I'd like to point out that E-Trade was the company that screwed over thousands of open source developers and contributors when they handled Red Hat's IPO. I personally will never do business with them.
I like e-trade for a bill payment clearinghouse. It seems to me that
the interests of a brokerage are more aligned with their depositors
than the interests of a bank, where the depositors are in fact the
product, not the customer.