Thousands of folks have received hard sell phone calls during the past five years persuading them to invest in unlisted games developer Appbox Media.  And thousands have parted with hard earned cash. There are now so many red flags flying that the FCA needs to investigate at once. Is this a games developer or a boiler room masquerading as a games developer.

FW Thorpe (TFW) is “pleased to report that this summer's trading, at our main division Thorlux Lighting, was significantly improved on the same period last year, and its order book has remained healthy throughout the autumn”. Sounds promising…

Blackmore Bond which is delaying interest payments to clients, highlighted in its bond prospectus the insurance policy it had arranged to protect investors should the company itself get into financial difficulty. So this is low risk tight? Just like the other mini bonds?

I am not well. I have managed only 20 minutes out of bed today having somehow got home from Oxford at 2 AM last night feeling so ill. Anyhow a few thoughts from me on Dignity (DTY), utitities and Tungsten (TUNG). Now back to bed.

Top tip: if you ever wish to take the 3am flight from Dubai to London Heathrow (which arrives at 7am UK time) is not to have arranged a bunch of conference calls and even a presentation (fortunately online) for the few hours afterwards. So I am struggling a bit today, but needs must as it is a few days since I have published. I expect I will go back and consider reporters earlier this week such as easyJet (EZJ) another time, but let us review three names that strike me as worthy of note today. First up...bad boy Royal Mail (RMG)…

Previously writing on Netcall (NET), in May with the shares at 51.5p I noted “Trading Update” & “looks forward to giving a further update”. I wouldn’t be…. Today an AGM update – and the shares are currently around 13% higher – though that only taking them to now circa 25p…

Image Scan Holdings (IGE) was our October tip of the month, less than four weeks ago at a 1.20p offer price and up to 1.35p (as per HERE). Having risen dramatically in recent days, the shares are now 2.60p to sell…

Analyst David Wilson thinks gold is going to continue to run.

Blue Prism (PRSM) has updated commencing “the group has seen a significant acceleration in sales in the second half of the year, contributing to a very strong full year performance” and including it “enters 2020 with a record order book”. Sounds promising…

Hello Share Gatherers. It was a long time ago, but I think I may have been among the first to commend Fevertree (FEVR) to your research list. And since then the share has rocketed. Not that I can claim credit for such a popular tip anyway. But at present, I’m rather cooling on this wonder share...

Having previously warned on mporium Group (MPM), I note an intra-day (3:03pm) RNS (hmmm!)… “Resignation of NOMAD”. Uh oh…

Columbus Energy Resources (CERP) has announced licence extensions and the appointment of a new CEO…

In today's podcast I must on another call from a spiv urging me to invest in medicinal cannabis. I look again at AFC Energy (AFC) and its joke valuation and at One Media (OMP), its strategic review and its CEO with his shocking views on gender and I discuss how Verseon (VERS) shows, again, the greed and folly of Neil Woodford.

Xeros Technology (XSG) has updated commencing; “Following completion today of the placing and open offer announced on 31 October 2019 in which certain members of the board participated at a price of 1p per ordinary share, the company provides the following update regarding the holdings of the directors:” – and the shares have currently responded higher, back above 1p…

Any time someone registered via this website takes part in a Primary Bid offering we earn a few quid and so for that reason I urge you ALL to sign up HERE as, now and again, Primary Bid has some good offers. Today’s offering to raise up to £1 million at 0.3p from Infrastrata (INFA) is not such an offer.

Brand Architekts (BAR), formerly Swallowfield, has updated concluding “we are well placed to navigate and grow in this market. As a result, the board expects to deliver positive progress for the full year”. The shares have responded currently to around 165p – 10% lower. Hmmm…

`Curiouser and curiouser!' cried Alice (she was so much surprised, that for the moment she quite forgot how to speak good English); `now I'm opening out like the largest telescope that ever was! Good-bye, feet!' (for when she looked down at her feet, they seemed to be almost out of sight, they were getting so far off). `Oh, my poor little feet, I wonder who will put on your shoes and stockings for you now, dears? I'm sure I shan't be able! I shall be a great deal too far off to trouble myself about you: you must manage the best way you can; --but I must be kind to them,' thought Alice, `or perhaps they won't walk the way I want to go! Let me see: I'll give them a new pair of boots every Christmas.'

Once again, as happens several times each week, the word vindication springs to mind. You cannot say that you were not warned countless times, right from the time of its IPO to the near reading of the last rites today, that this crock of shit would end in tears. That moment is almost upon us.

I wrote positively about PetroTel Corp (PTAL) in June and could see real potential for a business of significance to be established. I saw the largest risk being the technical risk associated with ramping up production to plan and even general social unrest in Peru did not seem to impact the investment case. Yesterday we were provided with the news that the cash position had been miss-stated in an operations update on 21^st October. The implications draw me to now call this a sell.

Hello, Share Crunchers. All right, it’s not been long at all since I last brought Creightons (CRL) the fifty-bagger to your attention. But as the price keeps pushing onwards and today we have interims. Thus it’s probably appropriate to ask if the top approaches. For what’s it’s worth, I don’t think we are near the loftier prices we might expect. For these reasons.