Interactive Brokers Brings ChatGPT and Grok into Trading, Covering Options and Futures

Interactive Brokers has expanded its artificial intelligence offering by integrating ChatGPT and Grok into its trading platform, while also adding support for options and futures. The move extends the broker's push into AI-driven tools and follows its earlier integration with Anthropic's Claude.

The company said clients can now connect existing accounts to the AI platforms through certified marketplaces without opening new accounts or sharing sensitive credentials. Once connected, users can interact with their portfolios using natural language to analyze positions, research markets, and generate trading instructions.

The latest update increases the range of instruments available through AI-generated instructions. Clients can now create orders for options, futures, and futures options, in addition to equities and exchange-traded funds.

Interactive Brokers CEO Milan Galik said interest in AI-based tools continues to grow among investors. "We continue to see growing interest from investors in using artificial intelligence as a more natural way to interact with financial markets," he said. "Adding ChatGPT and Grok, together with support for options and futures, expands the ways clients can securely connect AI tools to Interactive Brokers for research, analysis and execution."

The broker said users remain in control of all trades generated through AI. The system produces order instructions based on user prompts, but clients must review and approve each instruction before it reaches the market.

The tools allow users to perform tasks such as identifying options strategies, analyzing technical indicators like relative strength index levels, and comparing portfolio performance against benchmarks. Clients can also generate futures orders using simple commands.

The integrations complement a broader set of AI features already available on Interactive Brokers' platform. These include AI-powered screeners, thematic investment tools, portfolio analysis features, and automated news summaries tailored to user holdings.

The expansion reflects a wider trend among brokers to embed AI into trading workflows, as firms seek to improve efficiency and simplify market analysis for clients. IB joins several other firms in its latest move. Robinhood launched "Agentic Trading" accounts that allow customers to connect third-party AI agents, such as Anthropic's Claude and OpenAI's ChatGPT, to a dedicated sub-account.

These agents can read portfolio data, analyze markets and, under user-defined parameters, build portfolios or place stock trades, while Robinhood keeps the activity ring-fenced within the agentic account and subject to specific safety controls. The product positions Robinhood alongside a small but growing group of brokers experimenting with AI-driven or "agentic" trading workflows.