Trading

This page answers which brokers let AI agents trade and who approves each order, then lists every launch broker’s key fields.

Which brokers let AI agents trade, and who approves the order?

Checked Nov 14, 2026.

All five launch brokers publish an official MCP server for AI agents.¹²³⁴⁵ The brokers differ on who says yes before an order reaches the market.

• Robinhood: The agent trades only in a separate account you fund. Per-order approval is an optional toggle, off by default for MCP accounts.⁴⁶
• Coinbase: The agent trades in the portfolios you pick when you sign in, which can include your main account. You can limit it to a dedicated portfolio.⁷⁸
• Webull: With the hosted Cloud MCP, you confirm each trade in the Webull app. The local OpenAPI MCP places orders directly, with limits you set.⁹¹⁰
• Interactive Brokers: By default, the AI drafts instructions you review and submit. Eligible accounts can turn on Autonomous Trading inside a separately funded AI Partition.³¹¹¹²
• Alpaca: No broker-side approval is documented, so approval has to live in your agent or client.¹³¹⁴ Paper trading is built in.¹⁵¹⁴

Who approves is explained in approval models. Compare the launch brokers side by side, or see the rails underneath.

Broker fields

Key fields for every provider, generated from the YAML headers in providers/. Each value is sourced on the provider page; unknown means no source confirms it yet. Lists show the default path first. Machine-readable copies: providers.json, providers.csv.

Provider	Status	Can place orders	Approval model	Assets	Auth	Endpoint	Paper trading	Last verified	Page status	Unknown fields
Alpaca	official-mcp	yes	none	stocks; ETFs; fractional equities; options (including multi-leg); crypto	Hosted Trading MCP: OAuth sign-in with an Alpaca account (plugins for Cursor, Claude Code and Codex). Local Trading MCP and CLI: API key and secret in environment variables	https://api.alpaca.markets/mcp	yes	2026-11-12	current	3 of 12
Coinbase	official-mcp	yes	separate-account	crypto spot; US derivatives (futures); eligible US equities; x402 payments	OAuth via login.coinbase.com for the remote MCP; Dynamic Client Registration and Client ID Metadata Documents supported, but clients are allowlisted; the local CLI uses a CDP API key	https://agents.coinbase.com/mcp	unknown	2026-11-14	current	4 of 12
Interactive Brokers	official-mcp	draft-only; yes	draft-then-submit; ai-partition	stocks; equity options	IBKR’s own login and authorization flow; credentials are never shared with the AI app; revoke in Client Portal > Settings > Manage Third-Party Consents	https://api.ibkr.com/v1/api/mcp-public	unknown	2026-11-12	current	3 of 12
Robinhood	official-mcp	yes	separate-account; per-order-confirm	long equities; options (single-leg only); crypto (not in some states, including New York)	OAuth to the remote MCP server; protected-resource metadata lists the scope “internal”; an independent test reports PKCE and dynamic client registration	https://agent.robinhood.com/mcp/trading	unknown	2026-11-14	current	2 of 12
Webull	official-mcp	confirm-in-app; yes	per-order-confirm; none	stocks; options (single-leg and strategies); futures; crypto; event contracts	Cloud MCP: OAuth authorization code flow with a per-account Non-Trading or Trading capability. Local OpenAPI MCP: App Key and App Secret, with a 2FA flow	https://api.webull.com/mcp	yes	2026-11-14	current	2 of 12

Other sections

Payment programs, personal money agents and advisor tools are not brokers, so they have their own pages: Payments, Personal money agents, Advisor agents. Their records are also in programs.json.

Approval models are explained in approval-models/.
A page marked stale or archived should not be treated as current; check last_verified.

Sources

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Footnotes

1. GitHub - alpacahq/alpaca-mcp-server: Alpaca’s official MCP Server lets you trade stocks, ETFs, crypto, and options, run data analysis, and build strat. Alpaca (GitHub), official, retrieved 2026-11-12. ↩

2. Coinbase MCP - Coinbase Developer Documentation. Coinbase Developer Platform, official, retrieved 2026-11-12. ↩

3. Interactive Brokers AI Hub. Interactive Brokers, official, retrieved 2026-11-12. ↩ ↩²

4. Onboarding an external agent - Robinhood. Robinhood, official, retrieved 2026-11-12. ↩ ↩²

5. Webull Cloud MCP Server - Webull API. Webull Developer, official, retrieved 2026-11-12. ↩

6. Trading with your agent - Robinhood. Robinhood, official, retrieved 2026-11-12. ↩

7. Coinbase for Agents setup skill (skill.md). Coinbase Developer Platform, official, retrieved 2026-11-12. ↩

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

9. Webull Expands Cloud MCP to Enable AI-Powered Trading Without Coding or Installation. Webull / PR Newswire, official, retrieved 2026-11-12. ↩

10. GitHub - webull-inc/webull-openapi-mcp: Webull OpenAPI MCP · GitHub. Webull (GitHub), official, retrieved 2026-11-12. ↩

11. AI Instructions. IBKR Guides, official, retrieved 2026-11-12. ↩

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

13. GitHub - alpacahq/cli: CLI for Trading API · GitHub. Alpaca (GitHub), official, retrieved 2026-11-12. ↩

14. GitHub - alpacahq/agentic: Multi-platform plugin marketplace for Alpaca APIs · GitHub. Alpaca (GitHub), official, retrieved 2026-11-12. ↩ ↩²

15. Alpaca - Trade with AI Using Alpaca’s MCP Server. Alpaca, official, retrieved 2026-11-12. ↩