It's a company logo, a distinctive modification to "Scottrade" set in
sans-serif italic, probably bold.
You can see it at <http://www.scottrade.com/>
(Does anyone need a description?)

I first saw it in a much-smaller point size, which either didn't have the
angled tops on the t's, or else was small enough not to make them easy to
notice.

Another typographically-modified company logo that I adore is that of
Reproprint, In[c]. (brackets added), a copy shop in Watertown Square
(Watertown, Mass.). Sad to say, their business sign above the store front
suffered from weather and a storm, and was taken down, last time I passed
through. Fluent English speakers usually are aware that "Inc." is usually
pronounced as "ink", sometimes with a sense of amusement, and this company
chose to have some fun on that basis. They used the vertical stroke for a
"k", effectively deleted the diagonals, and overlaid a "c" to replace the
diagonal strokes. Fairly sure the artist also left a gap between the
vertical stroke and the "c" overlay.

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Some time back, I had quite a time trying to find out what "Sdn. Bhd."
stood for. It's often used in Malaysian-speaking countries to define a
type of company. Fairly sure it's "Sendirian Berhad", with a translation
that is unsurprising enough not to be memorable. I'd like to find a list
of such abbreviations, worldwide, with translations if possible. (Around
1975, Analog Devices B.V. was not in The Netherlands, but in Ireland!)

Regards,

--
Nicholas Bodley /*|*\ Waltham, Mass. (Not "MA")
Science education in Kansas: The water in
the oceans does not fall off the edges of the
Earth because it is God's will that it not do so.