Scottrade is a good discount broker. The process today is electronic delivery directly into your brokerage account. Companies only issue physical certificates if legally required. I assume they are waiting on the QX approval before issuing the stock because they expect a bounce in the price when listed (which is normal) and they don't want to hear that people couldn't sell. I would recommend that you get the account set up as soon as possible, so that the transfer agent can do the electronic delivery as soon as the shares are available.