Shares in Wishbone Gold (WSBN) now trade at 14.75p valuing the company, now cashed up, at £24 million. This comes on news from the Red Setter project in Western Australia.

I see that Dechra Pharmaceuticals (DPH) has continued to see a share price rise since I last wrote about the stock here in early September. Back then I concluded that it is hard to push back on ‘improving global animal health and welfare’ but it is an expensive multiple to buy this one. So what is the updated view post its first half results?

Empire Metals (EEE) has announced further encouraging assay results from the second phase of reverse circulation drilling at the Eclipse gold project in Western Australia. What’s the detail and import?…

Directa Plus (DCTA) “is pleased to announce that the company has signed a supply agreement and a Strategic R&D Agreement with NexTech Batteries Inc., a leading company in the field of Lithium Sulphur batteries based in Nevada, US” – and the shares are currently more than 10% higher in response at 144p. So what’s the detail?…

I warned folks on 22 January that cash shell Ridgecrest (RDGC) was, at 3.1p, a £13.5 million accident waiting to happen. With folks such as the penny share hucksters at LSE Share talk, employers of disgraced promoter Zak Mir, in full on spiv mode, folks were piling in even though the company had cash of just £2 million and no other assets. It was insane. Still, if Zak says the shares are a buy…

We live in times of sheer insanity. It is a rampers’ paradise and cometh the day cometh the four horsemen of the rampfest apocalypse. I bring you a tale of sheer insanity from the Aquis lobster pot market, formerly the NEX Exchange. It starts with what was once PGC Entertainment (PGCE), a serial uber dog which was eventually slung off the AIM casino. I should say that its boss is my pal Richard Poulden.

Hello, Share Chums. Shares in ambitious outfit I commended to you not long after the pandemic struck hasn’t performed as well as hoped. But I’ve not lost faith, as the latest full-year results look good. And we all know the plague will last longer than we first thought. Despite the virus’s benefit to the company, my own holding has been absolutely static for many months now. But I’m looking forward to a ‘coil spring’ effect…

I start with the Mrs and George Orwell. Then with the podcast that went live today with me as the guest, not of Cheryl Cole or Princess Anne as was suggested, but of James Delingpole and it is – I think – very entertaining. Then to the final vindication of 2 big exposes from October 2019 HERE and HERE. These both show the failings of the FCA and I compare and contrast whistleblowing to the floor shitters with whistleblowing to the SEC which I did today re the fraud Zoetic International (ZOE).

My tips of the year were published in late December. How have they started 2021?…

Pharos Energy (PHAR) has been one of the worst stocks that I’ve been invested in – not necessarily in terms of the share price performance, although that has also been awful, but more the way the company has been managed and the amount of money that I’ve seen them waste over the years.

Apologies for suggesting that the fraud Zoetic (ZOE) is on the list. It is not. But 974 companies are and are listed below. With bears now an officially endangered species this is going to largely effect bulls. We do not know how big a percent of the equity of the stocks below is owned on margin. In many cases it will be tiny. But in others it will be material and the forced closing of positions in these stocks could have knock on effects throughout the small cap world. Punter x meets his enlarged margin call in one stock by banking gains and selling elsewhere. I do not know how big the ripples will be but I sense it will cause some pain in some quarters. The list is below.  

For 20 years Jeff PressTrip built his name at the Mail on Sunday with his exclusive chats and scoops from Neil Woodford. The quid pro quo was that he blew the man off in print once a fortnight and he ensured that Mail on Sunday Readers ALL owned shares in the doomed Woodford funds. Even a day before Equity Income was gated, the Mail on Sunday urged its readers to show faith. But the corrupt old bastard (PressTrip not Woodford) wishes us to forget that and today again rails against his ex-mate saying how disgraceful is his planned comeback.

77! We’ve done 77 of these things. 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.

New banking rules, known as Basel III, are being phased in. The implementation has already started, but there is one change which, for a Gold bull like me, seems to suggest there could be a stampede into Gold. But is that really true?

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? 

On February 11^th AIM-listed Mediazest (MDZ) announced that it expects its results for the 18-month period to 30 September 2020 to be announced by the end of the month. Next week is the end of the month – the question is whether its expectations are to be believed, or whether they are in the same mould as Tom Winnifrith’s expectations with regard to Britain’s favourite chanteuse.

The most read non-Tom article this week is Ariana – Ozaltin deal completes. Now, what to do with £25 million (that’s alot of Ouzo…) by Nigel Somerville at number three, or  number ten including Bearcasts and Tom’s new shareshow. Which one is the best of the week? Tell me in the comments.

I start with a look at Purplebricks (PURP), my mother-in-law and Uber and a potential bombshell. Then I go onto IG Index changing its terms of trade and how this could create a bull squeeze in stocks including Versarien (VRS), Zoetic (ZOE) and Eurasia (EUA). The article I reference on my own website is HERE. And no-one has yet guessed the horse-riding person who interviewed me yesterday. It was fun.

The thief in the night is selective….

When you elect a socialist crackpot like Justin Trudeau, a hereditary politician and all round knobhead, it will eventually end in tears. The problem with socialists is that eventually they run out of other people’s money, as the greatest leader this country has ever known once observed. So in the snows of the socialist hell hole that is Canada, they are not yet at the pet eating stage but homelessness and hunger are a growing problem. But at least Mr Trudeau hopes to end lockdown in time to wear his Eid socks at the Pride parade. Or is it the other way round?