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Alphatrade, Inc. (APTD)

About AlphaTrade.com

AlphaTrade.com provides both real-time and delayed stock market quotes to subscribers via the Internet. As of December 31, 2009, the Company had five diversified revenue streams: real time stock quotes - E-Gate; financial information for Websites - E-Trax, and advertising, Web design and Web hosting services. The Company has three Websites all providing information and services that compliment all of its products, including www.alphatrade.com, www.zenobank.com and http://finance.alphatrade.com.

WebSafety Inc. (WBSI)

ABOUT (WBSI)

WBSI is the leading provider of mobile and computer software solutions that help to keep your children safe. One of their products disables texting functions on their phone if they are
traveling more than 10 miles an hour.

Welwind Energy International Inc. (WWEI)

ABOUT WELWIND

Welwind Energy International Corp. is committed to providing the best resource option available for renewable energy, protecting our environment, empowering communities, bolstering local economies and respecting the rights of future generations.

Welwind Energy International was founded to build, own and operate wind farms on an international scale. The company's goal is to become a leading provider of clean energy products for the residential, business and governmental consumer.

How to Fix the IPO Market

If new stock offerings are to resume fostering innovation and creating jobs, the process itself needs to be innovated.

Where have all the companies gone?

The number of U.S. firms with publicly traded stock has dropped by half in the past decade. Ten years ago, around 9,100 companies filed annual proxy statements with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Last year, roughly 6,450 did; so far in 2010, only about 4,100 have, estimates Wharton Research Data Services. The Dow Jones U.S. Total Stock Market Index tracks 4,136 stocks, down from 4,599 just a year-and-a-half ago and 5,000 at the end of 2005.

Companies take their shares off the market for many reasons: through mergers and takeovers, by going private, by going bankrupt. And the shrinking number of stocks isn't necessarily bad. For some to succeed, many must fail, and falling supply may help lead to rising stock prices over time. But job creation and technological innovation depend heavily on the birth of new public companies.

In two-thirds of the years from 1960 through 1996, the number of initial public offerings exceeded the number of stocks that dropped out. Since then, however, there have been more deaths than births among stocks every year: 7,725 stocks have disappeared over that period, while just 4,299 new ones have arisen to replace them, according to Wharton.

"Small IPOs have gone the way of the dodo bird," says David Weild, head of Capital Markets Advisory Partners and ex-vice chair of Nasdaq.

But the IPO market isn't dead; it is in suspended animation. Two major deals, Tesla Motors and LPL Investment Holdings, are in the works. "We've got quite a few companies in registration that are saying, 'Let's wait till the dust settles,' says veteran banker Thomas Weisel, whose firm is merging with Stifel Financial Corp. "It's a function of all the uncertainty about the global economy."

If IPOs are to resume fostering innovation and creating jobs, the IPO process itself needs to be innovated. These days, big investment banks are rarely willing to underwrite and research firms smaller than $250 million or so in total market value. William Hambrecht of W.R. Hambrecht & Co. estimates that there are 4,000 to 5,000 small but robust growth companies in Silicon Valley that would like to list their shares. "We're looking at literally dozens of companies" that want to sell 20% stakes to the public, raising $10 million to $30 million apiece, he says. But most banks can't be bothered with such piddly deals.

Cost is also a deterrent. The underwriting discount, or investment-banking fee, has averaged 6.8% this year, according to data from Dealogic. Underwriting fees are meant to compensate banks for the "risks" they incur buying shares from issuers and reselling to the public. But, as Mr. Hambrecht points out, "today they take no risk." If the public doesn't want the stock, the underwriters simply pull the deal from the market.

Still, the bankers' take has stuck close to 7% for decades. In fact, it is higher than it often was back in 1913, when future Supreme Court justice Louis Brandeis advocated what he called "corporate self-help." Under Brandeis's plan, companies would sell their shares directly to the public, rendering investment banks "superfluous" in many stock offerings.

In that spirit, the "OpenIPO" model, which Mr. Hambrecht used to take public such companies as Google, Morningstar and Interactive Brokers Group, enables any investor large or small to put in a competitive bid on an IPO. The stock is then auctioned to anyone—not just favored clients—at the lowest price that will enable all the shares to sell. Underwriting fees run roughly 2% to 3%, so it is easy to see why Mr. Hambrecht's approach hasn't caught on with his competitors.

A rule called Regulation A, dating to 1933, permits firms to sell up to $5 million in securities without filing a full registration statement with the SEC. If Congress and the SEC were to lift that ceiling to $30 million, says Mr. Hambrecht, more small companies could go public more easily. Of course, small stocks have always been a favorite sandbox for fraudsters, touts and pump-and-dump promoters, so investors always need to be on guard when investing in these companies.

Mr. Hambrecht and Mr. Weild have independently proposed a stock exchange dedicated to IPOs. Market-making firms would maintain fair and orderly prices. Such an exchange would also collect and distribute independent research on its listed stocks. To discourage fast trading, Mr. Weild suggests that the stocks be priced at minimum spreads, or differences between buying and selling price, of 10 cents—rather than the one-penny spread prevailing on other exchanges.

If great oaks are to grow from acorns, the seedlings could surely use a little help.

Minerco Resources Inc (MINE)

Minerco Resources, Inc. (OTCQB:MINE) is a progressive developer, producer and provider of clean, renewable energy solutions in Latin America

ProtoKinetix Inc. (PKTX)

ProtoKinetix Inc. (PKTX)

BUSINESS SUMMARY

ProtoKinetix (OTCBB:PKTX) is a biotech company focused on developing and licensing patented anti-aging glycopeptides (AAGP™) to the health care, biotechnology and skin care/cosmetic industries. Since 2005, ProtoKinetix has been engaged in groundbreaking scientific research. Several recent tests and trials on ProtoKinetix’ AAGP™ cryopreservation (freezing cells to -196°C) has shown promising results across multiple cell lines. AAGP™ molecules have demonstrated to enhance the health and extend the life of cells and seem to carry anti-inflammatory properties. ProtoKinetix is the first company to make a stable and non-toxic version.

Generex Biotechnology Corp. (GNBT)

Generex Biotechnology Corp. (GNBT)

Generex is engaged in the research, development and commercialization of drug delivery systems and technologies.

7 GREAT STOCKS TO BUY

One downside of the stock market's big gain is that it leaves fewer choices for bargain shoppers.

In posting a total return of 27% for the year (and a stunning advance of nearly 70% since March 9), the Standard & Poor's 500 Index ($INX) saw more than 400 of its members gain in price. Still, at 15 times estimated 2010 profits, the market does not appear to be excessively valued.

Investors who caught the big wave are probably too busy tallying profits to worry about the paucity of bargains, but the run-up makes it hard to harvest sizable gains and reinvest the proceeds in issues that are more moderately priced. It's also a barrier to those who have been out of the market and are looking for a reasonable re-entry point. So we sifted through the also-rans, looking for stocks that were overlooked during the past year's mad rush.

Our search focused on stocks trading at a discount to the market's price-earnings ratio as well as to their own historical P/E ratios. We also screened for companies trading for lower-than-usual multiples of sales, cash flow (earnings plus depreciation and other noncash charges) or book value (assets minus liabilities).

Of course, the bargain bin is always full of stocks that aren't truly bargains. To weed them out, we favored companies with solid balance sheets and positive cash flow (that is, they produce actual cash earnings from operations, not just paper profits). The seven stocks below emerged. Although all of them face challenges of some sort -- that's why they're cheap -- we think their virtues will become more apparent over time. (Share prices and related ratios are as of the market's Dec. 30 close.)

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Funds to Fix Your Portfolio

If, like many of us, you've taken stinging losses, these still-great giant funds can help you rebuild. Yes, they're down -- most things are -- but their quality still shows.

If, like so many of us, you're retooling your 401(k) after this very rough year, this is a good place to start looking.

Vanguard Primecap (VPMCX), Fidelity Blue Chip Growth (FBGRX), American Funds American Mutual A (AMRMX), Vanguard Small Cap Growth Index (VISGX) and Oakmark International I (OAKIX) have each lost tons of money this year, but they've lost less than most of their rivals. They or funds like them can form the foundation of a dream retirement account.

Vanguard Primecap
This amazing fund never even seems to wobble. Over the past 10 years it has been ranked among the top 2% of large-capitalization growth funds, and it remains on that lofty plane this year, having managed to decline only 31.9%, as of Nov. 6, nearly 8 percentage points fewer than the S&P 500 Index ($INX).

"Very few managers in the mutual fund universe have as good a long-term record as these guys," says Daniel P. Wiener, the editor of the Independent Adviser for Vanguard Investors newsletter, who adds that he put two children through college by investing in the fund. "They continue to buy growth companies at value prices."

Growth funds often founder in down markets because their managers typically are willing to pay premiums to capture the group's above-average earnings. Primecap, on the other hand, pays about 10% less than its rivals on such measures as price to book and price to sales.

Primecap is closed outside the 401(k) world, but the same management team also runs three funds that are open: Primecap Odyssey Aggressive Growth (POAGX), Primecap Odyssey Growth (POGRX) and Primecap Odyssey Stock (POSKX).

Fidelity Blue Chip Growth
Also unwilling to pay up for growth, this fund has been dragged up by a relatively new manager, Jennifer S. Uhrig, at the helm just two years. Formerly a performer in the bottom half of its Morningstar category, this Fidelity fund now ranks in the top third, with a year-to-date performance of minus 38%, not quite 2 percentage points better than the market.

The fund's biggest weightings, in Microsoft and Cisco Systems, have dragged it down this year, but a number of others have proved more timely, including Wal-Mart Stores and Genentech. (Microsoft is the publisher of MSN Money.)

Morningstar faults the fund for hewing too closely to its Russell 1000 ($RUI.X) market benchmark. Because managers are evaluated in comparison with indexes, index hugging is an occupational hazard. But compared with the S&P 500, the fund shows considerable independence, with about one-half the market weighting in financials, underweighting in energy and overweighting in technology.

Since it's rare for growth funds to excel in a difficult market, even against each other, Uhrig's feat in 2008 is particularly noteworthy

American Funds American Mutual A
When it comes to consistency in excellence, American Funds take a back seat to no one. These portfolios are uniquely managed. Each of the multiple managers, all of them employees of Capital Research & Management and thus imbued with the same corporate culture, is given a share of the fund's $16.28 billion in assets to manage independently of the others. Thus while they collaborate on one level, they compete on another. Infusing the chief principle of capitalism into a mutual fund is a good thing.

Always in the top tier of similar large value funds, this year the fund ranks in the seventh percentile, with a loss of 30.7%. It has been helped by a relatively high 13.5% cash holding, as well as an avoidance of the worst of the financial mess, owing to Capital Research's longtime attention to the balance sheets of its holdings.

This fund owns only about one-third as many financial names as the typical value fund and about two times as much technology. It's also overweight industrial names and light on energy. In a write-up in June, before the turmoil of September and October, Morningstar analyst Greg Carlson called it a "tame" fund. Shareholders can be grateful it is.

Vanguard Small Cap Growth Index
The lowest-cost way to invest, indexing, is often the most productive as well, and this excellent fund is a good example. In 2008 and throughout the last decade, this fund has outperformed two-thirds of similar funds, helped by a rock-bottom expense ratio of 0.22%. Investors in exchange-traded funds can buy it even more cheaply under the ticker symbol VBK; its expenses are 0.11%.

Down 39.9% this year, the mutual fund tracks the MSCI U.S. Small Cap Growth Index ($MSCISG.X), which has more flexibility than most such measures because it doesn't automatically toss out companies that have grown too large to meet the benchmark's initial size constraints. By definition, the most successful companies eventually fit this bill -- their rising market price drives up their total capitalization.

Flexibility cuts down on turnover, a hidden expense because trading is paid for out of fund assets, not the expense ratio.

In the great bear market of the 1970s, small caps outperformed big caps by a wide margin. Market scholars can't agree why. They are riskier than big companies, yet they prospered more in those bad economic times. Since the current economy is looking more and more like it did back then, small caps could provide a refuge.

Oakmark International I
Over the long term, this fund beats 95% of foreign large value funds. This year that outperformance has slipped; currently it's beating 86% of them, with a year-to-date loss of 41.2%.

Founding manager David Herro is a heroic stock picker. He owns just 45 names, and a third of his $3.03 billion in assets is focused on the 10 largest positions, a diverse collection of banks, including Credit Suisse Group, high-tech companies such as SAP and industrial giants, including BMW Group.

The opposite of a closet indexer, Herro lays down big bets, among them a fourfold overweighting in software and media stocks. He also avoids some sectors entirely, with goose eggs in telecommunications and energy.

In his most recent letter to his shareholders, Herro notes that the current market is the worst in his 23-year career. Despite that, he writes, "and utterances from the likes of Hugo Ch�vez, capitalism will survive." Indeed, Herro argues, the next 20 years will be more productive for investors than the last 20, which themselves were among the best in history.

"Consider the transformation occurring in the emerging markets," he writes, "where three-fifths of the world's population is slowly moving from a state of poverty to one that is more prosperous."

Like Herro, I haven't given up on capitalism. Funds like these are going to do very well for their shareholders over the next five years or more. If, like me, you've lost a fortune in this bear market, give yourself a chance to make it back, and more, when recovery arrives. It will.