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Filed under: Newsletters, Stocks to Buy, Best Stocks for 2011

This post is one in a series in which more than 60 newsletter advisors share their Top Stock Picks for 2011. This special report is courtesy of TheStockAdvisors.com.

"My favorite speculative stock idea for 2011 is Flagstar Bancorp (FBC), the Troy, Michigan-based bank with 165 branches in Michigan, Indiana, and Georgia," says Mark Skousen.

The editor of The Hedge Fund Trader explains, "The stock was trading for over $140 a share before the financial crisis; the stock fell to $5 a share last May, and it is now under $1.50.

Filed under: Insiders, Stocks to Buy

If you are looking for clues telling you which stocks have a good chance of increasing in value, you might want consider watching what insiders are doing. After all, talk is cheap, but when insiders put their own money on the line, you should sit up and take note.

Flagstar Bancorp is a savings and loan whom makes most of it's money by lending to homeowners in Michigan

Here is a press release from Coumo

WASHINGTON, D.C (November 5, 2007) – New York Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo today endorsed federal legislation that will create new protections for consumers and investors and prohibit the improper coercion of appraisers to meet target appraisals.