Is now the time to buy gold aggressively or has that shipped sailed? What about silver, uranium, rare earths. We have assembled a panel of true experts ready to present to you on how to make money from mining stocks and all will present at MineProphets.com on July 18. You can book your seat HERE.

And now from Wales, by just 30 yards, it is my new, I hope, weekly video show. This costs 99p per episode to access and you can either listen or watch very sparky interviews with our Gary Newman on mining stocks to buy, why gold is NOT going to soar, a compelling £1.7 billion non-mining short and fishing shares, Harry Adams the boss of Kefi (KEFI) - a stock I own - and myself on why Cineworld (CINE) deserves to go bust, wont, but is a stonking short none the less. You can access the show HERE

‘Cardholder not present’ payments technology provider PCI Pal (PCIP) has updated that for its year ended 30th June 2020 it expects to report revenue 55% increased on the prior year and “we remain confident of delivering significant year on year growth in FY21”. The shares have responded slightly higher above 40p, but remain well below 50p+ previously reached...

Earlier today I flagged up an email t0o the great and the good from disgusted Chariot Oil & Gas (CHAR) shareholder Mo Majid which raises major questions. Now, thanks to Winnileaks I publish two of the 17 emails sent by Mo to the company and its evil PR spinners Celicourt wheich went unanswered. they raise grave questions about Chariot and also about its use of Fat Bastard, the whore blogger, Malcolm Graham Wood to ramp the shares. Enjoy. 

Shares in BP (BP.) closed the prior week heading down towards 300p but are currently back above 310p, particularly following an “agrees to sell petrochemicals business to INEOS” announcement...

The following letter has just been sent to the great and the good of the political and media classes and the creme de la creme of the AIM World. Natch I did not get a copy but it arrives via Winnileaks and appears a damning indictment of Chariot Oil & Gas (CHAR) and certainly would not tempt me to buy the shares at 1.96p. Enjoy...

Altitude Group (ALT), “the operator of the leading marketplace for personalised products”, has updated including “membership numbers are steady… with average distributor revenue increasing to c. $1m pa and aggregate member revenue of circa $2.2 Bn. Our VIP supplier partners remain unchanged at 175 from our last update” and “believe the company has sufficient financial resources and liquidity to see the business through to more normalized market conditions”. The shares are currently at 23.5p, 17.5% lower!...

AIM-listed online ladies fashionwear purveyor Sosandar (SOS) has released a trading statement covering its reporting Q1 from 1 April to 30 June. As per the trading and Covid-19 update provided last month, on the surface this morning’s statement appears reassuring, but is it?

Regular readers will recall I cheered Coca-Cola's largesse in splurging on the Costa Coffee chain from Whitbread (WTB) and hence when the company wanted some of those distributed returns back a month or two ago to invest into its Premier Inn hotel range, I was supportive – observing that 'a crisis is an opportunity and with many hotels struggling to survive, Whitbread pounds (or in Germany euros) can go a long way in terms of locations'. And it certainly is a general crisis...

After admitting I got Rockrose Energy (RRE) wrong and did not anticipate a cash takeover situation, Tom Winnifrith waved a P45 in the air. As anyone who follows Twitter or listens to bearcasts would know, this would likely have been a P45 with Darren Atwater’s name crossed out and mine inserted, such is Tom’s management style that we all on the payroll enjoy (at least some of us!, TW Note: Given that I fire Darren almost weekly, I really ought to fire Peter now for not twigging this was a joke). In yesterday’s bearcast Tom backed my judgement of investment cases on balance as being more often right than wrong. But one has to ask was he right to do so?

Hello, Share Shakers. We often say on this startlingly good website that a beleaguered company’s shares are defying gravity. But there are some outfits unfairly held back by the same unreliable force. One such firm, I suggest, it is condign to consider is Water Intelligence (WATR). And just like companies that suddenly stop ‘defying gravity’, a reverse process could take place for this enterprising venture...

As I write, gold is battling towards $1800 again. We are not there yet, but there are signs for optimism that the mini-correction in gold and gold stocks is coming to an end. When I use the term “correction” please do bear in mind that it can be a correction in price or just time. So what are the signs giving me optimism?

A “Partnership Agreement and ARTC Update” from data management and business analytics technology company Maestrano (MNO) – and the shares currently heading towards 6p, more than 70% higher!...

I start with the latest staue pulldown, Frederick Douglas, and what it says about the insanity of 2020. I then move onto Peter Brailey and the P45, re Rock Rose Energy (RRE), Supply@ME Capital (SYME), Iconic (ICON), Boohoo (BOO) and Big Dish (DISH). Tomorrow I record the first video for MineProphets, remember to book your seat HERE. 

Monday morning…and changes at the top of a couple of the largest UK financial sector stocks. Well - technically - only one change today and one to come. Let us deal with the latter first...

Fusion Antibodies (FAB) has updated with CEO Paul Kerr emphasising “distributor agreements will broaden our reach in two key markets” and “generated a panel of SARS-CoV-2 S antigens”. The covid bandwagon has though currently de-railed somewhat here – the shares presently back below 90p, down 14%...

There are some sectors where I am incredibly wary of buying in general at the moment, but amongst those there are companies that have the strength to survive the current situation with Covid-19 and will do very well long term, so there is an argument for buying them as an investment.

There are some situations in life where you want everyone to lose: a Manchester Derby for instance. The contest to be the next Archbishop of Canterbury is usually in this category. Which BBC staff get fired because of cost cuts is another. And here is another of these battles

Rockrose Energy (RRE) today announced an agreed all cash takeover at 1850p, which is a substantial premium to Fridays close of 1130p. I did not like elements of the business and called it a sell back in March and avoid at the May Share show in my chat with Tom Winnifrith. Given the share price was around 706p on the first call and 900p at the second– I think that’s called getting it very wrong. I talked Tom out of buying the shares and so have cost him £9,000 and as a result my career with Shareprophets hangs in the balance.

Drowning in debt Cineworld (CINE) was in a hole when Covid struck. It had agreed the $2.1 billion purchase of the Canadian chain but with all of Cineplex’s theatres going darker than Justin Trudeau’s face on party night, thanks to the shutdown, and with Coneworld’s existing 787 theatres also shuttered, going ahead would have been financial suicide.