There are NO Pattern Day Trading restrictions for TradeZero International clients.


Accounts with $500 or more are approved for margin and can day trade without restriction.

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Cash accounts and margin accounts with less than $500 cannot short sell.

Stocks below $2 are trading in cash only.

Margin accounts must be at 2 to 1 after 3:45 PM ET.

Position concentration is maximum 50% of margin buying power for accounts with 6 to 1 leverage.

Margin buying power after 4 PM ET is 2 to 1.

All accounts using leverage and under $500 will be sold up to 100% equity.

Accounts will be fully sold out if they fall below $99 in total equity or if they fall below $300 and 8% equity.

Accounts falling below 8% equity may be sold up to 50% equity.

All of the above is at the discretion of TradeZero and can and will be adjusted based on real time market and account conditions.

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All levered accounts cannot hold more than 2 to 1 leverage after 3:45 PM ET. 

TradeZero International reserves the right, at its discretion, to sell or cover any account that has exceeded this threshold, by or after the 4 PM ET close. 

All levered accounts are limited to only 2 to 1 in the after-hours session.

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Yes, we have risk tools and can enable a daily loss limit to your trading account.

Please note that daily loss limits are only active from 9:30 AM to 4 PM ET. 

Sellouts will not occur during the pre-market session of 4 AM to 9:29 AM ET and 4:01 PM to 8 PM ET in the after-hours session.

This daily loss limit does not guarantee against loss.

Clients should still be actively monitoring their trading accounts.

The use of stop loss orders is also recommended.

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Yes, share size limits may be set and must be requested through the live chat or by e-mail to 

Buying power dynamically updates based on the lesser value between the start of day of equity and current equity.

An order that uses Good-Til Canceled (GTC) Time-In Force is a specific order type that will remain in effect until the order is filled or is canceled.

The ability to enter a Bid below the current market price or an Offer above the current market price allows the investor to set up a resting order that can be placed for days, weeks, or months in advance and without having to repeat the process each day. This allows traders to identify important levels where they would like to enter or exit the market.



Please consider the following features before placing GTC orders:

Investors can place a GTC orders during the Pre and Post Market sessions.

This will place the order in a queued state.

The order then becomes live during regular trading hours.

If the order is not filled during the session, the order will be placed back into a queued state.

Regulation SHO Rule 204 is the Close-out Requirement that requires brokers and dealers that are participants of a registered clearing agency to take action to close out “failure to deliver” positions.

Under Rule 204(a) of Regulation SHO, all “failure to deliver” purchases must be closed out by borrowing or purchasing securities no later than the start of regular trading hours on the following settlement date.

If you day trade a security and consistently hold a short position, then you are consistently net short the security and are at risk of a “failure to deliver” if TradeZero International or its clearing firm cannot borrow the securities.

TradeZero tries to make this process as transparent as possible. We request from our clearing house before close of business any client positions that are at risk of “failure to deliver”. We then send to those clients a notice via email so they can make a better decision whether to stay in the position or get out of the position.

Reg Sho Rule 204(b) states that if a clearing house does not close out its “failure to deliver” in an equity in accordance with Reg Sho Rule 204(a) then the clearing house and any broker dealer for which it receives trades for clearance and settlement may not accept short sale orders from its customers in that equity without first borrowing the security or entering into a bona fide arrangement to borrow the stock. To avoid this, TradeZero takes the extra step to inform its clients of any potential “failure to deliver.”

As a rule of thumb, stocks that have a small float or have a large short interest are more at risk of a “failure to deliver” resulting in receiving a Reg Sho Rule 204 notice than stocks that have a large float and small short interest. It is important to be an educated trader and understand the rules that may affect your decision making.

https://www.sec.gov/divisions/marketreg/mrfaqregsho1204.htm

https://www.sec.gov/investor/pubs/regsho.htm

Marked to Market is an industry standard accounting method of keeping track of the Profit and Loss (P&L) on your overnight or long term position(s). 

The closing price at 4 PM ET is used to determine the unrealized profit or loss on your position. This amount is added or subtracted from your equity daily. 

This method is also used if you enter a position after 4 PM ET. 

You can read about this method further using the following link: 

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/m/marktomarket.asp

Yes, pre-market trading begins at 4 AM ET until 9:30 AM ET, and post-market trading begins at 4 PM ET and ends at 8 PM ET.

Since TradeZero offers US market access and clears through a US clearing firm, TradeZero is subject to Reg NMS.

Reg NMS obligates firms to provide investors with executions at the best possible price.

You can read more about Reg NMS on Wikipedia, by clicking 

Corporate actions on a security resulting in stock splits, mergers or name changes will be removed from the trading platform after 4 PM ET, the day before the corporate action is to occur. 

The securities will be replaced in your trading platform after confirmation of the correct shares, symbol or action to be taken with the clearing house.

It is the client’s responsibility to be aware of pending corporate actions and how such events will affect their outstanding portfolio.

TradeZero charges $35 for processing corporate actions.

Effective May 28, 2024, the standard settlement cycle was shortened from T+2 (trade date plus two business days) to T+1 (trade date plus one business day). This change was part of an industry-wide initiative to enhance efficiency and reduce the risk in the securities settlement process.


Under the new “T+1” settlement cycle, all applicable securities transactions from US financial institutions now settle in one business day of their transaction date.

As a result of this adjustment, trades executed on or after May 28, 2024, now settle on the next business day. For example, if you sell shares of ABC stock on Monday, the transaction will settle on Tuesday.

Fed Call / Reg T (Initial purchase or short):


Payment period for Fed Call is now reduced by one day to T+3.

Payment period is now reduced by one day to T+1.


Purchases and Sales now settle on the next business day. Cash received from closing a position is available on the next business day.


Reg SHO 204 buy-in: Reg SHO 204 requirements and when a possible buy-in will occur changed from T+3 to T+2.

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