9 days ago
The $2.5million placing at 0.15p by Canadian Overseas Petroleum (COPL) has now gone ahead. Death spiral provider Anavio is not investing it is merely putting up some cash to allow it to forward sell and convert as much of its outstanding convertible loan notes as possible before Canadian goes bust. Lucian Miers says, do the maths….
10 days ago
Here we go again. Vast Resources (VAST) a company where 99.99% of shareholder value has been destroyed was due to repay $8.4 million to two death spiral providers, Alpha & Mercuria, last May. But being a cash consumptive company with no money whatsoever that was going to be hard. If you owe the bank £1 you are in trouble. If you owe the bank $8.4 million the banks, or in this case death spiral providers, are in the merde.
15 days ago
For all the bluster I am more and more convinced that the Canadian Overseas Petroleum (COPL) Shareholder Action Group (SAG) are just a bunch of crybaby losers who cannot accept that they ignored numerous warnings from myself and others ( abusing me on social media for being wrong) about how bad the assets and management of Canadian were and how it would end in tears. The letter it has sent to the FCA is to a generic address. That is a sign that these losers are just scrabbling around. The failure of the SAG to understand how a death spiral works and what a breach of covenant means is another sign of how utterly clueless they are. Anyhow, thanks to Winnileaks, I have three emails sent in the past 14 days. 1 to the FCA, 2 to advisors and a third to the company. Enjoy.
15 days ago
The Technology Minerals (TM1) hook up with “colourful” death spiral provider of last resort CLG, announced on Monday, is a massive red flag in itself. One feature is that only £2 million of the £5 million facility can be drawn down without the FCA approving the RTO of Chris Cleverly founded Recyclus. And that must be a problem given the Tingo (US:TIO) scandal. At the very least…
82 days ago
Iconic (ICON) is a great example of the dangers of how convertible loan notes or death spiral finance which whilst enabling poor quality companies with no other traditional financing options to survive often causes massive dilution to shareholders.
89 days ago
Iconic (ICON) published its results for the twelve months ended 30 June 2023 today. The promised annual report is not yet on the website meaning that we can’t see how much was paid for the Directors services or what the new auditor thinks about ability of the company to continue as a going concern.
109 days ago
You can bet the ranch that the $4 million that Canadian Overseas Petroleum (COPL) recently raised from its death spiral prover Anavio has all gone: either to escrow accounts with its senior debt provider or to clear unpaid bills or both. the fact that it has admitted that it will be paying other suppliers in shares in the coming weeks shows that it is running on vapours. And another sign is in the screenshots below. If you try to download documents from its website you see that you cannot because Canadian has not paid its Russian hosts. More red flags vicar?
114 days ago
Actually, I think this may be more than a spoof it may be actual market deception but who really cares, with the shysters at Canadian Overseas Petroleum (COPL). The shares are heading only one way, like the geese flying over my farm this afternoon, it is due South.
135 days ago
I refer, of course, to Vast Resources (VAST). It owes two death spiral providers $8. 3million and in early September managed to get the sharks to agree to defer repayment to 29th September which was Friday. When I was at Oxford I’d tell fragrant Sally from Barclays on Cornmarket Street that I was expecting a cheque from my Dad to clear the overdraft. And she believed me! Again and again and again. Those were the days. That untruth bought me another month to think of another cunning plan but why bother when the first one kept on working!
136 days ago
When it was announced that death spiral provider Anavio was putting in $3.5 million at 4p to Canadian Overseas Petroleum (COPL) on 6th September we bears, admittedly steered by Canadian, jumped to the wrong conclusion. Today the sordid truth emerges and, by the way, the cash still has not arrived.
157 days ago
Obviously, when your adviser spends most of his time playing golf or practicing the name dropping he learned from his time at Oriel College Oxford, you may not be reminded of your obligations to keep investors informed about your financial position. Perhaps that is why Caracal Gold (GCAT) did not bother telling investors last year that it had taken out a death spiral for almost five months. Or that loan finance it had said it had secured had not arrived.
162 days ago
Back in June I revealed that Stifel was trying to raise £10 million at 90p then 80p for Avacta (AVCT). The company dissembled in its “refutation.” The fact is that despite having an outstanding £55 million death spiral in situ, Avacta needs to place, it is just a matter of when.
170 days ago
The company that misleads investors over death spirals taken out and loans not going through and whose directors should therefore be in jail, Caracal Gold (GCAT) has called a GM to allow it to issue shed loads more confetti. The statement contains six ominous words which should fill any shareholder with dread.
173 days ago
Evil Banksta is short of Canadian Overseas Petroleum (COPL). If I was ever to short a stock, and I don’t ever short, this would be high on my list. Today there is news that its death spiral provider Anavio has put in $3.5 million at 4p and that founder and boss, Arthur Millholland, the king of the value destroyers has stepped aside. Well sort of. So what do myself and Evil Banksta make of it all. First to Mr Banksta who says:
186 days ago
On 20 June Bidstack (BIDS) was forced to finally forced to publish its diabolically bad calendar 2022 results. Although it had £8.7 million left in its piggy bank at the year-end – thanks to a placing undertaken by misleading investors – the projected cashburn in 2023 thanks to the Azerion deal blowing up means that by Guy Fawkes night the company will have run out of cash and gone up in smoke.
261 days ago
In today’s podcast I discuss Skinbiotherapeutics (SBTX) and Darren, Kefi Gold & Copper (KEFI), Versarien (VRS) and companies on the brink and Bidstack (BIDS) and its death spiral. or not.
282 days ago
Today Cloudbreak Discover (CDL) announced a new keep the lights on death spiral. In looking at this I saw that the (interim, following a sudden resignation last month) CEO is Andrew Male. That name rings a bell? Andrew Male, what the f**k is financial adviser Novum thinking? As John McEnroe used to scream “you cannot be serious?”
282 days ago
Here we go again. This time 2.447,980 shares have been issued at 6.38p following the conversion of just $200,000 of death spiral bonds. Meanwhile to settle $400,000 of interest liabilities and other sums due to the death spiral providers another 15.090421 million shares have been issued – that would be under the VWAP formula at 2.07p. So that gives a blended issue price of 2.63p.
284 days ago
Clearly, holders of the remaining $25.8 million of outstanding death spiral bonds are desperate to get out at any price to reduce their exposure to Canadian Overseas Petroleum (COPL),a company teetering on the bring of insolvency. Today there is news of more conversions at a level where the forward sold shares cannot surely be sold at a profit?
288 days ago
Still trying to negotiate a death spiral in order to avoid a looming insolvency, hopefully being investigated by AIM Regulation for not flagging up revenue/cash issues before the last placing, you thought things could get no worse for cash guzzling Bidstack (BIDS)? Think again…
289 days ago
Oh dear, oh dear, the really bad news is that even after its most recent bout of forward selling and bond conversion, Anavio Equity Capital Markets Master Fund Limited still owns 50 units of 2027 Bonds and 58 units of 2028 Bonds, convertible on their terms, in the aggregate, into 264,381,840 Common Shares, representing approximately 27.1% of the issued and outstanding Common Shares, and 104,608,558 Warrants, representing approximately 10.7% of the issued and outstanding Common Shares on a fully-diluted basis. It owns no shares. But…
290 days ago
Yesterday, in bearcast, I noted that Gary and Lucian were saying that the death spiral provider would not forward sell shares and then convert loan notes as the price was too low and maybe they were right about this and I was wrong. Well maybe not.
293 days ago
You may remember an aggressive debate in April between a fat Aussie penny share promoter ( D. Lenigas Esq) and someone who trained as an oil equities analyst (me) as to the financial health of UK Oil & Gas (UKOG) of Horse Hill infamy. I insisted it needed a raise, Big Dave said that I did not know what I was talking about. Well guess what, guess who was right and who was wrong and should be sending a case of Metaxa to the Sheriff?
297 days ago
Yesterday we had the dismal prelims from Bidstack (BIDS) with the confession that it is talking to a death spiral provider to stave off a gig with the Fat Lady. Today the annual report is out and it contains fresh horrors hidden deep in the notes.
297 days ago
Bidstack (BIDS) delayed and delayed its results in the hope that it might have secured a refinancing by the time dire numbers were published but in the end this POS company had no choice but to fess. The numbers are truly dismal, H1 2023 looks to be piss poor to, the auditors flag up a material uncertainty and unable to get a placing away its death spiral time.
298 days ago
Despite already having a £55 million death spiral in place, my City source tells me that Avacta is working on yet another, naturally discounted, placing. The shares falling by 3p to a new year low of 99p on Friday in decent volumes is NOT as coincidence.
301 days ago
Yesterday I flagged up that shares in Canadian Overseas Petroleum Limited (COPL) had slumped from 25p when I first warned to sub 4p, “into the threes”. Today they are slumping again and are just 3.25p to sell. How soon the “terrible 2s”. As it happens I was chatting to an expert in death spiral financing and he explained why the death spiral at Canadian was and still is a suicide trap for all concerned.
301 days ago
I am told it is a stock I am very bearish on and which already has a death spiral in place but who is it? I also cover Tingo (US:TIO), Powerhouse Energy (PHE) which also needs a placing Versarien (VRS), Genflow Biosciences (GENF) and Predator Oil & Gas (PRD). The Rogue Bloggers for Woodlarks have now raised £17,250 all in. Thanks to all who have donated, there is still time to do so HERE, please do!
301 days ago
I mentioned this in yesterday’s bearcast but when a company’s market cap and the liquidity in its shares slumps, a company facing a death spiral can find itself in an increasingly vicious circle impoverishing its poor shareholders. When, to much abuse, I first explained last year what a complete dog was Canadian Overseas Petroleum (COPL) its shares were 25p. The shares are now just 3.75p to sell.
323 days ago
I am a perma bear of Avacta (AVCT). I don’t rate its management and am sure the feeling is mutual. But the valuation is bonkers. I was bearish ahead of the placing in December in which Avacta tried to raise £15 million but raised only £9 million. I think the acquisition of Launch financed by a death spiral was crackers but for a while I was whistling in the wind as the shares were ramped to 183p. They are now back at 113p but that is still a nutso valuation.
338 days ago
Another day dawns and yet again Canadian Overseas Petroleum (COPL) has issued yet more shares. This is a death spiral on steroids but of you do the maths you must be a nonce. I am kidding. But at least some of the morons who own the stock are not. Let me explain.
345 days ago
On the Friday before the Coronation, mid morning so that fewer folks would notice, came a bombshell from Tintra (TNT), an apparent bust up with its death spiral provider.
367 days ago
It is only seven days since the last time that $400,000 of death spiral bonds were converted into shares after a good bout of forward selling. But Arthur Millholland of Canadian Overseas Petroleum (COPL) is king of the shareholder dilute so here we go again. At this rate we might get a similar announcement once a week for 83 weeks before we are done. What do you reckon the share price will be by then?
368 days ago
“Oh dear, oh dear,” as my old friend Old Mother Mike Walters would have said as he apologised for yet another duff loss making, cash guzzling share tip ‘fessing up to bad news. I am surprised Mike has not tipped Aquis listed Valereum Blockchain (VLRM) it is right up his street. Shares in this company were peak ramp 64p, thanks to the efforts of Zak Mir and David Lenigas. They are now 5.5p as yet more confetti is issued. And the worst is yet to come….
380 days ago
Back in August of last year nanosynth (NNN) announced, in a grossly misleading way, that it had signed a death spiral with Lanstead “to raise £2,942,500”. I warned at the time that this was fantasy, that nothing like £3 million would be raised and that those responsible ( PR firm IFC Advisory) should be hung, drawn and quartered while AIM Regulation should force a restatement. Nothing happened. IFC told me I was talking tummy rot, the Oxymorons did nothing. And on Thursday afternoon, nanosynth admitted that it faced a financial crisis and its shares collapsed.
392 days ago
In today’s RNS Iconic (ICON) announced that it had received a “Conversion Notice was dated 27 March 2023 and provides for 50 Convertible Notes to be converted into 1,315,789,473 ordinary shares of £0.00001 (“Ordinary Shares”) in the Company at a conversion price of £0.000038 at the aggregate principal amount of £50,000.” With the issuance of another 1,315,789,473 new shares, the Company’s issued ordinary share capital is now 43,106,916,660 shares. Yes that is more than 43 billion shares in issue.
399 days ago
A co-conspirator sends me a list of companies that have used death spiral provider NEGMA for funding and there share price performances since taking out the facility. Missing from the list is the fraud Supply@ME Capital (SYME) on which more later after today’s disastrous news of the great unravelling.
401 days ago
Doesn’t the FCA have rules that cover this? If not it should but I suspect it does and if its staff can take a few minutes out from reading ESG porn they should force Canadian Overseas Petroleum (COPL) to ‘fess up to how it is, again, deceiving investors regarding today’s additional financing.
408 days ago
Even Stevie Wonder can see the red flags waving here. And you don’t need any sense of smell to detect the stench at Tintra (TNT). It continues to raise money at a massive premium to its current mid share price of 150 pence and to an ongoing death spiral conversion. The RNS issued on 10 March indicates that another unidentified investor is paying 1178 pence per share as set out below:
410 days ago
The real risks are that Canadian Overseas Petroleum (COPL) either cannot secure additional; finance within the next five weeks and so goes bust or that the owners of $42 million of senior debt get cold feet, call in their loans and the company goes bust. That would shaft 100% anyone daft enough to own the shares but also the providers off all the convertible loan notes, death spiral providers.
418 days ago
Was there any insider dealing before a mid afternoon financing update from Advanced Oncotherapy (AVO). A 32% share price fall suggests that the Pope is also a Catholic. I discuss the new £4.975 million financing which still leaves Advanced only 9 weeks away from running out of cash and the full blown death spiral which cheats its way around par value rules but which will crush the share price.
424 days ago
An RNS is meant to inform, to give clear information allowing we investors to asses exactly what is going on. Of course, Canadian Overseas Petroleum (COPL) thinks that an RNS is just an excuse to muddy the waters even further, hiding the trouble that it is in. Today we have another effort of this genre. It is to do with the issue of death spiral shares.
425 days ago
The word on the Street is that the level of boardroom greed at MGC Pharmaceuticals (MXC) is causing increasing unrest among some of those hitherto supportive of the company. Meanwhile the share price continues to tank and I think that we can all guess why. The shares were 2.25p, valuing this crock at £70 million, on January 11 2022 when I published this extensive bear dossier HERE. Today they are just 0.475p, off another 15% today and valued at just £13.7 million.
429 days ago
“I cannot remember the last time that I saw such a duplicitous dishonest company, this has to be one of the easiest shorts out there at the moment!” says Evil Banksta of Canadian Overseas Petroleum (COPL). He is not alone, Lucian Miers has also called in from the grim North today, outraged as to how the FCA allows Canadian to publish the sort of misleading piffle it has today.
433 days ago
The management may have changed at BlueJay Mining (JAY) but the desire to mislead investors is very much the same, the culture of smoke and mirrors is intact. Today it announced “Institutional Equity Subscription.” Bollocks. Total bollocks. This is a death spiral.
445 days ago
36 days ago MGC Pharmaceuticals (MXC) drew down A$800,000 of funding from its death spiral provider Mercer. But I guess Christmas is an expensive time for us all, there are bills to pay, yadda, yadda, yadda.
450 days ago
I start with the FTSE 100. Should we celebrate it “soaring” to the level it was at the time of the war criminal Blair? Then onto Caracal Gold (GCAT) and more bad news on the way, to ITM Power (ITM), Inland (INL), Amigo (AMGO), IGC-Longbow Senior (LBOW) which lies about my anonymity and Tower Resources (TRP) and its desperate attempt to hide a death spiral with a verbose release.
463 days ago
Canadian Overseas Petroleum (COPL) talks of its “bonds” as if it is a proper grown up company. Its Bonds” are a death spiral and today we have more evidence of how the (unnamed) provider is coining it in. Lovely jubbly for it.
465 days ago
Some things in life never change. There is the beauty, innate sophistication, angelic voice and native intelligence of Ms Cheryl Cole for starters. And then there is the ability of Arthur Millholland to enrich himself while obliterating shareholder value by issuing a blizzard of new shares while spunking other folks cash. Whilst I would like to spend the day considering Ms Cole, instead it is Millholland’s latest gravy train (for him) Canadian Overseas Petroleum (COPL) to which I must attend.
477 days ago
Dubious quality companies on the AIM and Standard List have long used Death Spiral funding to raise cash to keep the lights on. It appears that now that some but not all of the Bulletin Board morons have cottoned onto the main names in the Death Spiral space that the latest twist is for the Death Spiral Lender to use a front entity to provide the money and for it to be given a industry relevant moniker to reassure the more gullible investors that the new funding is coming a long term institutional investor and not a wicked Death Spiral lender that will crater the share price.
536 days ago
Joining the Standard List at 12.5p in April 2021 when it raised £5.54 million Mast Energy (MAST) has form when it comes to deceiving investors and today’s news of death spiral funding is no exception to that behaviour.
540 days ago
The ability of Arthur Millholland to destroy shareholder value while living the life himself is well documented over many, many years at different companies and has already played out as expected at Canadian Overseas Petroleum (COPL). What is NOT stated in today’s trading statement suggests things are going to get much worse. What is said is a desperate ramp to help with the ongoing death spiral conversion.
541 days ago
I have warned you for a long time, notably with this dossier HERE, that Standard Listed MGC Pharmaceuticals (MXC) is a dog with fleas drowning in a sea of red flags. Today’s quarterlies, coming after six ramptastic announcements so far this month are piss poor and written with intent to deceive.
555 days ago
Not all death spirals are the same and not all companies are the same. But some marriages are certain to end in disaster. AMT Energy (AMTE) meets the death eaters of Arena.
555 days ago
When not working out how to bankrupt me with a cunning Greek plan, the morons insisted that there was no placing coming from Avacta (AVCT). Well here we go, time to apologise morons. Today Avacta has raised £7 million at 95p and hopes that an open offer will bring in another £2 million and says “The Company consulted with a number of its major shareholders prior to the Placing and is pleased by the support it has received from both existing and new shareholders.”. I can reveal that is a big fat lie. Two folks who were made insiders havie confirmed that Avacta wanted to raise £15 million but could not. So to say it is “pleased” is just a lie. It gets worse.
557 days ago
Yesterday at 5.38 pm the fraud Supply@ME Capital (SYME) issued a TR1 RNS stating that Venus Capital SA now owned 13.95% of Supply amounting to 7,900,000 shares based on the 56,617,688,143 SYME shares currently in issue. Cue major rejoicing by the morons on Twitter and the Bulletin Boards. The various myths that the morons invented when the first Venus capital allocation of 2,770,000,00 shares on 27 April 2022 when Supply had 40,239,339,950 shares in issue which represented over a 6% stake to explain away the fact that no RNS was issue have been conveniently forgotten for the time being.
558 days ago
Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear. The twice repeated lie that nanosynth (NNN) was raising £2.94 million via a Lanstead death spiral is unravelling at a speed of knots and that means that bankruptcy by Christmas is on the cards – a statement is needed PDQ.
570 days ago
There are still some morons out there who reckon that mysterious offshore death spiral provider Venus is an actual investor in the fraud Supply@ME Capital (SYME) shares. They are encouraged in this delusion by the company but the reality is that Venus uses ramptastic and fanciful RNS’s from Supply to forward sell shares onto the morons and then converts loan notes into shares to cover. In other words it always has either a negative or zero position in the stock. You think it is just me saying that? Have a butchers at page 5 of the current prospectus which will allow Supply to issue even more billions of death spiral shares…
573 days ago
There is terrible and there is really terrible. And half calendar year results from the fraud Supply@ME Capital (SYME) are even worse than really terrible. This company is technically insolvent. Bust. Bankrupt. A dead corporate parrot.
575 days ago
Well knock me down with a feather. Canadian Overseas Petroleum (COPL) the company run by serial value destroyer Arthur Millholland, and its death spiral provider has fooled the morons again. Okay it is not hard to fool folks with the collective IQ of a park bench but to manage it so soon after the last time is good going.
576 days ago
Proper companies do not behave like this. But those which are frauds care little for timely filings of paperwork at Companies House, they are too busy ppumping the shares to allow insiders to sell, death spiral financing to be secured. And that brings me to the fraud Supply@ME Capital (SYME) which apppears to be picking up on two years of missed filings as the screenshot below shows. Such industrial scale backfiling is not a good sign, it is another red flag to add to the forest.
577 days ago
Sorry for the lack of material yesterday. It was Joshua’s birthday party. Today I look at Chris and Malcolm’s thoughts on staying in cash on the perceived threat of a windfall tax on big oilers and at the death spiral versus bucket shop debate. I apologise for an error on Friday in this regard and FWIW I think that in some cases death spirals are far better news than bucket shop placings and I explain why.
578 days ago
Needless to say, the Oxymorons at AIM Regulation have failed to force serial dog Nanosynth (NNN) to correct the grotesquely misleading RNS of 26 August in which it claimed that a Lanstead death spiral deal meant that it had secured “ a conditional subscription to raise £2,942,500 through the issue of 535,000,000 new ordinary shares of 0.01 pence each in the Company at a price of 0.55 pence per Ordinary Share.” That was a big fat fecking lie and with the shares collapsing to 0.42p, i.e less than they were before the deal was announced and a couple of subsequent ramptastic bullshit RNS’s. Mr Market is waking up and smelling the coffee even if the bogus Sheriff of AIM, Marcus Stuttard, and his colleagues are asleep at the wheel.
604 days ago
nanosynth (NNN) has today issued a grotesquely misleading press release which tells investors that it has secured access to almost £3 million in death spiral funding. It has not. It has deceived mugs. Two years ago Versarien (VRS) issued an RNS about a deal with the same death spiral provider which I pushed the Oxymorons at AIM Regulation on, and which they forced loathsome Neill Ricketts and hois motley crew to correct. I have now written to the Oxymorons again…
609 days ago
On 23 March 2020 Versarien (VRS) announced a £6 million subscription by death spiral provider Lanstead. Of course, it was nothing of the sort. The proceeds have been a fraction of that and, following pressure from this site, AIM regulation forced Versarien to issue an RNS on April 6 admitting as much. Wind forward to today ands Lanstead and nanosynth (NNN) have engaged in an almost identical deception. Does nobody learn anything?
619 days ago
I start with dire numbers from the theme park operator and what they mean for companies such as MADE.com (MADE), Fevertree (FEVR) and ProCook (PROC). Then I look at the former WPCT (SUPP), Revolution Beauty (REVB) and Canadian Overseas Petroleum (COPL), now a great low risk short, as the price is capped by the death spiral in place. That cap can only move lower.
619 days ago
As I noted yesterday, the fraud Supply@ME Capital (SYME) is spoofing like there is no tomorrow to get its open offer away and to allow death spiral provider Venus to forward sell another tranche of shares. Supply is tunning on vapours. But there is a big question, the woke twits at the FCA seem unwilling to push on: how many millions of pounds has CEO Alessandro Zamboni made from covert and undisclosed share dumps? I have written to the FCA.
619 days ago
Still the dumb pricks who own these shares do not seem to get it and think that abusing and trolling and abusing myself and Gary Newman is going to reverse the all too predictable share price decline. Today, there is another RNS for them to ignore.
620 days ago
On 23 June 2022 Gerry “the arse” Brandon, a man who broke AIM Rules 10 and 11 before his last bailout placing last summer, served up calendar 2021 results noticeable for their prodigious cashburn but the most bullish of statements about the jam arriving tomorrow, or in fact this year.. How things can change.
666 days ago
How to cram as many buzzwords as possible into an RNS in order to excite moronic investors so as to assist your death spiral provider dump shares: a lesson from the fraud Supply@ME Capital (SYME).
703 days ago
They are that auditors suffer any personal loss if the FRC sanctions them and that death spiral providers go long of shares. In the podcast I discuss Asimilar (ASLR), Dev Clever (DEV), Simec Atlantic (SAE), Powerhouse Energy (PHE), Amigo (AMGO) and Vast Resources (VAST). It goes without saying but I say so anyway: If you are among the 95% PLEASE COUGH UP NOW HERE
703 days ago
The rogues who run Vast Resources (VAST) insisted in a string of RNS statements that it would not allow death spiral Atlas to convert a final $800,000 of loan notes into shares which it had already forward sold. The Bulletin Board morons made the schoolboy error of believing a word that Vast said and insisted there was a bear squeeze. Guess what?
705 days ago
First, there was Atlas’ pledge not to dump any more shares – which it immediately did. Then came the idea it had cleared its death spiral debt, with the buried-deep-in-the-release admission that it had taken out another. Spoof two! Today, Vast Resources (VAST) becomes a hat-trick hero in the AIM sewer hall of infamy.
708 days ago
Vast Resources (VAST) is blessed with having the dumbest investors going. They fell for the last spoof RNS which, in a just world, would see the issuers banned from the markets, and bid the (worthless) shares up to 2.4p. Today there is a new monster spoof and the shares are 56% up to 1.3p offering the bears another chance for a slam dunk free short. The company says it has refinanced its Atlas death spiral leading the “marks” to assume that there is no more death spiral overhang. But buried at the bottom of the release is ????
710 days ago
Today’s shocking news is not evidence of illegal behaviour, I am told by a member of the death spiral community. I am not so sure. But investors were indeed deceived by Vast Resources (VAST), Atlas and Beaumont Cornish, which signed off on the May 3 release. The incident brings “the world’s most successful growth market” into disrepute, and I have written to Marcus Stuttard, the bogus Sheriff and head of the Oxymorons at AIM Regulation, urging him to investigate possible illegality and to censure all those involved.
710 days ago
Ha, gotcha. What a spoof. On May 3rd, Death Spiral provider, Atlas, and Vast Resources (VAST) made an RNS statement, announcing that Atlas would not convert any more loan notes. The stock was a ten-bagger in days, going from 0.02375p to a peak of 0.24p. Well, guess what? I do hope the morons buying were well-lubed up!
711 days ago
In just two weeks, the new death spiral provider, Venus, has dumped 3.32 billion shares on Bulletin Board Morons. If it is allowed to, it will likely dump another 15-20 billion. But the fraud, Supply@ME Capital (SYME), is insolvent even with the Venus cash, as I noted earlier. I have asked the FCA to step in and save private investors from being mugged.
711 days ago
On 27 April, the fraud Supply@ME Capital (SYME) announced that it had issued 2,770,000,000 shares to death spiral provider Venus and on 10 May it announced that it had issued a further 550,000,000 shares to Venus following which its issued share capital is now 40,789,339,950. If Venus was, as some, of the Bulletin Board Morons are suggesting building a stake then it would now have a stake of 8.1 %.
722 days ago
This morning, I had a long chat with an industry insider, concerning the latest death spiral from the fraud, Supply@ME Capital (SYME); what I relay to you is truly shocking. Anyone holding these shares is bonkers.
723 days ago
Death spiral provider, Atlas, is selling shares as fast as it can, in the hope of reducing its $5.05 million exposure to AIM Listed Vast Resources (VAST). It knows Vast is teetering on the brink, but a source close to the company explains why it is already trading whilst insolvent. He says:
725 days ago
Yesterday, I explained why the extension of the Atlas death spiral – to 31 July – was bad news for AIM sewer-listed company, Vast Resources (VAST). 24 hours later comes a reminder of why I was right. The sequence reads: 1.57, 1.24, 0.86, 0.77, 0.59, 0.48 and now, 0.4p.
736 days ago
The idea of announcing a death spiral – while pretending it is not a death spiral – at the same time as a bailout placing, is odd. Who would want to buy into a placing, when you know that, at some point, a blizzard of confetti will be dumped?
742 days ago
The sequence that started on January 12, at 1.57, can again be extended: 1.24, 0.86, 0.77,0.59, and now, 0.48. Ouch! That is the price at which death spiral provider, Atlas, has converted loan notes onto Vast Resources (VAST) shares, the latest being $300,000 worth. The bad news? Atlas has another $5.2 million to go. Luckily, there was a spoof RNS on Monday, which must have helped with the forward selling.
750 days ago
By the end of April worthless, deceitful and pointless AIM sewer listed Vast Resources (VAST) has promised to refinance its Atlas death spiral with a bunch of Swiss gents. But with $5.5 million outstanding on the loan and the market cap, at 0.625p, down to £2.3 million and with cash guzzling Vast having no cash at all so facing a high bankruptcy risk maybe the Swiss are getting cold feet. Hence…
758 days ago
Toople (TOOP) the sub-standard listed company today issued an RNS about “debt financing”. And in that RNS the CEO lies. Never buy shares in companies where the CEO is shown to have told one lie as there are bound to be others you are unaware of.
759 days ago
Maths test – complete the sequence: 0.204, 0.135, 0.12, 0.11407, 0.10, 0.056, x – what is x for Supply (SYME)?
763 days ago
Just 4 days after death spiral provider Atlas converted $150,000 of debt into Vast Resources (VAST) shares at 0.86p having forward sold, it has announced the conversion of another $150,000 this time at 0.77p. In February the conversion was at 1.24p. Do you see a trend? My guess is that those shares have already been forward sold and that Atlas will now be working on dumping even more stock ahead of the next conversion. Why the panic? Two reasons:
764 days ago
The Mercator death spiral, can be repaid in cash or at Supply@ME Capital’s (SYME) option by being swapped into a convertible loan note. The total repayable is now £7.7 million repayable in 12 monthly instalments from inception. To date Supply has made 3 full repayments and one partial repayment as set out below:
765 days ago
On January 31 Vast Resources (VAST) announced that it had almost replaced its Atlas death spiral with alternative funding, a refinancing. Natch that was grossly misleading! This is Vast after all.
784 days ago
Today is another day and another month where the fraud that is Supply@ME Capital (SYME) has paid back a portion of what it termed a loan but was clearly a death spiral by issuing another 489 million shares to Mercator. Okay, £500,000 repaid only £5.6 million to go and with the shares trending ever lower that will require an utter blizzard of new shares for Mercator to forward sell. But that is not the end of the dilution.
794 days ago
Under the Mercator death spiral, the fraud Supply@ME Capital (SYME) has received £7 million of cash and has to repay £7.7 million. For the first three tranches of the 12 monthly repayments, Supply – cash strapped as it is- has opted to convert the loan repayments into a convertible loan which Mercator has then converted into shares which it has sold. The continued lack of credible positive news (as opposed to ramptastic announcements) coupled with continual shares sales by Mercator has resulted in the conversion price continually dropping as indicated in the table below:
821 days ago
Each working day, Mercator, the provider of two death spirals to the fraud Supply@ME Capital (SYME) needs to offload c£20,000 worth of shares on to the muppets who think that they are going to get rich catching this particular falling knife. In a bull market when folks are prepared to overlook obvious lies and fraudulent results, that is not hard but we are not now in a bull market.
857 days ago
I start with Bluebird Merchant Ventures (BMV) and the FCA. Who is being a moronic fucktard today? Then some very serious number crunching on Versarien (VRS) and its looming cash crisis as the death spiral from Lanstead starts to fail. Then on why Bidstack (BIDS) has offered its long suffering sharehoders a great selling opportunity today. And a few words and questions for Lyin’ Stever Sanderson at UK Oil & Gas (UKOG) – placing ahoy!
880 days ago
Quelle surprise. Who would have guessed it? The fraud Supply@ME Capital(SYME), now almost out of cash and still burning cash, has elected to pay the remaining November amounts due under its Mercator death spiral – which at announced as being a loan by issuing more shares rather than in cash. Calling this deal a “loan” was the least of the lies told by Supply But it was a lie. With the shares at 0.1525p Mercator will have already forward sold see volumes in the past couple of days – the £300,000 of shares it received at 0.135p. But there is a bigger elephant in the room.
897 days ago
This is the second dreadful trading update from Supply@ME Capital (SYME) in the space of six weeks. It demonstrates that the company will soon run out of cash and has hoodwinked mug punters to allow industrial scale director share sales and dumping by death spiral providers. If the FCA does not act on this latest clear evidence of outright fraud, it really is admitting that it is not fit for purpose. Anyone still holding the shares is insane and here is why.
925 days ago
To be fair, shares in the company are up by 26% today at 0.43p on news that it has finalised and ended a death spiral. But any company that has to use a death spiral is likely to be shit and shares in this company are down by 39.06% over 1 year, 86.01% over 5 years and 96.65% since its IPO just over a decade ago. Truly a penny dreadful, just the sort of stock David Lenigas likes to ramp. Dave’s dog de jour is…
936 days ago
I shall turn to quite appalling interims issued this morning by Supply@ME Capital (SYME) later. Suffice to say, they are dire and anyone holding onto the shares is completely bonkers, But first, yesterday Supply announced it has received a new loan which was really a death spiral. But how expensive is this facility? I now explain why Supply has deceived investors, yet again.
939 days ago
Supply@ME Capital (SYME) flagged up that this would happen a few weeks ago but today it has announced “New £7 million Loan Note Facility completed”. A loan as in you pay back the cash at the end of the term right? Er.. wrong. It is a death spiral.
964 days ago
Supply@ME Capital (SYME) may have a couple of new directors but that appears to have changed now! It still appears to take a delight in deceiving the morons who own its stock. Today it says that it has closed its death spiral facility with Negma and replaced it with a loan except that it is not a loan but another death spiral! And it gets worse.
966 days ago
There is so much in today’s absolutely appalling trading statement from the fraud that is Supply@ME Capital (SYME) that I need to cover it in three parts. I kicked off with how Supply deceived the woke dullards at the FCA and investors by reporting bogus revenues. Now I move on to how it has helped generate liquidity for death spiral provider Negma with paid for research which is pure fiction.
983 days ago
Who is Negma the death spiral provider to the fraud Supply@ME Capital (SYME). Negma probably thinks all its Christmas have come at once and cannot believe its luck being able to flog so many shares onto moronic mug punters thanks to a recent, utterly unjustified, rally? Well here are a series of remarkable coincidences for you to consider.
1006 days ago
I shall explain why and what tomorrow. But I eat my own pudding in that I believe the recent sell off in small caps offers opportunity. But for some companies, notably those with funding issues it could be very bad news. I discuss Supply@ME Capital (SYME), its director Mr Bull and its mother of all death spirals, Remote Monitored Systems (RMS) where the cash, its only asset of value, is disappearing fast and Versarien (VRS) where I urge you to back Ian Westbrook TODAY as its 2 death spirals really start to bite. I also comment on Predator Oil & Gas (PRD) which looks to be a can of worms and Loop Up (LOOP) where maybe I am just a bit dim but isn’t it pointless?
1007 days ago
Happy Bastille Day to our listeners in France. Here another day of swimming and cooking for guests. In today’s podcast, I look at Verditek (VDTK) and the latest missive from Gollum, the investment whores at Proactive, the fraud Supply@ME Capital (SYME) & its death spiral and finally more thoughts on today’s Winnileaks special on MC Saatchi and what it says about the useless FCA when it comes to tackling white-collar crime. Finally a few words with Cliff Weight of ShareSoc re Financial Promotions.
1029 days ago
For a death spiral to work, your shares need to be trading. If they are suspended, you cannot run a spiral. And without its recently arranged death spiral, Supply@ME Capital (SYME) and its soon to be bought sub scale loss-making fund manager Tradeflow go bust as they have no cash and are both burning cash. Hey ho. The shares could be suspended as soon as next Thursday morning. The reason?
1039 days ago
I discuss my local Tory councillor being a spinless cretin, my daughter Olaf being a girly swot and with reference to Peter Brailey’s most excellent article earlier the nature of death spirals, they are not all the same but bad companies attract bad finance.
1040 days ago
Death spiral providers take no view on whether a company is good, bad, honest or dishonest as long as there is liquidity in the shares so it can dump who cares? Thus the cash guzzling fraud Supply@ME Capital (SYME) says it has secured a £5.6 million death spiral. And it seems as if once the initial tranche of shares is dumped Supply/Negma can repeat up to nine more times. Talk about a rolling maul of selling pressure!
1123 days ago
As well as disastrous, red ink soaked finals, St James House (SJH) published its interims, to July 31 2020, today and revenue was up an impressive 51% on comparative interims to £641,000; however, administrative expenses of £874,000 resulted in an operating loss of £567,000. St James House (SJH) was only able to report a profit of £192,000 due to the profit of £759,000 for disposal of Market Access Ops Ltd for consideration of £1. As I highlighted in my note of February 2020, I struggle to understand why Mr John Botros would buy a loss-making company for £1 as it came with net liabilities of £759,000.
1144 days ago
On January 28, the fraud Zoetic International (ZOE) announced that it really did not need any cash. That was an outright porky as events today showed. Here is that RNS cherry:
1178 days ago
It is only a matter of time before Iconic (ICON) is put into administration and I shall then be one upstanding citizen who contacts the administrator about the conduct of the Good Germans, the three directors who quit on Monday, as well as former chairman and then shadow director toxic Dave Sefton whose private companies have grown rapidly using Iconic’s cash. But I shall not be alone. Death spiral provider EHGOF claims it is owed cash by Iconic and has launched the most explicit broadside at toxic Dave and the Good Germans (John Quinlan, Liam Harrington and Sam Asante) with specific, shocking allegations, and making clear threats.
1191 days ago
Cash guzzling POS Iconic (ICON) faces a 15% shareholder wishing to oust the board, OTT, and a legal claim from death spiral provider European High Growth Opportunities Securitization Fund, EGHOF, which it airily dismisses as baseless. It is wrong to do so and here is why.
1222 days ago
Notwithstanding the receipt of an illegal Government loan from Neill Rickett’s Tory chums and the fact that it had one massive death spiral from Lanstead in place, the cash position of Versarien (VRS) has – as oft predicted here – become so grim that it has had to set up another death spiral to keep the lights on. There is also another daft acquisition which will only add to the cashburn and naturally all this bad news is wrapped up in a grotesquely misleading release which only a Nomad as bent as SP Angel, of the fraud MySquar infamy, could have signed off on.
1223 days ago
I revealed on April 2 how Tertiary Minerals (TYM) had ramped its shares by announcing that it had terminated an utterly usurious death spiral with the spivs at Bergen. How the Bulletin Board Morons lapped it up. Tertiary has refinanced with a new entity which er, if you read the small print, turned out to be Bergen and the new package was a death spiral on steroids. Oh boy how the morons had to lube up for that spoof.
1230 days ago
As a loyal former citizen of the Isle of Man I feel that it is my duty to go to my good friends at its Financial Services Authority on Bucks Hill in Douglas to dob in Bahamas Petroleum (BPC) for apparently breaking the law with its disguised death spiral placing announced today. Crime should not pay. Have they abolished birching for naughty Nomads on the island yet?.
1233 days ago
Ascent Resources (AST) has only avoided a crash landing in tits up alley thanks to the provision of death spiral finance by Riverfort Global and Align Research. Essentially, it has sod all cash, its assets in Slovenia it failed to monetize for eons and some joke Cuban assets. At c6p it is capitalised at c£5 million. Given Parsons’ track record as a pump and dumper and value destroyer, only a total poltroon would buy any shares. So step forward… Mr James Parsons.
1255 days ago
Versarien (VRS) is not generating any meaningful revenues from graphene. At a PLC level it is almost out of cash & its debt facilities are almost maxxed out. And so notwithstanding the fact that it already has a Lanstead death spiral in place, it needs to get a placing ahoy. Hence a release today which is almost certainly materially misleading if not a slam dunk lie.
1283 days ago
In March, Versarien (VRS) announced a £6 million funding facility with a supposed institutional investor, Lanstead. Thanks to my work AIM Regulation forced it then to ‘fess that actually, if the shares stayed at 53.3p, it would realise only £5.5 million net. But they have not. So how much has the Neill Ricketts promote actually raised?
1284 days ago
On 23 March 2020 POS AIM promote Versarien (VRS) announced “ subscription to raise £6 million”. Natch the headline was misleading and indeed Versarien was forced to issue a clarification at a later date. On 16 October the lies started to reveal themselves big time.
1318 days ago
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.
1481 days ago
It is like extracting teeth. Getting the proven liars at Versarien (VRS) and the morally bankrupt evil PR spinners at Yellow Jersey, of the Frontera fraud infamy, to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth is a nightmare. And we are still not there yet. Today, however, the company has been forced to start to clarify.
1495 days ago
Yesterday Versarien (VRS) announced a death spiral on steroids which will only postpone bankruptcy and will see the share price shredded but the RNS was, I believe, an exercise in market manipulation and market abuse. Only a Nomad like SP Angel of the fraud MySquar infamy, could have signed off on it. I have written to the regulators demanding that, again, they take action
1495 days ago
Versarien (VRS) this morning announced “subscription to raise £6 million”. Folks looked at the headline and the shares soared to 31p. Ha! Mugged by Ricketts again! Then they read the release. It is bullshit. Death spiral provider Lanstead is not putting up a cent up front and the total amount handed to Neill Ricketts’ bag of shite company over the next two years could well be well below its monthly cashburn! Ricketts really is the most shameless bullshitter and only scumbags like SP Angel, who took over as Nomad after Canaccord resigned, would sign off on such misleading gibberish which contains one MONSTER lie.
1524 days ago
I start with the rising flood waters here at the Welsh Hovel, which are now about two or three yards from the bottom step leading to the back door. Then it is onto Coronavirus, where it is starting to sink in as to how bad it could be in terms of fear and our behaviour if not actual deaths. Then onto what filing management accounts means and the question of possible securities fraud at Dev Clever (DEV), which I have flagged up with the FCA today. Then, as per the screenshot below, it is the changing behaviour of Neill Ricketts at Versarien (VRS) and what that tells us about the regulatory hole he is in and why Canaccord quit as Nomad. Finally a comment on Bahamas Petroleum (BPC), its piss poor death spiral and crazy valuation.
1758 days ago
Having announced a £2.7 million placing at 5.2p and a shockingly bad undeclared related party death spiral to bring in another £5.5 million yesterday shares in Anglo African Oil & Gas (AAOG) are tumbling are are now just 4.4p to sell. An urgent statement on two matters is needed. Firstly:
1760 days ago
News this morning, as I predicted on this site on Monday HERE of an £8.25 million raising by Anglo African Oil & Gas (AAOG) looks to be a disaster for existing shareholders once again under David Sefton’s watch.
1761 days ago
In today’s bearcast I discuss how and why the word bugger come from Bulgaria, at least according to my hero Paddy Leigh Fermor. I look at Versarien (VRS) and why it will end in tears, report that Anglo African Oil & Gas (AAOG) is trying to raise £9 million at 5p and or via a death spiral, look at Hurricane (HUR), Prospex (PXOG), Grand Vision Media Holdings (GVMH) – as per my prescient piece HERE - Condor (CNR) and uber dog Premier African Minerals (PREM)
2017 days ago
We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight them in the law courts. So said Zaza Churchill of Frontera Resources (FRR) last month after his company defaulted on an agreement with death spiral provider Yorkville, failed to hand over shares, lied via RNS and ended up with a legal dispute. Oh well, it turns out that Zaza is not Churchill but Chamberlain after all. And it is not just one little piece of paper that is on the way but billions more pieces of confetti, worthless share certificates.
2049 days ago
In the end the chaps at Nomad Cairn walked from Cloudtag (CTAG) when it was clear that it was a fraud run by liars. Frontera Resources (FRR) is a shit show run by liars and a fallout with death spiral provider Yorkville (YA) today could be the final straw for Cairn – might it resign leaving the (worthless) shares suspended? Or will Frontera just go bust?
2068 days ago
Grossly overvalued AIM listed piece of crap Frontera Resources (FRR) is running on vapours. It has less cash than your average Venezuelan and is burning it at an alarming rate. Despite the best efforts of disgraced PR man Tim Thompson of scumbags Yellow Jersey PR and the whore blogger, Malcom “Fat Bastard” Graham Wood to ramp the stock, it has more than halved since May 1 and is now just 0.22p to sell. So what price is the looming bailout placing going to be at. You guess in our reader poll, the deadline to enter is midnight tonight:
2151 days ago
I wonder how the whore blogger, Fat Bastard himself, Mr Malcolm Graham Wood will explain this away as good news. After all that is what Frontera (FRR) pay him for. In essence Frontera has no cash, is burning cash and had to repay $2.891 million to death spiral provider Yorkville on 16 June. Problemo!
2162 days ago
On March 8 2018 I revealed how low life Nomad Northland had banked a fat fee for recommending that its client Eqtec ( EQT) take out death spiral financing from a proven fraudster. Worse still, the deal Northland thought fair was bound to destroy the share price as I explained at the time. Last week it got worse and the negligence of Northland is now almost criminal.
2191 days ago
I have made the point before but do so again that not all death spirals - or alternative structured financings or whatever the MBA phrase is - are the same. Some can actually help the share price. Some really shaft shareholders royally. All are created in a way where the provider cannot lose but some are just usurious. Why, for instance, has Angus Energy (ANGS) agreed to a deal this week with Bergen which ensures that its investors will get so utterly rogered that no amount of lube can ease the pain.
2194 days ago
The day, that after 28 years as a journalist,, I take lectures on my vocation from a lying toe-rag like UK Oil & Gas (UKOG) boss Steve Sanderson is the day I quit. Lyin' Steve attacked me at his company's AGM and blames me for the death spiral which - along with drilling disasters - has cratered his company's share price.
2201 days ago
After 16 years of missing targets and ongoing dilution, AIM listed Amur Minerals (AMC) is still nowhere near actually building its mine in Eastern Russia and still does not have a single institutional shareholder. The only folks who still believe in this stock are mug punter private investors and that means the only funding available is via bucket shops or death spirals. Right now it is the latter and hence the shares are in a steady retreat - right now just 4.5p to sell. At this rate, losing 1p a month, the shares will be trending towards zero by the summer so its time to panic and go into mega spoof.
2201 days ago
Having said that it never needed to raise money again when it raised £1.2 million as it committed securities fraud on July 31 2017, MySquar (MYSQ) announced a £2.11 million death spiral deal on March 7 2018. The first £200,000 loan note conversion was announced on April 12 at 1.31p.
2223 days ago
Hat Tip to the great Waseem for this but after yesterday's death spiral conversion from UK Oil & Gas (UKOG) here are all the death spiral conversions to date. If I was Cynical Bear I would now be offering a prize for anyone who can show the trend. But I am not as I am a mean bastard with a reputation to protect. So here is the data:
2242 days ago
I realise that the crony capitalists round at Nomad Northland have a few things on their mind, such as who will pay the wages this month, but how on earth can they have signed off on the worst death spiral deal I have ever seen where the counter-party is a man who the SEC nailed for "defrauding investors." I despair.
2243 days ago
In today's bearcast I start with a reader complaint but then he is a tosser so who cares? Then it is onto looking at the differences between the funding facilities at UK Oil & Gas (UKOG) and MySquar (MYSQ). I am bearish on both but the differences in the two packages are instructive. I look at Nature Group (NGR), Jim Mellon's uber-ramp FastForward (FFWD) and at Purplebricks (PURP) is the Neil Woodford bubble about to burst again, as even former supporters like Paul Scott admit my analysis was right and theirs wrong.
2243 days ago
Today's death spiral funding for MySquar (MYSQ) is bad enough as I explained HERE. But now let's look at who is providing that funding - I'll tell you who: proven liars. Natch Nomad SP Angel should have flagged this up but since it is prepared to overlook brazen securities fraud as long as it banks another retainer for the coke & hookers fund, we know that it is morally bankrupt. Anyhow back to the liars now in business with the holocaust denying fraudsters of MySquar.
2243 days ago
When MySquar (MYSQ) misled investors to get away a £1.2 million fund raise in on July 31 2017 it said it would never have to raise cash again. Well it did not take long for a change of mind from the holocaust denying fraudsters did it? And this fund raise announced today is dodgy as hell, yet another mega red flag. So lets go through the lies and spoofs in order up to the latest spoof.
2292 days ago
Shares in Tern (TERN) are today off by 9% at a 2.75p offer after news of the latest conversion of death spiral loan note. There is more on that to come and that may well see the shares fall sharply from here. But there was another route.
2300 days ago
Lube up morons, another £500,000 tranche death spiral loan has been converted into shares in UK Oil & Gas (UKOG). As time goes on this exercise is becoming ever more painful for the morons who own this stock.
2328 days ago
At no-one is warching O'clock yesterday, 5.17 PM, Uk Oil & Gas (UKOG) announced that the fourth £500,000 tranche of death spiral loan notes had been converted into shares. Once again it was sticking two fingers up to AIM Regulation with regards to timely disclosure.
2332 days ago
Uk Oil & Gas (UKOG) today provides a case study in death spiral share price destruction. The only question wis whether the provider converted another tranche a few days ago and UK has not bothered to tell us or whether it converted today and is already selling hard. Elsewhere I look at the Tony Baldry car- crash on the way at Wesztminster Group (WSG) and try to put director share purchases at Condor (CNR) and Concepta (CPT) - which we own - into perspective. I look at Yolo (YOLO) which does not impress me much and blockchain madness at Vela (VELA). I ask what I should get the Mrs for Christmas, I am out of ideas.
2334 days ago
UK Oil & Gas (UKOG) has announced that another £500,000 of death spiral loan has been converted into shares, 14,159,092 of them. But hang on, this does not add up. UK Oil & Gas and its patsy Nomad WH Ireland (WHI) are not telling you something.
2335 days ago
Well, the trend is his friend. The shares are now just 3.6p to sell having been c5p when the company announced it was entering into a £10 million death spiral. But Shakoor reckons the bad news is only just starting. Last night he tweeted:
2338 days ago
In a private email sent today after interim results from the rampers favourite B ushveld Minerals (BMN) a top broker has called the shares out a s slam dunk sell at 7.625p arguing that they are worth only 2p and that the current death spiral funding will run out soon. He writes:
2338 days ago
Luke Johnson was bang on the money at the weekend in his description of the current market madness. In that vein I discuss Milestone (MSG), On Line (ONL), Vela (VELA) and Tizania (TLS). This will end in tears. I take my hat off to Luke Johnson after today's results from Patisserie Valerie (CAKE) but still have two major concerns, a three if you include valuation. I look at Andalas (ADL) and its new death spiral funding and also cover Kefi (KEFI) and Falanx (FLX)
2338 days ago
The providers of £10 million of death spiral finance for UK Oil & Gas (UKOG) are not daft. When this last resort funding was announced on 15 November they were initially on the hook for £7.5 million. That is a fair old whack and not surprisingly they are moving fast to reduce that exposure.
2348 days ago
There were those, such as our own Drunken Sailor, who argued that UK Oil & Gas (UKOG) could manage to absorb the rolling short of a £10 million death spiral announced last week quite easily and it would not hit the share price. The evidence with just 5% of the spiral drawn suggests otherwise and this makes the stock a slam dunk short.
2351 days ago
Sadly illness is still rife in this house so for this Thursday it is no coffee for me with the fit young mums. At least I shall be in Greece in five days time and that must be restorative to my health. In this podcast I start by looking back on UK Oil & Gas (UKOG) and its death spiral. I explain exactly how it works. Then a few further thoughts on Falanx (FLX) and why I am not selling our shares at this price. Then I look at Alexander Mining (AXM), another mega spoof from Clem Chambers, this time at ADVFN (AFN), at "Nomates" disaster RM2 (RM2)Fishing Republic (FISH) - a good zero bet - and at Regal Petroleum (RPT) which seems to be in a spot of bother in Ukraine.
2354 days ago
UK Oil & Gas (UKOG) has today announced a £10 million death spiral and some bad operational news. Natch the BB Morons are clinging to various spoofs in the release which I point out in this bonus podcast as well as explaining why these shares are now a slam dunk sell.
2444 days ago
When serving up god-awful FY numbers on deadline day ( June 30th) it was shown that uber dog Servision (SEV) had serially misled investors and indeed told outright lies over the prior half year. Rover also served up its second profits warning in two weeks with the god-awful numbers and 'fessed up "Our working capital position is tighter than we anticipated" - I should cocoa. Today it got worse.
2449 days ago
Jubilee Platinum (JLP) last week announced a $50 million funding package to grow its metals recovery business. Oh no Riverfort! Said the snipers. Death spirals, yak, yak, yak. They have it wrong. This deal is, if you read the detail, good news.
2476 days ago
Shares in Advanced Oncotherapy (AVO ) are again tumbling on this fine summer's day. Oh what joy it is to be alive. 350p at peak ramp less than two years ago, they are now just 10.75p to sell. Ouch, I just love the smell of burning share certificates belonging to Bulletin Board Morons in the morning. So what crisis looms? Take your pick.
2487 days ago
The stench of desperation at AIM POS Advanced Oncotherapy (AVO) is overpowering.It knows that insolvency looms, that the money is running out fast ( within weeks?) and that a blizzard of share sales from death spiral provider Bracknor will obliterate the share price in the last few days. The board know it. The advisers must know it. But they cannot bring themselves to admit it. The pretence goes on for a while yet. And thus today we have an RNS.
2491 days ago
The other day Red Rock Resources (RRR) announced a deal to fund the Steelmin smelter in Bosnia which involved some alternative financing from Yorkville. At once the critics of boss Andrew Bell - of whom there are more than a few - screamed "death spiral, dilution, the man hads gone mad." A few critics disagreed, arguing that Bell had always been mad. But perhaps before leaping to conclusions it is worth looking atnthe actual structure of the deal?
2510 days ago
Shares in doomed Advanced Oncotherapy (AVO) are now 15.25p to sell, compared to a 25p nominal price. That means that as death spiral provider Bracknor desperately tried to convert c£3 million on loan notes into shares to flog to eliminate its exposure under the spoof arrangement with Advanced it will demand fees of 40p for every £1 of loan note converted. As it scrambles to convert notes and flog shares before the fat lady waddles onto stage from the wings (where she is already warming up), the share price will continue to tank making things even worse. So what to do?
2515 days ago
With its hand forced by my article HERE, Advanced Oncotherapy (AVO) has clarified, i.e. changed, the terms of its death spiral deal with loan sharks Bracknor. It states "This reaffirms Bracknor's prior and on-going support for the Company and its shareholders." Dr Michael Sinclair you are talking bollocks. It has changed a death spiral to a death spiral on steroids.
2563 days ago
Co written with Brian Kinane: It’s a bloody death spiral - sell! That seems to be the standard response to an announcement that an AIM company has raised cash via a structured financing plan rather than a, often deeply discounted, placing. But that "truism" is a falsehood. Some structured financings are death spirals, bad news for all bar the provider. Others, however, are put together in a way that only work if the share price rises. And that, surely, has to be better than a deeply discounted placing to bucket shop flippers?
2589 days ago
If no Nomad is prepared to act for the FRAUD Cloudtag (CTAG) then its shares, now suspended, will be booted off the AIM Casino. No AIM = no death spiral funding so it will - very soon - run out of, other people's cash, and will go bust. But the first step is being booted off AIM. And, inspired by liar Amit Ben Haim, we have a useful countdown clock until that ouzo moment. Enjoy.
2589 days ago
It is just eight days to the GM of Advanced Oncotherapy (AVO) where shareholders are being asked to approve the issue of gazillions of new shares for the Bracknor death spiral. Since the alternative is going bust within weeks if not days then the result is a gimme although I intend attending - as the owner of 1 share - to ask some searching questions. But the collapse in the share price - the stock is now 31.5p mid, 30p bid tells you there are even bigger issues and that Advanced is, quite possibly toast whatever.
2589 days ago
Well fraud fans, the first day of reckoning for the shabby fraud that is Cloudtag (CTAG) looms. If it has no Nomad in place by Monday night next week then its shares will be booted off AIM. Unable then to raise even death spiral funding and with no sales it will go bust pretty quickly. If it was not already close to going tits up it would not have attempted that last gasp discount placing with broker Novum. So, as no Nomad will sign up to act for an obvious fraud the Fat Lady is waiting in the wings. When this does go bust the video below, recorded with morally bankrupt rampers for hire Proactive, should be examined very closely by the Serious Fraud Office as it is damning..
2589 days ago
Clearly this is the story of the day. I reflect on this from various angles. I then move onto Franchise Brands (FRAN) shares in which surged 16% forcing a suspension. No insider dealing here guv, walk on, walk on. Then it is onto Bowleven (BLVN), Yolo (YOLO), Starcom (STAR) which I may have called Starvest but I meant Starcom, Van Elle (VANL), Nyota (NYO) and finally the uber dog Advanced Oncotherapy (AVO) which is in freefall. Hah! Death spiral shylocks Bracknor your spoof is not working is it! On the subject of terror I mention that evil bastard Martin McGuinness.You should not speak ill of the dead but for this unapologetic murderer and for those in the media who praise him as a good man I make an exception HERE. Mr McGuinness was a wicked man who sought no salvation in apology and repentance and, if there is a hell, his soul is right now burning at the heart of it.
2592 days ago
Death spiral provider Bracknor does not buy shares in companies. It loans the desperate, cash at pound of flesh rates which it then converts into shares at discounted rates and flogs to mug punters. That is the classic death spiral model. But to get such a death spiral away it needs a perception of market liquidity and also to avoid a complete short term collapse of the share price. And that brings us to Advanced Oncotherapy (AVO).
2597 days ago
Advanced Oncotherapy (AVO) is, as you know, utterly desperate to create buying interest in its shares so that death spiral shysters Bracknor can dump £13.7 million of equity onto the market over the next year. That is not going well and so Advanced today boasts that it has paid investment analyst prostitutes for hire, Hardman, to publish a glossy note. This report is so unbelievably unbalanced that I can only assume that Hardman outsourced the work to the Bulletin Board Morons on the LSE Asylum. Folks can see through this shite and the shares are down by a penny at just 40p bid which is very bad news for Advanced as explained HERE.
2603 days ago
Heading to zero, serial liar Advanced Oncotherapy (AVO) has today called a GM to approve the issue of a blizzard of shares to obliterate its share price via death spiral. More on that later but the documentation throws up another issue other than the lies refered to earlier HERE, why will Advanced NOT come clean on short selling by death spiral provider Bracknor.
2603 days ago
Advanced Oncotherapy (AVO) has today called its GM to approve the issuance of more shares to feed the Bracknor Death Spiral - more on that later for the document is, like the company, a joke. But first lets go to a big fat monstrous lie it told last year to help get that bailout placing away in September.
2605 days ago
Shares in Advanced Oncotherapy (AVO) are sliding again today. Last time I looked they were 32p bid and they are heading rapidly towards the 25p mark at which point Bracknor will not be able to forward sell/convert loan notes as explained HERE without GM sanction. Thus the loan shark death spiral provider - which is pro tem exposed to the tune of well over £1 million will be flogging shares as fast as it can. Meanwhile Advanced just won't answer my 16 questions HERE. But there is something else going on which you can see if you check out the Bulletin Boards and it is quite remarkable and shows this company is toast.
2608 days ago
When AIM uber dog Advanced Oncotherapy (AVO) announced that instead of going for non dilutive funding ( as no-one would provide it) it was being forced to resort to a dreadful £13 million death spiral from loan sharks Bracknor, its shares were 65p. When the death spiral started the shares were 58p. Now it just £100,000 of the death spiral loan notes on the first £1.3 million tranche converted, the shares are just 43p to sell. Bracknor now has three reasons to panic.
2614 days ago
Advanced Oncotherapy (AVO) the company with sod all cash, that is a cash guzzler, with no sales and which has persistently misled both investors and customers has moved up a gear with its death spiral funding and the shares have fallen again to just 49p to sell. Boy how sleazey former director, the Blair crony, Lord Evans of Watford must be glad that he dumped all his shares at 120p just ahead of the last big placing and during a closed period. And there has been no sanction at all. Bully for him. Now back to the death spiral.
2616 days ago
If you had raised £10 million for the AIM dog Advanced Oncotherapy (AVO) less than 5 months ago at 100p then your stance on the stock - at 54p-58p- would be some sort of buy. Oh no. broker Beaufort who did indeed raise that cash has today downgraded its stance to, what may be termed a corporate "hold" (i.e. sell) and makes it clear that the shares will fall allowing lower entry points. I should cocoa. Beaufort today opines after the Bracknor death spiral announcement of Friday - the underlines are mine:
2617 days ago
Having promised "non dilutive funding" ad nauseam, on Wednesday AIM listed POS Advanced Oncotherapy (AVO) announced a £13 million death spiral funding with are shylocks Bracknor. On Friday it drew down tranche one and promptly served up another dose of smoke and mirrors for punters. The death spiral dance is now underway. Advanced announced that:
2618 days ago
Yesterday I pointed out how the £13 million death spiral Advanced Oncotherapy (AVO) had signed with loan sharks Bracknor would see its share price collapse. It should but there is worse news in store - that of insolvency looming in just five weeks time. Insolvency you say? What are you talking about? Let me explain.
2619 days ago
I have noted before that some death spirals are in fact a decent way for companies to raise cash, cheaper and less share price destructive than a bucket shop placing. But the Bracknor deal announced today by Advanced Oncotherapy (AVO), which had promised non dilutive funding but clearly does not mean a word it says, as I explained here earlier, is a total rotter. It will crater the share price as Bracknor makes a killing. Let me explain why.
2619 days ago
Serial misleader and worthless bag of AIM listed shite Advanced Oncotherapy (AVO) today announced that it has secured death spiral financing for £13-26 million from the lowest of the low DS funders, Bracknor. That is bad enough and will see the shares forward sold to buggery, as I will outline in a separate piece. What is worse is that it exposes Advanced for again misleading investors.
2641 days ago
Andalas Energy (ADL) is bankrupt but pretends that it is a proper company. Anyone reading train wreck interims to October 31 2016 can only wonder why its directors have not been charged with trading whilst insolvent. It's a total rum and coke but it gets worse.
2664 days ago
Hapless Nomad Cairn has so far refused to resign as adviser to the AIM fraud Cloudtag (CTAG) despite incontrovertible evidence of house it has misled investors with RNS statements that are outright lies throughout 2016 and in doing so has committed blatant securities fraud. Today's shock video from CES where an Onitor spokesman admits that there is no release date yet is surely the straw that breaks the camel's back in that it directly exposes as a lie every statement made in November & December about 2016 sales that was used to get away a £4.1 million death spiral fund raise. I have written to Tony Rawlinson & Liam Murray at Cairn and cc'd in that useless poltroon Marcus Stuttard, head of the oxymorons at AIM Regulation demanding a statement and action.
2681 days ago
It seems like an eternity of lies ago but the EGM of AIM fraud Cloudtag (CTAG) was in fact just 11 days ago and at that meeting shareholders approved two motions relating to share issuance that allowed the L1 death spiral to go ahead. But they were lied to.
2687 days ago
Having ramped its shares up to 0.15p by pretending that the refinacing of its bank debt was by anything other than a death spiral and with some huffy puffy claptrap about new drilling, LGO Energy (LGO) got back to what it does best today, a placing to dilute yet again.
2687 days ago
Bear raider Lucian Miers has again challenged the Oxymorons at AIM Regulation to take swift and firm action against Cloudtag (CTAG) for market abuse but has also raised the issue of forward selling by death spiral provider L1 Capital. This is effectively running a naked short and should thus be illegal. Miers writes:
2695 days ago
Shares in LGO Energy (LGO) have raced ahead by 33% to just over 0.14p on news that the company has signed up to a new uber expensive death spiral. Truly some folks just do not get why death spirals are called death spirals. But every cloud has a silver lining: the cash means that LGO can repay French banksters BNP Paribas.
2704 days ago
The great bear raider is a charitable soul and is doing his very best to explain to Cloudtag (CTAG) owning morons how death spirals work for frauds like the one they are invested in. What a nice guy Shakoor is, spending his valuable time educating the (soon to be) poor and stupid. Give the man a bloody knighthood for services to the intellectually challenged. Saint Waseem explains thus.
2704 days ago
Thanks to @MarkTaber_FII and @WShak1 for the link. This explains how a death spiral wipes you out. Please take note investors in Cloudtag
2712 days ago
We wait patiently for AIM-listed Cloudtag (CTAG) to get its fitness device off the production line - if either actually exists. Then it can meet the $5.2 million guaranteed order during 2016 from Second Chance which has morphed into what looks more like an £880,000 expression of interest which might lead to sales some time this year or next, if ever. Until then we can rely upon the death spiral funding package announced on 7 November to keep the company from taking a one-way trip to the corporate knackers’ yard. Or can we?
2712 days ago
With Cloudtag (CTAG) now reliant on death spiral funding it is engaged in a desperate battle to create retail demand for its shares in order to soak up the wall of death spiral selling. The announcement of clear non events is a sign of that panic. And so meet Mr David He.
2721 days ago
Cloudtag (CTAG) has today confirmed that net proceeds of £1.44 million on its recent financing have been confirmed as arriving and as such has revealed the financier to whom loan notes are being issued: L1 Capital Global Opportunities Master Fund. Bear raider Waseem Shakoor now points out why this is such terrible news. Waseem writes:
2860 days ago
Death spiral providers Bergen are vultures. They are not nice folks. They are not long term investors. But they are not dumb either. They know that shares in African Potash (AFPO) are set to crash and so today Bergen has exercised 63.7 million warrants at 0.3p under some old deal it had. Oh dear. The shares will be admitted to trading on Wednesday but Bergen won't be waiting for then. Oh no.
3112 days ago
By now it is clear after the numerous scandals at New World Oil & Gas (NEW), Gate Ventures (GATE) and so many others that we’ve forgotten, that Roland “fatty” Cornish is officially London’s worst Nomad. His latest triumph is to allow shares in Golden Saint Resources (GSR) to continue to trade even though the company is insolvent and its Richard "Gollum" Gill crowd funded debt death spiral has only raised MINUS £1938.50. To celebrate this walking disaster story we have another caption contest. Don’t hold back…there is a prize.
3112 days ago
You will remember that AIM POS Golden Saint Resources (GSR) is out of cash and is burning cash at up to £200,000 a month. It is insolvent. Its Nomad Roland “fatty” Cornish is too busy thinking of his next five course lunch to push the company on this and have the shares suspended pending clarification. When this goes tits up, his failure on this point will be raised with AIM Regulation. But at least there is the crowd funded debt death spiral to raise £250,000 which is now 11 days into its 90 day campaign, there to save Golden. How is it doing?
3114 days ago
It goes without saying that there live execution of insolvent AIM listed POS Golden Saint Resources (GSR) via a crowd funded debt death spiral is not going well. The past 24 hours has seen another £0 raised meaning that on day nine net proceeds are still MINUS £1938.50. But an eagle eyed reader has flagged up a weekend change, as CrowdforAngels tries to cover up how investors are being spoofed.
3114 days ago
It goes without saying that the scoreboard was not exactly rattling yesterday at the live public execution crowd funded death spiral of Golden Saint Resources (GSR). Is that because Golden Saint is an insolvent POS or because the crowd funder crowdforangels has been cursed by having the congenitally imbecilic Northern Slum refugee Richard “Gollum” Gill on board as its compliance officer? Or both. As it happens…
3117 days ago
It is all action at crowdforangels, the crowd funding operation which asked for trouble when it hired as its compliance officer, Northern Slum refugee and prize tool Richard “Gollum” Gill. Six days ago it set out to raise £250,000 in a crowd funded debt death spiral for AIM listed insolvent POS Golden Saint Resources (GSR). The big news from the last 24 hours is….
3117 days ago
The public execution of insolvent AIM listed POS Golden Saint Resources (GSR) gets more gripping by the day. 24 hours ago ( day 5) the company had raised £300 from mug punters and £800 from staff at crowdforangels including imbecilic compliance officer Gollum, meaning that the net proceeds of this crowd funded debt death spiral were still MINUS £1938.50. Today the total raised is…
3119 days ago
Today is day 5 of POS AIM listed Golden Saint Resources (GSR) attempt to avoid insolvency with a £250,000 crowd funded debt death spiral. As we noted on Sunday (HERE), £800 has been chipped in so far by employees of crowdforangels including its imbecilic compliance officer Gollum (HERE). So how much has been raised on day 5? And just how insolvent is the company? Er..
3120 days ago
Today is day 4 of POS AIM listed Golden Saint Resources (GSR) attempt to avoid insolvency with a £250,000 crowd funded debt death spiral. As we noted yesterday, £800 has been chipped in so far by employees of crowdforangels including its imbecilic compliance officer Gollum (HERE). So how much has been raised on day 4? Er..
3120 days ago
Another day gone and things look even grimmer in the execution chamber as we watch the public death of AIM POS Golden Saint Resources (GSR). Still only £1100 of the £250,000 needed has been pledged which means that – after costs – three days of the crowd funded debt death spiral has realised a net MINUS £1,938.50. But I am afraid the true picture is EVEN WORSE than that. Moreover…now it is time to meet Gollum, the mastermind behind this fiasco.
3122 days ago
This gets more hilarious by the day, the slow public execution of Golden Saint Resources (GSR) as it endeavours to secure £250,000 via a crowd funded convertible debt death spiral. On day 2 the net proceeds so far are MINUS £1,938.50. Death ahoy. The hard maths are just appalling.
3123 days ago
We have already flagged that AIM-Cesspit POS Golden Saint Resources (GSR) was out of cash HERE. Today we find that despite pre-placing ramps (see HERE and HERE) it appears that it is out of friends too. This morning, it appears that the company could not even get a keep-the-lights-on placing away, and has had to turn to a death spiral. Except that it could not even go to any of the usual players there either, turning instead to crowd-funding. And to cap it all, this funding round has not yet been completed – today’s RNS simply announces of its launch. This is a slam-dunk sell.
3824 days ago
Alecto Minerals (ALO) wins today’s prize for the most misleading announcement from the AIM Cesspit with an RNS headlined “”£1 million placing and funding arrangement”. Has Alecto just secured an additional £1 million? Like hell it has. And is it “pleased to announce” this deal. Also like hell it is. It is desperate for cash and this is really last gasp death spiral stuff.
3826 days ago
http://www.shareprophets.advfn.com/views/2323/caza-oil-gas-announcement-today-is-pure-bollocks
