Just how many red flags do you need? Because at this AIM listed company, there are more than you’d see on the annual May Day parade through my old stomping ground of Clerkenwell. Let’s list the Verditek (VDTK) red flags:

FastForward Innovations (FFWD) has announced results for its year ended 31^st March 2020 including “a large portion of our investments have continued to make positive advances and reach significant milestones in their development”, though also “some challenges”… and this share tip from us is almost 100% ahead on an offer to bid basis after just two months!

This piece comes from management consultants McKinsey. Thanks to comrade Jim Mellon for sending it over. It serves as a simple reminder of keys to successful investment.  The section on bad management is something many AIM gamblers might wish to ponder.

I start with musings on croquet hoops, something I am geekish enough to comment on, and how it is symbolic of our age. I wander on to consider the craziest job creation scheme in history but one which the mainstream media takes seriously… back to crazy croquet hoops. Then it is news that Capita is closing offices where 15,000 work and the Government’s barking mad plans and pleas to reverse this tide. Finally, the response of Alessandro Zamboni of Supply@ME Capital (SYME) to me terming his company a con and saying he should be in jail. Other than his stupidity in telling an obvious lie, Sam Antar, the king of the fraudsters, would be proud of him. 

The level of trust that you have in the management of a company can often play a big part in your willingness to invest.

Hello. Share Swingers. As it’s another boring bank holiday with closed markets, allow me to review a few of the shares in my bag. These have been commended to you over the last couple of months or so. During that time the Footsie and most other shares have hardly moved at all. Ok, the Covid plays have been up and down like a pogo stick, but the average performance is only standing still.

I wrote about Synairgen (SNG) back in July, and in doing so earned the dubious ticker from Tom Winnifrith as a “ramper” and the honour of a Special Bearcast as a response. The ticker amused me greater and I freely admit I agreed with 95% of Tom’s commentary on how to value a drugs company. However I see a “special situation” with this company’s SNG001 potential Covid treatment that may break the normal valuation rule set.

Having asked for readers tips for 2020 for the prize of 1/2 litre of Tom Winnifrith’s Greek Hovel olive oil (2020 harvest) HERE, the following is an update on performance at the end of August (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 2020)…

Welcome to the Sunday ShareProphets Pub Quiz. 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.

Xtract Resources (XTR) “is pleased to announce… has concluded an additional mining contractor agreement with Longhau Tianci Mining Co Ltd for the exploitation of the Boa Esperanza hard rock gold deposit at its Manica mining concession in Mozambique”… that is not the major news. But let’s start at Boa…

Many of you will be waking up to news in all the papers as to how Rishi Sunak is to steal your cash to pay for folks stealing money on furlough fraud, stealing it via criminal Covid loans and to pay for pay rises for the idle bedwetting teachers, Policemen taking a knee and GPs on £100,000 sitting at home and taking the odd call on skype from patients. This is the last straw and sends out such an appalling message about doing business in Britain. Then onto today’s shocking revelations about Supply@ME Capital (SYME) and why it is such a scandal.

I just realised that I have been posting these long reads suggests for two years now. 19 August 2018 was the first one. It’s time to review what is going on here and why we’re doing it.

You may think it’s because it’s Sunday and we’re it’s hard to come up with copy on a Sunday even though Tom insists on running a seven day-per-week operation. But that would be crazy talk.

No doubt moronic shareholders in Supply@ME Capital (SYME) will urge it and its boss to sue me for libel. Bring it on baby! See you in Court Bitchez! This is a situation where surely the FCA has to act.

BT Group takeover by Chirs Bailey is at a fantastic number four or number 12 including Bearcasts and Tom’s new shareshow. Which one is the best of the week? Tell me in the comments.

Red Rock Resources (RRR) has updated loyal shareholders such as myself that on “research, including the results of proprietary geophysical analysis… targets were identified across the western and southern boundaries of EL007329, one of the joint venture’s eleven application areas in the Central Victoria Goldfields, and an application has therefore been submitted for a further tenement, EL007460 (‘Kilmore West’)”…

Lynette Zang, Chief Market Analyst at ITM Trading, says that the Fed has been unable to hit its 2% inflation target but says, “The Fed is getting prepared because they expect to lose control of inflation soon.” The Fed plans to quietly introduce a cashless system with an 18 step plan early in 2021. This new system will enable the Fed to deposit money directly and will give them absolute control of their policies. This coming UBI stimulus scheme will be the fuel that starts hyperinflation fire since we are a consumer-driven economy; they have to get us to consume.

I have had a bit of a soft spot for the oil services company, Hunting plc (HTG), since 2009 when I bought it around 350p, which proved to be its post GFC low having collapsed from around 900p. By 2012 it had returned there. I have dipped my toe at around 185p having read the interims to June 30^th and hope to repeat the trick…

This are only going to get worse

I said yesterday, as I welcomed our own David Scott to the Montana Log-Cabin for beans and gold-talk, that I felt it was time once again to get out the buying boots and feast carefully on gold stocks. So I did.