very good questions ryanmnly, don't ever loose that investigative spirit
Overall their track record is positive on every one*... every stock so far has gone up and stayed up , compounded over 2.5 years (my friend who's been with ESR even before me):
started with $13k with ESR
his account is now $2.0M, using only ESR reccos
I started with $50k on ESR early this year
i just cleared $1.0M few months ago
got alot of other friends got started with them, almost all are up at least 2x from when they started with skymark/ESR
We calculated it, they've been averaging well over 100%/quarter
*(save for one, GETC.. which went up 500% for a few months, but then slowly, slowly, slowly came back down: 2 years later it's about 50% loss)- but we bought it when they told us to buy, and sold it when they told us to sell, made 4x our money