13 days ago
My thoughts on the promotion from the AQSE lobster pot to the Main Market are HERE. But with the sky full of soon to be exercised 2.5p warrants my NBF Andrew Webley rang the opening bell at the LSE today. Please provide a suitable caption in the comments section below.
13 days ago
This morning my NBF Andrew Webley of the Smarter Web Company (SWC)ran the opening bell for the LSE to mark Smarter’s move from AQSE to the Main Market. This sort of ceremony is, I think, an import from the USA and like Trick or Treat, Lloyd Grossman and Ellen DeGeneres I rather regret the import. But what does the move say about the shares and the wider markets?
18 days ago
As this website exposed, Wildcat Petroleum (WCAT) lied with its very first RNS when it joined the main market at 1p just over five years ago. It claimed to have raised cash before joining but its later published annual reported showed that it had not. The cash came in after the IPO once spivs had flipped the stock as the company, floated as an oil explorer, spoofed mugs with a supposed foray into blockchain taking the shares to almost 4p. Today there is a a killer admission, in fact four killers and the shares are just 0.055p, a market cap of a Bernie and a Half. That is far too high..
20 days ago
According to the LSE the 559 companies on the AIM Casino, the self styled world’s most successful growth market, have a combined market cap of c#42 billion. Well up to a point. The past 2 days have seen two of the largest companies announce they are off to the Main Market this year.
27 days ago
When I last wrote about much pumped AQSE penny dreadful WeCap (WCAP) on 12 January 2026 its share price was 1.875 pence mid, currently the share price is a mid price of 1.01 pence. The collapse is only beginning.
48 days ago
You really could not make this shit up. It is a surreal creation of nonsense on stilts brought to you by Andrew Monk of VSA Capital (where I am an unwitting shareholder). Stack Holdings (STAK) was a crypto play on AQSE formerly called Kasei Digital
51 days ago
In various guises and under various management teams I have always been a perma bear of AQSE listed Valereum (VLRM). Its shares were suspended on December 17 when advisor First Sentinel quit with immediate effect. Valereum said that a replacement would be found soon. So far…crickets.
55 days ago
I discuss my only AQSE holding Probiotix (PBX) and then the value pick suggested by Liverpool's greatest numbers man since Ken Dodd, the bull and the bear case.
57 days ago
It may happen and I may buy shares, not that they are cheap, to assist in sacking almost all of the directors. I discuss that, turning 58 today and The Smarter Web Company (SWC) as my new best friend seeks to upgrade from the AQSE Lobster pot to the Main Market.
62 days ago
As Amazing AI (AAI) today departs the AQSE lobster pot with its shares, listed at 80p just two years ago, having been suspended at 0.27p, I look back on all the articles I have published about a bezzle run by a man who tweeted that he wished my mother had killed herself earlier. In order of descending popularity...enjoy.
66 days ago
I covered the IPO of FalconEdge (EDGE) on AQSE on October 31 HERE. You may remember the dishonest promotion of it by the tattooed lady, PR genius Steffi ( on a £36,000 a year NED screw) and how insiders got in at 0.0067p just two months before an essentially dormant company raised cash at 1.034p. The shares are now 1p valuing the shitshow at c£10 million on a fully diluted basis although its cash backing is now well under £2 million and falling fast. But heck it is bitcoin advisory and investment so who cares?
92 days ago
Showing Skinbiotherapeutics (SBTX) levels of contempt for its shareholders in terms of AGM timings is AQSE listed Cardiogeni (CGNI) which listed at 147p on January 31 2025 and whose shares are now 5p to sell. It states that its AGM will e on 31 December, New Year’s Eve, at 10 AM in Stratford Upon Avon. This is another bastard creation of struck off dentist Ajan Rejinald and I have called this out as a dog from the start.
96 days ago
The loans business behind Amazing AI (AAI) had already listed on three Exchanges before it joined AQSE at 80p per share less than two years ago. Each time it racked up huge losses and delisted costing shareholders everything. For some reason Liam Murray at Cairn thought it would be different this time. Today, with the shares suspended at 0.275p after advisor Guild quit because of the weaponization of suicide tweet, Amazing says it plans to leave AQSE. But its defamatory statement makes no sense at all.
96 days ago
Yesterday I flagged up that Amazing AI (AAI) was again planning an Investor Meet Presentation and suggested that anyone doing business with a scumbag who weaponized my mum’s suicide had no moral compass. Zak Mir may still be “liking” X posts by Amazing but it seems that other advisors and enablers are abandoning ship. Marc Downes you are my first hero of the day.
97 days ago
It seems that for the 3rd time in six weeks Amazing AI (AAI) is set to appear on the Investor Meet platform. I wonder how much Investor Meet is trousering for platforming Paul Mathieson who most of the City is rushing to cold shoulder. I called Investor and spoke to its CEO Marc Downes following it up with the email below. Downes seems to think that both Amazing and I have equally valid two sides to a story. He had not bothered to fund out why Guild had quit as advisor last week. Giving moral equivalence to a man who publicly weaponises the suicide of a woman and to the son of that woman is despicable but that is the position Downes seems to take. My email , copying in my lawyers, reads:
128 days ago
Amazing AI (AAI) the AQSE listed dog, majority owned by CEO Paul Mathieson, who risibly describes it as “a global fintech group specialising in online consumer loans and AI finance-related services” is undergoing a significant ramping exercise at present.
130 days ago
Cassiopeia, the PR firm run by PR genius Steffi ( Stefania Barbaglio) employs only one person (Steffi) according to its last annual report. But it still tweets as “we” in the most ridiculous fashion as I noted HERE. Yesterday a tweet caught my eye regarding the November 5 IPO of Falconedge PLC. I am made almost nauseous by what I have discovered. Steffi tweets:
137 days ago
Comrade Richard Poulden is no longer involved with Valereum (VLRM) the AQSE listed dog that he, his bromantic partner Dave Lenigas and brown envelope man Zak Mir pumped with claims of a 100p or 200p valuation. Investors who bought into that pump did their conkers and the shares are now 4.375p with a new band of scholars and gentlemen on board, lead by CEO Gary Cottle.
143 days ago
Shares in The Smarter Web Company (SWC), 660p just three months ago, closed Friday at just 55.5p.Grifter Andrew Webley was urging folks to buy all the way down insisting that new valuation metrics made the shares look cheap. The grifter is still at it, and still misleading his flock, as I shall demonstrate later.
169 days ago
One of those colourful characters from the London Small cap world shown in yesterday’s bearcast expose to have engaged with the now twice convicted fraudster Ron Bauer is our own Gavin Burnell of Globo infamy. He is also the managing director of AQSE listed Hot Rocks Investments (HRIP). Gavin owned 29.54% of the shares at 31 March 2024 and a Jonathan Bellis owned 15.5%. Yes that is the King of the spivs in the small cap broking community, currently plying his filthy trade at bucket shop Novum.
193 days ago
Zak Mir’s Lift Global Ventures (LFT) has not addressed the pressng issue, exposed here yesterday, of a legal claim that could wipe out its dwindling cash reserves. And some. With the shares trading less often than West Ham manage to win a game maybe nobody at AQSE Regulation cares about the possibility of bankruptcy. The core business of Mir and Lift Global, pumping penny dreadfuls in return for undeclared brown envelopes continues apace.
196 days ago
Today's fleecing of the sheeple is at 193p and has brought in just £3.7 million. The Smarter Web Company (SWC) shares are now 142p. the bubble is deflating ever faster and the Reverend Carter needs to pray harder. I discuss and have a question for AQSE Regulation..
204 days ago
I covered the latest Jerry Keen feck up that is Cel AI (CLAI) here. It has raised #10 million but in doing so found itself set to be slung off the Main Market so is heading to the AQSE lobster pot, a move touted as a triumph by those paid to promote but which others can see as a disaster. Now it seems that Keen’s Oak Securities is starting to spill the beans. How is the FCA not all over this?
213 days ago
I have written to the Honours Forfeiture Committee about Zak Mir's chum earlier today. But the real question is for AQSE Regulation: how on earth do you allow this man to run a listed company?
219 days ago
According to AQSE listed Shortwave Life Sciences (PSY), Rolf Gerritsen is "an entrepreneurial executive, with outstanding strategic, organisational, commercial and financial skills with an exceptional delivery record developed over the last 30 years. His core strengths included strategy development, implementation and sourcing capital for growth companies, special situations and restructuring opportunities.” Advisor Peterhouse which signed off on that claim on Tuesday as Rolf was appointed chairman and Peterhouse raised £250,000 might think that but I can’t think why.
235 days ago
The AIM market has attracted a new company, namely Rent Guarantor Holdings Plc (RGG) which this morning announced that it will leave the AQSE Lobster Pot on 15 August and join the AIM Casino on the same date.
256 days ago
On the surface of it TAP Global (TAP) which has moved markets today does not look an outrageously bad investment but today’s RNS fails to mention one humungous red flag.
256 days ago
Amazing AI (AAI) is, as I have, repeatedly, pointed out before, a company that has listed on 3 other markets and gone tits up thrice before it joined AQSE. It has lied repeatedly about what it does and its net cash position is less than what my son Joshua has in his piggy bank. AQSE Regulation should have slung this off the market eons ago, as I suggested, but it and corporate advisor Liam “the toke” Murray seemed to know better. But overnight the shares were suspended citing AQSE Rule 5.1.
259 days ago
If this is not a sign of the true insanity of the bitcoin in treasury madness, what is? Amazing AI (AAI) listed on AQSE 18 months ago as an online loan shark but lied about having an actual business. In March it changed its name from Investment Evolution Credit to jump on the AI bandwagon. It has almost no net cash, having had to borrow £100,000 from its CEO but having raised just £122,000 the other day. But at 8.5p, up 100% today as it jumps on a new bandwagon, it is capitalised at £7.53 million. Insanity.
266 days ago
The madness continues. The latest company jumping on the shitcoin in treasury bandwagon is AQSE listed Vault Ventures (VULT) which at 0.045p is now capitalized at c£5 million. Vault was formerly Meme Vault, formerly Pitch Pit – it has changed names and business strategies almost as many times as I have enjoyed inappropriate thoughts about Cheryl Cole.
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V22 was a Plus (now AQSE) listed company that invested in contemporary art. I quite liked its fragrant founder Tara Cranswick who seemed to know her stuff and so put in a five figure sum. Today I conclude that although I will probably get my original cash back after more than fifteen years, I have been mugged. Can anyone explain why I am wrong?
321 days ago
Actually I do not. AQSE Regulation has shown over its failure to deal with the prospectus fraudsters still running Eight Capital Partners (ECP) that they are just as useless as the Oxymorons at AIM regulation. I bet both are pretty hot on sniffing out directors who might have made a sexist or transphobic remark but in terms of stopping white collar crime? Forget it.
323 days ago
I realise that I am yet to send out the 2023 and 2024 readers tips of the year prizes. But two bottles of Greek Hovel Olive oil (January 2025 harvest) have now been poured and I aim to send them this week. Meanwhile, after the Trump market upset our writers are penning 8 new tips of the year (Easter to December 31) so why should readers not have another contest. As ever the prize here is Greek Hovel olive oil.
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Notwithstanding the loyal support of its advisor, Liam “the Toke” Murray at Cairn, AQSE listed MaxRets Ventures (MAX) is to delist. As it has almost zero cash and negative net current assets it is hardly a loss to the world of capitalism. Of course, the Toke should have quit as soon as it became clear that Dominic White was guilty of multi million pound prospectus fraud. But, these days the Toke seems to be cool with fraud.
391 days ago
I warned explicitly that the AQSE IPO of Cardiogeni (CGNI) was a scandal waiting to happen “Some folks have no shame: First Sentinel floats a con”. Ten days later I have been vindicated. This episode leaves AQSE and adviser First Sentinel disgraced and with serious questions to answer.
Cardiogeni is another company from the stable of struck off dentist Ajan Rejinald who has featured both here and I Private Eye many times. He is a scumbag.
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OptiBiotix Health (OPTI) has announced that it intends to seek admission of its ProBiotix Health business onto the AQSE Growth Market with an associated fund raise of approximately £2.5 million at an indicative premoney valuation of £22.5 million and a distribution in specie. With, at a 35.5p share price, OptiBiotix as a whole currently capitalised at £31.3 million, is this good news? You bet!
