RE:RE:CWBHF has gone liveI too am Canadian and am way out of my area of expertise but I do invest in the usual markets and have invested significantly in the Cannabis sector for 2 years now. I am increasing, as each month goes by, my exposure to US stocks including CWEB. In response to your question, I am at work at present, I was abe to find the below. My understanding is therefore that the OTC market listing won't occur until October 8/9 but this Grey market is an option albeit with increased risks!
When I just went into the OTC market board for CWEB, use acronym, CWBHF this came up along with the price quote.
Warning! Grey Market securities are not traded on the OTCQX, OTCQB or Pink markets
Broker dealers are not willing or able to publicly quote these securities because of lack of investor interest, company information availability or regulatory compliance. It's alot of fun learning all this stuff at the same time as, of course, making a penny or two doing it!
GLTA
Grey Sheets Trading
Should be Avoided
Grey Sheets, also spelled "Gray Sheets," and also known as the "Gray Market" is another category of OTC stocks that is completely separate from Pink Sheets and the OTCBB.
The differences are as follows . . .
Unlike other financial markets,
• No recent bid or ask quotes are available because no market makers share data or quote such stocks. There is no quoting system available to record and settle trades.
All Grey sheet trading is moderated by a broker and done between consenting individuals at a price they agree on. The only documentation that can be publicly found regarding the trades is when the last trade took place.
• No SEC registration and little SEC regulation. Regulation of Grey Sheet stocks takes place mainly on a state level. Unlike Pink Sheets, these stocks have no SEC registration to possess a stock symbol or to possess shares, or trade shares, of that stock.
• Such penny stocks, similar to Pink Sheets, are not required to file SEC (Securities and Exchange Commission) financial and business reports.
• These stocks may not be solicited or advertised to the public unless a certain number of shares are qualified to be traded publicly under 504 of Regulation D.
• Extremely Illiquid. Gray sheet trading is infrequent, and for good reason... Difficult to trade, not advertised, difficult to follow the price, the least regulation possible, hard to find any information on the stock, very small market cap, little history, and most such stocks do not yet offer public shares; so shares of such stocks are commonly privately held.
The lack of information (bids, history, financial reports) alone causes most investors to be very skeptical of Gray Sheets and avoid them altogether. Grey sheets trading is rarely made by Extraordinary Investors.
• Shares of such penny stocks are privately held and restricted from being sold publicly unless such company files a 504 of Regulation D and meets basic qualifications; for instance, have a concrete plan of operation, and a certain number of private stocks being held for at least one year, and a planned sale of shares worth no more than $1 million. The benefit of the public offering of stock is to raise capital for operations.