Praise the Lord indeed. Thanks to devout Christian Julie “Lingerie on expenses” Meyer we have been offered a new business opportunity. What do you all think? The email we received is below.

Having asked for readers tips for 2020 for the prize of 1/2 litre of Tom Winnifrith's Greek Hovel olive oil (2020 harvest) HERE, the following is the first monthly update 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 2020)...

Hello, Share Players. You have a better chance of making money from a company if it’s part of a growing trend. One of the most promising areas for expansion in this ever-complicated world is the massive warehouse game. More and more of us are buying online. That’s why the High Street struggles. But we are still buying objects and these have to be stored somewhere. They also have to be moved about and distributed. And if you can get robots to do the job, instead of expensive humans, it all helps to massage the profit...

Investors love to look for signs of markets tops, a difficult task, except in hindsight. A favourite of the GFC of 2008 was the infamous comment by Citigroup’s Chuck Prince in July 2007; “As long as the music is playing you have to get up and dance." Now we have another Prince, this time Bob, co CIO of Bridgewater, who proclaimed at Davos the other day that we have seen the end of the boom bust cycle (remember the great Gordon Brown saying much the same in 2007?)...

Last week I cautioned on shares in Fusion Antibodies (FAB), with they above 90p on the back of a “Trading update”. Today a “Director/PDMR Shareholding” announcement…

The question is not whether Versarien (VRS) will run out of cash but when? And that may well be within just a few months.in part it depends on whether it wrote a cheque for 750,000 Euro last October1, conveniently a day after its half year period.

SpaceandPeople (SAL) has updated commencing “trading during the final quarter of 2019 was stronger than anticipated in the promotions divisions” and “a multi-year agreement has been signed with Abellio to provide commercialisation activity in the Greater Anglia and West Midlands rail regions… Also, the Network Rail agreement that was due to expire in September 2020 has been extended by a further year”. The shares are currently at 11.25p – more than 6% lower on the day. Hmmm…

I am not saying Future (FUTR) is a fraud just that the way it has responded to Matt Earl's devestating dossier will make my pal, the King of the Fraudsters, so incredibly proud. At last someone is following his advice on how to deal with critics. I also look at Burford (BUR), Big Dish (DISH), NAHL (NAH),Nostra Terra (NTOG),  St James Place (SJP) who I suggest hires Elizabeth Holmes and Julie "lingerie on expenses" Meyer at once, Versarien (VRS) and Arden Partners (ARD), home of the China fraud specialist Mr Paul Shackleton of Naibu (NBU) infamy.

NAHL Group (NAH) has updated on trading including its Critical Care division “traded well”, Personal Injury division “marginally ahead of expectations”, “confirms that its guidance for 2019 underlying earnings will be within the range previously announced” and “the board is encouraged by the progress made in transforming the business”. The shares have currently responded towards 50p – er, more than 45% lower!...

I see Imperial Brands (IMB) shares are up today and getting back close to re-attaining the twenty quid level. That is great… but less than eighteen months ago the stock was almost at thirty quid. There are a bunch of reasons why the shares have fallen but - as I noted here back in November - there are a bunch of regulatory issues impacting the vaping growth area that have overhung the shares above and beyond any challenges associated with fading cigarette consumption in the developed world…

Someone has gone to some trouble compiling this rather long video of Show Me The Money, the daytime programme of the year 2001. I am asked if it brings back happy memories? Nightmares more like. Louise Noel was rather foxy but gosh the show was rubbish. And almost all the companies featuted on it have gone bust or just lost shareholcders vast amounts of cash. A warning to those filling their boots with today's hot stocks. It will NOT be different this time. Footnote, SMTM was the first time I met Malcolm Stacey so it was not all bad!

Over the weekend I flagged up more questions that are begging about the purchase of DMS Holding 2017 Limited announced by uber dog Toople (TOOP) on Friday.  So far no response. So here are a couple more for financial advisor Cairn, of Cloudtag infamy, to ignore completely.

Hello Share Chasers. Once the Tories surged back into power, you might have expected companies previously threatened by nationalisation to enjoy a big jump in their share prices. Well, there was some improvement, but not exactly a big jump in most cases. So it’s possible that the utilities, for example, could see some more jolly share action before long...

I wondered how long it would take before people started trying to cash in off of the back of coronavirus and pushing shares in small AIM listed companies that are supposedly going to make a fortune from this outbreak.

My guest in this week's show which is sponsored by Open Orphan PLC (ORPH) is my old pal, the Godfather of my son, the Bard of the Boleyn, Mr Lucian Miers. We discuss how a bear can make money in this market, Tesla (TSLA), Versarien (VRS), NMC Health (NMC), Rogue Bloggers for Woodlarks (please do sponsor us HERE), AFC Energy (AFC), Vast Resources (VAST), Finablr (FIN) and much more including a few of Lucian's top US shorts.  I also have a question about those who invest in frauds and who harass me and my family. If you are such a troll maybe you can enlighten me? If you like this podcast and can't wait seven days for more of the same and are tired of being a cheapskate you should listen to my Bearcast every day.

Goaded by Roger Lawson who, as ever, gives no credit where credit is due. Not! I look at the Premier Miton Smaller Companies fund mismanaged by Gervais Williams. The Boris Bounce has given Gervais a breather but he has used it for at least one more monumental bluncder. How long can the fund survive? And, on another matter, I ask you to be as generous as No Gold & Cathal Friel or just be generous and give something as the Rogue Bloggers for Woodlarks have now hit 2% of our target raise HERE. The top ten holdings of the Miton fund ( until redemptions force sales) are below:

The oxygen of publicity should never, ever be underestimated. As I noted here, after all the bad headlines and challenges associated with high fees and a dodgy self-serving corporate culture, 'there is only one way out of all of this for St James's Place and that is a root-and-branch business change which is driven by key managers at the top'.  Well finally we might be seeing this. 

I commented on Reabold Resources (RBD) in September, and in particular highlighted the company had some serious questions to answer related to the Gaelic Resources Ltd transaction. I note some 520 million shares being declared as sold in large transactions (over 15 million per declaration) on Friday. What’s going on?

This has nothing to do with shares or investing or anything. It's the end of the weekend and we've organised a quick pub quiz. Grab your own beer, there are no prizes, and for Pete's sake, no Googling! Only I get to do that. If you are so inclined, please enter your score in the comments. The highest score still won't get a prize.

My little list of slam-dunk sells for 2020 from the aim Casino has got off to a good start. One month in to the year, Tern (TERN), URU Metals (URU), Walcom (WALG) of the ShareProphets AIM-China Filthy Forty, Yu Group (YU.) and Catenae (CTEA) have already posted a collective 9.8% loss on a bid to-bid basis and at least two are already scraping the barrel to keep the lights on.