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Robinhood Trading MCP

What Robinhood's Trading MCP is for: research, scanners, watchlists, orders on a dedicated Agentic account, and practical desk guardrails.

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Educational resource. Not financial advice. Not affiliated with Robinhood Markets, Inc. Agentic trading involves risk of loss.

Summary

Robinhood's Trading MCP (https://agent.robinhood.com/mcp/trading) lets MCP clients (Claude, Cursor, ChatGPT, Codex, Grok, and others) read Robinhood account data and place supported orders inside a dedicated Agentic account. Primary brokerage accounts stay read-only for place/cancel.

Use it as desk-side research and a bounded Agentic order path. It is learning and process tooling, not a promise of full-account automation.

What people use Robinhood MCP for

  1. Portfolio and risk Q&A: balances, positions, order history, realized P&L.
  2. Market research: quotes, fundamentals, technical indicators, earnings calendar, options chains (where eligible).
  3. Scanners and watchlists: saved liquid-gainer / power-hour screens; organize names for a session.
  4. Confirmed Agentic equity (and eligible options) orders: review_* then place_* / cancel_* only on accounts with agentic_allowed=true.
  5. Guarded scalp sessions: short RTH windows with hard flat times, size caps, and written entry/exit rules (see the Equity Scalp Playbook).

Account model

  • Read: May read accounts the OAuth session exposes
  • Place / cancel: Only accounts with agentic_allowed=true
  • Funding: Agentic wallet is separately funded; that balance is the loss cap
  • Masking: User-facing prose should show account last-4 only; pass full account numbers from get_accounts into tools
  • Buying power: Use get_portfolio, not get_accounts

Tool groups

  • Read: accounts, portfolio, equity/option positions & orders, tax lots, realized P&L / trade history, quotes, price book, historicals, fundamentals, technicals, indexes, options, earnings
  • Screen / organize: saved scanners, equity/index/crypto watchlists, options watchlist
  • Trade: review_equity_order / review_option_order then place_* / cancel_*. Confirm with the operator first unless a pre-authorized automation path is explicit.
  • Out of scope for most clients: futures still require the Robinhood app

Guardrails that matter

  1. Confirm before writes (watchlist mutate, scan create, place, cancel) unless the operator pre-authorized a bounded session.
  2. Never invent account_number. Resolve via get_accounts. Never silently default when multiple accounts exist.
  3. Skip place/cancel when agentic_allowed is false.
  4. Prefer review tools before live place. Show quotes and order preview to the operator.
  5. Bound risk outside the chat: write trading_capital, risk_per_trade_pct (default 0.005 = 0.5% = 1R), max_notional_pct (default 0.20 = 20%), and daily_stop_R (default 3) before the session. Those pct fields are fractions of 1. Size with shares = R / stop_distance; never widen the stop to fit the notional cap. Full math: thresholds §7. Also set hard flat clock and kill switch (disconnect MCP / cancel working orders).
  6. Log decisions in a durable ledger you can re-read next session. Log measured gate values, not only pass or fail.

What Robinhood officially suggests

Robinhood's Agentic Trading overview lists example prompts such as:

  • Build thematic portfolios from news and industry reports
  • Automate simple rules (e.g. buy a fixed dollar amount after a daily drop)
  • Rebalance to target weights
  • Analyze portfolio risk and build bull/bear theses from quotes + sentiment

Those are starting points. Desks that keep expectancy usually replace open-ended prompts with a written playbook (screen → trigger → size → TP + cut → flat time). This site calls that muscle sitting on your hands. See when the desk should sit. Field notes: Evidence.

Public writeups vs field practice

Most public articles cover setup and safety (OAuth, Agentic account, per-trade caps). Fewer publish session-level entry and exit rules. This site publishes a sanitized field playbook: liquid gainers, sweep-reclaim entries, size-up checklists, and common mistakes (MAE parked in liquidity sweeps, midday ladders without cuts, mid-reclaim fake R:R). Options structures (steady income vs strong reward, cash-first choices, MCP single-leg workarounds for defined risk): Options map.

FAQ

What is the Robinhood Trading MCP URL?

https://agent.robinhood.com/mcp/trading. Streamable HTTP MCP. Authenticate via Robinhood OAuth on desktop.

Can this trade my main Robinhood account?

No. Place/cancel is restricted to the Agentic account (agentic_allowed=true). Other accounts remain read-only for this MCP connection.

What should I set before the first live order?

Written sizing inputs (trading_capital, risk %, max notional %, daily_stop_R), approval vs auto-execute policy, hard flat time, and a kill phrase / MCP disconnect path. See thresholds.

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Disclaimer

Educational only. Trading equities and options involves substantial risk of loss. Quotes can be misread, constraints can be missed, and context can go stale. You are responsible for all orders placed in your accounts. This site is not a broker-dealer and is not affiliated with Robinhood.

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