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Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: The common threads of AIM value destruction and Autumn Statement thoughts

I end with a few thoughts about the Chancellor's forthcoming Autumn Statement. I think we are at the "natural rate of Unemployment" and thus what is needed is not massive infrastructure spending and more deficit financing but supply side reforms to tax and welfare. Before that I refer to my earlier death list bearcast and look at the common threads that link AIM companies that will, at some stage, go bust.

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Thalassa update – Watch out, Acquisitor is back

I first wrote about Duncan Soukup’s antics at Thalassa Holdings (THAL) two months ago HERE and it’s worth an update with the aggression level’s stepping up at its corporate battle with London Shopping REIT (LSR) and also worth covering what I imagine would have been a pretty strange exit interview.

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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.

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Milestone Group – Is/was this the best example of a lifestyle company on AIM?

I appreciate that there are many contenders for the title in the heading of this piece but I do think Milestone Group (MSG) can make a real claim to be up there as one of the best examples of the AIM lifestyle company and, as a result, the recent funding issue highlighted HERE shouldn’t really be that much of a surprise. Please allow me to explain.

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Cloudtag versus Fitbit – its David versus Goliath but this time David gets crushed.

In this article I look at Cloudtag (CTAG) in comparison to Fitbit, a current world leader in connected health and fitness devices. Before we start looking at some hard metrics, let’s look at the first risk warning in Fitbit 2015 Annual results filed with the SEC on page 11 (reproduced below): 

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Hooray - I've got a tax rebate! Or have I.....

Well this is all terribly exciting! I've just had an email through to say that I've got a tax refund of £475.34 which couldn't be paid due to an invalid account record. Fantastic - let's see, what should I spend the money on?

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Notes from Underground: Get out the popcorn out

Admittedly I have been slow to get tickets to the circus sideshow that is Cloudtag (CTAG), yet another company in the little device that monitors your health consumer space. Team ShareProphets has been writing about this company for months now, commenting on its lack of product in stores and its RNSs promising sales in 2016 that have been damp squibs.

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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.

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Donald Trump to lead America off a fiscal cliff - Peter Schiff

Libertarian gold bug Peter Schiff is a hero of mine and in his latest note he makes a very vaild point about Donald Trump - he could well bankrupt America. Over to Schiff:

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Open Letter to Pat Plunkett Chairman Providence Resources

I cannot say that I agree with all that is said or written by Richard Jennings of Align Research but a letter he has sent to the boss of Providence Resources (PVR) is bang on the money. The time has come to fire Tony O'Reilly junior.

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Avesco & InterQuest - share tip of the year updates

As Tom Winnifrith described the 3:59pm Thursday “Offer for Avesco Group plc” (AVS) announcement; “FECK ME”…

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Cloudtag Moron of the Day - Ben Alcock

So Cloudtag (CTAG) has been shown to have lied on a serial basis to investors, its founders have made millions of quid dumping shares without telling us, it still has no revenues and may not have a product. What could possibly go wrong? Nothing for the increasingly deranged believers. Meet Ben Alcock, today's Cloudtag moron of the day.

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Table of shorted AIM shares - week to 18/11/2016

From the FCA's spreadsheet of short positions required to be disclosed to it, the following details the shorted AIM shares at the end of this week (by net short position %) - and if this position has increased (red), reduced (green) or remained unchanged (black) since last week...

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Shares Most Likely to Twinkle in the Santa Rally

Hello Share Seekers.  In the uncertainties of the big share world, nothing is more sure than the usual fact that stocks rise in the run up to Christmas and even if this is a more spooky world than normal with Trump, Brexit, a new Cold War and the rest, I bet a pound to a penny that the big city will see a Santa Rally, according to tradition.

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Today 2 PM ...TWO share tips from the "Maverick Tipster" - this is not about Donald Trump!

I do not know about you but I am starting to feel a bit Trumped out. And I actually wanted him to beat crooked Hillary. But the papers and TV screens are just so full of the man, what he is doing and what it means for us all. Is the Donald good for shares or bad? What about gold? Or bonds? Or house prices? Or the chances of England winning the World Cup? The truth is that no-one really knows any of the answers... except that England won't win the World Cup.

Bearcast
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Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: Gold. Always believe in your soul. You've got the power to know. You're indestructible

In this podcast I discuss why Mkango (MKA) failed to impress me in such a major way last night and then I look at gold stocks in general and Condor (CNR) specifically before explaining how to assess when a cash burner will have to place.

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Eagle Eye Solutions – seeks to emphasise ‘accelerated growth’, but looks to be cash crunch ahoy!

An AGM update from Eagle Eye Solutions (EYE) commences “the year ended 30 June 2016 saw continued progress against the group's strategic and operational objectives. The significant contracts won and the developments to our software platform mean that we entered FY17 with strong momentum”. Sounds promising, but…

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The Chairman's Blog 21: Sir Benjamin Dover of Global Mining Endeavours is back after a workplace injury

Following the example set by Paul Warwick the chairman of worthless penny stock Andalas (ADL) in starting a blog, Sir Ben Dover of AIM listed Global Mining Endeavours has decided to follow suit and like Paul promises to be candid in his approach. Blog number twenty one....

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Watch where you are buying - the placing frenzy on AIM is stunning & tells you two things

I was struck by a number of conversations I enjoyed during my trip to London this week with brokers on the sell side and also bucket shop investors - they are rushed off their feet. This is confirmed by the comment below from Andrew Monk of VSA and it tells you two things very clearly. Take heed, you have been warned.

GAH
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SCANDAL: PWC lays bare the £60 million black hole at Gable and the massive regulatory failure on AIM

PriceWaterhouseCcoopers, PWC, is acting as administrator to the subsidiaries of Gable Holdings (GAH) and has published a damning report making clear the black hole that has existed there since the start of the year. The shares were suspended only on September 12. This is a scandalous failure on the part of Nomad Zeus and the Oxymorons at AIM Regulation.

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