Multiple investing accounts FAQ
The following are some of the most frequently asked questions and their answers about using multiple individual investing accounts with Robinhood, such as how many accounts you can open and how Robinhood Gold works with them.
For investing purposes, you can have up to 10 self-directed individual investing accounts. To open multiple accounts, you’re required to:
No. You can access all your Robinhood accounts, including your multiple investing accounts with the same login that you use now for your first or primary individual investing account. The first individual investing account is considered your primary account, and then all net new individual investing accounts are secondary or subordinate to the first account for logging in, bank and debit card linking, Gold subscription, and more.
Multiple individual investing accounts are currently only available to our US customers. Some of what’s available within your primary individual investing account doesn’t apply across all of your multiple investing accounts, including the following.
All funding methods are linked at your primary account profile level, not the account level. That means, once your bank account or debit card is linked to your profile, you can use it to make deposits and withdrawals across all of your individual investing accounts.
When transferring money, you can select which investing account to transfer money to or from with any of your linked sources, including:
For Robinhood Gold subscribers, the following perks apply to all your self-directed, taxable individual and joint investing accounts:
The Robinhood Gold subscription fee is charged to your primary individual investing account. We don’t currently offer the ability to choose or update which investing account the subscription is charged to.
Your Instant Deposit limit for multiple accounts will be based on your prior day portfolio value (less pending deposits) across all of your self-directed individual investing accounts with Robinhood. This limit applies across your self-directed individual accounts, so if you receive Instant Deposit access for a transfer in one account, it’ll reduce the amount of Instant Deposit access available across your other accounts. For more details about the limits, check out What are bigger Instant Deposits?
Asset transfers in or out of an individual account with the Automated Customer Account Transfer Service (ACATS) or an internal assets transfer, work the same for multiple individual accounts. You can select which account to transfer in or out of for both types of transfers. For details, check out Transferring assets.
Regardless of how many individual investing accounts you have open, only 1 of your individual investing accounts can be a margin account. You can have multiple cash accounts. Keep in mind, with a Gold subscription, your first $1,000 of margin borrowed is interest free on the 1 account with margin investing enabled. For more details, check out What’s margin investing?
Pattern day trading (PDT) rules and restrictions apply at the user level. If your margin investing account is flagged for PDT and you switch that account type to cash and then switch another individual investing account to margin, the PDT flag will carry over to the new margin account. Note that if you have an unmet day trade call in 1 of your individual accounts, you won’t be able to switch another individual account to margin until the call is resolved. For details about PDT, review Pattern day trading.
Similar to how you can change your account name:
You can deactivate one or more of your multiple individual investing accounts by following the steps in Deactivate your account. Keep in mind that you won’t be able to reactivate an account after you deactivate it. You can open up to 10 accounts in total, and this limit includes deactivated accounts.