Kevin Wadsworth and Patrick Karim are both chartists so feel free to ignore everything they say.

With the price of the yellow metal showing an improvement, having risen by the best part of $150 per oz since the March double bottom to reach $1831 at Friday’s close, the renewed enthusiasm has been reflected generally in gold stocks. And that includes AIM-listed Ariana Resources (AAU) which is now riding high at 5.2p. But my target is 7.5p.

Well, you still don’t get a prize. Find your own beer, sit in the most comfortable seat, and, under no circumstances, can you Google the answer. Only I can do that. There are no prizes but post your scores in the comments for bouquets and brickbats. 

I wrote recently on the refinancing proposals for Hurricane Energy (HUR) and why I saw it as the endgame of current holders. I predicted the Bulletin Boards would be alive with negative commentary against the BOD. This has duly happened. One commentator has contacted the ShareProphets team with particularised points on why this may be a scam, and we are always happy to respond to considered reasonable requests for comment and assistance. I am happy to particularise why I do not consider Hurricane has been a scam.

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-Tom article is Recently listed Caerus Mineral Resources can make rapid progress following its deal with Jubilee Metals by Gary Newman at number 10, or  number 17 including Bearcasts and Tom’s new shareshow. Which one is the best of the week? Tell me in the comments.

This is a simple enough question for Cellular Goods (CBX), the Standard Listed pot company backed by David Beckham in a shoddy IPO on 26 February which we exposed HERE. The shares zoomed to 22p in early trades from a 5p IPO but have since rolled back to 7.6p to sell suggesting that many BB punters have been royally shafted by the inaccurate media hype but also that some pre IPO investors who paid a fraction of the IPO price may have been dumping.

Noting that “there is now an extensive growing body of research demonstrating direct links between the microbiome and the immune system, and consequently skin health”, SkinBioTherapeutics (SBTX) announced, a couple of weeks ago, initiation of a research programme with the University of Manchester. This is good news but not the elephant in the room!

I thank those who have been so generous so far but if you have not yet donated to Rogue Bloggers for Woodlarks then consider a fat middle-aged man walking 27 miles in the Cheshire rain tomorrow and please give a few quid HERE. In this podcast, I look at one company, at hard facts about its share ownership, about its sales, about what it has not said and at peer group valuation analysis. At the end of it all, I challenge anyone to disagree with the conclusion that the shares will collapse over the coming months from 63.5p to buttons. Re the declaration, the share I own is Imperial Brands (IMB).

Ah yes the next humiliation after the vaccine debacle and Jersey for the #FBPE lunatics

The FY20 Accounts for the latest investee of AIM-listed jam-tomorrow investment company Tern (TERN) were released by Companies House at the end of April: Talking Medicines carried on sending cash to the great central bank in the sky at an alarming rate and retained profits – or, rather, retained losses, ballooned further……which might raise an interesting question with regard to a share buy-back conducted by the company!

From the FCA’s spreadsheet of short positions required to be disclosed to it, the following shows the shorted AIM shares with positions from 2019, 2020 and thus far in 2021 (by net short position %, those in bold not on the list at the start of 2021) – and if this position has increased (red), reduced (green) or remained unchanged (black) since last week…

After a long period of going nowhere at around $1745 per oz since late February, Gold has pushed higher. Last week it was at $1770, having reached $1777 the previous week. This week the price closed at $1831 and the effect on my portfolio of Gold stocks has been very pleasing. So, as I suggested last week, sell in May would have been a mistake. So what now? Will precious metals continue the ascent in the short term, or might there be good reason to expect a reversal?

Hello, Share Soldiers. Last week, we considered why the Footsie wasn’t scorching ahead like its counterparts in American and other countries. This despite the whiz-bang vaccination programme here and the gradual return to normality. Well, after a hesitant start this week, the stock market has at last begun to recover. The new momentum was helped along by a prediction from the Bank of England that the economy will surge by a whopping 7.25% this year. That’s the biggest leap for 70 years.

I start by asking you to consider a fat old man walking 27 miles in the rain this Sunday and then to make a donation to Rogue Bloggers for Woodlarks HERE. Then 1 man who harassed victims of Harvey Weinsten for the old pervert and one who discussed having me killed contact me within 14 minutes of each other with an identical demand. Coincidence? Can I now say #MeToo and that this is all rather unpleasant? Then I discuss Bidstack (BIDS), Nightcap (NGHT) and finally London & Associate Properties (LAS) and my old pal – the quite amazing and great Baron Phillips.

Industrial and commercial equipment company H C Slingsby (SLNG) has announced results for 2020 including “sales of £21.8m (2019: £19.6m)… profit before taxation and exceptional items of £1.1m (2019: £0.2m)”. Does this justify a current approaching 15% share price rise to 270p?…

Booted off what is now Aquis for lying to investors and then suspended on a Danish bourse before it closed, no exchange will now list US Oil & Gas (USOP) but still its laughable boss little Brian McDonnell battles on with ludicrous releases as he tries to part savers from their savings: “It’s the way I tell em” he smirks but folks who have lost almost everything in a company once ramped up to a £300 million valuation but which is worthless are not laughing.

Graham Wood is the most enthusiastic shareholder in the con that is Versarien (VRS). He does not like me because I point out the lies the company told and so has discussed having me killed and was on the private chatroom which discussed how my (then pregnant) wife could be harassed at work so that she was fired. Now thanks to Neill Ricketts trying to gag a Bulletin Board critic with fascist lawyers letters, we may find out whether Wood rides solo or if he is rather more connected to Versarien than folks think.

It is an interesting Friday at many levels, but less about some of the early results in the various elections around the UK (where folks appear to have taken my advice on how to vote!)…and more about the markets.  

Corpoerate financier Jim Paterson states that precious metals have become even more precious due to the massive amount of money printing. The inflation we are going to suffer in the coming years is a direct result.