With Scottrade, customers can count on access to over 14,000 mutual funds, of which almost 3,000 are no-transaction-fee, no-load. Those that require fees require $17 to buy, sell or exchange. Unfortunately, there are no commission-free ETFs. Vanguard, on the other hand, has over 16,000 mutual funds to choose from, Scottrade is a discount online broker that originated as Scottsdale Securities in 1980. Scottrade.com was launched in 1996. Boglehead-style investing at Scottrade. The building blocks of Boglehead-style investing are low-expense-ratio index mutual funds and/or ETFs. Vanguard fans would suggest that Vanguard has the best and most complete lineup of such funds, and that the most convenient place to hold Vanguard mutual funds is directly at Vanguard.