Interactive Brokers announced Autonomous Trading on 21 October 2026, allowing eligible clients to authorise a connected AI platform to submit supported orders under advance instructions. The feature uses an AI Partition within the customer’s existing brokerage account. It extends the earlier AI Integration workflow, in which the customer reviews and submits each prepared order.[1]
Updated 29 October: this report incorporates IBKR’s 28 October product explanation and current eligibility guidance. The Campus article was previously dated 21 October in the source list; its published date is 28 October.[2][3]
The launch release describes a universe of more than 75,000 listed stocks, options and ETFs that connected systems can search. Actual trading access depends on the account, instrument and IBKR entity. Client instructions can define scheduled screens, concentration limits or option-related workflows; the release provides examples of those instructions, rather than measured investment results.[1]
Funding and qualifying accounts
Customers move cash from their primary account into the partition without opening another brokerage account or making a new external deposit. IBKR’s current guidance permits cash transfers only. The partition separates the autonomous workflow within the parent account; it is not a separately opened legal account.[1][3]
Current product conditions
| Area | Published position |
|---|---|
| Account type | Eligible individual non-margin accounts; joint, retirement, adviser, organisation and IBKR Lite accounts are excludedSource 3 |
| Experience requirement | At least ten review-and-approve trades of $100 or more each during a two-week periodSource 3 |
| Supported order types | Market, limit, stop and stop-limitSource 2 |
| Excluded activity | Margin borrowing, short sales, fractional shares, penny stocks and complex leveraged productsSource 2 |
| Time in force | Product FAQ specifies Day; the Campus explanation also describes overnight choices, so the published descriptions differSource 3Source 2 |
| Revoking access | Stops subsequent AI submissions; pending and partly filled orders remain unless cancelledSource 3 |
Stopping the connection and stopping orders
IBKR describes a control in Client Portal for disconnecting the AI service. Its product FAQ makes an operational distinction: removing that connection does not cancel orders already submitted. An account holder ending an autonomous workflow therefore needs to review outstanding orders as a separate step.[2][3]
The 28 October explanation describes additional controls on order frequency, position size and account value as forthcoming. They should be treated as planned features. It also describes a future eligibility assessment, while the current qualifying route uses prior review-and-approve trading.[2]
For a broker, the change moves the final execution instruction from an individual customer click to a previously authorised software workflow. The useful controls are consequently concrete: which account funds it can use, which orders it may submit, how authorisation is withdrawn and what happens to orders already in the market. The disclosed partition and eligibility conditions define that operating scope.[1][3]
Sources & further reading
- Interactive Brokers Introduces Autonomous Trading Interactive Brokers · 21 Oct 2026 · Accessed 29 Oct 2026
- AI Order Placement Is Here — product background Interactive Brokers Campus · 28 Oct 2026 · Accessed 29 Oct 2026
- AI Integrations — autonomous trading eligibility and product FAQ Interactive Brokers · Accessed 29 Oct 2026