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The catalyst report · Tuesday, October 20, 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
+12.5%
Insiders up
6

Catalysts that paid

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

MILE.VTwenty Mile Metals Inc.Financing Closed

Twenty Mile Metals Inc. Closes $2,000,000 Private Placement - TMX Newsfile

$0.120 → $0.135TSXVmkt cap $1.5M1.0× avg volumeevent 2026-10-19Release
+12.5%

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
Financing Closed1+12.5%+12.5%

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.

CGD.VCarlin Gold Corporation

2 insiders bought at an average $0.661 → last close $1.300

291,400 shares$193k bought7 filingslast buy 55d ago
+96.7%
BRO.VBarksdale Resources Corp.

Medalist Capital Ltd. bought at an average $0.136 → last close $0.265

651,000 shares$88k bought10% Security Holder of Issuerlast buy 54d ago
+95.1%
GWM.VGalway Metals Inc.

Robert Hinchcliffe bought at an average $0.577 → last close $0.990

235,000 shares$136k boughtDirector of Issuerlast buy 56d ago
+71.4%
DLTA.VDelta Resources Limited

Ronald Kopas bought at an average $0.166 → last close $0.210

275,500 shares$46k boughtDirector of Issuerlast buy 76d ago
+26.8%
CNRI.VCanadian North Resources Inc.

Lee Q. Shim bought at an average $0.180 → last close $0.195

431,000 shares$78k bought10% Security Holder of Issuerlast buy 61d ago
+8.3%
JAY.VBlue Jay Gold Corp.

2 insiders bought at an average $0.741 → last close $0.770

62,000 shares$46k bought4 filingslast buy 55d ago
+4.0%

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.

LAF.V$2.0003.5× avg volume+37.9%
TAO.V$0.0505.6× avg volume+25.0%
KTO.V$0.8604.1× avg volume+24.6%
QNCR.CN$1.9901.0× avg volume+24.4%
GCR.CN$0.5501.1× avg volume+22.2%
PRCG.CN$0.7201.7× avg volume+20.0%
NICN.V$0.1350.7× avg volume+17.4%
VCG.V$1.2004.4× avg volume+16.5%

Coming up · next 7 days

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

2026-10-21+1dAGX.VFinancing Announced$0.750
2026-10-21+1dZFR.VFinancing Closed$0.055
2026-10-22+2dWGO.VFinancing Announced$1.560
2026-10-22+2dAGX.VFinancing Announced$0.750
2026-10-22+2dSCOT.VFinancing Announced$2.520
2026-10-22+2dKLD.VFinancing Announced$2.160
2026-10-22+2dSVE.VFinancing Announced$0.390
2026-10-22+2dYARR.VFinancing Closed$0.160
2026-10-22+2dGLDC.VFinancing Announced$0.370
2026-10-22+2dIGO.VFinancing Announced$0.120
2026-10-23+3dGLAD.VCalculated Hold Expiry$2.000
2026-10-23+3dGRSL.VFinancing Announced$0.275
2026-10-23+3dBUFF.VCalculated Hold Expiry$0.730
2026-10-23+3dBAU.VCalculated Hold Expiry$0.160
2026-10-23+3dVLLC.VFinancing Announced$0.395
2026-10-23+3dPEMC.VCalculated Hold Expiry$0.045
2026-10-23+3dMATE.VCalculated Hold Expiry$0.030
2026-10-24+4dBRAU.VCalculated Hold Expiry$0.520
2026-10-24+4dPWM.VCalculated Hold Expiry$0.430
2026-10-24+4dZAU.VCalculated Hold Expiry$0.300

38 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.