If there are two markets that are virtually guaranteed to explode over the next decade, they would have to be stem cell research and the anti-aging skin care market.

With stem cell research advances being made beyond the embryonic area, there is nothing but promise ahead and with the baby-boomer generation showing definite signs of aging, the largest group of women consumers will be emptying their bank accounts to purchase the latest advances in skin care products to stem the signs of again on their faces.

Vivakor, Inc (OTCBB: VIVK) is a company focused on these two markets and many others and is worth looking into.  The stock has taken a considerable beating lately but that appears to be over and we see signs of improvement ahead.

Recent advancements in their research coupled with the CEO’s upcoming interview launching a new effort to bring positive attention to the company and its stock suggests that now might be a really good time to establish an initial position followed by additions once progress and momentum justify it.

Check out the company website at http://www.vivakor.com/ then check the chart and see if you don’t agree.  The downside seems low yet a small investment here could reap some pretty solid rewards if we are right and the market begins to discover this hidden gem.

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Do your own due diligence.  Full disclosure information on this company can be found on EDGAR, the SEC’s reporting website.

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In a single press release, Dale Jarrett Racing Adventure (OTCBB: DJRT) announced the addition of a new profit center while simultaneously expanding and clarifying its vision for the future of the company.  The company’s new World War II Adventure is an significant milestone in this exciting company’s history.

According to the World War II Adventure’s website at http://www.WorldWarIIAdventure.com, participants spend a weekend immersed in history as they relive a day in the life of a B-17 bomber as they prepare for participate in a recreated deadly bombing run over occupied Europe flying in the Liberty Belle, a meticulously restored vintage B-17 Flying Fortress.

According to Tim Shannon, CEO of DJRT, the company has spared no attention to detail in order to assure the participant of a totally authentic experience, the kind of adventure that creates lifetime memories. This adventure is without peer in the industry.

As impressive as the World War II Adventure is, we are equally impressed with the direction the company has chosen in order to expand its business.  We have spoken before about the opportunity for growth DJRT enjoyed with its flagship business established and growing organically and we encouraged you to watch for the company to make its move.  Well, the move has been made and we applaud their choice.

Dale Jarrett Racing Adventure is no longer just a NASCAR racing adventure company.  It has suddenly morphed into an adventure/entertainment company that delivers the finest quality experiential adventures that allow participants to step out of their “real life” and enjoy a variety of once-in-a-lifetime adventures.

Given the size of the entertainment and theme park industries, the company has just stepped out of a niche market representing perhaps $200 million a year into a broader market that accounts for tens of billions of dollars in annual revenues.

With the mid-market family oriented side of the industry being well represented by the likes of Disney with Disney World and Disneyland and Six Flags, Inc with amusement parks and theme parks throughout the nation, Dale Jarrett Racing Adventures is focusing instead on the under represented niche market of high end adventures.

The markets are full of examples confirming the success of high end niches in a wide variety of businesses.  IMAX, with its 70′ high screens and surround sound is very successful and dominates the high-end movie and theater business.  Walt Disney raised the bar and created theme parks where before there were only amusement parks.  Channel showed the world that you could create then dominate a profitable niche by declaring that desirability  was not only determined by the quality of a product being sold but also by the label and the fact that it was priced far beyond the reach of all but the super rich, thereby identifying owners as rich and powerful simply by the purse they carried or the dress they wore.

We see DJRT taking the same approach in the entertainment/adventure industry.  Tim Shannon has built a successful company by creating a superior product to capture market share in the NASCAR racing adventure markets.  Now they are taking their core competencies and applying them to offer a variety of top shelf adventures.  We think this is a brilliant strategy and one that will allow Dale Jarrett Racing Adventure unlimited potential for growth.  We look forward to watching this story unfold and suggest you give serious consideration to adding this gem of a company to your speculative portfolio.  The stock is at historic lows and has the fundamental strength to mitigate the risk while offering some pretty exciting upside.

For more information on DJRT, click here.

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Chang-On International Inc. (OTCBB: CAON) announced on Wednesday that they had completed the previously announced production line modifications.  According to the company, these improvements will lower costs and increase effectiveness.

In commenting on the announcement Mr. Guomin Li, President of CAON, stated, “We now have the ability to launch a production line to manufacture products made of our SF brand synthetic materials for as little as RMB 1,525,000 ($223,000). The cost effectiveness of our recent production line modifications gives us greater flexibility to expand regional distribution of our SF brand.”

Once again Chang-On has shown itself to be steadily moving forward, meeting goals and delivering the kind of results one would hope for when investing in a penny stock.  In the current economic climate, one wants consistency and competency in management as well as a clearly defined plan that is being followed successfully.  Chang-On appears to have all this and more.

Chang-On International is engaged in the manufacturing and sales of green architectural products in the multi-billion dollar building materials market in the People’s Republic of China. Through its sole operating subsidiary Harbin Hongbo Environment Protection Material, Inc., the Company utilizes China’s abundant supply of recycled plastic and coal waste as its main raw materials. SF resin can be molded into a virtually limitless range of end-use products, including pallets, pipes, tubes and wallboard, and is a superior substitute for PVC, steel, wood and cement. The Chinese government continues to make energy efficiency and green construction top priorities, and Chang-On is well positioned to become a major player in this growing sector.

We continue to think it’s only a matter of time before this company is discovered by the market and the stock begins to get the attention it deserves.  We highly suggest you take a look at this hidden gem before that happens.  Click here for more information on the company.

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Red Reef Laboratories International, Inc, (Pink Sheets: RRLB) today forcasted potential revenues for its wholly owned subsidiary, MyoTrend Nutritional Technologies at between $15 and $25 Million as a result of recent international distribution relationships.  Recent collaborations offer a 50 country distribution channel into 1,200 outlets.  According to the company’s collaborative partners, 80% of its revenues occur in 12 of these countries.  The figures are based upon a percentage of revenues currently being experienced by the company’s collaborative partners.

In a related development, the company also revealed that they will be utilizing their MyoFit Fitness Journal, the company’s fitness publication, as a vehicle for tying in their new collaborative partner’s products with the MyoTrend brand.   The plan has proven to resonate well with distributors worldwide, as demonstrated by recently announced distribution agreements, largely due to tie-ins with MyoFit Magazine.

While we acknowledge that these lofty numbers may cause some to raise their eyebrows in disbelief, we also note that, if the company only accomplishes half of it’s forcasted potential or delivers at the low side of the projections, the numbers will still demonstrate a successful company with very impressive numbers.  If the company is able to deliver even $.002 in annual earnings per share, current shareholders will have something to brag about at cocktails and family reunions.   At a rational 30 times earnings, this could turn this sub-penny stock into a stock trading at $.06 and could turn a $350 investment into $6,000.

We continue to follow Red Reef Laboratories progress with optimism and great interest. For more information on RRLB, click here.

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Chang-On International, Inc (OTCBB: CAON) today issued a press release announcing they are going to explore commercialization of its innovative SF brand of synthetic materials by developing initiatives to promote licensing of its production technology for synthetic materials and to generate royalties from licensing its SF brand synthetic resin technology.

This is a very bold and intuitive move on the part of Chang-On Int in light of the current global economic situation.  In tenuous economic times some corporations look to pull back.  Instead we see Chang-On looking at the situation and instead of seeing trouble, they saw opportunity and acted on it.

Since companies throughout the world are going to be looking for ways to reduce construction costs, CAON has an exciting opportunity to increase revenues and product credibility by licensing their environmentally friendly construction formworks (forms used in construction).

Since their proprietary technology allows for the construction of a wide variety of construction formworks, from concrete walls to pipes and water tanks out of readily made from shredded plastic and fly ash, two readily available and incredibly inexpensive materials, their technology offers licensees the opportunity t build market these products at a profit while reducing the end user’s construction costs.

One of the signs of a successful entrepreneur is the ability to remain flexible and to find opportunity in adversity.  An even greater sign is the ability to anticipate possible adversity and to find and act on the opportunity to avoid it.  That’s what we see going on with CAON and, frankly, we’re impressed.  This company is one of the most unheralded companies we have run across and we feel it deserves far more attention than it is getting.  Take a few moments to check it out by clicking here.

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Chang-On International recently announced that it has taken the first important step toward opening international markets for their revolutionary “green” construction formworks.  The bureaucratic process to become a licensed to export products in China is complex.  Those that complete the process can compete in global markets and join the thousands of other Chinese companies that are competing successfully thanks to low wages and government subsidies.

The Company’s registration as an external trade proprietor was recently approved by the government, granting the import and export rights for its products and proprietary production techniques. All China enterprises must secure approval from the government of the PRC prior to engaging in external trade. This approval process involves a series of registrations and licenses from the government, of which the registration of external trade proprietor is the initial stage.

Commenting on this important development, Mr. Li Guomin, President of CAON, stated, “We are pleased to be able to announce the attainment of this recent milestone. This is an important step in our ultimate goal of expanding our reach into international markets and bringing our unique products to foreign buyers. We are actively engaged in completing all of the necessary steps to engage in external trade, and have made this one of our top priorities as we move forward with our development strategy.”

Chang-On’s proprietary formworks, made from recycled plastic and fly ash, two abundand and incredibly cheap materials, represent a huge breakthrough in the enviornmentally mandated construction industry as well as throught the world.

We applaud Chang-On’s accomplishment and encourage you to keep a close eye on this company. They are rock solid on their way to being in a position to transform an industry that uses 43% of the world’s concrete production.  We think that deserves a place in any speculative portfolio.

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In the last 5 days Red Reef Laboratories, a feature company on our Real Stock Discoveries site has made two major announcements regarding their new subsidiary, MyoTrend Nutritional Technologies.  On Friday, RRLB announced that MyoTrend had entered into a distribution agreement with Corporación FOMOGLO S.A. to distribute MyoTrend products in Costa Rica.  Their initial target is the 1000 health and fitness clubs located throughout the country.  According to our research, FOMOGLO S.A. is a well established importer of natural products into Costa Rica.  1-costaricalink.com, “The #1 Costa Rica Information, Business, Hotel, Vacation and Travel Web-Site”, has FOMOGLO listed as one of only two sources of vitamins, minerals and nutrients in the country.

MyoTrend’s initial target is to generate $1 million annually from the FOMOGLO agreement.  On the heels of this significant announcement, the company just this morning announced today that it has entered into an exclusive distribution agreement with Europe’s leader in Sports Nutrition, NutriWorld Group B.V. (www.nutriworld.nl).  With active distribution outlets in 36 countries, MyoTrend has made it very clear, they have global aspirations and they are committed to making their products available to health and fitness consumers world wide.

The fact that FOMOGLO has chosen MyoTrend Products as their only fitness oriented product and that NutriWorld Group has chosen to add MyoTrend products to their existing list of quality items speaks volumes for the quality fo the products being produced by MyoTrend Nutritional Technologies.

NutriWorld Group’s enthusiasm for the MyoTrend products, NutriWorld has invited MNT to participate as one of only ten vendors under the NutriWorld banner in the upcoming 2009 FIBO show. FIBO is Europe’s leading International Trade Show for Fitness, Wellness and Health. In all, over 480 companies will be exhibiting and well over fifty thousand visitors are expected to attend. In 2008, there were 47,300 attendees at the show and the average spent per attendee was over 200,000 Euros.  Looking at the NutriWorld website, they have a very long list of products to chose from and we are impressed that MyoTrend’s line of state of the art nutritional supplements were chosen to be highlighted at FIBO.

There seems to be little doubt that the convergence of talents between Red Reef Laboratories and MyoTrend Nutritional Technologies was just what both these companies needed.  In less than a week, these two sleeping giants have gone taken their place on the national economic stage in bold fashion.  We look forward to upcoming announcements as initial orders from these two new relationships begin to bare fruit.

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Dale Jarrett Racing Adventure is a company and a stock we have followed for some time now.  We like the company, and we like the product.  Providing the public and corporations with what they call “full throttle living” adventures, DJRT brings the true NASCAR experience to individuals at public events and through special corporate events.

Still, DJRT has more to offer as an investment than being one of the most exciting companies being traded publicly today. DJRT is also unique among bulletin board companies. The company has a 10 year history of building a company from scratch into a fundamentally solid company with growing revenues and an exciting yet believable plan for the future.

The flagship of Dale Jarrett Racing Adventure is their highly respected NASCAR racing school.  Featured at tracks across America, Dale Jarrett Racing Adventure through public events and corporate events provides ordinary people with an extraordinary experience, the opportunity to drive an actual NASCAR style race car around real NASCAR tracks at speeds approaching actual professional racing conditions.

Some people jump out of airplanes or walk across fire for the excitement and the adrenaline rush.  Others scale cliffs or ski dangerous slopes but DJRT customers say it over and over again, nothing holds a candle to driving a NASCAR race car around a banked oval at 150 mph when it comes to sheer excitement and total focus.  DJRT got it right when they described it as “full throttle living.”

DJRT’s stock has provided serious speculators with an exciting and profitable ride as well.  Because Dale Jarrett Racing Adventure prefers to invest its positive cash flow into building the company instead of expending large amounts of money on continuous promotion of its stock, from time to time the stock can, for a brief period of time, fall off the investing public’s radar screen allowing it to fall to levels we consider far below it’s reasonable value.  Just as consistently, situations converge and the stock is once again “discovered” and it moves solidly back up to more reasonable values in very short order.

With more than $.035 per share in current assets, the bulk of that in cash, and revenues of almost $.11 per share, we think this stock is trading significantly below its justifiable value at $.065 per share and can justify acquiring up to $.20 when the stock is out of favor.  Just don’t chase it.  When developments justify buying it higher, do so, as we see this stock as both a great stock to trade short term as well as one to build a position for the long term.  Management has proven its commitment to protecting shareholder value even while they have not always directed capital resources for ongoing promotion to promote share price.  We applaud this approach.

We also favor the idea of taking a some principal and even a little profit off the table as the stock moves back above $.375 but not clearing the decks.  As the company continues to implement the next phase of their growth strategy, we think the time will come when the stock doesn’t retrace and you don’t want to be looking back and wishing you held on to some. If it does retrace, simply restock at the bottom and get ready for the next run.  Anyone following this strategy has made extremely good money off this stock over the past few years.  Of course, backed by solid fundamentals and the very real involvement in operations and management by the Jarrett family further lends credibility to this stock as a solid investment.

Technically this stock is about due for another rally within the next few months.  We think this would be a great time to start accumulating a position. But don’t take our word for it, check out the company and the filings and make up your own mind. You can find their website at Racing Adventure.com

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Synergy has a lot to do with a successful acquisition by a public company.  In a perfect world, the marriage of management and products compliment each other, making the whole greater than the sum of its parts.

That’s exactly what we see taking place with the acquisition of MyoTrend Nutritional Technologies, Inc. by Red Reed Laboratories, Inc. another of our feature companies for this month at Real Stock Discoveries. Red Reef Laboratories International, Inc. (Pink Sheets: RRLB), is a diversified scientific research, development, and marketing group.

Under the direction of Dr. Claus Wagner-Bartak, CEO of Red Reef Labs has developed a family of products dedicated to assist sufferers with effective preparations specifically targeting suffers and those at risk for Diabetes Type 2 (also known as adult-onset diabetes), a rapidly growing medial problems today as America’s baby boom generation ages. It comprises of readily available supplements that may help with the known effects of this disease by enhancing insulin function and the possible reduction of insulin resistance without the potentially harmful side effects of “conservative” medication. The company has identified three markets for their products.

The first market contains people diagnosed with Type 2 Diabetes and those with a probability factor for future diagnosis. To address this market, Red Reef Labs has already developed 5 products which will be marketed under the brand name “Metabetics”. This suite of synergistic products are designed to assist in the management of symptoms and will be rolled out into the market in the very near future.

RRLB’s second market focuses on nutritional performance supplements for personal fitness and athletic training. The company has selected several key products in the areas of strength, conditioning and weight management for optimum health and performance. This line provides a significant opportunity for complimentary cross marketing with Myotrend.

The third market addressed by the Metabasics suite of products focuses on health and wellness lifestyle products for men; this line features sleek packaging to appeal to discriminating, active middle to upper income males.

While Red Reef Labs was focused on developing the Metabetics suite of products, MyoTrend Nutritional Technologies was likewise busy developing state of the art nutritional supplements which focus on enhancing health and human performance.  Using one of the most demanding human laboratories, fitness and body building, MyoTrend Nutritional Technologies, has thrust itself into this niche and captured the attention and loyalty of amateurs and professionals alike. This unique setting has allowed the company to position itself on the leading edge of the nutritional supplement sciences.

By merging the intellectual talents of both teams working together, the new “dream team” has the ability to lead the industry forward with new breakthrough technologies and products and, by integrating MyoTrend’s advanced internet marketing strategies along with their existing brick and mortar supply chain, including the

world’s largest chain of healthfood stores and America’s largest manufacturer of nutritional supplements, GNC (General Nutrition Centers), the pending introduction of Red Reef Lab’s product lines has been propelled forward significantly.

Like we said at the beginning, this merger between Red Reef Laboratories and MyoTrend Nutritional Laboratories has all the earmarks of a total winner. By combining two highly compatible product lines then adding MyoTrend’s obvious talent at marketing both online and through traditional methods like GNC, which we consider to be a major coup, we expect to see RRLB’s Metabetics line on the shelves of GNC as well in short order. We’re excited about this one and encourage you to check Red Reef Laboratories, Inc out. The market is showing strong indications of getting ready to make a move so don’t hesitate on this one.

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