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The catalyst report · Thursday, July 16, 2026

What went up, and what took it there

The Canadian small-caps that finished green on this session: catalysts whose reaction paid, insiders sitting above what they paid, and the day’s biggest advances on real volume. Releases carry a date but no time, so each catalyst move is measured from the last close before the event through the close of the session after it — capturing the reaction whether the news broke mid-session or after the bell.

Catalysts paid
1
Tickers
1
Median gain
+1.3%
Insiders up
6

Catalysts that paid

Ordered by the size of the gain, biggest first. Events that closed flat or red aren't shown.

LTC.VLotus Creek Exploration Inc.Private Placement

Metals Creek Resources Corp. Increases Non-Brokered Private Placement - TMX Newsfile

$3.130 $3.170TSXVmkt cap $155.2M0.6× avg volumeevent 2026-07-15Release
+1.3%
day of -0.6%
next +1.9%

Winners by event type

Green outcomes only, this session. n counts the event type's winners, not its events — samples are small by nature, so read n before the median.

Event typenMedian gainBest
Private Placement1+1.3%+1.3%

Insiders in the green

Open-market buys made in the last 90 days that are now trading above the insider's share-weighted average price. Option exercises, grants and issuer buybacks are excluded — only cash purchases by people count.

FCI.VFirst Canadian Graphite Inc.

John LaGourgue bought at an average $0.262last close $0.390

54,500 shares$14k boughtDirector of Issuerlast buy 64d ago
+48.6%
LBI.VLions Bay Capital Inc.

John Joseph Byrne bought at an average $0.220last close $0.320

162,500 shares$36k bought10% Security Holder of Issuerlast buy 64d ago
+45.4%
EDDY.VEdison Lithium Corp.

Amrit Paul Singh Gill bought at an average $0.050last close $0.070

418,000 shares$21k boughtDirector of Issuerlast buy 14d ago
+41.2%
BAG.VBlende Silver Corp.

Andrew H. Rees bought at an average $0.130last close $0.170

100,000 shares$13k boughtDirector of Issuerlast buy 23d ago
+30.8%
HPL.VHorizon Petroleum Ltd.

Trevor Williams bought at an average $0.150last close $0.195

99,500 shares$15k boughtDirector of Issuerlast buy 22d ago
+30.0%
MKT.VProspect Prediction Markets Inc.

JOHNNY CHEN bought at an average $0.250last close $0.300

75,000 shares$19k boughtSenior Officer of Issuerlast buy 79d ago
+20.0%

Volume gainers

The session's biggest advances among names that traded real money — a 40% move on $300 of volume is a print, not a market.

CCMM.V$0.3105.2× avg volume+19.2%
B.V$0.1600.6× avg volume+14.3%
SOXD.TO$1.7600.6× avg volume+13.9%
CSUU.TO$9.0602.2× avg volume+11.4%
GRG.V$0.1000.3× avg volume+11.1%
TINY.TO$6.9303.5× avg volume+10.7%
CRDL.TO$1.7403.0× avg volume+10.1%
ABT.TO$17.3303.8× avg volume+10.0%

Coming up · next 7 days

Hold-period expiries and announced financings dated ahead. Expiries only appear once the financing behind them was already public.

2026-07-17+1dAGX.VWarrant Exercise$0.600
2026-07-17+1dNSE.VFinancing Announced$0.600
2026-07-17+1dLEGY.VCalculated Hold Expiry$0.890
2026-07-17+1dBAU.VWarrant Exercise$0.220
2026-07-17+1dNPR.VCalculated Hold Expiry$0.780
2026-07-17+1dEVER.VCalculated Hold Expiry$0.475
2026-07-17+1dSATO.VCalculated Hold Expiry$0.110
2026-07-18+2dIGO.VCalculated Hold Expiry$0.105
2026-07-18+2dBTU.VCalculated Hold Expiry$0.045
2026-07-19+3dAGX.VCalculated Hold Expiry$0.600
2026-07-19+3dTGOL.VCalculated Hold Expiry$0.100
2026-07-19+3dCLM.VCalculated Hold Expiry$0.065
2026-07-19+3dEXCL.VCalculated Hold Expiry$0.120
2026-07-19+3dDELX.VCalculated Hold Expiry$0.015
2026-07-20+4dAGX.VFinancing Announced$0.600
2026-07-20+4dAGX.VWarrant Exercise$0.600
2026-07-20+4dMGM.VConsolidation$2.450
2026-07-20+4dAZM.VFinancing Announced$0.570
2026-07-20+4dYES.VCalculated Hold Expiry$0.255
2026-07-20+4dABA.VFinancing Announced$0.095

37 more on the catalyst calendar.

This issue reports winners only: catalysts that closed green, insiders who are up, and names that rose on the session. The events, buys and moves that went the other way are filtered out, so nothing here is a hit rate or a representative sample of how these setups usually turn out.

Information only — not investment advice, and not a recommendation to buy or sell any security. Event data is extracted automatically from public releases and may be incomplete, delayed or misattributed to the wrong issuer; verify against the company’s own filings before acting.