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FFWD
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FastForward - On the ramp again, guess cash must really be low and it's placing ahoy

FastForward - On the ramp again, guess cash must really be low and it's placing ahoy
Lorne Abony must have needed a holiday because having been running at more than one RNS a week for most of the year things went quiet (relatively) in August and September at FastForward Innovations (FFWD), the second most self-ramped stock on AIM. But now old Lorne is back in full ramptastic mode with two announcements in two days at the end of last week.

Bear
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The Misys IPO, it is one to dodge and it shows we bears are right

Until it was taken private back in 2012 Misys was one of those stocks you did not need to own. Its track record was okay but not brilliant. It had a habit of letting investors down now and again. Its departure was not greeted with wailing and the gnashing of teeth. But now it is planning a comeback in what is flagged up as being one of the largest IPOs for many a year. Caveat emptor.

UJO

Union Jack - picks up new acreage: good but no fat cigar: BUY

The UK's 14th onshore licensing round came to a close today with the final awards of new acreage and Union Jack (UJO) gets a win from the process. Egdon Resources has formally been awarded license PEDL 339 in the East Midlands and if Union Jack pays 20% of the cost of the first well - which it will - it gets a 10% interest.

Bearcast
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Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: Why twitter could be worth $0 & a note for stock owning moron homophobes

I again find myself asking about the high correlation between those who own shares in the crappiest frauds on AIM and those who think calling someone gay is a term of abuse. Whatever. Of more import I look at twitter a case study in bull market insanity. It will not be "different this time" and there is a case for saying that the shares are worth $0.

NIPT
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Premaitha - FY Results: numbers academic its the statement that counts: Buy

Premaitha (NIPT) announced late last week its results for the year to March 31 2016. Given the pace of events here these historic numbers do not mean that much but for the record:

Newsboy

Notes From Underground: Giving thanks

Dear reader, it's one of the most important holidays on the calendar today, Thanksgiving. The real one. The Canadian one. Oh sure, next month we'll hear all about the US holiday and where to buy turkey and it's related treats, but remember who did it first.

Bearcast
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Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: the Collapse of Sterling lie...I blame the Tories & the BBC

Is Sterling collapsing? Well, er... yes and no. It partly depends on where we started? If it is sliding is that down to Brexit? That is far more of a no than a yes. So are the Tories to blame? As of last week, in part yes. Is the BBC telling lies because it still can't handle the Brexit result? Of course it is. Confused? All is explained in this week's podcast. And talking of lies my podcast I mention on Syria is HERE

EDL
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Edenville is all about the pump to cash in warrants

Edenville Energy (EDL) has long been a favourite of small private investors, but ultimately I have to wonder whether it will actually ever get to a stage where its projects come to fruition.

OPTI
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Optibiotix - another step forward to the Skinbiotix demerger: buy/average down

Optibiotix (OPTI) has announced the appointment of Martin Hunt as Chairman and Director of its majority owned subsidiary SkinBiotix Limited. Why does this matter? Because this unit will be spun off with a separate AIM listing well before Christmas. This is one of the last box ticking to do before formal confirmation of the process.

Bear
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Does Emollient Malcolm settle my nerves? No, but here are a few whacky ideas.

Malcolm Stacey kindly took the trouble to comment on my piece of Tuesday when I confessed to a bout of extreme nervousness in the wake of the FTSE100 again breaching the 7,000 mark. Answering my concerns the next day, Malcolm was still in upbeat mood. But perhaps not quite as upbeat as we might think: I sense that the ShareProphets uber-bull may be preparing the ground for a spot of nervousness himself, with his suggestion that the markets will continue to rise this side of Christmas. What comes after that?

PGY
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Progility - How does Wayne Bos reckon his related party deal of 3 years ago has fared?

Just over three years ago Wayne Bos was seen as the man who was going to turn around AIM Listed ILX. He stuck in a bit of his own cash and with the shares at c10p, long suffering investors were lead to believe that the future was bright. So ILX then paid £15.97 million in shares to buy Progility (PGY), a company owned largely by er....Wayne Bos.

KEFI

Kefi interims - the numbers are academic, the progress is clear: Buy

KEFI Minerals (KEFI), the gold exploration and development company has published its unaudited interim results for the half-year ended 30 June 2016. The numbers are pretty irrelevant but for what it is worth...

Pig
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The elephant in the AIM abuse room: expenses and corporate entertainment - hookers on the tab & the AIM awards

The revelations this week about how both Teathers Financial (TEA), notably HERE & HERE, and the former manager at Wandisco (WAND), HERE, have pillaged shareholder funds to allow management, their wives and pals to live the high life have been shocking. That the Teathers boys thought racking up a bar tab in one night which was greater than the UK average post tax monthly wage just shows how distorted was their value set. But this is the tip of a very enormous iceberg on AIM and among the crony capitalists who service AIM Companies. And it's all your money. I write today not to expose but to call for specific changes.

PGY

Progility – “pleased to present results”, shares down approaching 40% in response...

16 Sep 2016: “Progility plc (PGY), the Professional Services, Healthcare and Communications firm… intends to publish its full year results for the period to 30 June 2016 in the week commencing 26 September 2016”27 Sep 2016: “the company now intends to publish its final results, for the year ended 30 June 2016, on or before 7 October 2016”07 Oct 2016, 11:06am: “Final Results” announcement. All sounds a bit disorganised… and the shares slumped by 39% lto 1.6p, despite Executive Chairman Wayne Bos being “pleased to present Progility's results for the twelve months to 30 June 2016”.

Gold

Sprott: The Bull case for gold is intact

You cannot have failed to notice short term weakness in the gold price and hence gold equities. The world's biggest precious metals money manager Sprott thinks it is a blip and argues that the bull case is intact. It would. Sprott writes:

Malcolm-On-Motorcycle

Robots Play Footsie with the Pound - and Share Shifters Like Us Reap the Benefit.

Hello Share Grinders. The falling pound always seems like a disaster. And It is to holidaymakers and students who are studying broad, like my daughter at the moment. But there is no need to be glum if you are a shareholders. There’s no doubt in my mind that the current soaraway Footsie is because we have brilliant companies over here. Not!!

Bearcast
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Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: A new mountain jacket for my friend the IRA man

Why is the FTSE 100 going up? Ask my friend the IRA man about his new mountain jacket. Elsewhere I look at Tern (TERN) and make a general point or two, at Iofina (IOF), Progility (PGY) and at Sports Direct (SPD). Capitalism is always the most efficient regulator not the State.

CTAG
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Cloudtag. Don’t Blame the Insiders When it Blows Up

When Cloudtag (CTAG) blows up, which it clearly will, it will be easy to blame the insiders: the original founder Andrew Regan, the current CEO Amit Ben Haim and his associates, Golden Bridge Services Ltd and Preciousbluedot, owners both of large amounts of well -in-the-money warrants. That is what invariably happens. But it would be wrong.

NANO

Nanoco – “update on the timing of revenue recognition” just days before scheduled results announcement. Uh-oh…

Having in August announced, for its year ended 31st July 2016, “unaudited revenues in the year were £1.9 million (FY 2015: £2.0 million)”, Nanoco Group (NANO) has now made an “Update re Unaudited Revenues” announcement just days before its scheduled results announcement. Hmmm…

TEA
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Teathers Financial - More 4 figure Largesse as the boys go on the lash big time with semi clad young ladies

May and June 2015 was a time when Teathers Financial (TEA) was awash with cash thanks to an April placing. The only question was how quickly could the company's directors spend it? There was the shooting party and the General Election party but more was needed and on 29th May, the Friday before a bank holiday weekend folks were getting mighty thirsty.

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