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Built for traders who go long and short.
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Award-Winning Broker for Short Selling and Active Trading
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).
Visit https://www.benzinga.com/fintech-awards/faq to see how companies are evaluated for the Benzinga Fintech Awards.
Exclusive Benzinga Offer — Built for active traders and short sellers
Options contract fee discounts will not apply to index options.
Benzinga is a paid marketing partner of TradeZero and may receive compensation for introducing customers to TradeZero.
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.
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.
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.
Refund eligibility for unused locates is subject to applicable terms, conditions, and operational requirements.
Short Selling Tools, Side By Side
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
Trade With Guardrails You Control
Define your exits, manage risk, and stay in control as market conditions change.
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.
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.
Low Fees. Greater Flexibility.
Keep more flexibility in how and when you trade, with access designed for active traders.
Commission-free execution on every eligible order type
Trade limit and market orders commission-free on NYSE, AMEX, and NASDAQ stocks above $1 — from 7:00 AM to 8:00 PM ET.
Minimum short price threshold lowered to $0.25
More flexibility when executing short selling strategies on lower-priced securities, now available to all TradeZero America clients.
Seeking Liquidity?
Try Select Routes
TradeZero offers Smart Order Routes, Algorithmic Trading,
and Exchange Access that have the potential to deliver
price improvement, access to liquidity and alternative trading strategies.
From Scan To Execution. All In One Platform.
Step 2: Analyze the Chart
Open the symbol directly in your chart. Review price action, volume, and indicators before entering.
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.
Key Features For Options Traders
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 3:00 PM ET. After 3:00 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 America, Inc. is a U.S. broker-dealer registered with the SEC and a member of FINRA and SIPC.
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.
TradeZero America, Inc., a United States broker-dealer, is registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and is a member of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) and the Securities Investor Protection Corporation (SIPC); TradeZero, Inc., a Bahamian broker-dealer, is registered with the Securities Commission of The Bahamas; TradeZero Canada Securities ULC, a Canadian broker-dealer, is a member firm of the Canadian Investment Regulatory Organization (CIRO) and the Canadian Investor Protection Fund (CIPF); and TradeZero Europe B.V., a Dutch broker dealer, authorized and regulated by the Dutch Authority for the Financial Markets (AFM). Collectively, these entities are referred to as the "TradeZero Broker-Dealers", and are subsidiaries of TradeZero Holding Corp.
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TradeZero Broker-Dealers offer self-directed electronic securities trading services. They do not provide financial or trading advice, nor do they make investment recommendations. This communication does not constitute an offer to sell or a solicitation to buy any security or financial instrument mentioned.
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There are risks associated with online securities trading, including equities and options. Margin trading increases your level of market risk and is not suitable for all investors. You may lose more than your initial investment. Click here to see the Margin Risk Disclosure.
Short selling is extremely risky and can potentially lead to unlimited losses. Active trading and day trading involve substantial risk and are not suitable for all investors. Investors may lose more than their initial investment. Click here see the Day Trading Risk Disclosure.
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Options trading is not suitable for all investors as it can involve risk that may expose investors to significant losses. Please read the Characteristics and Risks of Standardized Options, also known as the Options Disclosure Document (ODD) before deciding to engage in options trading. Please also see the Options Trading Disclosure.
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You must be approved to trade multi-leg options strategies. You may lose all of your principal. Executing multi-leg options orders may result in increased transaction fees compared to single-leg options orders. Multi-leg options strategies may exhibit risks such as illiquidity and increased sensitivity to market unpredictability.
Any trading symbols displayed are for illustrative purposes only and do not constitute a recommendation by TradeZero to buy, sell, or hold any such investment.
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Please see here for additional disclosures.
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If you have specific questions regarding TradeZero’s brokerage services, please contact the TradeZero Broker-Dealer servicing your jurisdiction.