... below_me, thanks for the links. It was very helpful... one of the links has a link to a non-dtc list that does not include owvi but anyhooo, I just fired off an email to Ron Lindsay about the matter.
AMTD/ETRADE/SCOTT may allow trading on non dtc, but will stop trading on it without any notice, then you cannot sell the stock and will need to transfer it out to a penson broker in order to do so
PENSON brokers allow trading on non dtc stocks but will charge huge fees in order to transact it.
Here is the list of currently non dtc stocks that this applies to: