Zero Borrow
Alerts when a gaining stock has zero shares available to borrow — a classic hard-to-borrow signal.
The Zero Borrow Scanner finds stocks where no shares are left to borrow (available shares = 0) while the stock is moving up. That often means shorts are trapped or new shorts cannot enter — a key signal for squeeze traders.
Preview
Zero Borrow AlertMULN 🇺🇸 ⋅
24.18%
Price: $0.1800
Change: 24.18%
Rel. Vol: 12.40M
Mkt Cap: 42M
CTB Fee: 89.20%
Short Int: 22.10%
Avail. Shares: 0
Float: 18.20M
What you get
Server channel alert
Color-coded embed (green up / red down) with author Zero Borrow Alert.
Header: ### SYMBOL 🇺🇸 · ↑ 12.30%
Performance sub-line (when available): 5D · 1M · 3M · 6M percentage changes
| Section | Fields |
|---|---|
| Ticker | Price · Change · Rel. Vol · Mkt Cap |
| Short Data | CTB Fee · Short Int · Avail. Shares (0) · Float |
What the metrics mean:
- CTB Fee — cost to borrow; often elevated when shares are gone
- Short Int — percent of float sold short
- Avail. Shares — shares brokers report as available to borrow (0 = none left)
- Rel. Vol — today’s volume vs. normal
- Float — tradable share supply
Watchlist DM
If you add a ticker to /watchlist and enable Zero Borrow in /watchlist settings, you get a short DM with price and category. (Uses the generic watchlist layout — enable Squeeze too for richer short-data fields on the same ticker.)
All-in-One compact line
🔥 SYMBOL · 0 BORROW · CTB · SI plus change %, price, market cap, float, and relative volume when available.
All-in-One only includes small-cap names.
Categories / filters
Premium custom scanners support baseline filters:
| Filter | Purpose |
|---|---|
| Min / max price | e.g. penny stocks only |
| Min / max market cap | Cap range |
| Require active | Only tickers already running today |
Preset: Penny (max price $1).
All-in-One: toggle only — enable or disable the source per guild.
When it runs
- Extended market hours: 4:00 AM – 8:00 PM ET, Monday–Friday
- Does not run on weekends or US market holidays
Why traders use it
- Zero shares to borrow while a stock is green often means shorts are trapped or new shorts cannot enter.
- CTB and short interest on the same alert help you gauge how crowded the name is.
- Often the first hard-to-borrow signal before a name shows up on Squeeze or Volume alerts.
Related scanners
- Squeeze Scanner — high fee + high SI setups with SSF score
- Volume Scanner — may show a 0 Borrow badge on momentum alerts
- Reg SHO Scanner — threshold securities list
Notes
- Zero available shares ≠ zero borrow fee — CTB can still show a rate; the key signal is Avail. Shares: 0
- Small-cap focus in All-in-One — large caps are filtered out of the composite feed