How it works
How Zap works
Zap is a managed AI trading agent that runs on a ring-fenced wallet within hard guardrails. You stay in the loop the whole way — here's the full loop, end to end.
The loop
From connection to executed trade
Set your guardrails once. Every cycle, Zap proposes, you approve, and it executes — with the guardrail engine as the final authority on every order.
Connect a ring-fenced wallet
You link a dedicated Robinhood Agentic wallet — equities only. The agent only ever trades that wallet; the rest of your portfolio stays out of reach. Your connection config is encrypted at rest.
Choose an approach and a risk level
Pick agentic AI or a proven rules-based strategy, then a risk level (conservative, moderate, or aggressive). Risk level sets the hard limits the agent can never cross — it is an account setting, not a pricing tier.
The agent proposes trades
Each cycle, Zap reads your wallet and the market, generates candidate trades, and passes every one through the guardrail engine — which clamps the size or rejects it outright before it can ever become a proposal.
You approve with one tap
In semi-automatic mode (the default) each proposal waits for your one-tap approval and expires if you don't act. At approval, the guardrails are re-checked against your live wallet before any order is placed.
It executes, and everything is logged
Approved trades execute on your wallet and land in an immutable, timestamped audit trail — alongside your positions, P&L, and a live activity feed. A daily-loss circuit breaker auto-pauses the agent if losses cross your threshold.
Approaches
Two ways to trade
Choose how the agent makes decisions — adaptive AI, or a transparent rules-based strategy. You can change it anytime in settings.
Agentic AI
The AI reads the market and proposes trades within your guardrails — adaptive, not rule-bound.
The model only ever produces candidate trades — the guardrail engine still clamps or rejects each one, so its output is advisory, never authoritative.
Proven strategy
Run a transparent, rules-based strategy with a long track record. Predictable and explainable.
- Momentum — Tilts toward names with strong, positive trailing momentum.
- Mean reversion — Buys oversold and trims overbought large-caps back toward fair value.
- Rebalance — Keeps holdings near target weights, trimming winners and topping up laggards.
Autonomy
You decide who pulls the trigger
Semi-automatic (default)
Full-automatic (gated)
See it on your own wallet
Connect a ring-fenced wallet, set your guardrails, and approve your first trade.
Equities-only · Cancel anytime · Not investment advice.