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I really do not understand this type 2 diabetes. There was I celebrating several days within a normal range of 5-7 and I woke up in the sevens. That was bad enough to prompt me into leading a very blameless day with a normal breakfast of a bit of bacon and eggs and a very modest lunch of fried zucchini. I then worked up a great sweat with hard manual labour chopping frigana at the Greek Hovel. And thus by eight PM, pre-swim my blood sugar reading had plunged to ...WTF?

It was 8.6! So I swum hard and had a glass of milk and thought I'd just lie down for ten minutes before going to a light supper. A call from the Mrs woke me up. It was 11.30 and I felt feint and groggy. My blood sugar had plunged to 6.2. At that rate it would be heading back through 5 and on the way to diabetic coma territory by the morning. I really just do not get it at all.

With the restaurants here on the very edge of town now shutting for the night I scrounged a piece of cake off the hotel and enjoyed that with my meds and another glass of milk. I do not have rhe raging thirst one suffers when the diabetes is out of control but I've sweated a lot of liquids today and I do just like milk. Anyhow I now feel really full of beans and absolutely fine. But this diabetes is a jolly confusing enemy.

I see that Diane Abbott has fessed up to being a type 2 diabetic and is using that as an excuse for her shambolic performance during the election. That a lard-bucket like Ms Abbott has developed this condition is no shock. However, I feel she does her fellow sufferers a grave dis-service in saying that the stress of six or seven interviews a day caused her condition to rage out of control so leaving her unable to answer basic questions. That is just a lie.

Her car crash interview with Sky HERE was her only interview of that day She crashed because she is thick and had not read her brief. Like many other diabetics I struggle through big stress times - the run up to Uk Investor Show - coping with this disease. I might end up pissing seven times during the night but I do not let down colleagues by failing to answer basic questions.

That my diabetes was raging out of control at the time of UK Investor was not down to stress, though it cannot have helped, but to persistent abuse of my body: not taking enough exercise, eating too much and eating the wrong things and drink. Ms Abbott needs to be honest with herself and with us in admitting the same.

Diane Abbott should take time off from politics to get her diabetes in check. And then carry on taking time off because she is just not fit for purpose as an MP. Having accused her critics of racism she is now using diabetes as a defence. It is pathetic.

http://www.shareprophets.com/views/28550/video-the-bears-session-at-uk-investor-show-2017-two-well-known-stocks-set-to-collapse

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I did okay in 2016. The notable win being quitting smoking although that was not something I started until February 15. So I guess I don't need to start my 2017 resolutions right away. that is jolly useful as we still have a bit of Christmas cake and an excellent cheddar cheese from Uncle Chris to finish off. That brings me to resolution one.

I am a type two diabetic and have let things slip over the past year - perhaps to offset the lack of nicotine - I started to re-assert a grip in the autumn but its a long hard fight back. The annoying thing is that back in 2012 I had managed to get this illness under total control. Admittedly that was driven by dramatic weight loss as part of a near nervous breakdown but every cloud should have a silver lining.

And so resolution one is to take my medication faithfully.

Resolution two is to avoid alcohol and sugary drinks (no more ginger beer which, these days, really is my tipple of choice!) until the weight, cholesterol and body sugars are under some sort of control.

Resolution three is to eat more healthily. That starts after this weekend

Resolution four is a financial one. In 2012 when it all went so horribly wrong I reckon that I was worth minus £150,000. The coward's way out would have been to declare myself bankrupt but I did not take that route. I suppose I have too much pride. So these days money is less of a concern.

None the less there are still a few small debts to clear and the Mrs has to find a way to pay for the renovation of the Greek hovel. That is the goal for 2017. Clear all the liabilities. At that point I know that merely by doing the odd bit of scribbling I could support myself and more living in Greece. The downside is protected. If the Mrs wants to "re-align" her career we could call it a day and live from a bit of scribbling and olives. Getting to that place is a resolution in itself. You may say that it is ambitious but I see a pathway, a number of choices that I can make to deliver that. Choices I did not make in 2016 but will in 2017.

Resolution five is to slog my guts out to make UK Investor Show on April 1 a sell out success. We are pretty well advanced in that so it just requires a January "surge" and I think we are there. The deal with the Wray family is that if I can deliver that in 2017, our partnership will see the Wrays deliver far more in 2018 and I can do less and less.

And that brings me to resolution six. Four years ago the idea that I would have the most amazingly kind and stunningly attractive wife and also a three month old son would have seemed the stuff of fantasy. But I do. There are folks who covet wealth and material goods. That is not me. Joshua and the Mrs are far more rewarding. And so they deserve more of my time and I want to spend more time with them. Again wheels are in motion but they will spin far faster in 2017.

The Mrs heads back to work in June. And that will leave me as the primary carer. So less work. More nappy changing. Surely that is not a bad resolution for the New Year, albeit not a common one?

Resolution seven? Take regular exercise. If I lived in Greece that would be easy. There is always work to do in the snake fields and in walking into the village and back I'd burn a stack of calories. But in Britain I do sweet FA. I am a member of a gym but never go. That all has to change.

If I manage 5 of 7 that will be a triumph but after 2016's heroics in quitting smoking - which I thought impossible - I reckon anything is possible. 

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In between treavelling back from the Greek Hovel to Bristol there is always tiime to launch a new free monthly magazine - Uk Investor Show. Issue one leads on Greece and I have a centre spread on why it is kebabbed whatever. There are share tips and bear calls from myself and share tips from Steve Moore and Zak Mir. Columns by Chris Bailey and Thierry Laduguie and comment on why UK house prices must fall and on the election. You can download it for free with no registration needed HERE

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As you might have guessed, I am a major Star Wars geek.  We have Star Wars Trivial Pursuit here, all the films, I have a Darth T-shirt and the Star Wars jokes run through all of my writings, notably in my battles with the now imploding Death Star known as Burnbrae Media. Did any of the folks at UK Investor Show 2015 get my little joke on that matter with our introductory music?

Anyhow, we are now preparing to announce the arrival of the real Princess Leia at the rebel base in Clerkenwell - our first Leia was just a trick to fool The Emperor - as we work to eliminate the last remnants dark side of the force forever, today is officially World Star Wars Day. May be the 4^th be with you.

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http://www.shareprophets.com/views/11955/video-of-fortune-mojapelo-of-bushveld-minerals-presenting-at-uk-investor-show-2015

http://www.shareprophets.com/views/11948/video-of-presentation-by-kevin-foo-of-victoria-oil-gas-at-uk-investor-show

http://www.shareprophets.com/views/11946/video-of-presentation-by-andrew-monk-of-anglo-african-agriculture-at-uk-investor-show

http://www.shareprophets.com/views/11919/video-of-presentation-by-ian-strafford-taylor-of-fairfx-at-uk-investor-show-2015

http://www.shareprophets.com/views/11937/video-of-presentation-by-stewart-white-of-collagen-at-uk-investor-show-2015

http://www.shareprophets.com/views/11933/video-of-challenger-acquistions-presentation-at-uk-investor-show

http://www.shareprophets.com/views/11932/video-of-venture-life-presentation-at-uk-investor-show-2015

http://www.shareprophets.com/views/11908/video-of-k3-business-technology-presenting-at-uk-investor-show-2015

http://www.shareprophets.com/views/11907/video-of-mirada-presenting-at-the-uk-investor-show-2015

http://www.shareprophets.com/views/11885/video-of-forbidden-techologies-presentation-at-the-uk-investor-show-2015

http://www.shareprophets.com/views/11863/lenigas-says-he-is-to-sue-andrew-bell-calls-him-a-liar-another-big-dave-twitter-threat

http://www.shareprophets.com/views/11832/video-uk-investor-show-tech-session-with-paul-kavanagh-lorne-daniel-jason-drummond-john-wisbey-marcus-hanke-stephen-streater

http://www.shareprophets.com/views/11828/video-of-the-no-1-presentation-at-uk-investor-show-mark-slater

http://www.shareprophets.com/views/11799/video-of-john-mcgloin-of-amara-mining-presenting-at-uk-investor-show

http://www.shareprophets.com/views/11797/video-of-presentation-by-pcg-entertainment-at-uk-investor-show-2015

http://www.shareprophets.com/views/11801/video-of-uk-investor-presentation-by-soon-to-ipo-bitcoin-play-coinsillium

http://www.shareprophets.com/views/11803/video-of-uk-investor-show-presentation-by-rare-earth-minerals

http://www.shareprophets.com/views/11804/uk-investor-show-video-picking-stocks-with-ed-croft-chris-bailey-thierry-laduguie

http://www.shareprophets.com/views/11806/video-from-uk-investor-tom-winnifrith-head-to-head-with-peter-hambro

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http://www.shareprophets.com/views/11798/video-presentation-by-jason-drummond-of-teathers-financial-at-uk-investor-show

http://www.shareprophets.com/views/11807/video-the-three-bears-at-uk-investor-evil-knievil-lucian-miers-and-matt-earl

http://www.shareprophets.com/views/11772/video-of-the-mining-session-at-uk-investor-starring-amanda-van-dyke-poulden-mcgloin-bell

http://www.shareprophets.com/views/11774/video-nigel-wray-paul-scott-paul-jourdan-clem-and-tw-value-investing-at-uk-investor-show

http://www.shareprophets.com/views/11773/video-of-the-oil-experts-session-at-uk-investor-show-horse-hill-and-much-more

http://www.shareprophets.com/views/11767/video-of-luke-johnson-giving-a-star-main-stage-speech-at-uk-investor

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http://www.shareprophets.com/views/11765/video-of-net-dimensions-presentation-at-the-uk-investor-show-2015

http://www.shareprophets.com/views/11745/video-of-louis-coetzee-of-kibo-mining-presenting-at-the-uk-investor-show-2015

http://www.shareprophets.com/views/11740/the-truth-behind-the-sefton-case-its-dirty-tricks-tom-winnifrith-video-from-uk-investor-2015

http://www.shareprophets.com/views/11743/video-geoff-miller-of-gli-finance-presents-at-uk-investor-show

http://www.shareprophets.com/views/11735/clem-chambers-ceo-of-adfvn-plc-presents-at-uk-investor-show

http://www.shareprophets.com/views/11734/this-house-believes-that-if-you-own-shares-you-should-vote-labour-in-the-general-election-uk-investor-debate-video

http://www.shareprophets.com/views/11709/explosive-ben-edelman-uk-investor-show-video-he-nails-blinkx-again

http://www.shareprophets.com/views/11694/tom-winnifrith-bearcast-farewell-peter-landau-edition

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http://www.shareprophets.com/views/11698/the-fourth-final-short-tip-from-the-world-s-no-1-tech-analyst-kevin-ashton-sell-fusionex

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http://www.shareprophets.com/views/11667/tom-winnifrith-bearcast-working-with-no-trousers-edition

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http://www.shareprophets.com/views/11626/if-you-own-shares-you-should-vote-labour-the-poulden-vs-winnifrith-debate-on-saturday

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http://www.shareprophets.com/views/11568/ask-luke-johnson-about-entrepreneurship-at-ukinvestorshow-on-april-18

http://www.shareprophets.com/views/11557/ask-tom-winnifrith-any-question-and-win-a-special-prize-in-one-week-s-time

http://www.shareprophets.com/views/11525/the-bears-move-on-quindell-short-becomes-a-slater-gordon-short

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http://www.shareprophets.com/views/11498/blinkx-trading-statement-is-dire-and-worse-is-to-come-on-april-18

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News of new speakers at the UK Investor Show including legendary fund manager Mark Slater has seen a surge in demand for seats for the show of the year on April 18. There are now fewer than 100 of the 2000 seats left for grabs so if you want to attend book your seat now at www.UKInvestorShow.com

I will be doing three or four talks on the day. One with the bears (Evil Knievil, Matt Earl, Kevin Ashton) and one with the value investors (Nigel Wray, Paul Jourdan and Paul Scott) both on the main stage. I have a side room presentation on Sefton where I name some names who need investigation and then a main stage Sheriff slot with Amanda Van Dyke and Malcolm Stacey.

There are also main stage presentations by:

*Luke Johnson of Pizza Express, C4 and The Sunday Times on why City research is so useless and who are the new regulators

*Saved Javid MP on taking the City and business forward

*Ben Edelman with more bad news for blinks and other shocks from the Web Sheriff

*Ed Croft of Stockopedia on stock picking to make money with Thierry Laduguie and Chris Bailey

*Tech stars Stephen Streater, Lorne Daniel, Jason Drummond and Paul Kavanagh on making money in tech

*Amanda van Dyke and David Lenigas lead a session on making Money from resource stocks

To book your tickets go to www.UKInvestorShow.com 

There are also 14 special 1 hour analysts sessions on topics ranging from shells (Adam Reynolds) to mining ( Amanda again), to biotech (Steve Moore) and tech (Lorne Daniel again).

And there are 110 PLC stands with 70 of the PLCs also doing 20 minute presentations on the day.

And 25 of the UK’s top share bloggers will be taking it in turn to man the Bloggers café where you can chat informally to any of them

This will be my best and most controversial show ever and that is why there are now fewer than 100 of the 2000 tickets still going. All 2000 tickets will be sent out next week so to book yours go now to www.UKinvestorshow

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http://www.shareprophets.com/views/11151/tom-winnifrith-bearcast-18th-march

http://www.shareprophets.com/views/11130/nominate-your-nine-stockmarket-villains-or-buffoons-of-the-past-12-months-its-for-uk-investor-show

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http://www.shareprophets.com/views/10778/tom-winnifrith-bearcast-a-very-special-double-greek-hovel-prize-edition

http://www.shareprophets.com/views/10599/tom-winnifrith-bearcast-no-valentine-s-day-love-for-the-bad-folks

http://www.shareprophets.com/views/10444/the-plc-roll-of-shame-qui-n-est-ce-pas-charlie

http://www.shareprophets.com/views/10348/tom-winnifrith-bearcast-30-january

http://www.shareprophets.com/views/10307/tom-winnifrith-bearcast-28-january

http://www.shareprophets.com/views/10284/tom-winnifrith-bearcast-27-january

http://www.shareprophets.com/views/10271/breaking-new-uk-investor-speaker-announced-kevin-ashton-of-quindell-fame

Once again it is that week when Darren Atwater and I both turn one year older. Last Monday the pizza hardman turned 47. I stop being 46 this Monday coming up and as it is the start of the year you naturally think about what you have achieved and what you want to achieve.

We are getting older. Perhaps as importantly our parents are getting pretty old now – Darren’s in Canada, mine in Shipston. As they all head towards eighty you have certain thoughts. I guess both Darren and I are also contemplating that we are closer to retirement age than to the start of our careers. In his quiet way he still has a bit more hunger than I do to achieve and conquer. I think I’m well past that now.

Professionally we can look back two years with some satisfaction. We have turned a heavily loss making restaurant into a profitable and well liked venue despite the hate campaign directed against it by certain Bulletin Board Morons. From scratch we have created a media operation which is profitable and whipping the “old factory” hands down. Just go to Alexa.com and check out how ShareProphets compares against any of the titles asset stripped from RSH. In fact this little site on which you fund this article also appears to be ahead of all of those titles as well in terms of how much traffic it attracts which really is saying something. Our annual show (UK Investor Show) now has 101 stands booked, the old place is on 32 (nearly all connected to its proprietor). So we have made a point. We have won. And the whole of the City knows that.

And we think that we can be rightly proud of the content on both sites, saying what others fear to say and, on ShareProphets, exposing financial wrongdoing on an industrial scale. We have not budged from our principles or flinched in the face of bullying and threats, legal and illegal from those who do not like what we publish.

Sticking to our guns is – as it turns out – a profitable business. Having been worth minus £250,000 two years ago following my departure from RSH my finances are now sorted out.

But it is hard work. After a while the abuse and harassment gets to you. Yes there is great satisfaction when you get a clear win as we did on Friday when shares in the fraud Naibu were suspended but there are times when you feel very much in the trenches and under constant hostile fire.  

And there are just the hours as well. I would have no problem spending hours writing an article that I really enjoyed writing – like the Charlie Hebdo piece last week – even if no-one read it. Receiving praise from journalists who I really respect for that article is a bonus. But even minutes spent subbing the work of others can be minutes I regard as time that I am wasting. Call me arrogant, if you wish, but I do not feel that my role in life is to translate the work of others into English particularly when the core message is not really very interesting or new in the first place.

The job of journalists should be to question, to probe, to make folks think. It may not make you popular as my friend Gary Newman found when penning a piece on a BB fave LGO Energy. It is all too easy to win short term friends but Gary gave a view which was negative. I am not certain that I take that view or take it as strongly as he does but he challenged folks to think about their assumptions. That is good work. I am happy to spend a few minutes subbing his material for he makes people think.  

But there are other articles we run on ShareProphets which seem to me to add little. I am wasting minutes of my life generating internet fish paper that has no value. And there is more to life than that.

I know that Darren has other business matters that interest him. I have other projects too. Rebuilding the hovel. A non-financial book. And I still want the time to devote to busting frauds on Aim which I enjoy.

Does this all mean that there are New Years’ resolutions of dramatic intent? No. we have started the process of making small changes and that will evolve. But each small change can be painful. Telling a writer that we will not publish his or her material is not a pleasant task but now that we are 47 we are going to start acting more selfishly and putting our needs first.

The intent is to ensure that there is less and less hamster wheel type activity as the year progresses. Essentially the business model should evolve but be recognisable for at least sixteen months. But as Christmas 2015 approaches then bigger decisions must be made.

The New Year’s resolution 2015 is thus to make a firm resolution by the end of 2015.

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This is my penultimate video postcard from Greece until I return November for the olive harvest. Forgive my lack of writing, I have been busy preparing for UK Investor Show on April 18 2015 and also obsessing about snakes and frigana.

I discuss both snakes and frigana in great detail.

I then go on to say why I disagree with Paddy Leigh Fermour and have fallen in love with Kambos, the village nearest to the Greek Hovel. 

Details of the show are at www.UKInvestorShow.com – book your seat now!

My financial video postcard this week covers the issues of shares that appear to be uber cheap (PE of less than 3 etc). It is the “It’s too good to be true” edition and can be viewed HERE

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http://www.shareprophets.advfn.com/views/7094/txo-tim-baldwin-explains-and-puts-the-case-on-video

http://www.shareprophets.advfn.com/views/6985/lombard-risk-management-i-think-the-shares-are-cheap-watch-the-video-and-decide-for-yourself

http://www.shareprophets.advfn.com/views/6955/afriaag-a-cute-africa-play-or-just-another-david-lenigas-promote-watch-the-video-and-you-decide

http://www.shareprophets.advfn.com/views/6944/andrew-bell-of-red-rock-resources-is-he-delivering-watch-the-video-and-decide

http://www.shareprophets.advfn.com/views/6931/ariana-already-up-on-our-085p-tip-at-113p-after-one-month-watch-this-and-understand-the-real-upside

http://www.shareprophets.advfn.com/views/6880/fastnet-oil-gas-a-bumpy-ride-but-is-the-story-good-watch-the-video-and-decide-for-yourself

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http://www.shareprophets.advfn.com/views/6834/david-lenigas-company-rare-earth-minerals-raging-buy-or-stonking-sell-watch-this-video-and-you-decide

http://www.shareprophets.advfn.com/views/6797/westminster-group-video-cheap-as-chips-or-another-aim-loser-you-decide

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When I record my videos each week you are meant to email me to say “Tom you have lost weight – well done!” I should not have to prompt anyone (especially the Mrs). But I have lost weight. Well I can’t measure it since, as I noted two years ago, there are virtually no scales in the whole of Greece but I can do the trouser test!

At my shameful 19 stone 6 pounds peak my waist was a disgraceful 44 inches. At my fighting weight (hooker for London Irish Wild Geese) I was a 32 inch waist. Two years ago in Greece I almost got down to 32 inches. I was within spitting distance.

Back in the UK – and blaming the Mrs for leading me astray - my waist expanded again. On leaving I was in 36 inch jeans and they felt tight. Within a few days my Ireland rugby shorts (from a post London Irish age) were so obviously falling down that they had to be retired. But they do not really count – they come from a plump (Clontarf veterans) era.

However, as their replacement – red swimming shorts  - went from tight to comfortably loose I tried the trouser test. The 36 inch jeans are now not comfortable they are actually loose enough to pull down without unbuttoning. This is a triumph born of doing manual labour and living for two weeks on a diet of one or two Greek salads a day plus coffee (no sugar), diet coke and water. No alcohol has passed my lips for two weeks.

Today I had meat to celebrate being Steve McQueen. The utterly splendid in every respect Eleni at the Kambos taverna served me up a small plate of meatballs and some utterly incredible focaccia style bread. It was a rare treat and a reminder of why I shall never become a full time vegetarian. Tomorrow, however, it is back to the Greek salads and a hard day of manual labour is planned.

I can see that by next weekend the 36 inch jeans will have been retired and the 34s – which I could not squeeze into – will be comfortable. On the 10^th a UK Investor Show Speaker who claims they wish to lose 15 lbs in three weeks at the Greek Hovel arrives and has suggested that our daily regime should start with a “quick” jog to the village and back. Hmmmm.  I am not so sure that sounds like my idea of paradise but if that is to be the way then by 10^th August I shall be at 32 inch waist fighting weight ( at which point incidentally my Body Mass Index should be in what is terms “normal”) category.

So far I reckon I am just under half way there. Now remember when you are watching my next video…. 

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http://www.shareprophets.advfn.com/views/6317/the-sherrif-of-aim-and-deputy-sheriff-respond-to-angus-forrest-of-tern-and-call-for-the-noose

http://www.shareprophets.advfn.com/views/6366/nigel-wray-chris-bailey-paul-kavanagh-and-ed-croft-value-investing-2014-on-video

http://www.shareprophets.advfn.com/views/6272/watch-evil-knievil-matt-earl-and-lucian-miers-on-video-at-the-uk-investor-show-2014-how-right-they-were

http://www.shareprophets.advfn.com/views/6231/ed-croft-of-stockopedia-to-headline-at-uk-investor-2015-watch-his-2014-video

http://www.shareprophets.advfn.com/views/6199/blinkx-i-disagree-with-gary-as-it-is-a-sell-my-top-three-stocks-to-short-on-aim

http://www.shareprophets.advfn.com/views/5798/just-27-days-to-act-mark-slater-and-uk-investor-show-2015

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http://www.shareprophets.advfn.com/views/5649/adam-reynolds-the-company-rescuer-speaker-no-28-at-uk-investor-show-2015

Direct from the Queen Elizabeth Conference Centre a video featuring a UK Investor Show 2014 debate between Tom Winnifrith and Richard Poulden on whether UK House prices will crash.

Tickets for the 2015 UK Investor Show featuring 50 star speakers including Chris Bailey, Nigel Wray, Vin Murria, Cassandra Harris, Evil Knievil and Ben Edelman are available now at a special early bird 50% discount rate - you can book HERE!

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It is still just over a year until the 2015 UK Investor Show but following the smash success of the sell-out 2014 show, the UK's leading investor show is already able to announce the first 21 speakers who have agreed to appear in 2015!

They are: Nigel Wray, Evil Knievil, myself (Tom Winnifrith), Clem Chambers, Vin Murria, Ben Edelman, Paul Scott, Lucian Miers, Steve Moore, Robert Sutherland Smith, Cathal Friel, Andrew Bell, Marcus Hanke, Amanda Van Dyke, Matt Earl, Thierry Laduguie and..

NEW For 2015: Charlotte Argyle, Ben Turney, Jason Drummond, Dominic Picarda and BrokerMan Daniel

Some failing shows manage only a handful of speakers but UK Investor Show delivers both changes each year AND the big names. Over the coming weeks we will announce more big name speakers as we plan an increased number of sessions as we take on more floor space. Brace yourself for a 50 speaker show!

And there will also be 110 stands for PLCs to exhibit and present from. Already we are almost 20% booked out and we will start announcing those exhibiting very soon.

There are two classes of tickets:

A Golden Ticket guarantees you a front three row seat in any of the days 110 sessions plus a pass to the after show party with CEOs, speakers and journalists. It costs £60 (inc VAT)

An Investor class ticket gains access to any session at the show and costs £12 including VAT.

BUT you can buy either type of ticket with a 50% early bird discount if you book NOW. You can buy your early bird tickets HERE

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The UK Investor Show 2014 yesterday was a sell-out show which attendees seem universally to have enjoyed. The 90 growth companies attending say that they enjoyed engaging with some quite spirited investors and everyone had a ball. For me the highlights were:

1. Making the Queen of Tech, Vin Murria laugh not once but twice on stage. That should be a career high to retire on. I found her session with CEOs Stephen Streater, John  Wisbey and Marcus Hanke utterly riveting.

2. Value investing with Nigel Wray, Ed Croft, Paul Kavanagh and Chris Bailey really was very different to what we have done before in this area. All were smooth, self-deprecating but really insightful.

3. In the shareholder activism session Paul Scott & Roger Lawson did not hold back while our “ordinary investors” Nigel and Richard showed how anyone can make a difference on the AIM Cesspit.

4. Amanda van Dyke’s legs in the mining session.  The Goddess was in fire. In fact that whole session was again illuminating with Amanda showing she is a hell of a lot more than a pretty face and Dom Frisby letting tip in a way that makes me think he should join shareholder activism next year. Should I tip a gold stock or two? On balance not yet.

5.  Ben Edelman was a real showman but also a geek who knows his stuff. I really wish Blinkx had taken up my offer to respond to Ben as he made some really massive points.

6.  The bears seemed united on Globo. We had laughs all the way but Matt Earl, Lucian Miers and Evil also made some very valid points.

7. The after show party for speakers and gold ticket holders. The winner of the financial celebrity make a pizza competition was Ed Croft followed by Paul Scott (but he cheated with his training in Domino’s). Sandra Spencer…don’t give up your day job. Paul Scott has tweeted that I was a “charming” person. I shall be consulting my lawyer in the morning about this patently defamatory remark. I have a reputation to maintain.

There are more and as this week rolls on we will be starting to post 70 different videos from the show. And myself and the other writers who attended (I must mention Malcom Stacey who my wife voted the most charming man present and I tend to agree) will be posting a few of their thoughts.

The date for the 2015 show has now been set: 18^th April in Westminster

For next year we will be adding to the fireworks with some new sessions, new speakers and new formats with expanded floor space but the stars will be certainly back. Already companies are contacting me asking to re-attend. And tickets are now on sale, both investor class and 125 Golden Tickets which guarantee you front row seats in all sessions and entrance to that after show party.  

Until June 30^th all tickets are being sold with a 50% early bird discount. You can book NOW HERE.

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My weekly video postcard covers greedy pig sleazy minister Maria Miller and the corruption of the political classes – this is not just about Miller although why she has not be fired escapes me it is about the whole system.

Next week I am in Delphi, I shall try to get footage home but like many things in Greece, the internet does not always work.

My weekly financial video postcard covers the fireworks at the UK Investor Show and can be viewed HERE

A little bit of a misunderstanding with the Mrs and the alarm clock saw me still soundly asleep as the 4.47 AM pulled out of Bristol today. In the end I had a pleasant lie-in, worked in the morning and just after lunch (an apple) kissed goodbye to the cats and the Mrs and headed off. Now in London I will not see Bristol, or the cats, again for more than a month.

The Mrs is heading up later in the week for her Birthday and the UK Investor Show on Saturday where she will be personfully ( you see dearest, I can be PC if I try)  looking after speakers in one of the breakout rooms and then wandering around with her parents who are also attending. Tes, the mother-in-law is coming to the show. Be very afraid. I am. I guess I won’t be swearing all day just in case she hears and gives me a scary and dirty look.

And then a few farewells and it is off to Greece on my own at first as I try to find the grave of my great uncle David. Thereafter the Mrs joins me as we spend a couple of weeks in the Mani where – I warn you – the internet connection can be patchy. It will be early May before I get back to Bristol, the cats, a new kitchen sort of designed by me with a lovely new Range Cooker. It seems like a long time away but I am sure that time will fly.

Anyhow my battered and well-travelled rucksack is packed and with me as we prepare to go hill walking in Greece once again. I really cannot wait.

Nigel Wray, Ben Edelman, Evil Knievil, Vin Murria, Cassandra Harris, Lucian Miers, 90 Growth Company CEOs, myself, Steve Moore, Malcolm Stacey, David Lenigas, Amanda van Dyke, 34 other star speakers, 1500 serious investors will all be in Westminster on April 5 for the Investor Show of the Year? Want to join them? There are now fewer than 50 seats left – you can book HERE

Book this weekend and your tickets will be in the post at Mount Pleasant before first post Monday.

This is a once a year event. The list of growth companies attending is awesome and can be found HERE

The full speaker list is HERE

And there are now fewer than 50 seats still going free so if you want one book now HERE

I look forward to seeing many readers of this blog in London on April 5, in just six days time. Incidentally if you are making a weekend of it in London for the show, bring your ticket along to Real Man Pizza Company on Friday and you get 20% off. I shall be there with Steve Moore, my wife and various speakers and CEOs and would look forward to saying hello ( and you buying me a drink!)

Is it criminal to say that of Endeavour, Morse and Lewis I am perhaps the biggest fan of the young Morse? Perhaps it is because I have all the Morse and Lewis episodes on DVD and also torture the Mrs by watching them whenever I can on ITV 3 so Endeavour is just that bit fresher?

Perhaps it is because the relationship between Endeavour and Fred Thursday is just so different to the Morse/Lewis and the Lewis/Hathaway pairings? That is no to say that they were not wonderful contrasts and watching the last ever Morse (again) the other week was still very moving. Maybe it is the setting in the early sixties, a period I do not know that is so appealing?

Whatever the reason, the highlight of the weekend looms. For two hours I shall be away from my PC, not thinking about the UK Investor Show next Saturday or the holiday to Greece that follows. Today is Endeavour day as the new series begins.

I was starting to panic. My journey to Greece starts next Wednesday when I leave Bristol and until this morning the passport I ordered a few weeks ago had not arrived. Worse still, when I used the Passport Office auto-tracking forms it appeared that our friends in Cardiff had no record of me at all. But the panic is over, a brand new passport has arrived, with no record of my visits to Israel or the USA and so I could now go to Kurdistan to meet Gulf Keystone (GKP) if I wanted to. I don’t.

And so in a week’s time I must kiss goodbye to the cats and head to London. The Mrs joins me on the 3^rd for her birthday. Naturally I shall not reveal which birthday it is. But your clues are that it is a round number, she is younger than me and although I thought she was in her late twenties when she first chatted me up by showing me an interesting article in the Guardian, she appears younger than she is.

Then it is UK Investor Show on the 5^th, a hangover on the 6^th (and a day with the in-laws who are coming to London for the show), supper with Matt Suttcliffe on the 7^th, a hangover on the 8^th and on the 9^th it is off to my beloved Hellas for three and a half weeks of walking, writing and searching for the grave of Great Uncle David Cochrane. And if it is goat milking season I shall naturally be having another go at that too.

I cannot wait. Does anyone know if it is goat milking season or not?

Praise the Lord that I am in Bristol not London today as various other folks are right now stuffing envelopes with letters, tickets, full speaker line up details as we start to post out tickets to the UK Investor Show on April 5 in Westminster. All tickets ordered as of today will be sent by last post Friday with most going out TODAY.

With 44 big name speakers lead by Nigel Wray, Ben Edelman, Vin Murria, Terry Smith, Evil Knievil and Lucian Miers the show is known as the UK’s Number One Investor Show. The full list of presentations can be found HERE.

There are also 90 growth companies attending not only manning booths but also in most cases doing 20 minute presentations for those really interested. Ranging from Advanced Computer Software, to Minoan, to Leni Gas & Oil, to Amara Mining the full list can be found HERE

We still have 10% of the seats available so if you wish to join 1,500 other active investors in London on April 5 please book your seats NOW HERE

I hope to see many readers of this blog in Westminster on April 5

Best wishes

Tom Winnifrith

Inevitably I start this weekend’s video postcard with the Rugby. I am sure that most of my English based readers were cheering for France yesterday. To my Celtic brethren who were rooting for Ireland – I am sure that you can share my joy. Gosh it was nerve wracking. 

I then move onto the mysteries of my dead Great Uncles. If there is anyone out there who can track down Diana Norman, born 1915 who married (after the death of my Great Uncle Francis) a Mr Caulfield Stoker in 1947 (he then popped his clogs in Guernsey in 1954) I would be grateful. I can find no death certificate for Diana who would be 99 now but for reasons explained in the video and this article I am keen to track her down. 

I then move onto Bob Crow. I celebrate no death. Equally I do not mince my words and Crow screwed the poor working classes and that should be noted rather than simply eulogising Saint Bob.

This is a wider issue: how and why the left systematically keep the working classes poor and that this the main theme of this video.

My weekly financial video covers shareholder activism a major theme of UK Investor Show which is now a day less than three weeks away.  Tickets start to go out tomorrow. If you have not booked please do so at once HERE

You can watch my financial video postcard HERE

Surely 12 sessions and 44 speakers is enough for the UK Investor Show on April 5 in Westminster? Well it is but we had forgotten something: UK residential property. Problem fixed – we have squeezed in an additional debate with a bull and a bear.

You can read full details of the 44 speaker line-up headlined by Ben Edelman, Nigel Wray, Vin Murria, David Lenigas, Terry Smith, Mark Slater, Evil Knievil & Lucian Miers HERE

The debate is between two libertarian thinkers trained in economics. Richard Poulden will argue that there will be no crash. I shall argue that there will be one.

This is our sixth annual debate and the score is currently 3-2 to Richard. 

Our debates are informal if information packed. Hence we kick off this one at 9.20 AM as a sort of warm up for the main talks which start at 9.50 AM.  Doors open at 9 AM.

The show is as of today 81% sold out. If you want to get a ticket (while stocks last) you can book HERE

Tickets for the UK Investor Show on April 5 are now 70% sold out but we have five £10 tickets to hand out today if you do us a favour on twitter, as we TODAY release the full timings and speaker agenda for the UK’s top investor show.

All you need to do is to tweet out this article to your contact base. We will early next week contact five of those tweeting to get details and send them a ticket. Tickets are being despatched on March 18^th. 

Remember that 90 Growth PLCs are also presenting – a full list is HERE

Doors open at 9 Am and the full speaker line-up of a show hosted by Louise Noel is:

To win your free ticket simply  tweet a link to this article – get tweeting and we may be in contact next week

Some investor shows let you in for free but then charge you an arm and a leg to see any speaker of any interest at all. We do not. Buy your Investor Class ticket for just £10 and you can see all 44 of our big name speakers and wander around our 90 PLC exhibitor stands for free. There are no hidden charges. 

But you can also buy a golden ticket. Of the 75 on offer there are now just 5 left.

To buy a golden ticket at £50 or an investor ticket at £10 click here

What is a golden ticket? It brings two bonuses: First you can pre-book a front row seat for any talk. That seat will be saved for you with your name.

And secondly it brings you a pass to an after show champagne party with key speakers and CEOs held at Maribelle’s – and transport to the party is provided. I do not know what time it will end but I won’t be going home early.

To remind yourself of the 44 big name speakers at the show go HERE

To remind yourself of the 90 PLC exhibitors go HERE

And to book a golden ticket or an investor class ticket go HERE 

All tickets will be despatched by post in Mid March

We are ringing the changes at The UK Investor Show on April 5 in Westminster. One big change is the introduction of the bloggers café – a special area where writers like Brokerman Dan, Doc Holiday, Malcolm Stacey, Malcolm Palle from Mining Maven, Robert Sutherland Smith, Steve Moore and myself will spend much of the day, blogging, tweeting and just chatting to anyone who wants a chat over a coffee.  Hopefully my fave Tory blogger Charlotte Argylle will also join us at the cafe.

Of course we are not the main attraction but this is another reason for you to book a seat at the UK Investor Show this year -. Why book in to attend? 

* A top location: the QE2 Centre in the heart of Westminster

* A cracking line-up of big name presenters. Nigel Wray, Mark Slater, Evil Knievil and I am back from 2013. But we are joined this year by 40 other speakers including Terry Smith, the tech queens Vin Murria and Cassandra Harris; Mining gurus Amanda van Dyke, Dominic Frisby and Matt Suttcliffe and blogger supremo Paul Scott and now the Blinkx Destroyer Ben Edelman.

*Real variety – main stage sessions on value investing, Bitcoins, mining investing, crowd-funding, tech investing, oil & gas, shareholder activism and much more

*Better and more exhibiting companies. Last year 50 companies attended the UK Investor Show. This year we already have 90 booked in and counting – the latest booking came just today: Tangent Communications (TNG) - a very profitable AIM listed media company. And most of these PLCs will also do a 20 minute presentation in smaller side room for those who really want to know more.

You can get full details of the speaker line up HERE

You can get full details of the main stage presentations HERE

You can get full details of the exhibiting companies HERE

Already well over half the seats for this event have been booked with 4% of the tickets going yesterday alone! 

To book your ticket go HERE

I look forward to seeing you on April 5 in Westminster

Tom Winnifrith

The big news today is that a true mega star has agreed to fly to Britain for one day only to headline at The UK Investor Show in London on April 5. Meet Ben Edelman. If you are a Blinkx (BLNX) shareholder you will already have done so – you have lost more than 50% of your money since he produced a detailed report on the company. 

Professor Edelman will make a rare London appearance as the headline speaker at The UK Investor Show on April 5 in Westminster

Edelman shot to prominence in the UK with his recent analysis of Blinkx.  Edelman argued that Blinkx adware sneaks onto users’ computers, violates regulatory requirements, and overcharges advertisers.  Blinkx denies the allegations. Its share price continues to slide.

Much of Edelman’s recent work examines the activities of Google.  In 2010, he uncovered the Google Toolbar continuing to track users’ web browsing even after users asked that the toolbar be disabled and even after the toolbar disappeared from view.  His most recent article examines Google’s Mobile Application Distribution Agreement terms – previously-secret documents that he says impede competition by alternatives apps and services, and drive up prices to consumers.

Recently labelled the “web sheriff” by Bloomberg, Edelman will be speaking on the questionable business practices of a variety of Internet companies, ranging from giants like Google to smaller firms including Blinkx.

Edelman joins a 42 strong main stage line up on April 5^th including Nigel Wray, Terry Smith, Vin Murria, Evil Knievil, Mark Slater, Dominic Frisby, bear raiders Lucian Miers and Matt Earl and blogging supremo Paul Scott.

A full list can be found at www.UKinvestorshow.com/speakers

Edelman is quoted as saying: “My visits to London are all too rare, but the British market has led the world in many kinds of advertising integrity - I look forward to showing an informed audience a variety of controversial behaviours, including some material not previously seen elsewhere.”

We have now sold more than 60% of the ordinary tickets for the event and all bar a handful of the golden tickets which come with bonus features such as an invitation to the after show champagne party at Maribelle’s. You can get your tickets at www.ukinvestorshow.com/tickets

And there are still a few surprises left for the show, notably on the shareholder activism front. Watch this space.

This year I shall not be compering the event – that baton passes to my old friend co-presenter on Show Me The Money, Louise Noel. Okay Louise was the main presenter I was just there for my (then) looks. Okay to talk about the market knowledgably. I digress. The fact that I am not on stage so much means that I plan to be able to join friends such as Malcolm Stacey, Brokerman Dan, Doc Holiday, Steve Moore, Malcolm Palle of Mining Maven and others in the bloggers café, chatting to anyone who is interested about shares that may interest them. As well as tweeting away #ukinvestorshow – I hope to meet many of you there.

But the star attractions are others: Wray, Lucian Miers, Matt Earl, Evil, Slater, Vin Murria, Amanda Van Dyke, Dom Frisby, Brian Basham and now of course Ben Edelman.

On that note I hope that if you have not done so already you book a ticket for the show and look forward to seeing you on April 5 in Westminster: www.ukinvestorshow.com/tickets

The UKInvestor Show already has 42 big name speakers but this weekend it will announce its biggest and hottest name speaker yet. Flying in from the US just for the show this man will set the cat amongst the pigeons. Watch this space! 

Meanwhile we are pleased to announce that there are just 15 Golden tickets for the show left. These tickets give attendees guaranteed seating at any talk plus an invite and transport to the after show champagne reception with key speakers and attending CEOs. 

More than half of the ordinary tickets which give access to all events at the show have also been reserved.

You can book golden or ordinary tickets HERE

The speaker line up already boasts names like Nigel Wray, Terry Smith, Vin Murria, Lucian Miers, Mark Slater, Ed Croft, Lucian Miers, the dark Destroyer Matt Earl, Cassandra Harris, Dan Levi, Paul Scott and Evil Knievil - for a full line-up go HERE 

And with 90 growth companies exhibiting, the show will also provide a fantastic opportunity for investors to find out more about stocks they may be invested in or size up potential new investments. The stand line-up can be found HERE

More details of the speakers and of how to book both classes of tickets can be found at www.UKInvestorshow.com

37 big name speakers, experts in everything from tech stocks to gold to value investing to emerging markets to shareholder activism. The variety and expertise is there for all to see. That is the line-up for UK Investor Show on April 5 in London – no wonder that most of the tickets have already been booked. So who is speaking?

Well what are you interested in?  On the main stage…hosted by Louise Noel:

Value Investing?  There is a session with Ed Croft of Stockopedia, Nigel Wray and Paul Kavanagh of Killick.

Shareholder Activism? There is a session with Roger Lawson of Share Soc, blogger and activist Paul Scott, music teacher and activist Nigel Somerville and Richard Hemans of the Vialogy action group

Emerging markets? The Legendary Terry Smith is on stage

Growth Investing? There is a Mark Slater Presentation

Already most of the tickets for this event have been sold. So to book yours NOW click HERE

Tech Stocks? A panel session featuring angel investor Cassandra Harris, Vin Murria of Advanced Computer Software ( the Queen of tech), John Wisbey of Lombard Risk, Marcus Hanke of 1Spatial and Stephen Streater of Forbidden Technology

Gold & Mining? The queen of mining research Amanda Van Dyke, comedian and gold author Dominic Frisby plus CEOS Matt Suttclife ( Alexander), John McGloin (Amara), Andrew Bell ( Red Rock) and Richard Poulden (Wishbone)

Trading/TA? This session features Clem Chambers of ADVFN, Chris Bailey, Alpesh Patel and Thierry Laduguie.

Oil? There is a CEO only session featuring David Lenigas (Leno Gas & Oil), Matt Lofgran (Nostra Terra) and Cathal Friel of Fastnet

Share blogging? This session features Dan Levi (Brokerman Dan), Malcolm Stacey, Chris Bailey, Doc Holiday, Paul Martin of Stockpinger and Tom Winnifrith

Short Selling? Leading bear raiders Evil Knievil, Lucian Miers and the Dark Destroyer Matt Earl are on stage?

And there are 90 Growth companies attending most of whom will be doing 20 minute company presentations in our breakout rooms. You can find that list here.

Already most of the tickets for this event have been sold. So to book yours NOW click HERE

Tickets for the UK’s premier investor show, UK Investor worth £12 each are on offer at no cost at all in a special Christmas offer. But while we did have 500 to give away we now have only 120 left – after that the price goes back to £12. So grab your free ticket now.

The show is on April 5 2014 in Westminster and stars men like Nigel Wray, Terry Smith, Lucian Miers, Zak Mir, Matt Earl, Tom Winnifrith, David Lenigas, Steve Moore, Matt Sutcliffe, Alpesh Patel, Thierry Laduguie, Malcolm Stacey, Dominic Frisby, Richard Poulden plus the Queen of Mining Amanda van Dyke. In all, there are more than 30 big name speakers and 90 growth companies presenting.

Yup, that will be 90 growth companies there at CEO level for you to meet and quiz.

You can get full details on the speakers and companies at www.ukinvestorshow.com

 We had 500 free tickets but now have just 120 left to hand out: To get your free ticket click HERE

After these have gone it is back to £12 a pop.

There are now just 15 golden tickets left for the UK Investor Show on April 5th while normal tickets are selling fast - why?

The speaker line-up gets stronger by the week. This week FT & IC Columnist Dominic Picarda became our latest big name recruit. Dominic will chair one of the main stage sessions and will do a 100 person breakout room session on how to use ETFs to create a growth portfolio.

There are a maximum of 100 seats for any breakout session. Gold ticket holders get to reserve a seat at whatever main stage or breakout session they wish in advance.

We are also delighted to announce that spreadbetting form ETX has become a main sponsor of the show while three more PLCs - Amara Mining, Falanx and Viscount Minerals (a new silver play from legendary Kaare Foy) have come on board to man a stand and give 20 minute breakout presentations on the day.

Book NOW to ensure you get your spot

All of that goes to show once again...

There is only one investor show worth attending if you want to hear an array of big name speakers in sparky debate and meet dozens of growth companies. And this year the UK Investor Show has a new venue, the Queen Elizabeth centre in central London.

The date for your diary is 5 April 2014

More than 25 big name speakers are already signed up to appear including Britain’s Buffett Nigel Wray, legendary Terry Smith bear raiders Matt Earl and Lucian Miers, gold gurus Amanda Van Dyke and Dominic Frisby, Ed Croft of Stockopedia, Dominic Picarda, John Walsh, Alpesh Patel, Richard Poulden, David Lenigas,  controversial mining analyst turned entrepreneur Matt Sutcliffe, infamous bloggers Brokerman Daniel and Doc Holiday, Clem Chambers, Tom Winnifrith and Roger Lawson. 

The full list of speakers grows by the day and can be found here

As ever Britain’s most interesting small cap companies will also not only be manning stands but also each giving a 20 minute presentation. Six months ahead of the show more than FIFTY companies are already booked into attend at CEO level including Alliance Pharma, Stanley Gibbons, EMED, Leyshon Resources, 1Spatial, Amara Mining, Falanx, Leni Gas & Oil, Nostra Terra and many more.

You can find the list of those companies already booked in to attend here.

This year there are two classes of tickets. 

An entrance pass costs £10 + VAT and gives entrance to the show and to all speaker sessions (subject to seating availability).

A Golden ticket costs £50 + VAT. There were just 75 available. A golden ticket gives you the right to reserve a front seat at any one of the 80 sessions running throughout the day. It also entitles you to come along to a champagne reception with a number of the keynote speakers and presenting CEOs afterwards with transport to the venue arranged.

THERE ARE NOW JUST 15 GOLDEN TICKETS LEFT!

Book NOW to ensure you get your spot

As each day goes by we will add more speakers and companies to those attending. We do not just claim to have companies attending unlike some also ran events, we name them. To keep updated on out growing roster of star speakers and growth companies presenting follow us on Twitter @ukinvestorshow

Book NOW to ensure you get your spot

On behalf of ADVFN and myself, the joint organisers of this show we look forward to seeing you on 5 April 2014 in Westminster.

Best wishes

Tom Winnifrith

PS Remember there are now just 15 golden tickets left and that standard tickets are also selling fast. Some show give away tickets because they offer no value. UKInvestor is different. To book your ticket now go HERE

The UK’s only serious investor show is UK Investor which takes place on April 5 2014 at London’s top venue: the QE2 Centre in Westminster. But you now have just FIVE days to book your early bird half priced ticket HERE

Three quarters of the 30 top main stage speakers are already lined up including legendary Nigel Wray and Evil Knievil. More than half of the 70 growth companies due to present at the show are already booked in including Leni Gas & Oil, 1Spatial, GLI Finance (have a look at its 5 year chart!), Leyshon Resources, Inspirit, Sound Oil, Nostra Terra Oil & Gas and @UK. More companies sign up every day. 

You can find out more about the companies presenting and the all star speaker line up at www.UKInvestorShow

This is not an investor show for time wasters and so we charge a small fee for entry and also offer a limited number of “gold tickets” giving one to one access to key speakers. You can book your tickets now and there is a 50% discount for those booking tickets before September 30^th.

Book today via a secure online platform at www.UKInvestorshow.com

Best wishes

Tom 

There is only one investor show worth attending if you want to hear an array of big name speakers in sparky debate and meet dozens of growth companies. And this year the UK Investor Show has a new format and a new venue, the Queen Elizabeth centre in central London. The date for your diary is April 5^th 2014

But to get a 50% discount on your ticket you need to book before September 30^th HERE

More than 20 big name speakers are already signed up to appear including Britain’s Buffett Nigel Wray, legendary bear raiders Evil Knievil and Lucian Miers, gold gurus Amanda Van Dyke and Dominic Frisby, Ed Croft of Stockopedia, controversial mining analyst turned entrepreneur Matt Sutcliffe, infamous bloggers Brokerman Daniel and Doc Holiday, Clem Chambers, Tom Winnifrith and Roger Lawson.  

The full list of speakers grows by the day and can be found here

The full list of speaker sessions which run all day from 10 Am to 5 PM can be found here

As ever Britain’s most interesting small cap companies will also not only be manning stands but also each giving a 20 minute presentation. More than seven months ahead of the show almost 30 companies are already booked into attend at CEO level including Alliance Pharma, Stanley Gibbons, EMED, Leyshon Resources, 1Spatial and many more. You can find the list of those companies already booked in to attend here.

This year there are two classes of tickets.

An entrance pass costs £10 + VAT and gives entrance to the show and to all speaker sessions (subject to seating availability).

A Golden ticket costs £60 + VAT. There are just 75 available. A golden ticket gives you the right to reserve a front seat at any one of the 80 sessions running throughout the day. It also entitles you to come along to a champagne reception with a number of the keynote speakers and presenting CEOs afterwards with transport to the venue arranged.

Book your tickets before September 30tth 2013 and you can do so at a 50% discount rate (i.e. just £5 and £30 plus VAT respectively). You can book HERE.

As each day goes by we will add more speakers and companies to those attending. We do not just claim to have companies attending unlike some also ran events, we name them. To keep updated on out growing roster of star speakers and growth companies presenting follow us on twitter @ukinvestorshow

And remember to get your 50% discount on all tickets you need to book now HERE

It is a bit of a day for reflection. For it was exactly a year ago today that I headed down to Gatwick Airport to fly to Greece. It was a one way ticket as frankly I was not exactly sure if or when I would bother coming back. As I am sure you are all aware my world had pretty much imploded. As I sit here a year later an awful lot has changed.

At one level it is all to the good. I shall have a quiet meal with my deluded lefty partner tonight. Professionally, the writing and the Real Man restaurant and UK Investor Show are all pretty much on track. Nothing happens as quickly as you might like but the trend is my friend.

But there is always another side. On my return I was pretty determined only to work with folks who I really knew and trusted and who really wanted to work with me. And I was determined not to get enmeshed in a bureaucratic corporate structure ever again.

A merger proposal came in for shareprophets the other day which – after just over two months was kind of flattering. But as soon as I saw that there was a discussion about boardroom composition and the split of non-executive directors I just felt sick and could not go on. I am sure that next up would have been editorial policy. It is the sort of thing that makes me wake up at night in a cold sweat.

But as you get involved in a more successful structure life becomes more complex. And so after two hours sleep last night (I just could not sleep for some reason) I found my attempted siesta this afternoon interrupted by someone angrily demanding payment of an invoice that was all of nine days due. Yes we have the cash. I had asked that it be paid and someone had forgotten. That sort of thing happens. It will be paid tomorrow.

But did I really come back to embrace this sort of nonsense. I suppose it is how the world is but it just seems unnecessary and stressful. At least Greece is now just six days away. That will be a good time to write and think about a change in the business plan. And now off for that romantic meal. Naturally, it will be in a Greek restaurant.

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It seems like just yesterday that Easyjet dropped us off at the one airport on this Island. We were the only plane on the Tarmac and the terminal was 75 yards away. Naturally we waited 5 minutes for a bus to arrive to take us to the terminal. All must have non jobs.

I will offer a few more thoughts up on Greece but the flagpole is on the sea about fifty yards from where we are staying. It is not a bad view to wake up to.  But this has been an all too brief stay and today we wend our way back towards the airport and tomorrow it is back to Britain. Farewell to the oil lake, to the wild dill, to Greek salads every meal, to the terrapins in the stream nearby and to Marlboro Lights at 3.90 Euro a packet. Farewell to a life of getting up at 4 AM your time to write on my PC on the balcony overlooking the sea while my partner snoozes.

Normal writing services resume as of Sunday evening. The Tomograph will be back next Wednesday. Meanwhile Darren will continue to load videos from the UK Investor Show onto both ADVFN and to Shareprophets.com - next up is Christopher Booker.

This has been a good place to think.  An announcement is pending. Ho. Ho. Ho.

In case you missed the UK Investor Show and fancy watching real master investors this weekend we have it all on video and those videos are now starting to go live. 

If you want to hear what infamous bear raider Evil Knievil is buying and selling or what top chartists Zak Mir, John Piper and Clem Chambers are long or short of there is no need to leave your own living room this weekend – it is all here on video for you.

Or fancy Mark Slater’s top share picks and thoughts on the market – he is here too with a full slide presentation and video. As is gold guru Dominic Frisby, the UK’s most cerebral short seller Lucian Miers and also Nigel Farage MEP in full flow.

The videos are from the UK Investor Show two weeks ago so if you want to hear what these folks are thinking, buying or selling just relax, pour yourself a beer and spend the weekend at your PC.

There will be more videos appearing over the weekend featuring Britain’s Buffett Nigel Wray, Secret Millionaire and property guru Nick Leslau, mining guru-ess Amanda Van Dyke as well as the CEOs of Leyshon Resources, Fastnet Oil & Gas and a dozen other companies. For alerts on when they appear register now at www.shareprophets.com

Meanwhile, sit back, relax and watch the explosive action.

To see Evil Knievil, Zak Mir, John Piper and ADVFN CEO Clem Chambers in action – click HERE

You can watch UKIP leader Nigel Farage here

You can watch gold guru Dominic Frisby & access his slides HERE

You can watch small cap legend Mark Slater and access his slides HERE

And you can watch infamous bear raider Lucian Miers HERE

Over the next 48 hours we will also be publishing videos featuring Leyshon Resources, Fastnet Oil & Gas, Nigel Wray and Nick Leslau and mining guru Amanda Van Dyke. For all their thoughts and hot tips and much more stay tuned to your PC this weekend.

Following the amazing success of the UK’s only serious investor show we have just announced that the 2014 event will be held at a larger venue in Central London on April 5^th  . More details soon.

We will upload more videos from UKInvestor very soon to give you something entertaining to watch from home all weekend

Now, for me, back to the beach.

I am still completely wiped out. It is incredibly draining doing presentation after presentation and half way through the post event celebrations I fell asleep (ok I had enjoyed a few drinks as well) but I still feel utterly drained. And so once I have ruined a few other weekends by breaking news of a planning oil company merger involving a well-known name I think I am off to sleep again.

Thanks for the many emails from folks who said that they enjoyed the show. On balance so did I. I thought that the talks were more interesting than for many a year. They have been put on video and so will start to go up from Tuesday in a variety of places. But suffice to say you should register now at www.shareprophets.com to catch many of them.

The location was not ideal. Not least that in order to feed my addiction I had to scrounge a spare packet of Marlboro Light from David Lenigas who had thoughtfully come well supplied. But ADVFN and I know enough now and the show was a success and so we are now planning for UKInvestor 2014. Watch this space – we will announce the date soon.

Highlights for me?

The young man who now writes tips appearing disguised in dark glasses to gain entry (not having booked a ticket). When spotted by Steve Moore, he claimed that he was at Excel to go to the International Cake show down the hall and made a swift exit.  

Nick Leslau and Nigel Wray – optimistic about the UK economy and as a double act far more powerful than as individuals. A lot of wisdom was shared by the pair.

Losing the debate with Richard Poulden once again. I am now 3-2 down but I really will try to do slides next year and stage a comeback.

Mark Slater. The obligatory dirty joke but the quality of his analysis of the markets and of individual stocks (three of which have been tipped by myself and Steve) was incredible.

Nigel Farage – unscripted, lucid, funny and on most issues bang on the money. I had a good chat with him and Chris Booker after the event and he is a very funny and pleasant chap. C Booker’s Thatcher tribute was bang on the money and nailed a number of leftie canards.

Above all I really enjoyed meeting so many of you who attended (particularly, I should say, David from Oxford). Thanks for all the kind words and I hope that you enjoyed the day. On stage I had more fun than I have had for years. I can say what I like these days and I feel like a weight has been lifted from my shoulders. I actually enjoyed the day in a way that I have not enjoyed MI days for a long time. With the speakers, stand holders and the audience I felt far more at home than I can remember being for years.

The home team from RMPC & ADVFN staging our first show should be thanked, notably John W, Clem, Fiona and especially Mike Hodges and from our side Darren, Nigel, Sarah, Steve, Robert Sutherland Smith and Martha. It was their first run at this, the second time is always easier.

So thank you to all who attended. ADVFN and RMPC starts work on Monday on UK Investor 2014 which will be bigger and different. I hope to see even more of you there then.

Tom

PS I should mention one other highlight. The after show pool games. I defeated Andrew Bell of Red Rock. Zak Mir fluked a victory against me. And then it was the final: The UKIP volunteers against myself & Zak. They had been trying to persuade Zak to sign up to UKIP although he is obviously a bit too right wing for them. And so with the prize being that if Zak and I won they would allow him to become the party’s immigration spokesman (Zak’s views are unprintably stern on this matter, making Evil seem like a total Guardian reader) we played.  The bad news for UKIP is that Zak and I won.

I know that some folks do not believe that we actually have Justice 4 the Sefton 2 T-shirts and a range of Piss Off Argentina produce as well as the It’s Time to Leave range. And of course we still stock the “I’m a real man line.” And just to prove it here is Dominique the new manageress at Real man Pizza displaying the entire range which you can pick up on Saturday at the UK Investor Show at Excel.

Remember that if you turn up at Real Man in Clerkenwell at any time on Friday 12^th or Saturday 13^th April clutching a ticket for the UKInvestor show you will get 20% off your meal. You can book a table at any time on 0207 242 3246

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f you want to hear quality speakers there is only one UK Investor show to attend next year and that is The UKInvestor Show held on April 13th at Excel in London. The speaker lineup is now almost complete with news that Mark Slater, the most successful fund manager of his generation is on board.

Mark joins as the other main stage speakers: Nigel Wray (Britain’s Buffett), Nick Leslau (property legend and secret millionaire), bear raiders Lucian Miers and Evil Knievil, gold guru Dominic Frisby and UKIP leader Nigel Farage.

And that is not all: The trader’s session (also a main stage event) is chaired by Steve Moore and stars Clem Chambers, Alpesh Patel, Simon Denham, John Piper and Zak Mir (plus one name to reveal shortly)

And in the breakout rooms we have the Goddess, Amanda VanDyke on making money from mining stocks, Stanley Gibbons boss Mike Hall on alternative investments, Roger Lawson on shareholder activism and Christopher Booker on how global warming costs you so much.

There is the Poulden v Winnifrith debate (10 minutes of main stage comedy) and 80 companies presenting at CEO level.

No other show comes even close to assembling such an all star lineup.

There are just 2,500 tickets on offer. They go strictly on a first come first served basis. Already more than a fifth are gone ahead of the official launch of the show campaign in the New Year. Treat yourself to a free gift this Christmas. To book your free seat and to get more details click HERE.

Recorded in a freezing Warwickshire once again I think both sound and picture are okay. I prayed, rested the camera on my step-mum’s religious books and it worked. Praise be the Lord.

The Tomograph Newsletter will be out by 7 PM. It includes an article on 12 steps to more than halve the UK deficit at once. To register to receive the newsletter click HERE

On the agenda.

1. Yarg cheese joins the menu at Real Man Pizza Company – do you know how Yarg got its name?
2. Nifty Fifty – 2 more share tips this week. A bit more about the site. You can join or get more details here.
3. The UK Investor show on April 13th. Many more details about the speaker line up and companies attending. You can get more information and book your seat here. Attendance is limited by ‘elf ‘n safey to 2,500 so book now ahead of ADVFN (whose show it is) really pushing it in the New Year. Book here
3. The FTSE 100 at 5,900 – a loss of 700 points in 12 years. What does that say to you.
4. US Fiscal Cliff but worldwide deficit denial
5. Value on AIM
6. Greed, corruption and generally rubbish on AIM

Approximate Running Time 12 minutes