Business transaction network company Tungsten (TUNG) has announced results for its half-year ended 31st October 2018, including CEO Richard Hurwitz emphasising “we have achieved much in the first half of the financial year to support future revenue growth, including the new customers that we have signed, securing our Italian SdI registration and our partnership with Mastercard”. So why do the shares remain depressed around 32p?...

VSA Resources is house broker to Bacanora (BCN) but has visited its operations and come back initiating its coverage with a detailed report, below.

I deal with the critics in turn. The former, a Christian, has me wrong, the latter, a knobhead, is an apologist for enablers of crime. I then look in detail at Purplebricks (PURP) and is inevitable descent to zero, and at the implications of the sad tale of African Battery Metals (ABM). Then it is onto Bonmarche (BON) blaming Brexit for its woes not the crass stupidity of the bird who runs this business of the wider macro picture which she fails to recognise could sink her business completely. I also comment on BCA Marketplace (BCA) and on the pre-Christmas plans of Joshua and myself for today, far more important than this stockmarket malarky.

A “Trading Update” from womenswear retailer Bonmarche notes its “forecast assumed that demand would broadly follow the pattern experienced last year when, during the earlier part of November, customers delayed purchases in anticipation of being able to take advantage of Black Friday discounts. However,”... Uh oh…

I imagine many readers are thinking about holidays at the moment, be it planned Christmas breaks or something in 2019. I see that TUI (TUI) shares are up 5% today as the company not only confirms a 10% rise in 2018 earnings but also gives guidance for 2019 for a similar proportional increase. Well...

Catch a falling knife, more like it, you might say applies to investment in Metals Exploration (MTL) where I admit that my buy tips/average down advice to date has not enriched anyone. What a never ending fuck up and yet, having got it so badly wrong I still haven’t given up hope. “:Bonkers,” you say, especially after the shares slumped 90% last week after an institutional holder, believed to be Blackrock, dumped its entire holding of 68 million shares at just 0.2p.

Having asked for readers tips for 2018 for the amazing prize of a meal with Tom Winnifrith (or the chance to fob it off on someone you don't like) HERE, the following updates on performance (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 2018)...

It has been a long time coming, but yesterday shares in AIM-listed gold producer Ariana (AAU) finally hit 1.6p, a price I was happy to buy up to. This latest rise was on the back of news from the company’s Kizilcukur project - 22km from the Kiziltepe processing plant - that a drilling programme is about to start...

Hello Share Swashers. This may be the first time I’ve written three wall-to-wall articles about any company. But yet more positive news has broken from Avacta (AVCT), the medical pioneer. And I think it makes considering this interesting share even more compelling...

Writing on graphene-based products company Directa Plus (DCTA) in September, I reviewed do road test & CEO share purchase merit the shares soaring? – concluding by noting “recent half-year results from the company showed a €1.75 million loss on revenue of just €0.57 million, with net cash down to €4.6 million. The shares have though currently spiked to circa 70p, capitalising the company at more than £30 million. Caveat emptor. Avoid / sell”. At 11:30am today, “Proposed Placing to raise a minimum of £3 million”…

Filtronic (FTC) has updated including “demand for the recently introduced Massive MIMO (‘mMIMO’) antennas is now expected to be substantially lower than we had forecast in the second half of FY2019”. This follows an October AGM statement including “overall market endorsement of the benefits of mMIMO is apparent… Our mMIMO programme is strategically significant and successful market acceptance of this product will be material in defining our near-term development”. Uh oh then…

I have already joined Waseem Shakoor in commenting on today's spoof RNS from Frontera Resources (FRR) and reiterating sell advice on this POS. Now it is over to the City's No 1 oil analyst, the great Zac "the knife" Phillips of shamed SP Angel who opines:

I start with young Joshua's meeting with Santa Claus as flagged up yesterday and then discuss a couple of other Christmas rituals. Then it is onto today's shocker from Filtronic )(FTC). I cover why the statement is misleading, discuss what is the real cash position and thus how quickly this could completely unravel. I then look at FinnCrap (FCAP), appointed Nomad and broker on November 15. Either it failed to do adequate Due Diligence or it has colluded in sitting on price sensitive information in clear breach of AIM Rules. Either is very naughty indeed. Which is it Sam Smith? Finally a few words on the leadership challenge to wretched Theresa May, 

A flood of interesting news out today on stocks that I follow…

No doubt the whore blogger Malcolm “Fat Bastard” Graham Wood is preparing to pen rubbish about how Frontera (FRR) has solved all its cash issues in order to earn his Christmas bonus. But today’s statement from a company that is technically insolvent means nothing of the sort.  The great Waseem Shakoor, who I have forgotten to ask about Newcastle’s 3-0 thrashing at home to the Mighty Hammers, nails it with the post below.

Rose Petroleum (ROSE) is “pleased” to have agreed a revised operations plan – this allowing it to drill its highest-ranked target first…

LightwaveRF (LWRF) has announced results for its year ended 30th September 2018, including Chairman Barry Gamble stating “your company continues to make considerable progress on a number of fronts. Excellent product endorsements, such as being described as ‘the best UK (Apple) Homekit solution for smart lighting’, amply demonstrate our proven technology, even as the company presses ahead with further developments and more international variants”. So why do the shares remain depressed, below 7p?...

Catenae Innovation (CTEA) has announced a first contract for a solution utilising its blockchain technology and updated on its such technology and announced a product launch…

Hello, Share Pickers. Occasionally, limits of space curb doing justice to a share I’ve high hopes of. This was the case with Avacta (AVCT), which I dragged to your attention this week. Allow me to add two further aspects to my view of this thrilling share...

I prepare for Joshua's first meeting with Santa in 2018 and discuss that. I look at Telit (TCM) and its latest wholesale breach of AIM Rules. Why does FinnCrap (FCAP) not care? I ask when FinnCap will have its first profits warning. I look at Purplebricks (PURP), Mysale (MYSL) and Bilby (BILB).