dog i don't agree with the keystocks hype.
these are not penny stocks at all, but established small caps, and keystocks' owner describes them as such.
some of the names i recognized because i've owned the stocks myself in the past. Mosaid, cvtech, migao, boyd. These are not unknown companies whose research ryan irvine has pioneered, as you are implying. Rather, these are thinly-traded specialty small caps that have been, and in some cases still are, the on-again-off-again playthings of several established mainstream toronto brokerage houses. Long before mister irvine, we heard of migao from gmp and others, for example. Long before mister irvine, we heard of cvtechnologies from goldman sachs, for example.
bref, these companies have been around the block already; and they never caught on bigtime; and it's not difficult to find out about them through numerous analysts. What keystocks appears to be doing is following up on and updating research notes that larger, better-resourced houses have promoted in the first instance. The schtick in keystock's case is that they are promoting themselves as original researchers & purveyors of the ideas, which they are not.
this is what these kinds of newsletters do. According to their advertising, they are god's gift to speculative novice investors, whose hands they will hold, for a price, while delivering slick-sounding ideas that are supposed to make their subscribers really, really rich.
i should add that i dug up a september video of mister irvine on BNN and frankly i'll never spend another minute listening to this wooden-faced, uninteresting young man. Nor would i spend one cent on his regurgitated research, when i can find better stuff myself faster and for free.