Yeah most traders call it "sucktrade" for a reason.

scottrade's ceo is on the board of directors for Knight Capital Management, which runs the market maker NITE.

So if NITE is short on shares or in a bad spot in a certain stock, Scottrade just shuts down buys for it and gives you some BS line about liquidity and says that they are only trading "paper" shares and they don't want you to lose money blah blah blah

Switch to Etrade, Just2Trade, or Zecco

Hope you own EIGH/CDIV/GRNO and hold onto them. If you think vlyf is a good "long term" investment, EIGH/CDIV/GRNO could all easily see $2-$20 in the next few months.