Approval model: AI Partition

AI Partition

What it means: a broker-defined, separately funded sub-account where the AI may trade on criteria you set, without per-order approval. Access is gated by eligibility rules.

Example

• Interactive Brokers Autonomous Trading (announced 2026-10-21): eligible clients authorize their connected AI to submit supported orders without approving each order individually.¹ It is limited to individual, non-margin accounts, and you must first execute at least 10 trades over two weeks in Review & Approve mode.² Funding is limited to the cash you allocate to the partition.²

How it differs from a separate account

Both cap what the agent can lose. The AI Partition adds an eligibility gate: a track record of approved trades before autonomy is allowed.² Separate-account models in our sources do not require that history.³⁴

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Footnotes

1. Interactive Brokers Introduces Autonomous Trading. Interactive Brokers, official, retrieved 2026-11-12. ↩

2. AI-Powered Portfolio Analysis & Trading Tools (IBKR AI Integrations). Interactive Brokers, official, retrieved 2026-11-12. ↩ ↩² ↩³

3. Robinhood is Now Open to Agents. Robinhood, official, retrieved 2026-11-12. ↩

4. Coinbase for Agents: Your AI Agent Can Now Trade and Pay with Coinbase. Coinbase, official, retrieved 2026-11-12. ↩