{"slug":"automate-your-brokerage-account","title":"Can I automate my Schwab, Robinhood, Fidelity, or Interactive Brokers account? The broker-by-broker answer","description":"Yes at some brokerages, in beta at one, and not yet at a few. Where you can follow a Portfolio in your own Public, Robinhood, eToro, Alpaca, or Charles Schwab account, what's different at each, and where Interactive Brokers, Webull, Fidelity, E*Trade, and Vanguard stand.","category":"Product","publishedAt":"2026-10-13","updatedAt":"2026-10-13","author":"Chris Josephs","url":"https://start.joinautopilot.com/journal/automate-your-brokerage-account","markdown":"https://start.joinautopilot.com/journal/automate-your-brokerage-account.md","agent":"https://start.joinautopilot.com/journal/automate-your-brokerage-account/agent","contentText":"I'm Chris, one of the co-founders of Autopilot.\n\nOpen it in the Autopilot app. https://link.joinautopilot.com/eXKr?c=automate-your-brokerage-account&af_sub1=intro\n\nYes at some brokerages, in beta at one, and not yet at a few.\n\nYou can follow a Portfolio in your own account at Public, Robinhood, eToro, Alpaca, and Charles Schwab. Interactive Brokers is in beta. A Webull integration is coming. Fidelity and E*Trade aren't open to new users yet. https://link.joinautopilot.com/eXKr?c=automate-your-brokerage-account&af_sub1=body\n\nYou keep your account where it is. Autopilot connects to it.\n\nLet me explain what \"automate\" means here, then go broker by broker, because they don't all work the same way.\n\n1) What \"automate\" means on Autopilot\n\nA lot of people search for this as copy trading. Autopilot works differently, so here's exactly what it is.\n\nYou pick a Portfolio. Some are published by Pilots, the people and firms behind them. Others are built by Autopilot Advisers from public filings.\n\nYou give Autopilot Advisers, LLC, our SEC-registered investment adviser, limited authority to place trades in your account. It can't move or withdraw your money. When the Portfolio changes, we send the orders and your broker fills them.\n\nYou're never trading at the same time as the Pilot, and your holdings won't match theirs exactly.\n\nHow automatic it is comes down to two things:\n\n- Your tier. On Premium Tier, we send the changes to your broker automatically, where your broker allows it. On Basic Tier, there's no Autopilot fee: we send your starting allocation, then alert you when the Portfolio changes.\n- Your broker. That's the rest of this article.\n\nTo put that into context, more than $2 billion is invested through Autopilot, and we have over 250,000 users, as of October 9, 2026.\n\n2) The five brokerages where it works today\n\nPublic\n\nPublic is our official brokerage partner, and it offers a direct integration with Autopilot.\n\nPublic's Autopilot page lists what connecting allows: access to your account profile information, including your personal data and investing preferences, viewing your holdings, transactions, and balances, and buying and selling for your account according to the Portfolio you pick. Credit to Public for spelling that out on its own page.\n\nTo be upfront, Public pays us a referral fee when someone we refer opens and funds an account. It doesn't change what you pay us, and you don't have to use Public.\n\nRobinhood\n\nSupported. You connect the Robinhood account you already have.\n\nRobinhood trades need your approval in the Robinhood app before they go through. So when a Portfolio changes, you'll approve each order. The longer you wait to approve, the more your results can drift from the Portfolio.\n\neToro and Alpaca\n\nBoth are fully supported.\n\nCharles Schwab\n\nSupported on a limited power of attorney, or LPOA. That gives Autopilot Advisers limited authority to place trades in the account. Some accounts need extra paperwork.\n\nTwo things to know:\n\n- Schwab accounts on Autopilot don't trade fractional shares. Your account buys whole shares, so it will differ from the Portfolio because of rounding.\n- Schwab's cash-account rules still apply, like good faith violations if you buy and sell before cash settles.\n\n3) Interactive Brokers, Webull, Fidelity, E*Trade, and Vanguard\n\nInteractive Brokers\n\nIn beta. \n\nWebull\n\nA formal Webull integration is coming soon. I don't have a date to give you yet.\n\nFidelity\n\nNot available to new users right now. Some existing users are in a Fidelity beta. In the beta, you approve every trade, and Fidelity orders are market orders only.\n\nE*Trade\n\nNot available to new users yet.\n\nVanguard and everyone else\n\nVanguard isn't supported yet.\n\nIf yours isn't listed, email support@joinautopilot.com and we'll add you to the waitlist. If you'd rather not wait, you can open an account at a supported brokerage and connect that one instead.\n\n4) What you need\n\n- An individual or IRA brokerage account at a supported brokerage. If you have a joint account, a trust, or a 401(k), ask support before you sign up.\n- At least $500 per Portfolio.\n- To be in the US. Autopilot is currently for customers in the United States.\n\nThe full supported list, with account types, is also in Which brokerages work with Autopilot?\n\n5) What you can follow once you're connected\n\nThe point of connecting is what you follow. You don't have to pick the stocks. You pick who does, and it runs in the brokerage account you already have.\n\nThat can be a finance professor's AI system, an investor who publishes their Portfolio, or a tracker built from a hedge fund's public filings.\n\nTake the trackers. For those unaware, a 13F is the quarterly report big investment managers file with the SEC, listing their US stock holdings. The Citadel Tracker takes the 15 largest holdings in Citadel Advisors' latest 13F and rebalances with each new filing. Citadel doesn't run this Portfolio. Autopilot Advisers builds it from Citadel's public filings.\n\nHere's the problem with following a filing. A 13F can show up 45 days after the quarter ends, so a tracker is always behind the fund's actual trades.\n\nEvery Portfolio has a live performance chart from the day it was added to Autopilot. It's not a backtest. The full rundown of tracker Portfolios is in Hedge fund and Wall Street Portfolios, and how automation works more broadly is in Automated investing explained.\n\n6) What stays the same at every broker\n\nIt's three steps. You connect the brokerage account you already have. You pick a Portfolio. You allocate the money.\n\nYou give Autopilot Advisers limited authority to place trades. It can't move or withdraw your money.\n\nWe don't hold your money. Autopilot doesn't currently maintain custody of any client assets, and we collect our fee by charging a credit card. Your broker holds the account, fills the orders, and sends your statements and tax documents. Your broker's own fees are separate.\n\nA few things to expect anywhere:\n\n- Orders aren't instant. They can go out in batches over the trading day, in a randomized order across accounts, and low liquidity, trading halts, or technical problems can delay them.\n- Connections can break. The APIs that connect to brokerages can be unofficial or unstable, and they can stop working without warning.\n- If you sell a stock Autopilot is tracking, the app tries to buy it back to rebalance, usually in one to three business days.\n\nThe money stays in your account.\n\nOn Premium Tier, the fee is a flat subscription per Pilot of $29.99 to $199.99 a quarter or $99.99 to $699.99 a year, and the AUM Fee is 0.00%. The full breakdown is in What does Autopilot cost? How the connection works, and how to stop it, is in How Autopilot connects to your brokerage.\n\n7) Is it legit?\n\nThat's the question I'd ask too, before I let any app into my account.\n\nAutopilot Advisers, LLC registered with the SEC as an investment adviser effective July 30, 2024. It's CRD 331749. Don't take my word for it. Look it up on the SEC's adviser search.\n\nFINRA tells investors to make sure the financial services they get come from registered professionals and firms, and to always monitor the activity in their accounts. That's good advice for any app you connect, us included.\n\nI want to be honest with you. Automating your account doesn't take the risk out of investing. Some Portfolios go up for years, some are flat for years, and some lose money. Research the person and the Portfolio.\n\nTLDR: You can follow a Portfolio in your own account at Public, Robinhood, eToro, Alpaca, and Charles Schwab. Robinhood trades need your approval in the Robinhood app. Schwab runs on a limited power of attorney and doesn't trade fractional shares. Public is our official partner and pays us a referral fee. Interactive Brokers is in beta, a Webull integration is coming, Fidelity and E*Trade aren't open to new users, and Vanguard isn't on the list. You need an individual or IRA account and $500 per Portfolio, and you need to be in the US. Autopilot Advisers, an SEC-registered investment adviser, can place trades but can't move or withdraw your money.\n\nFrequently asked questions\n\nCan I use copy trading with Interactive Brokers?\n\nOn Autopilot, Interactive Brokers is in beta, and the app shows what you can link when you connect. Autopilot works differently from copy trading: you follow a Portfolio, and Autopilot Advisers, an SEC-registered investment adviser, sends orders to your account when it changes. You're never trading at the same time as the Pilot, and your holdings won't match theirs exactly. For Interactive Brokers' own features, ask Interactive Brokers.\n\nCan I automate my Schwab brokerage account?\n\nYes. Autopilot supports Charles Schwab on a limited power of attorney, or LPOA, which gives Autopilot Advisers limited authority to place trades in the account. Some accounts need extra paperwork. Schwab accounts on Autopilot don't trade fractional shares, so your holdings will differ from the Portfolio because of rounding, and Schwab's cash-account rules, like good faith violations, still apply. On Premium Tier, Autopilot Advisers sends a Portfolio's changes to your account, where your broker allows it.\n\nIs Autopilot a legitimate and regulated way to automate my brokerage trades?\n\nAutopilot Advisers, LLC is registered with the SEC as an investment adviser, effective July 30, 2024, under CRD 331749, and you can look it up on the SEC's adviser search. You give it limited authority to place trades in the brokerage account you already have. It can't move or withdraw your money, and Autopilot doesn't currently maintain custody of client assets. Your broker holds the account and fills the orders. Registration doesn't mean an investment will make money.\n\nCan I automate my Robinhood account?\n\nYes. You connect the Robinhood account you already have and pick a Portfolio on Autopilot. Robinhood trades need your approval in the Robinhood app before they go through, so when a Portfolio changes, you'll approve each order. The longer you wait to approve, the more your results can drift from the Portfolio. You give Autopilot Advisers limited authority to place trades. It can't move or withdraw your money.\n\nCan I follow a fund manager's strategy inside my Robinhood or Schwab account?\n\nYes, through tracker Portfolios built from public filings. On Autopilot, the Citadel Tracker takes the 15 largest holdings in Citadel Advisors' latest 13F and rebalances with each new filing. Citadel doesn't run it. Autopilot Advisers builds it from Citadel's public filings, and you can follow it in your own Robinhood or Schwab account. A 13F can show up 45 days after the quarter ends, so a tracker is always behind the fund's actual trades.\n\nCan I automate my Fidelity account with an app?\n\nNot with Autopilot, if you're a new user. Fidelity isn't open to new users right now. Some existing users are in a Fidelity beta, where they approve every trade and Fidelity orders are market orders only. If you want to know when Fidelity opens up, email support@joinautopilot.com to join the waitlist. You can also open an account at a supported brokerage, like Public, Robinhood, eToro, Alpaca, or Charles Schwab, and connect that one.\n\nHow can I follow a portfolio inside my Schwab account?\n\nConnect your Schwab account to Autopilot, pick a Portfolio, and allocate at least $500. It has to be an individual or IRA account. Schwab connects on a limited power of attorney, and some accounts need extra paperwork. Because Schwab accounts on Autopilot don't trade fractional shares, your holdings will differ from the Portfolio because of rounding. Schwab still holds your account, fills the orders, and sends your statements and tax documents. The money stays in your account.\n\nOpen it in the Autopilot app. https://link.joinautopilot.com/eXKr?c=automate-your-brokerage-account&af_sub1=end\n\n\"Autopilot\" refers to Autopilot Holdings Corp and Autopilot Advisers, LLC, an SEC-registered investment adviser. Investing carries risk-including possible loss of principal-and past performance is not indicative of future results. Figures current as of 10/13/26. View our Customer Relationship Summary and other important info at joinautopilot.com/disclaimer.\n\nEach of these brokerages is a registered broker-dealer and member SIPC, and a separate company unaffiliated with Autopilot: Open to the Public Investing, Inc. (Public), Robinhood Financial LLC, eToro USA Securities Inc., Alpaca Securities LLC, Charles Schwab & Co., Inc., Interactive Brokers LLC, Webull Financial LLC, Fidelity Brokerage Services LLC, Morgan Stanley Smith Barney LLC (E*TRADE from Morgan Stanley), and Vanguard Marketing Corporation (Vanguard).\n\nPortfolios and pilots mentioned in this article:\nCitadel Tracker (Autopilot): https://start.joinautopilot.com/strategies/citadel-tracker-45607\nReturns as of October 19, 2026. Month -1.4%, 3 months +3.1%, YTD +14.2%, 1 year +22.7%, Since start +120.6%."}