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Happy Birthday to us: Ten years of ShareProphets – the Most Read articles and Most Listened-to Bearcasts

By Darren Atwater | Friday 21 April 2023


Disclosure: I have no positions in any stocks mentioned, and no plans to initiate any positions within the next 72 hours. I wrote this article myself, and it expresses my own opinions. I am not receiving compensation for it (other than from ShareProphets). I have no business relationship with any company whose stock is mentioned in this article.


ShareProphets turned 10 years old last week, a date that Tom and I found so significant that neither of us noticed. Of the  40,250 articles we've published over the past decade, here are the 20 most read and of the Beartcasts, the twenty most listened-to. 

  1. Phorm – time to tell the truth about your Turkish Turkey

    In every country that Phorm (PHRM) operates in, the story is the same: initial excitement and share ramping, placing to fund mammoth cashburn, public outcry over its spyware and eventual closure. Now it's time that Phorm told us the truth about Turkey.

  2. Tom Winnifrith Bearcast 13 February - Mark Slater & other matters

    Sorry for the delay. Note to scumbag FT writers - if you wish to lift anything in this Bearcast please give an attribution rather than claim it as your own scoop. Dan McCrum you know what I am talking about. I know you work for the FT but that does not mean you HAVE to act like a total wanker. In today's podcast I discuss a chat with Mark Slater on China and various other matters, commodity prices, frauds, Mosman Oil & Gas, Verdes, Northern Petroleum, Aoerama Communications, Gowin New, JQW, Shaft Sinkers and Mariana (a scoop there if you want to steal it as well McCrum you wanker)

  3. Worthington Reports Tom Winnifrith to the police & talks bollocks

    The fraud that is Worthington PLC has issued a statement saying that it has reported ,me to the Police for publishing documents which it appears to concede are genuine. Thanks for clearing that matter up. Worthington says the documents were stolen although they make it clear that was not by me. Indeed.

  4. Quindell Portfolio: Buy - Above 20p Targets As High As 30p

    The 6 month plus recovery for shares in Quindell Portfolio (QPP), after a quite powerful bear attack on the company, is almost enough to make us forget that during the dark days of May there may have been some who were fearful of a terminal decline for the stock here. 

  5. Buy Leyshon - target price 22p

    While many Bulletin Board favourities have the reliability of a cheap deodorant, Leyshon Resources seems to be the exception that proves the rule.

  6. Vialogy AGM – A complete shambles with Junk Bond humiliated & losing it

    Frigging hell. It was worth getting up at 3.45 AM today to trek up to London for the AGM of Vialogy. Chairman Junk Bond and CEO Robert Dean both lost their tempers, fessed up to some real horrors and Bond described me as “The Disruptive influence at the back.”  Boy I had a party and the more Junk and Bob squirmed and seethed the more fun I had.  This company is a total shambles.

  7. Zak Mir's Bulletin Board Heroes - Featuring Bacanora Minerals, Metal Tiger, North River Resources, Rare Earth Minerals, Red Emperor, Range Resources

    Featuring Bacanora Minerals (BCN), Metal Tiger (MTR), North River Resources (NRRP), Rare Earth Minerals (REM), Red Emperor (RMP), Range Resources (RRL)

  8. Semi naked Quindell shareholder and contractor Kate Caption Contest

    One of the more surprising tweets I received last week was from a lady in the grim north called Kate  (@modelsforkate) who had for some time been a self-confessed Quindell (QPP) shareholder and did not like what I was writing so took nearly all her clothes off in protest and send out a tweet inviting me to “kiss her ass”. Whatever. It has subsequently emerged that Kate’s enthusiasm for Quenron might be influenced by the fact that she earns fat fees sending clients to its ambulance chasing whiplash and industrial deafness centres. But let’s still give Kate a platform. As such I bring you her selfie and invite you to post suitable captions below. Deadline midnight tonight?

  9. Bulletin Board Morons and share tipsters the Law applies to both!

    Share tipsters publish their views in their own name and declare a position in a stock covered. Bulletin board posters do neither. Most BB posters are sensible folks but some are obviously morons in that they think the law does not apply to them.

  10. Why Rob Terry should & will go to prison, 7 share tips & 6 shares to bet the ranch on

    The August Edition of UK Investor Show Magazine is now live and the cover story explains why the fraudster Rob Terry of Quindell (QPP) infamy should, and will, go to prison. There are seven share tips from Tom Winnifrith, Zak Mir and Steve Moore and the ShareProphets writers answer the question "if you had to what stock would you bet the ranch on". Amanda van Dyke explains why she is still a gold bull and there's more..

  11. Pissed off Bulletin Board Morons are too emotional

    Two weeks ago I was getting unmitigated abuse on the Vialogy (VIY) threads from Bulletin Board Morons. Life moves on and having been 100% vindicated on this one (I first said sell at 2.25p predicting that a greedy board would run the stock onto the rocks – they have and the shares are now 0.45p) the abuse is largely for Terry “Junk” Bond, the liar who trousers £100,000 a year as a waste of space chairman, and his colleagues.’ It is always the way.

  12. Quindell Bulletin Board/twitter Moron Competition – Week 3

    By popular demand this contest is back. As last week I will award a bottle of wine to the reader who posts up the tweet or Bulletin Board comment from a Quindell shareholders which demonstrates his or her stupidity most clearly - the entries last week were brilliant.  The entries in week one were also incredibly amusing. Whether that comes in the form of just not understanding how shares work, a willingness to believe the most errant nonsense or just plain ramping/peddling of TA gobbledygook, feel free to post away. As before Kebab cannot post his own comments as entries, we need to give the other morons a chance and he is in a league of his own. Meanwhile

  13. ZAI Corporate Finance is the new Daniel Stewart – a list of Bargepole stocks (its clients)

    As we know Daniel Stewart will stop being a Nomad tomorrow night and so shares in its clients will be suspended from the AIM Casino unless they get a new Nomad PDQ. So today China Chaintek (CTEK) announced that ZAI Corporate Finance had taken it one. FFS – Alarm Bells vicar? Due diligence? A list of ZAI bargepole stocks is needed now.

  14. Rob Terry of Quindell in his own words on a Full Listing and WHY DID IT FAIL?

    Rob Terry of Quindell (QPP) did a soft interview with BRR on 8 March 2014. You know the sort where the company pays to be asked easy questions. When asked about a full listing (which failed today see HERE) and how long it would take Terry said:

  15. Quindell & Himex – just a bit of background

    You thought Quindell (QPP) had gagged me with its threats? You misjudge me badly. When Quindell’s lawyers have read this please would they remember to ask your clients “did TMC contribute 41% of 2011 Quindell Turnover?” Think disclosure and bring on the legals, bitchez! Tomorrow I shall comment on the interims and then my wife arrives at the Greek hovel for our wedding anniversary week and I largely down tools until September. But for now I have started looking at Quindell’s biggest acquisition Himex. By way of background…

  16. Full expose: Gate Ventures, Gatewang, a China fraud on Aim and a sleazy Tory MP – Tony Baldry 

    Just when you thought that the AIM casino could not plunge to new depths I now bring you a full expose of the biggest fraud of the year, Gate Ventures (GATE). It involves a series of characters all of whom have been involved in AIM listed frauds before. Shares in Gate must be suspended at once pending a full stewards. 

  17. Hey! Microsoft! Fuck you and fuck you some more - re Windows 10.

    I am normally not so intemperate but Microsoft has really got this coming to it. Be warned: bad language ahead….

  18. Advanced Computer Software Group – Back Vin for an investment win

    Shares in Advanced Computer Software (ASW) have yet to perform since being written up HERE last month. The company has though since announced its second largest deal to date (and the largest contract so far for its Managed Services division), with house broker N+1 Singer reminding that the business “has one of the strongest track records of delivery over the last five years, in terms of both organic and acquisitive revenue and profit growth” and noting it believes “there is scope to beat current market forecasts and for the shares to re-rate further” - I agree.

  19. Who has been dumping Quenron shares? The insider deals Quindell does not boast about

    The Bulletin Board Morons insist that the calamitous share price decline at Quindell (QPP) is down to wicked shorters, me, the CIA etc. and point to the purchases of stock by the board. But folks you have been conned, let me reveal who has been selling aggressively (to you, you fools) and driving the share price down, it is the Country Club insiders.

Bearcasts

  1. Tom Winnifrith Bearcast 13 February - Mark Slater & other matters

    Sorry for the delay. Note to scumbag FT writers - if you wish to lift anything in this Bearcast please give an attribution rather than claim it as your own scoop. Dan McCrum you know what I am talking about. I know you work for the FT but that does not mean you HAVE to act like a total wanker. In today's podcast I discuss a chat with Mark Slater on China and various other matters, commodity prices, frauds, Mosman Oil & Gas, Verdes, Northern Petroleum, Aoerama Communications, Gowin New, JQW, Shaft Sinkers and Mariana (a scoop there if you want to steal it as well McCrum you wanker)

  2. Tom Winnifrith Bonus Bearcast: MPs lie about Buy to Let Changes George Osborne must stick to his guns

    MPs on the Treasury select committee want George Osborne to reverse changes in the tax treatment of Buy to Let. They lie about why they are bleating and they lie about the consequences. As a dyed in the wool capitalist, I explain in this podcast why, for the good of the economy, the Chancellor must stick to his guns

  3. Tom Winnifrith Bearcast Special - 21 stocks on my PLC Death List

    It is world gin day but I have not started..yet. Ahead of that this is a PLC Death List podcast special. I list the 21 PLCs that are on my list to be delisted or go to 0p by December 31 2016 and explain why. Enjoy...

  4. Tom Winnifrith Bearcast 26 Jan: lessons for the Rampers, Bulletin Board & other Morons

    Unlike yesterday's podcast this was recorded before lunchtime and, anyway, I am staying sober until after my presentation tonight when I might be less sober. Still there is a good deal of bad language in the Bearcast as I do a concluding section on Bulletin Board Morons in denial with reference on this occasion to Servision (SEV). I also cover more market abuse at Frontier Resources (FRI) as well as Independent Resources (IRG), Plexus (POS), LGO Energy (LGO) and Fusionex (FXI) - reference director's dealings.

  5. Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: The K to O of AIM fraud & a dire warning on property

    I start this podcast with an absolutely dire warning on property as an asset class. Malcolm Stacey is wrong just look at the most recent Begbies data and think about it long and hard. Then I continue my series on AIM fraud. A to E is HERE. F to J is HERE and today I look at K to O covering Kevin Ashton, Lawyer's Letters, Minmet and Mike Walters, New World Oil & Gas and Odey Asset Management. I stress Odey is not a fraud but I'm making a general point about fund managers. My Scrooge article I mentioned is HERE. The next part of this series is P to T - any suggestions for what Q and T might cover?

  6. Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: The outrageous lawyers letter from Roger Lawson of Sharesoc - and a response

    A formal response to Roger Lawson's outrageous lawyers letter will follow in due course. But in this detailed podcast I explain why the letter he sent is so pitiful and wrong and why I shall fight to ensure that his antics are exposed. It would set a very bad precedent were there to be any other result. For ShareSoc the implications of this case are laid out and it will not enjoy what is set to unfold one little bit.

  7. Tom Winnifrith Bearcast - the A to E of AIM fraud. Guess what C is for?

    In today's bearcast I look at the A to E of AIM fraud. It covers Advanced Oncotherapy (AVO), Boxhill (BOX, Cloudtag (CTAG), Daniel Stewart (DAN) and Eden Research (EDEN). Can you remember which two of those have sent me a fascist lawyer's letter?

  8. Tom Winnifrith bonus bearcast - more lies from Cloudtag, shares to restart trading Friday: SELL

    Cloudtag (CTAG) has released an after hours RNS. It beggars belief that Nomad Cairn has signed off on this shite, More lies to compound earlier lies but also an admission of more breaches of AIM Rules and that 2016 sales will be zero, contrary to earlier lies. It is all utter horseshite and in this special podcast I take apart this statement bit by bit. It is a bad day for AIM. Cairn you should be ashamed and is beneath contempt. Cloudtag has lied and committed fraud and its shares are a sell with a 0p target.

  9. Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: Grounds for divorcing the Mrs, 7 stages of grief (part2) & the stocks on AIM to short

    I start with behaviour by the Mrs which is surely grounds for divorce or at least enough to see her lead off in chains by the RSPCA. Then it is back to the seven stages of grief and how it relates to shares. Then I look at the most shorted stocks on AIM as per Steve's article earlier - but also those that should be most shorted but why they are not, i.e. Cloudtag (CTAG), African Potash (AFPO) and the slam dunk zero IGAS.

  10. Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: AIM Death List Update 4 - Four New Entrants, now 10 kills from 27

    On 13 June I started my 21 stock Death list portfolio - 21 shares heading for zero or being booted off the market - see HERE. Until now 27 stocks have entered the portfollio and I am claiming ten kills - not bad eh? Today I go over the four kills since the last update and add four new entrants to the portfolio. Do the Cloudtag morons really want to bet against me with my current kill rate? I review all 21 now current members. The stocks mentioned are: Worthington, JQW, Jiasen, Camkids, China Chaintek, Jersey Oil & Gas, Mosman Oil & Gas, Monitise, Outsourcery, Magnolia Petroleum, Arian Silver, Sareum, Avanti Communications, Daniel Stewart, Mariana Resources, Sefton Resources, Golden Saint Resources, Sovereign Mines of Africa, Afren, Wandisco, Tungsten, Blur, Auhua, Afriag, InternetQ, Servision, Igas, Cloudtag, African Potash & Slater & Gordon.

  11. Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: 7 emails from Julie Meyer's lawyer, IQE placing a dead cert & Doc Holliday either very right or 100% wrong

    Today's bearcast is a little late thanks to the amazing work of Brokerman Dan at the Welsh Hovel. Photos later. I start with the blunders of Julie Meyer's latest lawyer. Then I look at Chesterfield Resources (CHF) and other mining tiddlers and explian why Doc Holliday (a bull) is either very right or very wrong and why I think, but do not know, that it is the latter. Then more questions for IQE (IQE) including when is the placing? 

  12. Tom Winnifrith Bearcast 20 October - Fireworks at Globo Ahoy!

    Globo (GBO) is now the No 1 short on AIM and I explain why. Then I take a listener request - this is one off favour - and look at Messaging International (MES). Then onto LGO Energy (LGO) where I explain why the Bulletin Board morons are wrong and my target price is either 0p or 0.2p. UK Oil & Gas (UKOG) is heading down to 0.75p and I explain why. Rurelec (RUR) could well be a zero but is certainly a slam dunk sell. And then it is back to preparing my lecture for the lefty sociology students of the Mrs tomorrow "Capitalism makes the world a better place for all (Greed is Good)"

  13. Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: I just love it when my father in law and I talk about his birth in Madras, it so annoys the Mrs

    The Mrs thinks her dad was born in Chennai. I explain the relevance of this as I discuss Mercantile Ports & Logistics (MPL) and more evidence that has fallen into my hands suggesting that it is doomed. Elsewhere I look at Purplebricks (PURP), Angle (AGL) and the corruption of Fleet Street, Brokerman Dan again showing that he did not train as a journalist but as er..something else as he looks at Big Dish a stock where I have no knowledge or financial interest  I also look at the disgraceful news today from Nick "not for the many but the" Trew at Pathfinder Minerals (PFP) and at ITM Power (ITM)

  14. Tom Winnifrith Bearcast 12 April - I view broker Finncap as complete & utter bastards

    This concerns Premaitha (NIPT) where I feel misled and explain why I regard brokers Finncap as complete and utter bastards. Premaitha shares are a buy but it should sack Finncap now. I then move onto Gulf Keystone (GKP), Bacanora (BCN), Rare Earth Minerals (REM) and the pig Lenigas, Mariana Resources (MARL), Goldstone Resources (GRL) and Falkland Island Holdings (FKL) a company that has never recovered from being tipped by another complete and utter bastard, the uber-talentless Richard "Gollum" Gill. I am in a bad mood today and this podcast contains lots of bad langauge.

  15. Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: A Smorgasbord of Cr*p AIM investments & 1 I like

    A wide ranging bearcast today covers: Aurum Mining (AUR), Range Resources (RRL), SpaceandPeople (SAL), Harvest Minerals (HMI), Rosslyn Data (RDT), Cloudtag (CTAG) in the post fact era - Adrican Potash (AFPO) and Avanti Communications (AVN). 

  16. Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: Mad Bull Malcolm Stacey just so wrong about the stockmarket (again!)

    I am at my father's house in Shipston for my step mother's funeral. Their garden is magnificent and it is a wonderful day in this pretty Warwickshire town. Ahead of that I have a few words on the latest bullish offering from Malcolm Stacey - HERE. Malcolm is just plain wrong.

  17. Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: reading the Bulletin Boards to apply the Tom Winnifrith test

    I have spent the morning reading a few Bulletin Boards. I feel dirty in admitting to doing this as it is something I do very rarely and only when no-one is watching. Specifically I looked at threads on Cloudtag (CTAG), Strat Aero (AERO) and Advanced Oncotherapy (AVO) for instructive lessons in both human behaviour and also the nature of all the best frauds.

  18. Tom Winnifrith Bearcast Special: Dave Whitby of CEB Resources should be sacked and prosecuted TODAY

    Shares in CEB Resources (CEB) are suspended on AIM ahead of an announcement on Monday. That is because its CEO Dave Whitby revealed a stack of price sensitive data including news that an RTO was planned in a podcast on ADVFN with Justin the Clown Yesterday. Flip Flop Ben Turney is so busy blowing smoke up the arse of Whitby that he may wish to ignore this. Whitby has broken insider dealing laws and a stack of AIM Rules. He should be sacked at once, barred from AIM and prosecuted. If you want to clean up AIM you deal with those who break the laws. Whitby has broken the laws. The Sheriff of AIM is getting a noose ready...

  19. Tom Winnifrith Bearcast - the Great British house price crash of 2017 - its now underway

    Okay I have called the top before but the house price crash is underway. I explain why and it involves cutting off the supply of dodgy foreign buyers in London, changes in Buy to Let Tax and new costs for landlords, it involves external shocks and an over-borrowed British consumer. It is already underway and this crash will be brutal. I look at what to invest in and what to short. I do a short section on Purplebricks (PURP) which is one of THE top stocks to short in the UK.

  20. Bearcast 8th January - free speech deniers Quindell and other matters

    Yesterday 12 journalists were murdered by those who deny free speech. Today on the LSE asylum others who do not believe in free speech are at work. They may not be murderers but they are no less despicable. I start with that matter and Quindell and move on to cover Kenmare, Global Energy Developments, Tern, Igas, Sainsbury and Tesco, Touchstone Gold and Northwest Investment Group.

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