Your rules. Your trades. Automated.

Ballast is automated trading software for Robinhood users. Choose your watchlist, trade sizes and buying and selling rules. The bot performs repeated checks and can place stock and crypto orders when your settings and account checks allow.

Build the setup

You control the settings. Review the starting sample configuration, capital limits and selected account before enabling trading. Research is separate from execution: looking at a strategy or score does not automatically add an investment to the bot. Options execution is disabled in the current beta.

Test the rules

Start with paper trading, which uses simulated money. Quotes may also be simulated when broker data is unavailable. Use it to learn the controls; practice results do not predict what you will earn. Real trading requires your review of the Terms, required checks and explicit GO LIVE confirmation.

Follow the activity

Review the bot's decisions and order status. Sending an order is not proof it filled. An uncertain broker result can hold further orders for review. Stops cannot guarantee a sale or a price, and trading can lose money.

Check the requirements

Ballast runs on a Windows PC that must stay on and connected for its checks to work. Current live activation requires Robinhood Agentic access and an Anthropic API key. Crypto requires a separate connection. A regular Robinhood login alone is not enough. Provider eligibility, terms and charges apply. Ballast is independent of Robinhood.

The invited beta includes full Ballast access free for at least 60 days. Other services may charge separately. Paid plans and referral rewards have not launched.