The trade of the week was to buy shares in AIM listed fraud du jour Telit Communications (TCM) at 105p. I discuss why this is not a sensible strategy although it paid off last week and when it will end in tears. The podcast also covers Rose Petroleum (ROSE) the sort of utter crap that is all too common on the AIM Casino. I look at where Rose is heading and it is more compost bin than walled garden. Warning this barcast contains some bad language.

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A chance wander through the NEX Exchange website (formerly ISDX and Plus Markets) market notices page saw me turn up a NEX Exchange disciplinary notice dated 11 August 2017. I wondered what that was about and who had been done over, so naturally I took a look. The good news is that one Corporate Adviser has been hauled over the coals for failing to ensure its client company kept the market informed about important matters. The bad news is that it is released on an anonymous basis by the exchange.

I had meant to resume regular bearcasts on September 1, but just in time remembered that yesterday I should have been celebrating four years of wedded bliss. So, in order to keep the Mrs happy, I postponed the relaunch until today. But now, not for those averse to bad language, I am back and kick off with an explanation of why shares in UK Oil & Gas (UKOG) are just ludicrously overvalued. That is not to say they might not go up in the short term but in the end they must, on current facts, be grossly overvalued.

Seeing a 1:52pm “Trading Update” announcement didn’t inspire confidence and indeed the announcement from media and entertainment-focused Reach4Entertainment (R4E) includes “the directors anticipate that EBITDA for the 12 months to 31 December 2017 will be below market expectations”. HOWEVER…

Richard Jennings of Align Research is, as you know, not always right. But then again, who other than the posters on the LSE Asylum are right all the time? On the matter of Providence Resources (PVR), Jennings was, history shows, wrong to have bought in the first place but he is right to again demand that CEO Tony O'Reilly Junior be fired. ToR Jnr has failed monumentally and will carry on failing, in my view. Jennings has written to chairman Pat Plunkett.

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...

Kefi Minerals (KEFI) has updated the market on the latest developments at the Tulu Kapi gold project in Ethiopia. All of the news is expected, but positive and reinforces our view that this is coming together well and that the value of this asset is simply not discounted in the current share price. Indeed with gold starting to move ahead, the shares look ever cheaper.

I really do not get this bitcoin shite at all, however much my pal Dominic Frisby tries to explain it to me. I just fear it will end in tears but I am cognisant that some folks have made a complete killing on it so far. In a podcast with Palisade Capital, sector guru Michael Pole makes some bold calls. Is this just the start of the gold rush or are we close to dotcom bust in 2001?

Hello, Share Trudgers. There are loads of indicators out there as to how a share might perform well or otherwise. One you may not be bothered with - but perhaps should be - is the inspection of company websites. Yes, I know there are more important considerations. But in buying shares especially for the long-term, perhaps mostly as dividend earners, every little helps in the assessment of your choice.

This afternoon at 1.38pm came another RNS from AIM-listed Regency Mining (RGM). Having dumped 26% of its holding in AIM-listed UK Oil and Gas (UKOG) as announced yesterday evening, it has dumped a further 34.7% of the UKOG confetti it got from the sale of 1.9% of Horse Hill Developments to UKOG.

Five months after its 31st March 2017 year-end, “creative audio-visual company” MediaZest (MDZ) “is pleased to provide shareholders with final results”. Hmmm…

I noted the other day that if I were Andrew Bell, Chairman of AIM-listed Regency Mines (RGM), and was about to be handed £1.28 million worth of UK Oil & Gas confetti, I think I know what I’d do with it. Last night (after hours, natch) we learned that Regency had dumped 26% of its recently acquired holding in also AIM-listed UK Oil and Gas (UKOG).

Yesterday shares in R4E (R4E) fell sharply after a profits warning and a warning that it may breach its covenants in the third quarter. I am a shareholder in R4E and happen to think the fall is way overdone, but that is for another time. I want to look at how it handled the covenant issue and what that tells you about the financial crime at Telit (TCM) - which morally bankrupt Nomad FinnCap is okay with.

Vela (VELA) has flagged up the fact that there has been more news from its TSX-listed investment BTL which has "launched the DX Beta version ("Beta") of its proprietary blockchain platform, Interbit." Hmmm, we could not really do 2 minutes without hesitation, deviation or repetition on that news but it has excited punters in Canada. Now here is where the maths starts. At 0.25p-0.28p at mid Vela is capitalised at £1.55 million. It has outstanding bonds of £550,000 so the EV is £2.1 million.

You may remember the strange tale of African New Energies, a private company that, as I revealed HERE, was desperate to tell you that it was going to be taken over at £3.50 a share but because it was run by such a nice guy was able to offer you a chance to buy placing shares at just 11 cents. A 44 bagger on offer in February 2017 - what could possibly have gone wrong?

Telit (TCM) shares zoomed by 30% yesterday back to 160p, almost the level before it emerged here that its founder and CEO Oozi Cats was in fact Uzi Katz, the Boston real estate fraudster and fugitive from US justice. The latest ramp is news that it might generate some sales from AT&T. Whoopie do.

A year ago, writing on engineering company Pressure Technologies (PRES) I noted “Update on Recent Trading” = Another Profit Warning and concluded to avoid at 140p. The shares have recently been around that level, but are currently sliding on the back of a “Trading Update”…

Oh dear me, how long is the shadow caused by the king of the fraudsters Rob Terry and his Quenron (QPP) monster? Slater & Gordon (SGH) the Aussie law firm that bought 94% of Terry's assets in 2015 has now officially been brought to its knees with the board all fired, and shareholders almost wiped out, as part of the end game announced yesterday in Oz.

Fleet and passenger systems technology company 21st Century (C21) has announced results for the first half of 2017 emphasising “significant improvement”. So why are the shares approaching 4% lower following the announcement, at 3.25p?...