No prize here just a chance to display your intellectual genius.  Ideally the answers will be stockmarket related. I suggested to Andrew Bell that if he was a real stockmarket spiv he’d spin off the Aussie gold tenements of Red Rock Resources (RRR) via an IPO as the market is red hot. He thinks it’s a good idea but asked if that made me a spiv too for suggesting it? I replied by explaining the irregular inflection of the word stockmarket spiv:

A new research house specialising in AIM stocks launches today with a damning 100+ page report on Elecosoft (ELCO), a darling of the Casino. Shares in this company are rated highly by Stockopedia (always a red flag), and are being pushed aggressively to retail investors via outfits such as Vox. But the report from Ciphersense Research is damning. Related party deals, uber aggressive accounting, shocking corporate gvernance, executive greed, a rotating door of FDs, pointless acquisitions, failure to file subsidiary accounts. All is exposed.

Hello, Share Diggers. Like most companies in the financial world, my choice for your further investigations today has had a scary ride over the last four months. Perhaps more than most. AFH Financial Group (AFHP) has a nationwide network of more than 200 independent financial advisers whom it helps to plan financial goals for clients. It has 12 offices nationwide and £6 billion in funds under management...

Previously writing on Itaconix (ITX), last month I noted with the shares at 1.55p Woodford dog updates including “increasing demand”, BUT... noting the context of “revenues for the first four months of 2020… an increase of 42% over the same period in 2019”, to… $0.6 million! and funding still only possibly until the end of August and concluding avoid / sell. Now…

The lower reaches of the AIM market seem to throw-up, on a daily basis, some sub-standard sub-scale company that sees its share price rocket for no good reason, only to fall back as reality kicks in. So far this week it appears to be UK Oil &Gas’s (UKOG) turn. With ramping on Twitter and the LSE bullet board asylum in full flow, all it needed was a few tweets from Dave Lenigas to get things rocketing to the moon. Of course gravity will reassert control on the share price in due course.

I look like a genius right now! Having told readers a week and a half ago to load up on gold stocks and just wait, the gold spot price has surged to a shade over $1777 per ounce, with futures now at $1795 and gold stocks have shaken off some of the correction. So is it time for yet more Ouzo? (perhaps the best hangover cure for Monday’s excesses!)

The latest tweet from my local Tories just pushes me too far. These folks live on another planet. I start by discussing the tweet below and why it makes me so angry. The bosses at Escape Hunt (ESC) should be, like Sarah Atherton MP (Con), be sent to the gulags of Merthyr Tydfil and I explain why. I look at UK Oil & Gas (UKOG), Red Rock Resources (RRR), Power Metal Resources (POW) and Versarien (VRS) ahead of next Tuesday.

There are some good jokes in the latest spoof version of Monopoly. It is not as good as Wokeopoly and the references to ShareProphets and the Greek Hovel I do not quite understand, but it is very well presented. Enjoy.

LoopUp Group (LOOP) has updated including that it “has continued to trade materially above pre Covid-19 levels… expect to exceed revised market expectations in terms of revenue, EBITDA and cash generation for the current financial year”. Sounds good...

I had been wondering when further news would come from i3 Energy (I3E) and these week two significant RNSs dropped on the same morning, which ultimately led to shares being suspended for the foreseeable future.

With shares in Avacta (AVCT) ludicrously overvalued at 138p the company rightly fears that when the second tranche of stock from the recent placing at 120p is admitted to the AIM Casino tomorrow there will be a line of folks wanting to flip. What to do? Of course, get your evil morally bankrupt PR spinners at Yellow Jersey to issue complete non news and make it sound exciting. Heck Yellow Jersey managed to persuade suckers to pile into mega and obvious fraud Frontera (FRR) so they can push any shite uphill. For a while at least.

‘Escape rooms’ leisure company Escape Hunt (ESC) “is pleased to announce that it has launched remote versions of its most popular 5* rated escape room experiences Doctor Who: Worlds Collide and The Fourth Samurai via remote platforms” – and the shares have currently responded to 9.75p, more than 18% higher...

Not all of them, of course. The regulator, on this occasion, is not concerned with the unpaid wages, the unpaid payroll taxes, the criminal charges laid against Meyer and her failure to appear in Court when summonsed. As ever, it appears that while Meyer boasted how her Maltese operations were hugely profitable and had massive asset backing, for some reason, there was never any cash to pay even small bills. But it is not that which the MFSA has opined upon.

Hello, Share Tickers. Tesco (TSCO) has turned in some encouraging news but I still feel uneasy about my bunch of shares. The main reason is prosaic – I continue to be shocked at the difference in the bill size between Tesco and my supermarket of choice, Aldi. Why can’t the home-grown supermarkets compete with the prices at Aldi and Lidl? I sometimes see Tesco and Sainsbury (SBRY) to be rather short of customers whereas Aldi is often buzzing. The sturdier queues in my part of the world at least are noticeable...

We updated yesterday as Walcom Group (WALG) Nomad Allenby Capital finally seemed to have had enough of the farce of a non-arriving loan… and “resigned… with immediate effect”. Now a next already set to fall?...

Julie is back and since she seeks press coverage and is also seeking investment into a new great British Company she is, in my view, fair game for comment. No doubt she will accuse me of misogony, obsession and try to get the fine upstanding lawyers she shares with Prince Andrew to harass me (remember what happened last time Julie!) but what follows is a case study in red flag spotting and how to read through aggressive and unusual accounts.

Brick model events and shows group Live Company (LVCG) has announced results, stating “the year ended 31 December 2019, has, once again, been a transformational one for the group” and “whilst the COVID-19 pandemic has meant that many of the 2020 tours have been postponed, we have seen significant inbound enquiry from Business Improvement Districts (BIDs) for the second half of 2020 and expect additional enquiries as BIDs look to increase footfall and support local business recovery”. The shares are though lower, at 13p...

KEFI Minerals (KEFI) has updated that the joint venture company Tulu Kapi Gold Mines Share “has now signed off all capital expenditure, operating and financing requirements as the final 2020 Tulu Kapi plan. These detailed and comprehensive project updates and revisions were within expectations and show a reduced overall project funding requirement”...

Another day and another RNS from Intu (INTU) and yet again the shares move little although the release makes it abundantly clear that investors are going to lose everything. Just how many warnings do you need. And if I was a shareholder or a creditor one thing that would utterly infuriate me is that….

Previously writing on self-styled “a leading provider of specialist products using printed circuit technology” Trackwise Designs (TWD), in March I concluded I note the “supported by existing and new institutional shareholders” at 80p per share; also comparing to even a last-close 88.5p. “The provision of growth working capital” or keep-the-lights on funds with the attempted cover of an acquisition? The 2019 results statement will be interesting. Certainly at this juncture, my stance remains bargepole/sell. Now the 2019 results statement...