As a rule, as I have pointed out before, the stocks most talked about on bulletin boards make appalling investments. Gulf Keystone (GKP) is a good example of this and Tern (TERN) the pretender to the Gulf throne is also a case in point.

This odd one out contest is really not that hard. Just look at the four pictures below and say which character or characters is the odd one out and why. Post your entries in the comments section below with a deadline of midnight Monday.

On 18th October Paddy Power (PPB) announced that it would pay out more than $1 million to those who had backed crooked Hillary Clinton to win the US Election even though voting was still three weeks away. With hindsight was this a rather costly blunder. On the 18th Paddy announced on its blog

Yesterday saw Sky News unmask the mystery buyer of AIM-listed and over-indebted Igas Energy (IGAS) Oslo-traded secured bonds via the recent Dutch Auction conducted at 75c in the dollar – see HERE. We already knew that the previously un-named buyer had acquired a 34% stake in the bonds – enough to block any proposed debt restructuring that it didn’t like.

So far I have been wrong about Purplebricks (PURP), but despite that I still view it as over-valued at the moment.

Hello Share Stackers. Electrocomponents (ECM) is not exactly a zingy name is it? And I have a bit of prejudice against companies with names which seem clumsy and easy to forget. But nevertheless this is an energetic firm which seems to be going places with a few more big cheeses who arrived last year.

It seems as if the Governor of the Bank of England Mark Carney wants to quit. I list the numerous reasons why this poltroon should be fired at once. Then there is a discussion of the morality of investment decisions prompted by today's article on Premaitha (NIPT), last week's news from Avocet (AVM) and other issues.

I guess it is now more than 60 days since the fraud that is African Potash (AFPO) and its fascist scum lawyers at Memery Crystal promised to sue me for libel if, inter alia, I did not hand over cash in response to its menacing letter. Still, as I write, no law suit has arrived. Does senior NED Lord Peter Hain think this is the way ethical businesses should behave or is he just a money grabbing greedy bastard? We asked you for suitable captions to a the picture below of Lord Hain swilling at the trough and we had a number of suitable entries as you can see HERE. But the winner is:

The Guardian has reported that as of 2018 the NHS will offer free non invasive tests for Downs to all at risk women. This is great news for AIM listed Premaitha (NIPT) which is a leading provider of such tests. For it there is a clear financial gain but there is an ethical element here which as a shareholder but also a recent father causes me some issues.

I first commented on SyQic (SYQ) back in June (HERE) following a strange trading update and the emergence of a takeover bid from the CEO. It subsequently went into suspension having failed to get its results out and, following yet another extension to the takeover process on Friday, it warrants further comment.

And now to what has not, to date, been a good share tip. But it will be and at 9p-9.25p you should average down in Premaitha (NIPT) and buy. The AGM statement this week from chairman Adam Reynolds was upbeat.

Surely it is only a matter of time before cash burning and downing in debt satellites group Avanti Communications (AVN) calls in the receivers? Keen to assist and bring forward that great ouzo o'clock day for we members of the global shorting conspiracy, I have some more bad news today. Oh dear. Oh dear.

Flip Flop Ben Turney who is endeavouring to oust Clem Chambers and Mike Hodges of ADVFN (AFN) from the board of now de-listed Sefton Resources (SER) has accused the two men of "telling blatant and demonstrable lies to investors in Sefton."

I do not hold out much hope for this bunch and they should have heeded my oft repeated advice to sell their shares instead of insulting me. However it seems as if some Afren (AFR) shareholders want to fight on and nail the directors. In that - since I instinctively have no time for City fat cats I wish the Afren Legal Action Group (ALAG) the best of luck and if they can make the lives of directors who earned a fortune but failed, more miserable this Christmas that has to be a good thing don't you think? ALAG has written to its members thus: 

A couple of days ago I noted how the lamentable London Evening Standard had lifted a cynical bear story from five days previously without attribution and claimed it as its own breaking news. But the Standard is not the only lazy worthless paper on Fleet Street. We now have an even more blatant pinch and this time it is the Daily Telegraph in the dock. No wonder sales of MSM publications are plunging if they run stories that were reported elsewhere on September 27 as their own breaking news on 29 October? This is the tale of Quindell fraudster Rob Terry and his new vineyard funded by the Quob park ponzi.

I'd like to flag up this story, AIM PLCs ...Trying to bully this website will be your biggest mistake, at #15.

A slight tweak in the ShareProphets business model means that as of November 1st nearly all, of the e-books that I have penned will no longer be available for free on this website - you will have to buy them on Amazon. So you have just TODAY to get free copies of titles such as "The 49 Golden Rules of making Money from Shares" as well as the 49 Red Flags book and the book Ben Flip Flop Turney and I produced on how to value oil, gas and mining shares. The same applies to Zak Mir's crap e-book on charting.

In this podcast I look at the Hillary Clinton bombshell and what it means for the election and shares, something I cover in more detail HERE. Then, for the benefit of Paul Scott, I set the record straight on ShareSoc - I have every right to say it should not get the taxpayer cash it demands. Then I explain insider dealing and the difference between how I treated Reach4Entertainment (R4E) and Cyan (CYAN). Finally I suggest that heads must roll at Northland over the Management Resource Solutions (MRS) scandals.

Okay the world's best known investor in resource stocks and precious metals is talking its own book. But it does so persuasively. Over to Sprott.

It was good to see AIM-listed med-tech play Angle (AGL) announce that its CEO, Mr Andrew Newland, had successfully seen his sale-and-repurchase deal with Equities First Holdings LLC (EFH) mature at the end of its term, and that the 1.35 million shares involved were safely back in his mitts. Shareholders in Angle will welcome this – but so, it seems, does EFH. So pleased, in fact, that EFH itself released an RNS in celebration.