Last writing on marketing services group System1 (SYS1), the former BrainJuicer Group, I concluded with the shares at 530p that I’d currently continue to avoid. Following recent results for the six months ended 30th September 2017, the shares are presently further lower, towards 400p…

Hello, Share Crimpers. My wife’s self-trading ISA account, which I monitor and occasionally advise upon, has done better than my own. Which is a jolly good job because one of my choices on her behalf was JKX (JKX), the oil company. This was a long time ago and since then the share price has gradually fallen. But…

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I start with Starcom (STAR) whose statement as it announces a placing is pure unadulterated bullshit. Do the crony capitalists who put this shite out take us all for morons? Then it is onto Altitude (ALT) whose shares are up by 19% today valuing the company at £32 million. Maybe I am thick ( don't comment on that!) but I just cannot get my head around that valuation and explain why. Finally onto Altona Energy (ANR) and related ramp Uru Metals (URU). This is the latest POS to get the full ramp treatment and I explain why its share price is absurd.

Okay we have been bullish on this one since the shares were 8p – when we bought our shares –  but it has not raced ahead in recent months as much as we would have expected. The market simply has not appreciated the importance of recently announced deals and also the business model. Once it does, and that will come as other big deals are announced, the shares will move ahead very sharply indeed.

Following a July profit warning hitting the shares from above 60p and an August HMRC assessment from above 50p, there has now been an “HMRC update” announcement from waste management company Augean (AUG)…

Shares in uber-ramped Echo Energy (ECHO) were suspended today after a sharp share price move on Friday forced an admission from the company. Hmmmm, heavy share dealing just before a big announcement. But this is AIM, the world's most successful growth market so that is just a total coincidence just like it always is on the casino. Move along gents..nothing to see.

If you are not a Primary Bid member you should join now HERE. Friday's deal by Ascent Resources (AST) shows why. The £1 million placing was announced at just after hours on Friday at 1.66p. Now look what happened...

Writing less than two weeks ago on LightwaveRF (LWRF), my conclusion included the latest announcement has currently helped the shares back above 19p. However, this compares to more than 29p reached last month – the market also questioning cash crunch ahoy? And is this latest thus “fantastic to confirm” as it will aid a fundraising? There is now a “Proposed Placing to raise £5 Million & Open Offer” announcement – and the shares are currently down to 16.5p…

Last week Chinese leader Xi Jinping became the third ruler in the communist country’s history to have his named enshrined in its constitution and the first to receive this honour while still alive. In 1947 the US announced the Marshall plan to help to rebuild the devastated economies of Western Europe. America was much more generous with its aid 70 years ago, but the plan was not just about charity. American companies needed consumers overseas to have enough money to buy their products, and Harry Truman wanted to tie the recipient countries in Western Europe into a military alliance to counter the threat from the Soviet Union. The modern version of the Marshall Plan is Xi’s Belt and Road initiative...

Hello Share Snackers. Once again, at the risk of irritating this website’s very good friend Wildrides, I turn to another British bank. Though it’s hated by many share shifters because of its ten year old wallow in the depths of despond, RBS (RBS) at last shows signs of a more permanent recovery.

Tonight Tom Winnifrith serves up a special share tip and a bearcast special (one of three bearcasts today) only on ShareProphets. To access that tip ands the bearcasts you have to be a paid subscriber to ShareProphets. It only costs you £5.99 a month to get access which works out at sub 2p per article. Think how much our big red flag calls on the AIM frauds have saved you and hot tips like IQE have made you. Its a nil brainer....it's madness not to sign up especially with those THREE bearcasts and a hot share tip from Tom coming up today.

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The macro case as to why today's share tip could really be very exciting indeed is explained in full in the accompanying bearcast. Enjoy. But what you want is the share tip.

Here we are again, with the last days of the month playing out and (as yet) no word from ShareProphets AIM-China Filthy Forty poster-boy Aquatic Foods Group. It missed the June 30^th deadline to file its FY16 accounts and each month since then we’ve been promised news next month.

There is a bit of background reading and listening for this bearcast: the graphs from the start of the big short HERE and the macroeconomics in yesterday's bearcast HERE. Then it is onto the 10 stocks to sell or short ahead of the first UK base rate rise in years which will happen in this week coming up. I explain why the following ten should be dumped or shorted:

What makes the UK Investor Show easily the top one day conference for those who want to make money from shares? Two things.

Recent weakness in precious metal prices is creating some great opportunities in the equities which are affected by this, and has resulted in some mining shares dropping back to a share price level where they offer good risk versus reward.

Collagen Solutions (COS) has updated on trading for its half year ended 30^th September 2017, disappointingly including that “our first half revenues have been impacted by revenue recognition issues (£150,000) and anticipated orders which, for various reasons, have either not materialised or have been delayed by our customers' own internal issues (2016 equivalent £341,000)”…

This is a two part bearcast. In part one I discuss what is the biggest single investment we have made for a couple of years which comes back to the market this week. I explain why I am excited and why we have gone in big. Then I pick up on Malcolm Stacey's article yesterday on Day Trading. A) Don't do it and B) why this is one of many signs that remind me of the latter stages of the 2001 bull market. I recount my failings as a whistleblower then and why I am so depressed by the sordid antics of today's AIM

Investors in various Jim Mellon connected companies such as FastForward Innovations (FFWD) and Port Erin Biopharma (PEBI) may be interested in this analysis of Diabetic Boot Company’s latest six-month accounts to 31 December 2016. The bad news is that it is still losing a fortune although the good news is that at least Mr Mellon is now largely funding it himself.