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Award-Winning Broker for Short Selling and Active Trading

TradeZero: Winner, Best Broker for Short Selling (MEA), UF Awards (2026).
Benzinga Fintech Awards: Six-time winner for Best Brokerage for Short Selling (2020 to 2025), plus Chairman’s Award for Excellence in Active Trading Software (TZ1 by TradeZero, 2025) and Best Paper Trading Platform (2024).

Winner, Best Broker for Short Selling (MEA), UF Awards (2026).
Benzinga Fintech Awards: Six-time winner for Best Brokerage for Short Selling (2020 to 2025), plus Chairman’s Award for Excellence in Active Trading Software (TZ1 by TradeZero, 2025) and Best Paper Trading Platform (2024).

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Short Selling Trading Suite

Find short setups with real-time scanner filters, confirm hard-to-borrow stock availability, and secure stock borrow locates — all without leaving your trading environment.

Hard-to-borrow locates

TradeZero’s proprietary locator aggregates hard-to-borrow inventory from over 14 sources to deliver competitive pricing. Search any symbol, review the per-share fee, and reserve shares in seconds.

Built-in trading strategies. Real-time signals. ProScanner helps you find momentum, breakouts, and high-probability setups—no setup required.

Integrated stock scanner

Our real-time scanner is powered with advanced technical filters designed for active trading and momentum strategies. Fully integrated at no extra cost.

Reapplied locate sell-backs

Reapply no longer needed locates to the next TradeZero customer and potentially recoup a part of your fee. A practical cost management tool for sessions where your setups don't materialize.

Run short locates through API. Request quotes, reserve shares, manage inventory, sell back unused locates for credit, and review locate history with audit details.

An API for short sellers

Run short locates through API. Request quotes, reserve shares, manage inventory, sell back unused locates for credit, and review locate history with audit details.

TradeZero short locate fill rate showing 92.1 percent average execution of locate requests
85 percent utilization rate of located shares used in short selling on TradeZero
Over 100 million shares located monthly on TradeZero for hard to borrow stocks and short selling

Data reflects TradeZero metrics from 2025. Support document can be provided per request.

Short Selling Tools, Side By Side

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Competitor data sourced from publicly available platform documentation as of 2025–2026. Subject to change.
TradeZero locate fill rate is an average. Locate sell-backs subject to eligibility and availability.

Platforms Built for Active Trading

Designed specifically for active traders, ZeroPro offers full customization and functionality. Get the features and flexibility you need to succeed in the fast-paced trading world.

ZeroPro

Designed specifically for active traders, ZeroPro offers full customization and functionality. Get the features and flexibility you need to succeed in the fast-paced trading world.

Where power meets simplicity, with fast execution in mind. Build your trading experience with features designed for the active trader.

TZ1

Where power meets simplicity, with fast execution in mind. Build your trading experience with features designed for the active trader.

A real-time streaming web platform for new to intermediate traders. Enjoy customizable layouts and top features from the TradeZero suite, all within a user-friendly web application, combining flexibility with robust trading tools.

ZeroFree

A real-time streaming web platform for new to intermediate traders, combining flexibility with robust trading tools.

ZeroMobile works in tandem with ZeroPro, TZ1 and ZeroFree where all trading activity is replicated across both platforms, bi-directionally.

ZeroMobile

Powerful mobile trading app designed for the active trader on the move.

Trade With Guardrails You Control

Define your exits, manage risk, and stay in control as market conditions change.

Trailing stops that follow your position, to help you manage your risk. Stop-loss orders that trigger automatically if price reverses. Conditional orders that set your limit and stop simultaneously on entry.

Manage long positions precisely with built-in risk tools

Trailing stops that follow your position, to help you manage your risk. Stop-loss orders that trigger automatically if price reverses. Conditional orders that set your limit and stop simultaneously on entry.

Place Stop-Limit orders from 4:00 AM to 8:00 PM ET — covering pre-market, regular hours, and after-hours.

Stop-Limit orders, all sessions

Place Stop-Limit orders from 4:00 AM to 8:00 PM ET — covering pre-market, regular hours, and after-hours.

From Scan To Execution. All In One Platform.

Filter the market in real time. ProScanner surfaces names that match your criteria as conditions change.

Step 1: Find The Setup

Filter the market in real time. ProScanner surfaces names that match your criteria as conditions change.

Open the symbol directly in your chart. Review price action, volume, and indicators before entering.

Step 2: Analyze the Chart

Open the symbol directly in your chart. Review price action, volume, and indicators before entering.

Market or limit orders – Zero commission on stocks* avoce $1.

Step 3: Execute the Trade

Control your price. Zero commission on limit orders for stocks above $1.

Protect your capital using fixed dollar stops or percentage trailing stops.

Step 4: Manage the Position

Protect your capital using fixed dollar stops or percentage trailing stops.

Paper Trading

Test your long strategies risk-free

Open a paper trading account in less than 1 minute. Get unlimited paper trading with real-time NASDAQ Basic data when you maintain a funded account. Practice scanning, entering, and managing long positions before going live. Risk-free and stress-free.

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Open a paper trading account in less than 1 minute. Get unlimited paper trading with real-time NASDAQ Basic data when you maintain a funded account. Practice scanning, entering, and managing long positions before going live. Risk-free and stress-free.

Key Features For Options Traders

Whether on web, desktop or mobile – enjoy a real-time dynamically updating options chain, inclusive of all strikes and expirations.

Dynamic Options Chains

Whether on web, desktop or mobile – enjoy a real-time dynamically updating options chain, inclusive of all strikes and expirations.

Option Greeks

Track how a contract responds to time, volatility, and price with real-time data on delta, gamma, theta, vega, and rho.

Chart your options strategies with intraday and historical data. View strikes, position overlays, and volatility metrics directly in ZeroFree to support your analysis and trade planning.

Strategy Overview Charts

Chart your options strategies with intraday and historical data. View strikes, position overlays, and volatility metrics directly in ZeroFree to support your analysis and trade planning.

TradeZero offers you access to trade same-day expiring options – commonly referred to as “0DTE options”. Your 0DTE positions may be opened up to 3:00 PM ET. After 3:00 PM ET, you may only close existing positions. As these contracts expire on the same day, they are subject to accelerated time decay and heightened sensitivity to intraday price movements.

Same-Day Expiring Options (0DTE)

TradeZero offers you access to trade same-day expiring options – commonly referred to as “0DTE options”. Your 0DTE positions may be opened up to 2:00 PM ET. After 2:00 PM ET, you may only close existing positions.

FAQs

  • Readers coming from Benzinga can unlock 3 months of premium platform access across ZeroPro and TZ1, plus a discount on options contract fees, by signing up with the code "Benzinga". The options fee discount does not apply to Single-Listed Index Options or Cash-Settled Index Options. T&Cs apply.

  • TradeZero, Inc. is registered with the Securities Commission of The Bahamas.

  • ZeroPro is a fully customizable desktop platform built for high-volume active trading. TZ1 is a faster, simplified platform for traders who want speed without the full Pro feature set. ZeroMobile extends trading to iOS and Android and is included with any plan. ZeroFree is a no-cost entry tier for traders getting started.

  • TradeZero's proprietary short locator lets you search for, request, and confirm hard-to-borrow shares directly inside the platform. In 2025, TradeZero's locate fill rate averaged 92.1%, with an 85% utilization rate on located shares and over 100 million shares located monthly. Unused locates may also be eligible for a partial fee refund through sell-backs, subject to applicable terms.

  • Non-professional clients with a funded TradeZero account receive real-time Level II market data for listed securities at no additional cost.

  • Yes. TradeZero offers free, real-time paper trading so you can test strategies, scanners, and order types with live market data before risking real capital.

  • Yes. TradeZero supports Same-Day Expiring Options (0DTE) alongside dynamic options chains and low per-contract fees, with single-leg and multi-leg strategies available to approved accounts.