The most read non-Tom article this week is Royal Dutch Shell – are we nearly there yet? by Peter Brailey is at a sexy number six or at just past the leaderboard at number fourteen, including Bearcasts and Tom’s new shareshow. Which one is the best of the week? Tell me in the comments.

And now from Wales, by just 30 yards, it is my new, I hope, weekly video show. This costs 99p per episode, and you can either listen to, or watch, some sparky interviews with  Chris “3 brains” Bailey on his dirty secret, the real economy why UK shares are so cheap, on gold and his 3 top picks. There is also a detailed interview with the boss of AEX Gold (AEXG) who is not really 13 years old plus I discuss a new stock I have bought into heavily and also why Supply@ME Capital (SYME) has this week hoisted its biggest red flag yet, is a scam and is worth 0p. You can access the show HERE

Be careful what you wish for Mr WFH

I am in a bit of a rush as I prepare to head to Shipston on family business. But first I have to enjoy filling skips, making jam and gin and emptying the kitchen. Then I answer Malcolm’s question on target prices with reference to two companies you know well. Then it is onto the assumption made by dim Tories like Lucy Allan MP about how all members of certain industries would thrive without lockdown. I know the industry she refers to better than anyone and she’s talking horse. The same madness is demonstrated with the way the dim Tories chuck cash at Versarien (VRS), the folly of which I expose again today HERE.

Now that Versarien (VRS) has finally published its annual report, I have had a look and drawn out a few highlights. As the subsidiary accounts are not yet filed at Companies House, it is not yet possible to perform the detailed analysis of the results to show exactly how little the Graphene sales were as I did for last year’s results showing that sales were just £26,000.  However, I show below an indicative analysis by analysing the elements that Versarien does disclose and it makes for grim reading for the deluded followers of Neill Ricketts.

OptiBiotix Health (OPTI) is “pleased to present… results for the six month period ended 30 June 2020” and we have had a chat with CEO Steve O’Hara…

Jordan Roy-Byrne of TheDailyGold.com was discussing his outlook for gold with Kerry Lutz the other day, in the wake of Gold falling out of bed – and gold stocks worse so. He felt then that there was a little way to go in the current correction. But Kerry Lutz had a point…..

I don’t need to remind readers that Warren Buffett has a bit of a track record, having clocked up 20-odd % average gains every year since the stone age. There have been plenty of studies on his success, one of which was the book of “Buffettology” and the aftermath of that saw the launch of SDL UK Buffettology unit trust. Now, from the same people, the Buffettology Smaller Companies Investment Trust is being prepared for IPO on the main list of the London Stock Exchange next week. Might it be worth a punt?

From the FCA’s spreadsheet of short positions required to be disclosed to it, the following shows the shorted AIM shares with positions from 2019 and thus far in 2020 (by net short position %, those in bold not on the list at the start of 2020) – and if this position has increased (red), reduced (green) or remained unchanged (black) since last week…

Hello, Share Choosers. With the markets closed, perhaps we could look at the practice of brokers and tipsters to set targets for share prices. In my humble view, the concept isn’t worth very much. And yet it persuades so many punters to buy or sell shares on these

I think you know I am a bear of the con run by liars and market abusers that is Supply@ME Capital (SYME) but on the parallel universe that is twitter….

An update today that Integumen (SKIN) “has sought and obtained approval from the Panel on Takeovers and Mergers to extend the deadline for publication of the Offer Document. Integumen currently expects that the Offer Document will be published by Friday 9 October”. But shares in the company currently more than 21% lower at 31.5p – and in prospective acquiree Modern Water (MWG) more than 18% lower at 3.125p?…

I warn you that my Mahmud Kamani impression when he meets the new ESG director forced upon him contains strong language. It had to, to be accurate. I discuss, in this podcast, the liars at Supply@ME Capital (SYME), William Hill (WMH), Restaurant Group (RBG), Hammerson (HMSO) and Boohoo (BOO), plus my act of mask rebellion in Wrexham yesterday as I stocked up on loo rolls. You – and the Mrs – mocked me last time but it is better to be the first lunatic overreacting than the first sane person forced to pay £5 and limited to 1 roll each!

As you will be aware, I have today written to the FCA about the lying and suspicious share trades of Supply@ME Capital (SYME) chairman Dominic White. An eagle-eyed co-conspirator draws my attention to page 101 of the (balance sheet fraudulent) RTO prospectus from March 23 2020. I do not wish to be a pedant but…

A 4:30pm yesterday “Board Changes and Trading Update” announcement from UK engineering and construction company NMCN plc (NMCN). Attempted no-one watching o’clock? If so, it hasn’t worked – with the shares currently at around 250p (capitalising the company at circa £26 million), 24% lower today…

I have been warning about Wellesley Finance Plc since Sunday 17 February 2019.  It was the third in a series of articles I wrote about mini-bond lenders in early 2019, starting with London and Capital Finance Plc, then Blackmore Bond Plc, and finally Bassett & Gold Plc with the other three now all in administration with substantial losses of investors capital. Now it’s 4 from 4 – ouzo at the Sheriff of mini-bonds towers! And, again, the FCA has fecked it up when it comes to ignoring clear warnings and its basic job of protecting investors.

It has been announced today that Supply@ME Capital (SYME) chairman Dominic White has sold c£1.5 million worth of shares at 0.495p. His reason for doing so is a demonstrable lie and, as such, I have written to the FCA, as regulator of the Standard List, suggesting it suspends the shares to stop more boardroom dumping and charges White with market abuse.

SSince I am a loyal and supportive shareholder at Pensana Rare Earths (PRE), this video is naturally sweet music to my ears! And the video also focuses on the mega bull case for copper which, as an Asiamet (ARS) shareholder, makes me even happier.

Bluebird Merchant Ventures (BMV) has updated its shrewd investors with news, including that “it is expected that an Independent Expert will shortly be nominated under the terms of the Joint Venture Agreements with Southern Gold. The Independent Expert will make a value determination within 30 days of being appointed” and also “with regards to its gold project in the Philippines that has remained dormant since mid 2016”…

If Supply@MECapital (SYME) was about to announce price sensitive information as it repeatedly claims, how come its directors are share dealing like dervishes? There is another one at it today – chairman Dominic White dumping stock with an excuse lamer than a three-legged cat and, meanwhile, the market abusing CEO Alessandro Zamboni has been forced, by my article, to clarify his dodgy dealings of yesterday. His clarification begs more questions.