Is There an AI That Will Trade Stocks for Me? What 25 AI Trading Products Actually Do With Your Money in 2026, Sorted by Where the Trade Happens

Yes. A small number of products will find stock trades and place them in your own brokerage account without you clicking anything. But most of what is sold under the words AI trading will not do that, and the difference is not in how clever the model is. It is in what the product is allowed to do with your money. Some only rank stocks and send alerts. Some trade, but only inside a brokerage they run. The newest ones, from Robinhood and Interactive Brokers, trade only inside a walled-off account you fund for the purpose. And a few connect to the account you already have through your broker's API and trade inside limits you set. This page sorts 25 products into those four groups as of November 6, 2026, using each vendor's own pages, with its price, what it claims about performance, and what its own disclaimer says about that claim.

The question to ask any AI trading product

Ask where the trade happens. Everything else about the product follows from the answer. If the vendor's page talks about scores, signals, alerts, ideas or robots you "follow," the AI is a research tool and you are the trader. If it talks about connecting your brokerage through the broker's sign-in or an API key, the software can place orders in your account, and the next questions are which brokers and what limits you can set. If the only account it trades is one it opened for you, your money moves to the vendor. And if the product comes from your broker and mentions a separate agent account or partition, it trades a sandbox, not your portfolio. How AI trading works explains the loop behind the products that do trade; this page is about which ones do.

Group one: AI that picks, and you place the trade

These products never touch an account. Danelfin scores every stock from 1 to 10 and sells the scores from $29 a month, with a headline of "+456%" that its page describes as a backtest since 2017. Kavout sells a similar score from $16 a month and says it is "not an investment advisor or Broker/Dealer." OVTLYR, $69 a month, sends stock alerts and states in its FAQ that it "does not execute trades for you." Incite AI and FinBrain are research and data products with no broker behind them. Tickeron is the one to read carefully: its pages advertise AI robots with a "199% annualized" figure, its 2023 FAQ said it had no integrations with clients' brokerage accounts, its newer posts say real-money agents have "direct connections to supported brokerages" without naming one, and its pricing page did not load today. We could not confirm that Tickeron places trades in a customer's own account, so it sits in this group until it names a broker. The Tickeron alternatives page goes further.

Two well-known names straddle the line. Trade Ideas is a signal product whose Holly AI publishes setups with entries and stops, and its Premium plan, $254 a month, can route those into Interactive Brokers, E*TRADE, TradeStation or Alpaca through Brokerage Plus. TrendSpider runs strategy bots that place orders through its SignalStack subsidiary at 25 brokers. Both are AI research tools with an execution path bolted on; the Trade Ideas alternatives page covers the first in detail.

Group two: it trades, inside its own brokerage

Composer builds a strategy from a description and runs it, but only in an account at Composer Securities; outside accounts move in by transfer and are not linked. Magnifi, an SEC-registered adviser, answers questions and lets you trade in a Magnifi account; its assistant does not place trades on its own. Dub copies other people's portfolios into a Dub account from $7.50 a month and says its AI, Arlo, "never trades for you." Autopilot, the copy-trading app, is the exception in this group that reaches outside: it is a registered adviser that places the copied trades in your Robinhood, Schwab or Public account through those brokers' connections, which the Autopilot alternatives page and the copy trading guide cover. StreetBeat and Titan are managed accounts with an adviser behind them, not trading software. Q.ai and Pluto, which answered this question in 2023, have shut down.

The common thread is that your money sits with the vendor or an adviser it controls. That is not a mark against them; a registered adviser owes you duties a software vendor does not. It is a different product from software that trades the account you already have.

Group three: the brokers' AI agents, in a sandbox

The newest answer to the question comes from the brokers, and it comes with a wall. Robinhood opened to AI agents on May 27, 2026, and announced its own built-in trading agent in September that "can analyze the market, build strategies, and trade on your behalf around the clock." Both trade only in a dedicated agentic account separate from the rest of your portfolio; approvals are on by default, and turning them off lets the agent place eligible trades without confirming each order. There is no platform fee; you pay for the model's tokens at cost, with $5 of tokens free. Robinhood says it does not "control, supervise, monitor, recommend, or audit" the agents. Interactive Brokers launched Autonomous Trading on October 21, 2026: connected AI platforms find and place orders from your instructions inside an AI Partition funded from your main account. AI trading at your broker covers what each of these allows and forbids.

Five brokers also run MCP servers, which let the AI assistant you already pay for, such as ChatGPT or Claude, read your account and place orders when you ask. Tradier hosts one on every plan; tastytrade's requires a separate confirmation token for each order and caps order size at $50,000 by default; Public's warns that every order is "a real order using real money" with no paper mode; Alpaca's defaults to paper trading; Webull's previews each trade before it goes live. An MCP server places the orders you ask for in a conversation. It does not run a strategy while you sleep, which the MCP vs hosted platform comparison works through in cost and coverage.

Group four: it trades your own account, within your rules

This is the group the question is really asking about: software that finds the trade and places it in the brokerage account you already have, through the broker's API, inside limits you set. It is a short list. Atlas Trade AI, $99 a month with no trial, runs what it calls proprietary AI-built algorithms at Schwab, Robinhood, TradeStation, Tradier, Alpaca, Webull, tastytrade and Public without per-trade confirmation; its page says connecting a brokerage "is designed to transmit orders to close all existing open positions," and its pricing page states that no profit or protection from loss is guaranteed. StockHero runs rule and marketplace bots at 17 brokers from $49.99 a month under a "93% win rate" headline with an asterisk. Intellectia sells AI stock picks from $14.95 a month and a TradePlus add-on that connects brokers through SnapTrade; its bot page says it executes trades automatically and its pricing FAQ says it does not run trades for you, so ask before you buy. BotSpot and Surmount turn a written thesis into a bot and run it at Alpaca and a few others. And JorgAI, which is ours and is described in its own section below.

The rule builders belong near this group without being in it. Option Alpha, TradersPost, Coinrule, Tradetron and Capitalise.ai place trades in your account, but the rules are yours; there is no AI deciding what to buy. Automated trading platforms compared and the Composer alternatives page cover that group.

Twenty-five products, sorted by where the trade happens

How to read the performance numbers

Three of the biggest numbers in the table, Danelfin's +456%, BotSpot's 3,400% and Tickeron's 199%, are described on the vendors' own pages as backtests, hypotheticals or tracked periods rather than audited live results, and StockHero's 93% carries an asterisk. The one live figure a vendor publishes, Intellectia's 51.38% accuracy, is the most modest. The regulators' joint alert on AI and investment fraud says to "be wary of claims, even from registered firms and professionals, that AI can guarantee amazing investment returns," and the CFTC's advisory is titled AI Won't Turn Trading Bots into Money Machines. The SEC has acted on the claims themselves: it fined two advisers $400,000 in 2024 for overstating their use of AI, charged Rimar Capital over a fictitious AI trading platform, and in 2026 brought cases over a $12.3 million scheme promising "guaranteed profits exceeding 100% in as little as 21 days" from AI bots and a $15 million one renting AI bots that, in the SEC's words, did not exist. Its examination priorities for 2026 say examiners "will review for accuracy registrant representations regarding their AI capabilities." None of that makes a product with a big number a fraud. It means the number is marketing until you can see live, logged trades. Is AI trading legit covers how to check a platform before trusting it.

Where JorgAI fits

JorgAI is in group four. It connects to the brokerage account you already have, at Schwab, Alpaca, Tradier or tastytrade for stocks and at Kraken or the Crypto.com Exchange for crypto, through each venue's own API, and the money stays at the broker. You set the limits once: daily spend, position size, auto-trades per day, stop loss, trailing stop and a confidence threshold. The system scans on its own servers and scores each setup; on the Pro and Elite plans independent AI models vote, and a trade goes out only when they agree and the confidence clears your threshold. Every setup it declined is logged next to every trade it placed, so you can read why. If you want to see each buy before it goes out, a setting sends it to you for approval first. We publish no return figures, and the free plan shows the system running on a simulated account before you connect anything. Plans run from $14.99 to $199 a month. How to choose an AI trading bot is our checklist, written to apply to us as much as to anyone, and connecting a bot safely covers what a connection should and should not be allowed to do.

Quick answers

Is there an AI that will trade stocks for me automatically?

Yes, in two forms. Hosted platforms such as JorgAI, Atlas Trade AI and StockHero place trades in your own brokerage account through the broker's API, inside limits you set. Robinhood's agents and Interactive Brokers' Autonomous Trading place trades too, but only inside a separate account or partition you fund for them.

What is the best app that picks stocks with AI and trades them automatically?

Only a few apps do both. Danelfin, Kavout, OVTLYR and Tickeron pick without trading; Composer and Dub trade only in their own brokerages. The apps that pick and trade in your own account are the group-four list above, and the right one depends on your broker and on how much control you want over the rules.

Can ChatGPT or Claude trade stocks for me?

At brokers with an MCP server, your assistant can place the orders you ask for: Tradier, tastytrade, Public, Alpaca and Webull run one. It trades when you are in the conversation, not on its own overnight, and each broker sets its own confirmation and size rules.

Does Robinhood have an AI that trades for you?

Yes, since 2026, in a dedicated agentic account separate from your main portfolio. You pay for the model's tokens, approvals are on by default, and Robinhood says it does not supervise or audit the agent. Can you automate Robinhood has the background.

Are AI trading bots legal?

Trading your own account through a broker's official API is legal in the US. What the SEC pursues is false claims: advisers overstating their AI, and schemes selling AI bots with guaranteed returns, including two cases in 2026.

Do any AI trading apps work with Fidelity?

No. Fidelity has no trading API and its terms bar automated access tools, so none of the products here can trade a Fidelity account. Can you automate trading on Fidelity explains the path Fidelity customers take.

How we put this together. We read each product's own pricing, FAQ, broker-list and terms pages on November 6, 2026 and sorted them by where a trade happens, keeping each vendor's performance claim and disclaimer in its own words. Where a vendor's pages contradict each other, or a page did not load, the text says so. The regulatory facts come from SEC, FINRA and CFTC pages read the same day. JorgAI is our product; the others are described from their own pages. Prices and features change, so check the vendor before you subscribe. Education, not financial advice.

If you want to watch an AI trade a simulated account before you let one near a real one, start on the free plan: the same system, with nothing connected.