From the FCA's spreadsheet of short positions required to be disclosed to it, the following shows the shorted AIM shares with positions from 2016 and thus far in 2017 (by net short position %) - and if this position has increased (red), reduced (green) or remained unchanged (black) since last week...

As expected the full year results for URU Metals (URU) came out on the last possible day yesterday and, also as expected, they didn’t provide any answers to the questions I raised in my preview piece (HERE). However, that didn’t stop John Zorbas finding something new to get excited about and distract investors about the pitiful lack of progress here.

Hello Share Scorchers. There are still quite a few of our regular readers who can only glean the first paragraph of each article. Just to save less than £1.50 a week. Don’t they realise they would retrieve thousands of pounds just by following our warnings about dodgy cpmpanies they might otherwise stay with till the very end? I can’t understand human nature, and never will.

The only real surprise when it comes to persistent AIM failure Arian Silver (AGQ) is that some people thought that things were actually going to turn out differently this time around!

I have on more than 40 occasions called out Brian McDonnell as a liar and a crook and his disgusting fraud of a company US Oil and Gas (USOP) as an outright fraud which lies to investors. I see that the morally bankrupt London form of Alexander David has today raised another £700,000 for Brian to squander but do his shareholders know just how he squanders it. I have a tale that will shock you before I invite the cowardly lying criminal leprechaun to sue me for libel.

On today's bearcast I mention, en passant, an Irish crook I want to sue me as you can see HERE but then cover Big Sofa (BST), Conroy Gold & Natural Resources (CGNR), Mosman Oil & Gas (MSMN), ITM Power (ITM), Arian Silver (AGQ), Carillion (CLLN)  and Purplebricks (PURP)

Even by the standards of the City's No 1 oil analyst Zac "The Knife" Phillips of SP Angel this morning's note was a savage and brutal attack. Think of a hunter bludgeoning a baby seal to death. The object of the Knife's ire is AIM disaster story Mayan Energy (MYN) and the great man writes: 

Yosi Fait the proven insider dealer who runs AIM Casino posterboy Telit (TCM) because Sam Smith's morally bankrupt Nomad FinnCap does not care if its client firms are run by criminals, has served up a bullshit heavy (bogus) profits warning.

Well, well, well: last Friday I suggested that the fundraise advertised by Tern in an RNS dated 11 August which was expected to reach $2.5 million at first close by the end of September appeared to have run into some difficulty. A week later Tern has finally got arround to confessing that first close is now expected to be during October.  It seems that the company still needs a bit of help from ShareProphets Nomad Services.

AIM-listed Advanced Oncotherapy (AVO) has released its interims results on deadline day. The highlights (if that is the right word) come from the cashflow statement, where cashburn appears to be almost £2 million a month. And then there is the company’s statement of working capital which, although technically correct, is a grossly misleading figure.

Results for the first half of 2017 from PhotonStar LED (PSL) include that “during H1 2017 steady progress has continued to be made in transitioning the group into becoming a retrofit connected lighting and building management business” and that “we… believe… we are now well positioned to achieve the successful delivery of Halcyon” (the company’s ‘Internet of Things’ platform for retrofit into commercial buildings). The shares have responded, er, more than 30% lower to 0.825p…

ShareProphets AIM-China Filthy Forty play Aquatic Foods Group (AFG) has at last appointed a new finance director to replace the previous incumbent who left all of a sudden as the company announced it was unable to release its FY16 numbers. Good news...er, well sort of.

Crawshaw (CRAW) has announced results for its half year ended 30th July 2017, including emphasising “progress made against strategy to position Crawshaws as Britain's leading value butcher, delivering great quality fresh meat at the lowest possible price”. However, the shares have responded more than 12% further lower to 18p…

AIM-China play Grand Group (GIPO) has released its interims to 30 June – one day ahead of the suspension of its shares on the world’s most successful growth market – about which there was no comment at all! This is therefore the last call to gain an exit ahead of suspension.

Hello Share Crimpers. Dividend hunters among you may want to consider SSE (SSE) shares. The prospective yield of Blighty’s third biggest supplier of electricity and gas is a juicy 6.7%. It’s attained this jolly figure after increasing its pay-outs every year since the turn of this century.

We know how much you all like a good competition - especially when there is no prize whatsoever! So with deadline day tomorrow for interims - and a good few still being worked on it seems - how many disappointments will we get by the close of the RNS system tomorrow night?

Following my rare buy tip on Frontier Smart Technologies (FST) back in May (HERE), I am happy to update my views following the expected strong interims this morning. The share price is moving nicely upwards and there is more to come over time in my view.

As Tom Winnifrith pointed out on today’s Bearcast, there seems to be no value in contractual arrangements any more. Shares subject to a lock-in? No problem, we’ll sell them anyway. And that brings me to K3 Capital Group (K3C). Like Tom, I have no idea what the company does and frankly nor do I care. But I do wonder whether things are going quite so well at the company in the light of this morning’s news. It wasn’t the sales which concerned me (although that was bad enough), it was what came with them.

Main market-listed Entertainment One (ETO) is a company I had a soft spot for until not so long ago, but the voting results from its AGM yesterday leave rather a bitter taste – especially in view of the company’s reaction to it.

I have never smoked and have no plans ever to but I am enough of a libertarian to take the view that if individuals want to light up after knowing everything that medical science has discovered about tobacco over the last couple of generations then that is their business. And so I do periodically invest in the tobacco sector.