Some of their competitors are just as bad. I remember I started to sign up for a TD Ameritrade account a few years ago, but when the password "requirements" cam

Some of their competitors are just as bad. I remember I started to sign up for a TD Ameritrade account a few years ago, but when the password "requirements" came up (which were very similar), it was clear that they were probably storing passwords as plaintext, so I stopped. Then I got phone calls from them asking why I hadn't finished, so I had to explain to a person that clearly wasn't technical (not his fault, of course), that his company had no idea what they were doing security wise. Maybe they finally fixed it though. I can only hope.