Transfer your assets in
You can transfer stocks, cash, and other eligible assets from your outside brokerages into Robinhood through ACATS. You can transfer all or part of an outside account.
We only accept assets from individual cash, margin brokerage accounts, or traditional or Roth IRAs. We don’t currently accept transfers from trust, business, or custodial accounts.
Cost basis will be available and reported on your Form 1099 when provided by the outside brokerage. For cost-basis questions, ask the outside brokerage directly.
After we receive an account transfer request, it typically takes 5-7 business days for the assets to be settled in your Robinhood account. When your request is accepted, you’ll no longer have access to the positions being transferred from the outside brokerage. You’ll be able to manage the assets with Robinhood as soon as the transfer process is complete.
Your outside brokerage may charge you a transfer fee. Robinhood will reimburse you for up to $75 of that fee for transfers of $7,500 or more in equity, options, and cash assets (per account type and brokerage firm) into your Robinhood account.
Reimbursement eligibility is based on the asset values calculated from the previous market close on the transfer date (when we receive the transfer). Any residual transfer amounts aren’t included. For eligible transfers, contact us with additional information to request a reimbursement.
Let’s say you transfer assets into a Robinhood account from a brokerage account at an outside firm. And then decide to transfer IRA assets from the same outside firm into a Robinhood account. You’d be eligible for up to a $75 reimbursement for each transfer.
Transferable assets:
*Options contracts can only be transferred into individual investing accounts at this time. Joint Investing cannot accept these assets.
Non-transferable assets:
No. ACATS doesn’t support the transfer of crypto. You may transfer equities, ETFs, and options positions into your brokerage accounts with us, including your Robinhood investing account, traditional IRA, and Roth IRA. Robinhood Financial LLC and Robinhood Securities, LLC are registered broker-dealers that support equities and options trading, while Robinhood Crypto, LLC supports crypto trading.
No. Fractional shares are non-transferable. When you initiate the transfer, the outside brokerage will most likely liquidate all the fractional shares in your account based on their fair market value. The proceeds should then be transferred to your Robinhood account as a residual transfer.
Yes. To transfer in a margin balance, your account must support the margin balances and positions that you transfer in to avoid any margin calls or account deficits.
No. Options contracts that expire within 7 days aren't transferable. You also can't use assets in your Robinhood portfolio to serve as collateral for incoming options positions. Any collateral required for options must be part of the transfer. Keep in mind, you also need to be approved for the applicable level of options trading for your account to support some of the more advanced strategies.
You can transfer eligible assets as a partial account transfer. For a full account transfer, you’ll need to liquidate the non-transferable assets to cash in the outside brokerage account before initiating the transfer.
Yes. After submitting your account transfer request, you can see the current transfer stage in your Robinhood account under History. If your request cannot be completed, you’ll get a notification with details in the Robinhood app.
You may request a cancellation of a transfer by contacting support, but not all cancellation requests will be successful depending on which stage you’re at in the process. If Robinhood is unable to cancel the transfer, you may need to contact your outside brokerage for assistance.
After a transfer is settled, the outside brokerage has up to 15 calendar days to send the cost basis information to Robinhood. Until we get this information, your average cost and total return values for a holding temporarily won’t show in your Robinhood account. After we get this information from the other brokerage, we’ll update the values accordingly.
If we don’t get this information, the average cost and total return will continue to be missing. You need to ask the other brokerage to send this information to us to remedy this issue.
In rare cases, the average cost and total returns may continue to be missing even if we get it from the outside brokerage.
You might receive a residual transfer or sweep that is initiated by your outside brokerage. Residual assets may continue to come in for up to 6 months after the transfer completes. These could be assets, such as cash from dividends, that arrived at the brokerage too late to be transferred in the initial round.
An account transfer can be rejected for a number of reasons, including the following:
| Outside brokerage | Account Number Details* |
| CashApp, Revolut, & Stake | Account number is usually 17 total characters in length: 4 letter alpha partner code, 3 numeric branch code, 10 digit alphanumeric account number |
| Fidelity, PNC Investments | Account number must be 9 alphanumeric characters |
| TD Ameritrade | Account number must be 9 numeric digits |
| Charles Schwab | Account number must be 8 numeric digits |
| Raymond James | Account number usually 8 alphanumeric or numeric characters |
| E* Trade | Account number must be 8 numeric digits |
| Pershing | Account number must be 9 characters, usually 3 alphanumeric characters, followed by 6 numbers or 9 numeric digits |
| JPM | Account number must be 8 or 11 numeric digits |
| Vanguard | Account number must be 8 or 11 numeric digits |
| Merrill Lynch | Account number must be 8 alphanumeric characters |
| SoFi Securities, WeBull, TradeZero, Ally Invest, Stockpile Investments, Level X, TradingBlock, Dough, 1st Trade Securities, Gatsby, Trade App, All of Us Securities, SogoTrade,Public, M1 Finance, Tastyworks, Tradier Brokerage, Viewtrade, Redbridge Securities, Titan Invest, United Income, Father Finance | Account number must be 8 alphanumeric characters |
Your other brokerage account contains ineligible assets. In the review stage, if we see that you're bringing in assets that Robinhood can't hold, we'll reject your transfer request. Typically, if a security is purchasable on Robinhood, it is transferable (for both full and partial positions). Review What can I transfer into Robinhood before you initiate the transfer process.
You haven't met the margin balance requirements. If you want to bring in a margin balance, make sure you've been approved and enabled margin investing before you attempt another account transfer. Your account will need to support the margin balances and positions you transfer in to avoid any margin calls or account deficits.
You don’t have options trading approved and enabled. If you want to transfer options contracts into Robinhood, you need to sign up and get approval for options trading in the app first before you re-initiate an account transfer. Also, you cannot transfer options contracts into a joint investing account at this time.
If none of these reasons apply, contact us for help.
Yes. If your transfer was rejected, you'll need to submit a new request to start the transfer process over.
*The outside brokerage account details are provided for informational purposes only. While the information is deemed reliable, Robinhood makes no representations or warranties with respect to the accuracy or completeness of the information provided. Check with your outside brokerage to confirm account details.
Not all investors will be eligible to trade on margin. Margin investing involves the risk of greater investment losses. Additional interest charges may apply depending on the amount of margin used.