Interactive Brokers has activated live AI-assisted trading, allowing clients to connect their accounts to Anthropic’s Claude chatbot for market research, portfolio analysis, and trade instruction generation. The integration went live this week with equities and ETFs supporting market and limit orders, with additional asset classes expected within days. Clients link existing IBKR accounts through Claude’s connector marketplace at no extra cost, granting the AI access to positions, orders, trade history, and market data via standard APIs.
Critically, all AI-generated trade instructions require manual client approval before execution. Orders appear in a dedicated AI Instructions tab where users must review and submit them. IBKR is also certifying connections for ChatGPT, Gemini, and Grok. This positions IBKR between Robinhood’s fully autonomous AI trading accounts and IG Australia’s read-only ChatGPT integration, reflecting varied regulatory comfort levels with automated execution.
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Source: Finance Magnates