Investors may now use agentic artificial intelligence (AI) to trade stocks and manage their portfolios on Interactive Brokers (IBKR), which has announced direct integration with Claude AI.
Through the AI integration, an investor using IBKR can research stocks, analyse performance and generate trade instructions in Claude. Every trade requires the investor's approval.
The feature is available through Claude’s connector marketplace and offers clients the capability to manage their accounts and trade on more than 170 global markets. Investors can link their IBKR accounts through the Claude certified connector marketplace at no additional costs, and no need to open and fund a separate brokerage account.
The integration draws on the same application programming interfaces (APIs) that many active IBKR users have built their own trading processes on. All of the API functionality can now be accessed by AI chatbots and agents, including positions, open orders, trade history, margin information, and market data.
IBKR has chosen enterprise-level integration, where no API keys or passwords are shared with the AI provider and no authentication credentials are stored on the client’s computer — an approach designed to be more secure than alternative setups.
Investors can ask the AI questions about their portfolio or about the markets in natural language and receive analysis grounded in their own account data. They can also generate trade instructions tied to that analysis. In accordance with the human-in-the-middle system design, instructions appear in a dedicated AI Instructions tab on the orders and trades page across all IBKR platforms, where the client can view the instructions and approve their submissions as orders into the marketplace.
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At launch, the integration generates instructions for equities and ETFs and supports market and limit orders, with additional asset classes to follow within a week. IBKR adds that ChatGPT, Gemini and Grok integrations are currently undergoing the certification process with their respective platforms and are expected to be available to its clients soon.
The Claude integration complements IBKR's existing AI-powered tools which include AI screeners that facilitate stock research and portfolio analysis.
"Investors are increasingly using artificial intelligence to research markets, analyse information and generate ideas,” said IBKR CEO Milan Galik. “We believe the next logical step is to allow clients to securely connect AI tools directly to their brokerage accounts — whether they want a simple conversational interface, deeper portfolio analysis or the ability to develop and execute sophisticated trading strategies.”
