This has nothing to do with shares or investing or anything. It's the end of the weekend and we've organised a quick pub quiz. Grab your own beer, there are no prizes, and for Pete's sake, no Googling! Only I get to do that. If you are so inclined, please enter your score in the comments. The highest score still won't get a prize.

AIM-listed Tern plc (TERN) was one of my two tips of the year – as a sell – at 9.25p (mid). The shares are now just 7.25p  - down by 22% so I’m off to a very good start. But I want to ask a question of Tern regarding its ongoing loans and payments to jewel-in-the-crown investee Device Authority.

Is there anything better than sitting back and reading a well-written article on a lazy Sunday? Every week ShareProphets features some long form journalism that you'll find of interest. Grab your cuppa and enjoy these five articles. 

Yes folks, it is time for an update on my five slam-dunk sells for 2020 – and the writing is on the wall as the anti-portfolio slides. At the end of January the score was an overall drop of 9.8% on a bid to bid basis. One month on the slippage has accelerated amongst my five picks from the AIM Casino, namely Tern (TERN), URU Metals (URU), AIM-China Filthy Forty play Walcom (WALG), Catenae Innovation (CTEA) and Yu Group (YU.)

Excluding ShareProphets Radio 26, the most read non-Tom article this week is Is it Better To be Short A Stock Promotion Or A Total Fraud? by, um,  TweetingCEO. No, I don't know who that is, either. He or she is in 7th place, or number 15 if you include Bearcasts.

In today's podcast I first discuss the denial of some Versarien (VRS) poltroons wilfully misquiting Patrick Abbott in the whistleblower podcast. Then I turn to what it means for a company to be insolvent and why that is not necessarily trading whilst insolvent. Finally back to Versarien and Neill Ricketts trying to silence a critic using the Police. A) given the way he eggs on the mob to harass me and my wife this is nauseating hypocrisy, b) the Police do not have a leg to stand on and I urge the critic to keep posting so the Police look like fascist arseholes, c) it shows just how desprate Lyin' Neill has become and as such this is a massive red flag.

Please don’t take this as a “I told you so” victory lap, it is far from that.

KEFI Minerals (KEFI) has provided a quarterly operational update, including “subscription and shareholder documents are in the process of review by Government departments and ANS syndicate members for execution by the TKGM partners during March”…

I have already covered the Interims from AIM-listed Karelian Diamonds (KDR) and the misleading statements within. But it seems I am not the only one who is concerned that investors are being led up the garden path with the acquiescence of Nomad Allenby, for an email has come into my possession which appears to question the validity of the statements offered up.

September-announced half year results from self-styled “growth and turnaround investment company”, Volvere (VLE) included “net assets per share have reached a new record of £13.56 (30 June 2018: £6.75, 31 December 2018: £12.50)”. Despite this and clear further growth potential though, the shares are still available at a meaningful discount to that NAV and so…

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 and thus far in 2020 (by net short position %, those in bold not on the list at the start of 2020) – and if this position has increased (red), reduced (green) or remained unchanged (black) since last week...

I covered technically insolvent Conroy Gold and Natural Resources’ (CGNR) interims and came to the obvious conclusion that it was technically insolvent. Yesterday its sister company (with largely the same management), AIM-listed Karelian Diamonds (KDR) followed with its own half-year numbers and guess what. But the statements are just unutterable tripe which, I suggest, are intended to mislead.

Hello, Share Planners. In common with many share shifters, I’ve stopped paying full attention to my shares at the moment. This isn’t wise, but I have trouble bearing the pain of the virus panic. And I really do think that sooner or later our shares will return to their pre-virus values.

A “COVID-19 Update”, intra-day (2:15pm) from “the UK's leading online retailer for beach holidays”, On the Beach Group (OTB). Uh oh…

If I can quite easily live with the volatility of Rolls-Royce (RR.) year-to-date and see an overt opportunity to buy more as detailed HERE, I cannot say the same for my other tip of the year Playtech (PTEC). Back in late December I noted that the business was 'misunderstood', that the gambling technology business 'continued to trade strongly and grabbed the top spot in the online betting and gaming market for the first time' and that its loss-making finance business had restructuring options. Meanwhile activist investors were lurking. Well...

The markets this week have been so poor that even a monkey could have picked 10 shares to short and made money. Hurricane Energy (HUR) has not suffered as badly as many in the oil and gas sector. I have commented on Hurricane Energy (HUR) on a regular basis in recent months as the operational story has evolved, calling it a hold pending further and better information regarding water cut in the Lancaster field wells and forward plans. Yesterday’s RNS telling us the CFO had walked, together with a few other risk issues has triggered me to now call this a SELL.

Assuming that you aren’t just going to move entirely to cash and wait for the markets to bottom and show signs of a rebound before buying anything, there are still some options for shares to hold whilst you ride out the storm.

In today's podcast I look at the overall market bloodbath asking whether we see capitulation and a buying opportunity or if things could get much worse. I look at Bidstack and the speed at which it must complete a bailout placing, at Blue Jay Mining (JAY) and the antics of its disgraced Nomad and broker SP Angel, at Versarien (VRS) and the true import of today's free podcast and finally at AFC Energy (AFC) one of the most overvalued stocks on AIM.

Time for a tips of the year update.  Obviously it is grisly thanks to our old pal the coronavirus.  However you have to keep looking and thinking even when it is not going well...

Good news for shareholders in now suspended NMC Health (NMC), the establishment suits at ShareSoc have launched the NMC Action Group (NAG) to help realise value for sghareholders. The release is below: