It’s annual appraisal time for the squad members with annual results for the year to 30 December 2016 due in for many of them by 30 April. It was always going to be the strong favourite that most would leave it to the last minute so thought I’d provide a quick summary of who announced and when and include some commentary on each.

Many people think that the excitement about Amryt (AMYT) is down to its EB treatment where phase three trials are now underway. Well that is a lot of excitement but there is far more as the latest news makes clear.

Hello Share Crunchers. Uncle Tom has had a pop at my humble weekend piece, which warned against an immediate fall in share prices. I will reply in my Tuesday morning contribution. But meantime, as the markets are still boring closed, I would like to bring you a few figures about the wealth of some company bosses, fulled of course by galloping share prices

This week's contest is graciously sponsored by African Potash, AIM, NEX, Chris Cleverly vehicle that is bound to hit the stratosphere.*

Concepta (CPT) has been a slow burner but we are well ahead on this share tip with the shares now at 16.6p-17p.Last autumn that it was about to sell its MyLotus kits in China and since then it has appointed a country manager and huffed and puffed but there are no sign of those sales. But you won't need to wait long. There are fireworks coming soon.

In its interim results for the six months ended 31 December 2016, AIM Casino posterboy MySQUAR (MYSQ) disclosed that it had prepayments under current assets of $174,428 and also prepayments recorded under non-current assets of $557,840 i.e. total prepayments of $733,268 or some 67% of total assets. Typically prepayments relate to payments made on property and related utilities or trade subscriptions for services covering a period extending past the year end and usually represent a tiny amount of total assets of a company and typically do not extend beyond one year. 

The final two pages of listings of AIM-listed Advanced Oncotherapy (AVO) Exec Chairman, Michael Jeffrey Sinclair’s company officer posts on the OpenCorporates.com website add another 27 entities to our previous tally (after ignoring a further 6 double entries) of 113 appointments to bring the total up to 140 jobs in an illustrious career. And so we have the final scores-on-the-doors – as well as an interesting observation.

Donald Trump is promising the biggest tax cuts in US history. Reaganomics on steroids. But can the US afford it given its gaping deficit and debt? Over to libertarian gold bug and hero of the people Peter Schiff...

I'm not so sure about his call on the French Election but gold commentator Louis James makes a persuasive case for exposure to the yellow metal in this week's podcast from Palisade Capital. He argues that we have turned the corner and it’s onwards and upwards from here. When gold takes out $1400 a lot of the bears will quiet down. Now is the time to get in near the ground floor, while we still in the initial stages of a major bull run that will put 2011 to shame.

Another day and another bailout placing from Golden Saint Resources (GSR) leaves it with 8,822,256,582 shares in issue. Floated at 10p, the shares are now 0.02p but how close is it to the record books?

In a story of two Jerrys there can be only once caption contest winner. Read the funny, but losing, comments here. But the winner is...

Malcolm Stacey yesterday offered up a bank holiday sermon on why shares are heading higher and on economics. Sadly old Getafix operates in a post fact era and thus you can read his original article HERE but, since my co-poisoner here in Greece is "feeling unwell" after a late night, I have the time to offer up a translation. My comments are in bold.

In the past seven days, 43,154 unique readers read 70,771 pages on ShareProphets. The circulation of the Investors Chronicle is c30,000. Shares is less than half of that. To our critics who think we do not count, we say think again.

I know I shouldn’t have too much sympathy for the retired bigots that read the Daily Mail but its recent tipping of Nektan (NKTN), which will no doubt cost its loyal readers a few quid, is yet another reason to boycott the rag.

Caption this meeting between knees-up enthusiast Jeremy Corbyn and knees-alternative enthusiast Gerry Adams.  The deadline is midnight Sunday.

Restaurant Group (RTN), owner of the Frankie & Benny's and Chiquito brands, has been struggling to turn itself around for a while now as it attempts to combat falling sales and somewhat tired brands.

KEFI Minerals (KEFI) has announced that it has finally received a VAT refund from the Ethiopian Government of $1.3 million - call that £800,000. This is good news for two reasons.

From the FCA's spreadsheet of short positions required to be disclosed to it, the following shows the shorted AIM shares with positions from 2016 and thus far in 2017 (by net short position %) - and if this position has increased (red), reduced (green) or remained unchanged (black) since last week...

Having asked for readers tips for 2017 for the amazing prize of a meal with Tom Winnifrith (or the chance to fob it off on someone you don't like) HERE, the following is a monthly update on performance (to be eligible needed to have selected, on a per username basis, a buy & sell pick from the LSE or AIM Casino and the stocks not to have been suspended at the commencement of 2017)...

This week was always going to throw up a few horrors with it being results week for a whole load of the Sub-Standard Shockers XI. I will do a round-up of some of the other comedic moments from the various announcements over the long weekend but Papillon Holdings (PPHP), which failed to get its results out at all, deserves a special mention.