RE: This site may help in the future. Also freeKeep in mind that insider trades that show up on this site do not always turn out to be genuine. The info is posted based on the brokerage setting an insider trade flag on a trade, which it seems sometimes happens by mistake. Also if a broker is placing a large combined order say 100,000 share and only 5000 constitute insider activity the entire 100k is flagged as insider activity. In other listings I have seen huge "insider activity" per this TSX money site never materialize as genuine insider trades .....the timing on this one is suspicious and might be worth keeping a print out of the page but of course if this a vapor trade the brokerage will just claim it was a mistake.
They may have been hoping for a later news announcement so they could snag some cheap ones this morning.
As per usual a " feature" of the exchange can be used to spook the market . Once again the exchange is not on our side this policy and "anonymous" trades have no reason for existence except to mislead the market and cover the tracks of greedy brokerage houses.
"Anonymous" allows houses to put out a stock recommendation or high target price for a stock and then sell short into the demand they create with out transparency "Only in Canada you say" There is no reasonable justification for anonymous trading insiders always trad via a brokerage so what is the point?