I start the podcast with a few macro musings then onto the Lucian Miers stock check list for bears and bulls before looking at Argo Blockchain (ARB) and how it could be a zero by Christmas.

Two weeks ago today at Sharestock, I spoke about Victoria Carpets Plc  (VCP) and outlined the reasons why I thought it still had the makings of a good short, despite its fall from £12 in January when I last wrote on it. Although the stock closed yesterday at just 427p, the share price gyrations of the past fortnight underline why I stated that right now might not be  a great time to open the short. The shares raced ahead post Sharestock but are now 53p below the share price then.

Last week saw the extraordinary admission from Schroder UK Public Private Trust (SUPP) – formerly Woodford Patient Capital Trust (WCPT) – that it had messed up its NAV statements every day since late April. And we learnt that Link Group faces a further £50 million fine, to add to the £306 million redress plan for its handling of the Woodford funds. What a shambles.

Caerus Mineral Resources (CMRS) is a company that I tipped as a speculative buy when it IPO’d, and after initially performing well, the share price has since crashed.

The end of August is generally regarded as the end of summer here in the UK, but the official date for the beginning of autumn is actually September 23 for this year. It is a moot point for most, but not so for AIM-listed Advanced Oncotherapy (AVO) – which had been promising that its first LIGHT medical proton bean unit would be up and running by the end of the summer.

As we pass over the Equinox and the nights noticeably draw in, I believe that we are moving into a new era more than ever before. This is not only because the spectacular pageantry marking the end of the Elizabethan age is now behind us, but also because of several announcements from the newly formed Government and the latest deliberations on interest rates from the Bank of England will determine the success or failure of Liz Truss’s new government: and all this against an ever deteriorating global economic and political backdrop.

Arts and crafts, stationery, toys and books retailer TheWorks (WRKS) has announced results for its year ended 1st May 2022 and that “there is confidence in the group's prospects”. So what of a share price currently up to 37.75p?

Hello Share Munchers. The enthusiasm, some might say obsession, folks have with playing computer games from the sofa continues to grow. And though I suspect many of us can't see the attraction, that doesn't stop us buying shares in a thriving pastime. Keywords Studios is one of the better bets, I fancy. 

AIM-listed Jam tomorrow investment company Tern plc (TERN) released awful interim results to June 30 2022 today – there is no jam tomorrow! With negative net current assets and a loss of £2.4 million, a failed takeover and a cash-crisis, it couldn’t get much worse…….but it does!

Describing itself as a “disruptive and inclusive digital womenswear fashion brand”, In The Style (ITS) has issued an “AGM Trading Update” arguing “significant progress against several of the strategic priorities”. So what of a little changed circa 26.5p share price?