The venture exchange saw one large insider deal Tuesday as a player from Gold Canyon Resources (
TSX:V.GCU,
Stock Forum) snapped up 1.6 million shares (worth $394k) of the Vancouver-based precious metal explorer. There was no news to indicate a big deal was brewing, nor has there been a lot of action on the stock over the past few months, which made the buy up a surprise.
Wednesday saw insider sell-offs on the suddenly popping Titan Medical (
TSX:V.TMD,
Stock Forum) ($171k), the ever-trending BSM Technologies (
TSX:V.GPS,
Stock Forum) ($142k) and RIFCO (
TSX:V.RFC,
Stock Forum) ($119k).
There were no insider sales approaching noteworthy status Tuesday on the TSX as East West Petroleum (
TSX:V.EW,
Stock Forum) and RIFCO led the boards with $37k and $33k sold respectively.
On the TSX Tuesday and Wednesday, insiders bought up a total of $8 million worth of food retailer Metro (
TSX:T.MRU,
Stock Forum) while that company toyed with a 52-week low, while others took profits on Secure Energy Services (
TSX:T.SES,
Stock Forum) ($1.4m sold) and Horizon North Logistics (
TSX:T.HNL,
Stock Forum) ($900k) as they ran the table upward.
In Wednesday trading, an insider at Yellow Media (
TSX:T.Y,
Stock Forum), the publishers of Yellow Pages, bought 650,000 shares of that company, worth $11.1 million.
Halogen Software (
TSX:T.HGN,
Stock Forum) insiders sold $12.25 million of that stock Wednesday.
Thomson Reuters (
TSX:T.TRI,
Stock Forum) continued its large buyback program, consuming $4.5 million of itself Tuesday and another $4.9 million Wednesday.