Stock Trading

Buy, sell and short US stocks and ETFs from your alerts, with fractional shares and extended hours where your broker supports them.

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Supported brokers
Ticker format
Signals
Fractional shares
Extended hours
Pattern day trading

Supported brokers

See Broker Support for every broker that trades stocks, and what each one supports.

Ticker format

Send the plain symbol: AAPL, SPY, BRK.B. Don't add an exchange prefix like NASDAQ:AAPL.

Signals

Signal	What happens
`buy`	Opens a long position. If you're short, the short is closed first (and with Allow side swapping on, a long is then opened).
`sell`	Opens a short position. If you're long, the long is closed first (and with side swapping on, a short is then opened).
`exit`	Closes the position, long or short.
`add`	Adds to the open position. Skipped if there's no position.

{
    "ticker": "AAPL",
    "action": "buy",
    "quantity": 10,
    "price": "{{close}}"
}

The full rules are in Order Behavior.

Fractional shares

Turn on Allow fractional quantity in the subscription's Position Size to trade fractions, on brokers that support it. When it's off, quantities are rounded down to whole shares. A fixed quantity below 1 becomes 1, and any other size that rounds down to 0 is skipped.

Fractional limits

Brokers put limits on fractional orders. For example, a fractional order usually can't be shorted, and some brokers only accept fractional orders as DAY Market orders. Where a fractional order can't carry a take profit or stop loss, the quantity is rounded to whole shares instead.

Extended hours

With Allow entry / exit extended hours on, stock orders can trade from 4:00 to 9:30 and 16:00 to 20:00 ET, on brokers that support it. See Market Hours.

Pattern day trading

US brokers apply the Pattern Day Trader rule to margin accounts under $25,000: four or more day trades in five business days can restrict the account. EZPZ Trader doesn't track this. A broker that blocks a trade for it will reject the order.