Shares in Safestyle UK (SFE) have recently been rising strongly but, on the back of half-year results, are currently around 20% down today, heading towards 40p…

Technical analyst David Keller says that the number one consideration for an investor should be price followed by regularly watching trends of many asset classes. He says, “Price tells you where capital is moving towards, while breadth shows you what bets are being made, and sentiment reveals what people are saying.” David gives some examples of breadth trends and why they provide a sneak peek into the markets’ operation.

Last night I revealed how, despite being warned that an article with ludicrous price targets for Supply@ME Capital (SYME) shares was fake, the CEO Allessandro Zamboni tweeted it out causing his cretinous followers to pledge to fill their boots today. Last night there was no sign of contrition but, I suspect, my communications with my good friends at the FCA rather focused a few minds.  So this morning we have an RNS admission of fake news from the company. It is not good enough for Zamboni has committed market abuse and should be in jail and it shows his company is a scam.

Yesterday, Petra Diamonds (PDL) issued an RNS which sounded like good news: “Recovery of Five High Quality Blue Diamonds”. Feck FYB thought the morons and the shares jumped by 10%…but this was dissembling. For beneath the bullish headline was not such good news: 

Back in June I observed about one of my tips of the year that ‘we might even see Playtech (PTEC) shares having a run at a year-to-date gain before the end of December rolls around’. After a huge roller coaster ride year-to-date, yesterday the share was just 10p shy of the four quid early January level. After today’s H1 numbers, the shares in the online gambling software development and financial trading company are more like 10% shy. So what is going on?…

OptiBiotix Health (OPTI) is “pleased to announce that it has has entered into an agreement with a US company for the purpose of large scale manufacture and commercialisation of a number of SweetBiotix® products”…

Hello, Share Pals. It’s hard to see why supermarkets are not scorching ahead during this pandemic. They’re among the few retail operations that have stayed open throughout and so competition for non-food items has been very weak…

Trading in shares in Supply@ME Capital  (SYME) cannot start tomorrow as the CEO Alessandro Zamboni has actively created a wholly false market by knowingly engaging in market abuse as I exposed earlier. I have written to the FCA asking for urgent action. The letter follows:

Well before 5PM today, I had alerted Supply@ME Capital (SYME) to a blatantly fraudulent press article pumping its shares with lies. The company’s PR man agreed it was a scam and said he had alerted the company. Yet within an hour the company’s CEO had sent out a tweet promoting the article to mug punters!. At every level this is market abuse and heads must roll.

Secure payment and customer contact technology company Eckoh (ECK) has updated including having previously “did not intend to propose a year-end dividend… Given the continued resilience of the business combined with its high levels of repeat and recurring revenues… is pleased to announce that the board has approved the payment of a special dividend of 0.61p per ordinary share” – and the shares are currently a further few percent higher…

Previously writing on company with a particular focus on risk management technology for capital markets KRM22 (KRM), I concluded that with ‘the noted cash/debt position, still cash burning despite significant cost measures in place currently and contract signing delays even last year, still currently avoid / sell’. Now half-year results and “New Debt Facility”…

In today’s podcast, I look at Supply@ME Capital (SYME), Berkeley Energia (BKY), Novacyt (NCYT), Franchise Brands (FRAN) and also at Versarien (VRS), its loathsome boss Neill Ricketts, the death spiral provider Lanstead and what it is not telling us all. 

On September 3, Papillion Holdings (PPHP), one of the (sub) Standard List dogs run by colourful value destroyers Charles Tatnall and James Longley, announced yet another RTO deal. Shares in the company, which is clearly insolvent, have been suspended for an eternity pending one RTO or another but will this move into gold mining go through? The whole thing is bonkers.

I wrote on ClearStar (CLSU) just over a year ago with the shares at 65p, concluding I wouldn’t want to own. Now “pleased to announce… a recommended offer to be made by Hanover”…

Lucian Miers: I wrote recently that I thought that Amigo Holdings (AMGO) was a prime candidate for bankruptcy by the year end. While I still think this is the case, I have closed my short for now as I expect a lot of volatility as this wonderfully entertaining soap opera reaches a crucial stage later this month…

You think of innovation and naturally one’s mind turns to disrupting the world of bread rolls. Of course. In this latest insight into how your hard earned cash is spunked by Innovate UK, it is time to head to Bolton and to bread maker Warburtons.

Gary Newman provided excellent commentary on Friday on the latest in the evolving demise of Hurricane Energy (HUR) from AIM O&G darling to AIM gambling fodder, while I was busy picking up my milk float and learning to drive like Ernie. Tom commented in Bearcast how he also saw a debt for equity deal looked like a probable outcome. I’m not sure I see the investment case even that favourably when I start to drill into the detail.

I noted on Monday how shares in Manolete (MANO) were tanking. So what to do? Natch, issue a panicked trading statement at 4.25 PM on Tuesday to reverse the rot. An unscheduled trading statement in the face of a sliding share price is always a bit of a red flag. And this statement was a total horror in the way that it boasted of the settlement of a major claim. It only serves to show how utterly aggressively this company presents its accounts and thus why you’d be bonkers to own the shares.

Hello, Share Baggers. A sad story of the moment is all those folks in Oregon who’ve lost their homes and their possessions. Could you live with that? The tragedy will focus minds on the value of water in that beleaguered state and its neighbour California. The shortage of rainfall over there has caused fires to spread and destroy.

First writing on Tex Holdings (TXH), on 16th April last year I noted “Update on Trading” three and a half months after year-end… and at 4:55pm!, concluding sell / avoid. I most recently updated reviewing proposed related-party bailout… but will it be allowed to return to the Main Market (even Standard segment)?!. Now “Delisting Announcement”…