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The catalyst report · Tuesday, August 18, 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
+35.0%
Insiders up
6

Catalysts that paid

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

CYBE.VCyberCatch Holdings, Inc.Warrant Exercise

CyberCatch Announces Signing of Definitive Agreement for Datavault AI to Acquire the Company in All-Cash Transaction

$1.600 $2.160TSXVmkt cap $58.6M9.3× avg volumeevent 2026-08-17Release
+35.0%

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
Warrant Exercise1+35.0%+35.0%

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.

HPL.VHorizon Petroleum Ltd.

Trevor Williams bought at an average $0.150last close $0.340

99,500 shares$15k boughtDirector of Issuerlast buy 55d ago
+126.7%
EBM.VEastwood Bio-Medical Canada Inc.

3 insiders bought at an average $0.980last close $1.870

18,800 shares$18k bought24 filingslast buy 7d ago
+90.9%
EDDY.VEdison Lithium Corp.

Amrit Paul Singh Gill bought at an average $0.050last close $0.080

418,000 shares$21k boughtDirector of Issuerlast buy 47d ago
+61.4%
BAG.VBlende Silver Corp.

Andrew H. Rees bought at an average $0.130last close $0.205

100,000 shares$13k boughtDirector of Issuerlast buy 56d ago
+57.7%
CGD.VCarlin Gold Corporation

2 insiders bought at an average $0.646last close $0.930

281,500 shares$182k bought5 filingslast buy 6d ago
+43.9%
BOS.TOAirBoss of America Corp.

Peter Grenville Schoch bought at an average $6.900last close $8.580

2,000 shares$14k bought10% Security Holder of Issuerlast buy 56d ago
+24.3%

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.

TMET.V$0.1508.5× avg volume+50.0%
CYBE.V$2.1607.7× avg volume+35.0%
SCM.CN$0.1605.6× avg volume+33.3%
LPS.V$0.2905.3× avg volume+31.8%
WG.CN$0.2605.5× avg volume+30.0%
CANX.V$0.3104.4× avg volume+29.2%
BETR.CN$0.3600.5× avg volume+20.0%
SOXD.TO$1.4751.4× avg volume+16.1%

Coming up · next 7 days

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

2026-08-19+1dAGX.VPrivate Placement$0.880
2026-08-19+1dUVC.VFinancing Announced$0.800
2026-08-19+1dMRVL.VFinancing Announced$0.160
2026-08-20+2dIRR.VWarrant Exercise$1.260
2026-08-20+2dGRSL.VCapital Markets Event$0.380
2026-08-20+2dYGT.VFinancing Closed$0.190
2026-08-20+2dSCD.VFinancing Announced$0.210
2026-08-20+2dSCD.VWarrant Exercise$0.210
2026-08-20+2dSNAG.VFinancing Announced$0.270
2026-08-20+2dSNAG.VWarrant Exercise$0.270
2026-08-20+2dCTV.VFinancing Announced$0.100
2026-08-20+2dTORQ.VWarrant Exercise$0.050
2026-08-20+2dDELX.VWarrant Exercise$0.010
2026-08-21+3dBYN.VCalculated Hold Expiry$1.780
2026-08-21+3dSVRS.VFinancing Announced$0.450
2026-08-21+3dIRR.VFinancing Announced$1.260
2026-08-21+3dIRR.VWarrant Exercise$1.260
2026-08-21+3dNAU.VCalculated Hold Expiry$1.620
2026-08-21+3dTHM.VFinancing Announced$1.300
2026-08-21+3dTGOL.VFinancing Announced$0.170

33 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.