Last night I was flamed on twitter by a host of Eurasia Mining (EUA) investors, a group who made your average Versarien (VRS) investor look like a true multi brained genius. I kid you not. One wanted me to hire him as a journalist as he had posted a few comments on BBs abour Eurasia and that, he thought, qualified him. Another said I couldn;t be a proper journalist if I did not interview Eurasia, preferably by flying to the Indaba coke and hooker fest. And so it went on. The fact that Eurasia lies to investors ahead of fund raises & abuses market rules in private chatrooms was dismissed as irrelevant. Anyhow this is a hint as to where to seek out a winning entry in this week's contest. What is the most moronic post you can find on the ADVFN, iii or LSE Asylums or on twitter? Entries should be posted in the comments section below with a deadline of midnight on Sunday 26th.

There are no guests in this week's show which is sponsored by Open Orphan PLC (ORPH). It is just me once again sitting in the Welsh Hovel. As I note in the podcast the reason why I think Open Orphan is such a good company with undervalued shares is explained HERE. In part one I look at corporate lying citing a number of different examples and why some lies matter more than others, some are red flags but not killers others are investment case killers.  Then I offer up a number of macro reasons to be very cautious on all asset classes this year. Do not believe the idea that Bojo will usher in the roaring twenties. He got my vote but that is tosh..If you like this podcast and can't wait seven days for more of the same and are tired of being a cheapskate you should listen to my Bearcast every day.

Previously writing on Netcall (NET), I questioned argues “board confidence in the ongoing success”… but how confident can it really be?. Today a “Trading Update” – and the shares currently more than 10% lower on the back of it…

It may well be that London’s worst Nomad, the Cambridge educated gourmand, Roland “Fatty” Cornish has, in between meals, invented a time machine. Or perhaps he is just not very bright but that the tutors at Pembroke College thought he was a jolly good fellow who had been to the right school and that the College VIII needed a bit of ballast in the middle? I shall leave you to decide.

In today's photo bearcast I discuss ADVFN (AFN) and London's worst and fattest Nomad, Optibiotix (OPTI), Plutus Powergen (PPG), Dods (DODS), Tissue Regenix (TRX) and Sosandar (SOS) whose antics are enough to turn a man to drink.

Well that is not something you don’t see on AIM every day. My share tip of the year at 4.6p to buy on January 1, Open Orphan (ORPH) now sees its shares, which I own some of, trading at 6.45-6.5p. But the excitement is only now starting –  the company is now saying that a £5 million placing at a premium to today's share price  looks set to be heavily oversubscribed. Let me explain what happens next.

A “Trading Update” from Woodford stock Tissue Regenix (TRX) – and the shares currently around 1.40p, down (natch!) approaching 20%...

The announcement today by Ted Baker (TED) that inventory was overstated by £58 million as of 31 January 2019, an overstatement of over a third of the revised number, was also materially higher than Board’s original estimate of £20 to £25 million will raise the usual questions about boards and auditors.  It also raises the question of what can the ordinary investor should do to protect themselves.

The #BoycottWetherspoons campaign by remaoning  Brexit haters continues to fail. For the first 12 weeks of the second quarter to 19 January 2020, like-for-like sales increased by 4.7% and total sales by 4.2%.  Take that snowflakes, stick that and your copy of today’s Guardian where the sun don’t shine.  Heroic Wetherspoon (JDW) boss Tim Martin once again did not hold back on a range of matters in the accompanying statement lambasting among others the BBC, CBI and the corporate governance bores run by a Marxist, PIRC. The great man opines thus:

A busy earnings Wednesday, so let us dive in…

AIM-listed Turkish gold miner Ariana (AAU) has delivered a strong set of drilling results from its 50% owned (via a joint venture) Tavsan prospect, part of the Red Rabbit gold project which is feeding its plant at Kizitepe. The good news seems to keep on flowing and the shares – just 1.5p a year ago and having bottomed out at just 1.1p in October 2018 – are now doing battle with the 3p mark.

After 12 years and 9 months on the AIM market doing what almost appears to be random things with fuel cells other than burn cash, AFC Energy (AFC) showcased its latest product - the H Power^TM Electric Vehicle (EV) charger - to retail investors back in December. This is clearly delivery of the IPO statement “The Company has a sole focus on producing commercially viable fuel cells”, or perhaps not – over 12 years to achieve no material sales?! Given the lack of success of its prior commercialisation ideas, and more importantly the operating costs associated with its latest ideas, I do not foresee a wonderfully wealthy future for shareholders. In fact I see nothing positive at all...

Hello Share Twiddlers. The great thing about a Footsie tinkering with record highs is that most boats float with a rising tide. This means that you can check on the share price of a sleeper in your portfolio and probably earn a nice surprise. This has happened to me with the BlackRock Greater Europe Investment Trust (BRGE)...

Previously writing on Lekoil (LEK), it was updates at 6:04pm… the sheikhs indeed fakes! Another massive scandal on AIM. Now it’s an intra-day, 2:29pm, “OPL 310 Project Update”…

Corero Network Security (CNS) has updated with CEO Ashley Stephenson emphasising “our strong order momentum in the second half of 2019, combined with our higher levels of recurring revenue and strong new business pipeline, provide Corero with solid foundations for 2020”. The shares have currently responded higher, towards 6p but that still compares to more than 12p at the start of 2019…

Suffice to say my observation back in June that Joules (JOUL) was a retail 'jewel' did not survive the Christmas trading season very well. You live and learn though and the shabby update from a few weeks ago centred on a ‘disappointing online sales performance due to an internally generated stock availability issue through the important end of season sale event, the cause of which has now been addressed’. And why? ‘Stock availability issue’. Goodness...that sounds so M&S (MKS)-like from a couple of years ago...

Both Versarien (VRS) and ADVFN (AFN) have been forced to issue major 'fess ups today directly as a result of my actions. I explain how both cases show just why AIM is not working at all, naming names why the Nomad system is failing you all and what happens next. And yes it is a day of fecking triumph for me and this website.

Having updated on latest quarter trading yesterday and stated that it “expects shortly to release its audited final results for the year ended 30 September 2019”, now “LightwaveRF plc (LWRF), the leading smart home solutions provider, is pleased to announce its audited final results for the year ended 30 September 2019”. Didn’t it know yesterday the “shortly” was going to be today?!...

In May of last year uber ramp Versarien (VRS) proudly announced a major US move. Unfortunately what it said was grossly deceptive and after I wrote to AIM Regulation last week it has today been forced to ‘fess up to this. Neill Ricketts is increasingly like the naughty boy sat outside the headmaster’s study almost every lunchtime hoping it is just another beating not a letter to his parents saying he must leave the school in disgrace.

If a trading statement needs explaining then it is badly written. Yet again Optibiotix (OPTI) stands accused of that. I really think the company should fire its PR PDQ. Frankly I could, and would, do a better job. As a result of a badly written release, folks are accusing boss Steve O’Hara of lying. He has not. Amid the confusion the shares have slipped to 50-52p. I have taken the chance to buy some more...