A good read ron. The TSX Venture exchange is littered with Pumpers/Scammers/Promoters, many of them writing the so called investment letter. Basically recommending stocks that they either hold suitcases full of, or are receiving remuneration from some company with a hole in the ground and one spade.
The Venture exchange is truly a quagmire for the neophyte, and all the above doesn't include manipulation by many of the major Houses.
I haven't even mentioned our totally ineffective multiple securities commissions. Ineffective at least as far as the retail investor is concerned. It all boils down to DYODD.
Despite what I have said. It sure is a fun place to play.