I am not as much of a cheapskate as Bill Gates regarding my choice of a watch, but then again I am not as smart as the Microsoft founder is. And not so many people wear a watch today as they used to as apparently mobile phones can run lives almost completely. However, as the shareholders of Watches of Switzerland (WOSG) will cite, opportunities have remained pretty good for “curated selections of luxury Swiss watches contain some of the world’s finest timepieces from maisons including OMEGA, Cartier, TAG Heuer, Breitling and Patek Philippe”.

A couple of weeks ago I pondered how Victoria (VCP) would or should respond to a quite devastating bear dossier from Iceberg Research. In a way it has played the attack cleverly but actually its response makes the stock even more of a sell.

I wish Bruna Nikolla the very best of luck as she becomes the new CFO at Cellular Goods (CBX) just in time to have a good chat with the auditors about whether this company can be viewed as a going concern.

Does our own BB savant PL still believe in reports from this company’s house broker saying that Canadian Overseas  Petroleum (COPL) shares will roof it? Who is going to break the news to him that Santa and the tooth fairy are not real? Today’s Q2 numbers try to hide the point but are truly appalling.

Hello Share Swappers. Medical companies have a favourable spot in my humble musings on possible share success. Today’s choice for your further perusal is Ergomed (ERGO). This is a niche company, another reason for me to favour it.

Yes it is just 26 days to the most unusual event in the share calendar – ShareStock. On September 10, sixty to eighty folks will be sitting in tents on an elevated lawn by the banks of the River Dee listening to legends from the investment world give talks and them chatting to them informally, one to one, in the drinks tent.

Yesterday I discussed how Ironveld Resources (IRON) via its PR man Tim Blythe of BlytheRay ands the awful Mail on Sunday was smearing Richard Jennings but ignoring the real issue which were breaches of AIM Rule 10 and 11. But what is sauce for the goose... I today read to you a string of remarks made by Giles Clarke, Ironveld's chairman in whatsapp messages now in my posession. After yesterday's indignation perhaps Mr Clarke wants to consider his position. Then onto Abingdon Health (ABDX), liquidity drying up and what it can mean, Parsley Box (MEAL) and musicMagpie (MMAG). I also discuss Wishbone Gold (WSBN) urging a note of caution on "nearology."

Previously writing on consulting, software and technologies group TP (TPG), in June with the shares down to 1.25p I noted worsening confidence and results delay. The shares last closed at 1.875p, but are currently back below 1.5p following the delayed 2021 results announcement.

You will remember that when the old auditor to Versarien (VRS), run by loathsome charlatan Neill Ricketts, walked, the new bean counter said that it would not have sufficient time to sign off on results to March 31 so Ricketts extended the year end to September 30. But the shares are today sliding (again), off 10% to 18p, as chickens prepare to come home to roost.

Natural extracts and ingredients manufacturer and supplier Treatt (TET) has issued a trading update including that it “is still expecting to report strong revenue growth for the full year and retains an excellent order book”. So what of a share price response to currently 550p, more than 31% down?!

If I have ever suggested that Mr David Lenigas is a shameless penny share promoter and all round spiv prone to grotesque exaggeration whose clumsy ramping has helped to turn AIM into the sewer that it is, I should like to apologise. And I mean that most sincerely. The tweet below, about a stock where I may have a minor interest, although that in no way influences me, shows that Mr Lenigas is a world class mind whose pithy objective analysis of mining stocks makes him a national treasure. Let the record stand corrected.

Look what is crawling out of the grave, maggots emerging from every pus-filled orifice, the smell of death everywhere…it is Media Corp (MDC). It is back

I have written before about Phoenix Group Holdings (PHNX) but I noted back in mid-March that I was not a particular fan of the insurance services provider (even if its aim is “helping people secure a life of possibilities”). Insurance and related is a complex sector, but Phoenix Group has had an unusual share price profile.

Describing itself as “a leading designer, developer and supplier of interior components to the global automotive industry”, CT Automotive Group (CTA) has issued a trading update headlined “Revenues ahead in H1, production recovery gaining momentum”...and the shares have responded to currently 115p, more than 22% lower! So what’s going on?

I warned before it listed that Abingdon Health (ABDX) was essentially insolvent and that the 96p ( £92 million market cap) was bonkers and that anyone investing was insane.  But, of course, institutional fund managers (playing with YOUR  money) knew better and gambled £22 million. After the latest shocking news the shares are, after 19 months, just 6.75p. Ouch.

In the beginning Peel Holdings was to fund the Protos SPV roiling out Powerhouse Energy’s (PHE) not so revolutionary and unproven waste to hydrogen plants. Then Peel realised the risk it was taking and made Powerhouse raise equity to lend money to Protos. And today…

Hello Share Treaters. There are times, gang, when the compulsion to research a share is so strong that to mention it seems unnecessary. Except when you may not know of the company.

Even though I was born at the time of the Middle East oil crisis, the three-day week and the comedy of the Ted Heath leadership, I obviously do not remember it.  Thankfully the first thing I can remember is Mrs T as PM and the opportunistic new direction of the 1980s.  Back to today, there are a thousand-and-one worries out there you can find on the TV, via the internet and chatting with friends and family.  At many levels I am glad it is not the 1970s, but at least back then the average person was cracking on, rather than complaining about their financial situation (after making a bunch of discretionary expenditure over the last five or ten years). 

Today's Mail on Sunday carries a nasty hit job on Richard Jennings of Align accusing him of racism. You can read it HERE. The story is clearly manufactured by Ironveld Resources (IRON). I do not know enough SA slang to comment on Jennings' words. However, amazingly the dickhead journalist not only failed to report matters showing Jennings as a supporter of poor blacks in Zim South despite having the evidence, but the whatsapp messages referred to show Ironveld driving a coach and horses through AIM Rule 11 and AIM Rule 10 so misleading its investors. I explain why that may have enabled some smart money to get out at the wrong prioe and why this should be enough to see Martin Eales and Giles Clarke fired at once. Unlike the wretched Mail I bring you the full whatsapp thread.

On Friday we served up three share tips with this prediction. Here is one of them.