stops your bot without stranding a live position.

Step 3 — It starts in dry run

A freshly connected bot is disarmed. Entries go to Robinhood's review endpoint instead of its order endpoint: Robinhood validates the order and returns its real pre-trade warnings, and nothing is bought. You get a full, honest dress rehearsal with the live account.

Turning dry run off is a deliberate change to your bot's settings — ask support when you're ready. This is a real one. There is no Robinhood test environment anywhere, so your first armed order is also the first order this connection has ever placed. Start with one contract.

What works, and what doesn't

Everything you configure in this app — alert sources, filters, position sizing, killswitches, trading hours, skip days, scale-in, Profit Lock, exit legs — is broker-independent and behaves exactly as it does on tastytrade. The differences are in what Robinhood itself can do:

Single-leg calls and puts	✅
Up to 4 exit legs on one position	✅
Take-profit and stop-loss	✅ (see below)
Trailing stops	⚠️ Optional, per strategy
Spreads (verticals, condors, butterflies)	❌ Not possible — the alert is skipped
Futures	❌ Not possible — use Plus500 or Paper
Selling to open (credit strategies)	❌ Not possible

If you subscribe to a spread strategy, those alerts are skipped on Robinhood rather than half-filled. That's worth knowing before you switch: a strategy that trades DOPE Spreads-style verticals will simply not trade here.

How your stop and target actually work here

Robinhood has no bracket order. A resting sell order ties up the contracts, so a take-profit and a stop-loss can't both sit at the broker — one would block the other. Your bot therefore splits them:

• Your stop-loss rests at Robinhood. It's a real broker order, so it protects you even if your bot is restarting or offline. That's deliberately the half that survives.
• Your take-profit is watched by your bot, on the same live price feed the rest of the app uses. When price reaches your target, your bot cancels the stop and sells — first at your target price, then, if that doesn't fill within about ten seconds, at the market.

The practical effect: targets need your bot to be running; stops don't.

Trailing stops are off by default on Robinhood, and that's a safety choice rather than a missing feature. Robinhood can't move a stop in place — each move is cancel-then-place — so for a moment during every raise the position has no resting stop. Your bot keeps that window as short as it can: it confirms the old stop is really gone (if it filled in the gap, that's your exit), it puts the old level back if the new one is refused, and it closes at market if even that fails. It also waits 5 seconds between moves and stops trying after three failures in a row. Enable it per strategy if you want it; the standard target-and-stop behaviour doesn't have that window at all.

Money and fees

• Robinhood is not free on options. They charge $0.50 per contract on the way in and again on the way out ($0.35 each way with Gold), where tastytrade charges $1.00 to open and nothing to close. Small, frequent trades feel this the most. Your P&L pages use the non-Gold rate, so if you have Gold your real costs are slightly lower than shown.
• Your agentic account may be a cash account. If it is, option sale proceeds settle the next business day, and your bot deliberately won't re-trade that money until it lands — reusing unsettled cash is what gets accounts restricted. It reads your account type from Robinhood, and when it can't tell, it assumes cash. Capital sitting idle for a day is a cheaper mistake than a restriction. See Cash vs Margin Account.

If something looks wrong

• Robinhood isn't in my broker list. The authorization hasn't been completed, or your bot hasn't restarted since it was.
• It's selected but nothing trades. Check dry run first. Then check that the alerts arriving are single-leg options — spreads and futures are skipped by design, and the skip is logged.
• A trade opened but I see no target order at Robinhood. That's expected: only the stop rests at the broker. Your target lives in the bot.
• My fills look worse than my backtest. Backtests currently price fees on the tastytrade schedule, so a Robinhood strategy's real costs are higher than the backtest shows, especially on exits. See Fees & Slippage.

One clarification, because the name invites it

Robinhood calls this agentic trading and built it for AI agents. Your bot is not one. It's ordinary software following the strategy settings you chose in this app: the same filters, the same sizing, the same stops it would use at tastytrade. No language model decides what to buy, and nothing about your account is handed to an AI provider. Robinhood's connection is simply the only way they let outside software place an order.

Note

Robinhood's own disclosure is blunt, and it applies to anything connected this way: they "do not control, supervise, monitor, recommend, or audit" the software placing your orders, the account is self-directed, and you assume the risk for every trade it makes. That is exactly why the connection starts in dry run, and why a week on Paper Trading first is a genuinely good idea.