But Etrade and TDA are the two biggest brokerages for clients who trade pennies. I suspect Etrade has a good many more clients, because TDA frequently imposes trading restrictions.
So I think it's at least possible that the company didn't send enough funds to cover Etrade's obligations to its clients.
If Etrade had reported something like that to FINRA, well...
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