Previously writing on self-styled “a leading provider of innovative, highly engineered technology products principally for the global gaming and broadcast industries” Quixant (QXT), in September with the shares slumping to just over 160p I questioned were even reduced forecasts realistic given customers have informed that order levels will not return to previous levels through “at least” the first half of 2020. Now a “Trading Update”…

Updated: Eurasia Mining (EUA) boss Christian Schaffalitzky talked about a dividend, PR guru the Sith Lord Zak Mir was told to suggest on a secret chatroom that directors would be buying millions of pounds of shares in the market and the shares zoomed.

Britain's tiop fund manager, my pal Mark Slater, has said that he will vote down annual reports where he sees unacceptable executive greed yet his largest holding is Future (FUTR) which not only has major fundamental “funnies” but is a case study in obscene executive greed.

At 3.4p Eurasia Mining (EUA) is a company shown to have lied to investors, with zero balance sheet support and which is burning cash. That is why, it needs to do a placing. Yet it is still capitalised at £92 million. So, what are the shares worth?  I asked you for the craziest examples of Bulletin Board Moron madness last week and while there were some great spots as you can see HERE, Evil Banksta came up with the gem below:

Back in November I had a bit of fun at the expense of the 'upholstered furniture and floorings' company ScS (SCS), observing how bonkers some of its comments had been. Today's half-year trading update has its moments too, even though it claims to be 'in line with the Board's expectations'…

AIM-listed jam-tomorrow (or never…) investment company Tern plc (TERN) has updated the market with a portfolio review. The news seems good (a big contract for one investee and a fair investment for another) but the elephant in the room is its investment in Device Authority Limited – on which we learn precisely nothing. Worse still, apparently Tern now has a genuinely diversified portfolio of…. companies, with each……having a disruptive technology in a global market. Oh dear: it's that word again, 'disruptive' – has the board not heard of what happened to Neil Woodford?!

Hello Share People. It’s all looking chipper for medical pioneer Avacta (AVCT). When Tom interviewed me fairly recently for his scintillating radio podcast, I gave this company the dubious award as my favourite penny share. And so far, luckily, I am proving right. The latest news is pretty exciting and, as I write, has propelled the share up by 15%...

An announcement from Tissue Regenix (TRX), a Woodford pick (uh oh), at an intra-day 10:02am (uh oh); “Notice of cyber security incident”. Oh dear! – and particularly considering the company’s previous announcement included that it only “believes that the available cash runway will continue to support the working capital requirement of the company until the end of April 2020”!...

It is always striking to me that even experienced investors feel the burn when the market goes down a little bit more than on any day in the last four or six months. I know that pension values, spread bet positions, public tipster perception and much more rest on the fluctuations of the world's financial markets, but the real money is being a thoughtful weighing machine investor and not a finger-on-the-trigger voting machine one. Well that is my perception at least and why I included this wonderful quote from James Lovelock (‘An inefficient virus kills its host. A clever virus stays with it’) in some musings I had to send over the other side of the Pond. In short, if you are worried about the coronavirus, then you should be petrified about the alternative financial disease that packages itself up as personal, corporate or government debt burdens. Talking about debt…

On 6 December 2019, AIM uber dog St James House  (SJH) issued a trading update indicating more losses for second half of the year ending on 31 January 2020.  It also stated it was actively exploring options to improve the working capital position of the group before the end of its current financial year end on 31 January 2020 as it was working capital constrained.

Today UK Oil and Gas (UKOG) updated the market on its prodigious ability to issue shares. After adding almost 1.5 billion over the last year, it now wants authorisation for 3 billion more. If only it could produce increasing levels of oil with a similar consistency, I perhaps would see the investment case more positively.

In today's podcast I look at Versarien (VRS) and explain why Lucian Miers and I have fallen out over this one on the latest edition of ShareProphets Radio. I look at Tern's (TERN) bollockese trading statement and ask "when's the placing" or "Show Me The (lack of) Money". I look at the (bad) news from UK Oil & Gas (UKOG) regarding Horse Hill and for me the numbers still do not stack up even with the shares having slumped to 0.675p. Finally, I hope I did enough to stop Steve Holdsworth from cancelling his subscription, so Steve how about making a small initial donation by way of thanks to Rogue Bloggers for Woodlarks HERE

Previously writing on Motif Bio (MTFB), in November with the shares above 0.46p I concluded that with clear and significant risk both in delivery from a cash shell and in what the current divestment process will deliver, continue to avoid. The shares last closed at 0.24p but are currently slumping to around 0.15p on the back of a “Corporate Update”…

AIM-listed energy supplier with recent accounting issues Yu Group (YU.) has released a full year trading statement. Like its half year trading statement last year, it is again full of holes: it tells us about the cash, but what about payables? And whilst losses appear to have been reduced, references to adjusted EBITDA don’t fool me: the company is still leaking cash.

Yesterday I demonstrated quite clearly that what Mark Slater and others think is a growth stock is nothing of the sort. Mark suggested that I speak to Future PLC (FUTR) before writing more as my FACTS were wrong. But the facts in the article, the numbers, came direct from Future PLC itself! And thus I persist with the second part of this series and, Mark, I warn you, there is far more to come.

Oh dear, oh dear, London’s worst Nomad, Roland “Fatty” Cornish really does have a lot on his plate this morning. I refer not to his third portion of finest Manx Kippers dripping in butter, followed by a quartet of hot crumpets with lashings of strawberry jam. No, he is already in hot water over his advice to ADVFN (AFN) that it should break AIM Rules but now Fleet Street Legend Brian Basham has written to Fatty about another of his cash guzzling and worthless clients, Vast Resources (VAST) and, thanks to Winnileaks, I have that letter.

Hello Share Players. My favourite housebuilder operates mostly in the Smoke and the South East. Which, given the recent record of house prices in this neck of the woods, is a bit of a brave choice. But things are going so well that the company says it will return a billion oncers to us in the next 24 months...

Shares in self-styled “the leading smart home solutions provider”, LightwaveRF (LWRF) are more than 20% lower on the day to sub 2p – and this after they having closed on Thursday above 4p after results on the Tuesday…

Its shares already down from a 440p 2018 IPO price to little more than 80p, now a “Directorate Change” announcement from SME loans platform company Funding Circle (FCH) – and the shares further down, towards 78p…

In short no, although this virus could well be far larger than some folks (Lucian) think. Elsewhere I discuss useless research from broker Goetz and Optibiotix (OPTI), Future (FUTR), Amigo (AMGO), Iconic (ICON), Oracle (ORCP) and Petra Diamonds (PDL)