It's time for thw ShareProphets Sunday Pub Quiz. Put the kettle on, put your score in the comments, and No Googling!

Here are five long reads that have nothing to do with shares.. Put the kettle on, find a comfy chair. You have the time, don't you?  

The most-read non-quiz non-Tom article this week is from Lucian Miers with  ‘Thoughts on the FTX scandal and a Short idea from one of the few to emerge from it with credit’ at No 3 or No 8 including Bearcasts.

We recommended shares in provider of software and services to the publishing industry Ingenta (ING) as our September tip of the month at a 93p offer price. They have now reached a 130p bid price.

Gold finished the week at $1798, having been as high at $1803 – nicely up on last week’s $1756. Gold mining stocks too headed further up as the recovery since the September low continued, as can be seen on my chart of Gold versus the Gold mining ETFs GDX (major), GDXJ (juniors) and GOEX (explorers):

Hello Share Trudgers. There’s a feeling in the city that shares will soon rally. A few well-known analysts have said that British equities are cheap compared to the world. And indeed the Footsie has been creeping up. But this old punter believes that - apart form a few lucky sectors - British shares will stall again. Here’s why I’m staying in cash.

Previously writing on behavioural science-based business improvement company Mind Gym (MIND), in October with the shares up to 97.5p I noted it emphasised “Significant H1 momentum driving growth”, but questioned how effectively?. Now it has announced results for its half-year ended 30th September 2022.

AIM-listed jam-tomorrow (if ever) IoT investment Company Tern plc (TERN) has followed up yesterday’s ramparoonie over Wyld (listed on the joke Nasdaq-of-the-north exchange in Stockholm) with a big announcement of a new contract for jewel-in-the-crown Device Authority worth $1.2 million…….over five years.

Thanks for all the kind wishes about my health and that of Joshua, we seem to be on the mend. In today's podcast I discuss Kefi Gold & Copper (KEFI), Skinbiotherapeutics (SBTX), Argo Blockchain (ARB) and - in detail - Victoria (VCP) 

Previously writing on company describing itself as “a leading producer and supplier of graphene nanoplatelets based products for use in consumer and industrial markets” Directa Plus (DCTA), in October with the shares up to 89.5p I concluded that its recent announcements and above £59 million market cap meant that I retained caution, still avoid/sell. The shares last closed at 83.8p but are currently falling well below 80p on the back of a “trading update”.

Diego Parrilla is an author, engineer and economist and a gold bug.

Parsley Box (MEAL) has seen its share price soar over the past couple of weeks on news that it is planning to delist, which seems rather strange as I can’t imagine all the PIs who have been buying actually want to be stuck holding this after it ceases trading on AIM.

The bounceback loan scheme of the then chancellor Rishi Sunak was meant to help small businesses suffering a covid hit to get access to funding to see them through.  As we taxpayers face the highest tax hit in 70 years let’s look at one worthy recipient, Mark Warde-Norbury, speaking to us from the stately home at Hooton Pagnell which has been in the family since 1704. Mark runs Marechale (MAC) a sub scale investment bank which snuck interims out just before lunchtime, allowing Mark time to shoot some wildlife and thrash a few peasants before he speaks to the great unwashed. 

Since I wrote about Tintra (TNT), its rule breaking and interim results on 27 October, it has busy with a few new announcements. Is this now a quarter of a billion dollar spoof?

On 7 October Argo Blockchain (ARB) announced a series of measures to raise $39.5 million and claimed that this would be enough to last 12 months. Now I have doubts about that claim but unfortunately a proposed $27 million placing fell through so where is the company now?

Yes. The share price. Up 30% at the start now 17% ahead at 5.4p.  That has changed. But anything else?