Sean Hannon CFA, CFP who is the founder of EPIC Advisors, LLC and also a weekly contributor for StockTradingToGo has released his latest edition of EPIC Insights Weekly. Setup as a weekly newsletter on Sundays it is currently free and exclusively available for download here on the site.

StockTradingToGo reader Josh wrote in this past week asking about a fantastic article on Hudson City Bankcorp which was one of very few banks that refused to participate in risky subprime mortgages. Part of the bank’s success is through writing Jumbo Loans, but why are these loans so successful?

Chris has paid for a independent mention of his new extreme momentum stock picks site smokeoutthebear.com where each weekday Chris releases one stock pick at 10:10 AM.
He has setup a free trial for all next week on the site where he will share his picks. Note: we have not reviewed the service.

The market has had a rough 2008, but how does it stack up against other severe bear markets? This chart shows the Dow Jones Industrial and the 15 worst years as a whole since 1900. Surprisingly enough this year may finish worse than even 1929.

After announcing TradeKing’s 3rd Anniversary and their accomplishment of topping 100,000 total accounts earlier this week we became curious to find out how other competing brokers were doing. We discovered that Etrade and Schwab both put TradeKing to shame with record growth numbers of their own.

Talk to most investors and their first question will be, “What should I buy?” While I understand the desire to find stocks that will deliver quick, substantial profits, I think a better question is, “What should I buy and when should I sell it?”

Celebrating its third year anniversary today announced that it has over doubled its client base in the 2008 year, surpassed 100,000 total users, and set a record for the month of October.
Like other top discount brokers TradeKing has reaped the rewards of thousands of investors moving away from managed funds with mutual funds, hedge [...]

I’m not about to call an oil bottom but there certainly are some signs that suggest the bottom is drawing near. I remember thinking oil was going to bottom at 95, then 60, and here we are at 40 and all the peak oil enthusiasts are saying we are going to rebound just as fast [...]