Exchange Statistics
Market View
Block Trades
Broker Trade Summary
Halts
Stock Dividend Payments
Participants
BC Insider Trading
BCSC Insider Trading Fields and Codes
Ontario Insider Trading
OSC Insider Trading Fields and Codes
Trade Workstation
Company Picker
Short Positions

Exchange Statistics

Use this search option to obtain a 10 point check-list for trading activity on any of six key exchanges. Includes Canadian exchanges plus New York and NASDAQ.

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Market View

The Market View page allows you to filter stocks using a variety of criteria. You can use this page to find the most actives, top gainers and top losers on a particular exchange.

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Block Trades

The Block Trades page allows you to identify when a large quantity of shares is traded on the Nasdaq, New York, TSE or TSX-V. You can define your own minimum volume and dollar values. Enter a symbol to limit the results to a particular symbol or leave the symbol field empty to see all block trades on an exchange.

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Broker Trades

The Broker Trade Summary page allows you to generate a report that summarizes the trading activity for all brokers on the TSX or TSX-V, for one trading day. You can see the number of trades, volume of shares and dollar volume bought and sold, for each boker.

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Halts

This page lists all halted stocks on the TSE and the TSX-V.

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Stock Dividend Payments

Here you can isolate stocks that have made a dividend payout in a given time period. Note: dividends are usually paid quarterly and fiscal calendars will vary.

Dividend Codes

01   Cash equivalent of a stock dividend
02   Option traded stock
03   Increase in rate
04   Decrease in rate
05   Stock dividend
06   First dividend since listing on the TSE
07   First dividend since corporation or issuance
08   Following stock split
09   Extra dividend
10   US funds
11   Estimated dividend
12   Foreign currency other than US
13   Arrears
14   Tax deferred
15   First dividend since re-organization of shares
16   Rights or warrents also trading ex-dividend
17   Or stock in lieu of cash
18   Full dividend not paid on shares pursuant to exercise of warrants during current quarterly dividend period
19   Floating rate
20   Special dividend
21   Late notification
22   Advanced notification
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Participants

The participant search allows you to find out which individuals and/or companies are are involved with a particular company and what their participations are. Over two dozen roles including directors, shareholders, private placements, vendors, successor/predecessor companies and consultants.

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British Columbia Securities Commission Insider Trading

British Columbia Securities Commission Insider Trading reports are available beginning September 1 1995. This database contains BC registered companies only. The raw reports from which this database was generated are available for download at the BCSC web site at http://www.bcsc.bc.ca.

All data in this section are from the BCSC reports and are not correlated with the Stockwatch quote/company/participant database.

A note about zeros: BCSC insider reports are littered with sales at $0. These sales are not gifts as it might appear. Rather, the BCSC converts all prices expressed in fractions or three decimal places or $US to a misleading $0.

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Ontario Securities Commission Insider Trading

OSC Insider Trading reports are available beginning January 1 1995. All data in this section are from the OSC reports and are not corellated with the Stockwatch quote/company/participant database.

NOTE: Data after 2002-04-15 is not available. The story is a strange one. The various securities commissions created a new system called SEDI which was intended to allow Internet based filing and reporting, similar to SEDAR. Originally scheduled to be introduced in November 2001, as of this time it is not known if it can made to work before 2003. In the meantime, we can no longer receive the data electronically. The upshot is, we do not know when or if this information will be available again.

Poor quality reproductions of the last few weekly OSC insider reports are available at: www.oscbulletin.carswell.com

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OSC Insider Trading Fields and Codes

OSC Report Codes

Fields

  • Trade Date - Date that the insider made the trade
  • Reporting Date - Date the report was published by the OSC
  • Transaction Type - 2 digit code indicating the nature of the transaction
  • Relationship - A 4-digit code for insider-issuer relationship
  • Shares - Number of securities acquired or disposed of by the insider. A sell is shown as negative.
  • Price - The reported transaction price per security
  • Holdings - The reported holdings of the insider after the transaction
  • Security - Full security name
  • Relation - Name of related entity/person eg RRSP, In Trust, Wife

Transaction Type - A 2 - digit code indicating the nature of the transaction.

Code  Description
00    Initial report of an Insider
10    Purchase or sale carried out in market, excluding exercise of an option	
11    Private placement (issuance from treasury)
20    Purchase or sale carried out privately		
22    Acquisition or disposition pursuant to a take-over bid	
25    Change in nature of ownership
30    Acquisition or disposition under a plan
33    Balance unchanged
35    Stock dividend
40    Purchase or sale of a call option
45    Purchase or sale of a put option
46    Expiration of an option
50    Acquisition of disposition by gift
55    Acquisition by inheritance or by disposition by bequest
60    Short sale
65    Grant of warrants
66    Grant of rights
70    Exercise of warrants
71    Expiration of warrants
75    Exercise of rights
76    Exercise of options
78    Conversion or exchange
82    Capital reorganization
84    Stock split or consolidation
85    Redemption - cancellation
87    Issuer bid
90    Compensation for property
95    Compensation for services
96    Grant of options
97    Other (than referred to above)
98    Not supplied
99    Correction of information (amended report)

Relationship - A 4-digit code for insider-issuer relationship Each digit (other than 0) represents a relationship. Therefore, we can describe up to 4 relationships with this field. The codes are as follows:

Code Description
1    Reporting issuer which as acquired securities issued by itself 
     (or, under the Canada Business Corporation Act, by any of its affiliates.
2    Subsidiary of the reporting issuer.
3    Security holder who beneficially owns or who exercises control or direction 
     over more than 10% of the securities of the reporting issuer (or, under the 
     Bank Act and in Quebec, 10% of a class of shares) to which are attached 
     voting rights or an unlimited right to a share of the profits and in its 
     assets in case of winding-up.
4    Director of a reporting issuer.
5    Senior officer of a reporting issuer.
6    Director or senior officer of a security holder referred to in 3 above.
7    Director or senior officer of an affiliate (or, under the Bank Act and 
     in Quebec, a subsidiary) of the reporting issuer, other than in 4,5, and 6 above.
8    Deemed an insider under the Canada Business Corporations Act or the Bank Act.
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BCSC Insider Trading Fields and Codes

BCSC Report Codes

Fields

  • Trade Date - Date that the insider made the trade
  • Reporting Date - Date the report was published by the BCSC
  • Relationship - A 4-digit code for insider-issuer relationship
  • Owner - Code indicating the nature of ownership
  • Class - The class of security traded
  • NT - Nature of ownership
  • Shares - Number of securities acquired or disposed of by the insider. A sell is shown as negative.
  • Price - The reported transaction price per security
  • Holdings - The reported holdings of the insider after the transaction
  • Security - Full security name
  • Relation - Name of related entity/person eg RRSP, In Trust, Wife

Relation - Relationship with Issuer (more than one code may apply):

Code 	Description
1		Reporting issuer that has acquired securities issued by itself (or by
    	any of its affiliates - CBCA).
2 		Subsidiary of the reporting issuer.
3		Security holder who beneficially owns or who exercises control or
    	direction over more than 10% of the securities of the reporting
    	issuer (Bank Act, CCAA, ICA, TLCA, CBCA, and Quebec Securities Act -
    	10% of a class of shares) to which are attached voting rights or an
   		unlimited right to a share of the profits and to its assets in case
   		of winding up.
4		Director of a reporting issuer.
5		Senior officer of a reporting issuer.
6		Director or senior officer of a security holder referred to in 3.
7		Director or senior officer of an affiliate (Bank Act, CCAA, ICA, TLCA
    	and CBCA) or of a subsidiary of the reporting issuer, other than in
    	4, 5 and 6.
8		Deemed insider under the Bank Act, CCAA, ICA, TLCA and CBCA.

Nature of Ownership

0   Direct Ownership
1   Indirect Ownership (identify the registered holder)
2   Control or Direction (identify the registered holder)

Security Class

 BD  Bonds                      RT  Rights
 CA  Class A Shares             UT  Units
 CB  Class B Shares             WT  Warrants
 CC  Class C Shares             SW  Special Warrants
 CM  Common Shares              IN  Installment Receipts
 DB  Debentures                 CF  Class F Shares
 DD  Dividends                  IR  Initial Report
 OP  Options                    *   Amended Report
 PF  Preferred Shares

Nature of Transaction

Code	Description
10  	Acquisition or disposition carried out in the market, excluding the
    		exercise of an option
11  	Private placement (issuance from treasury)
20		Acquisition or disposition carried out privately (already issued
    		securities)
22  	Acquisition or disposition pursuant to a takeover bid or issuer
    		bid
25  	Change in the nature of ownership
30  	Acquisition or disposition under a plan
35  	Stock dividend
40  	Acquisition or disposition of a call option
45  	Acquisition or disposition of a put option
46  	Expiration of an option
50  	Acquisition or disposition by gift
55  	Acquisition by inheritance or disposition by bequest
60  	Short sale
65  	Grant of warrants
66  	Grant of rights
70  	Exercise of warrants
71  	Expiration of warrants
72  	Expiration of rights
75  	Exercise of rights
76  	Exercise of options
78  	Conversion or exchange
84  	Stock split or consolidation
85  	Redemption/retraction/cancellation/repurchase
90  	Compensation for property
95  	Compensation for services
96  	Grant of options
97  	Other than referred to above (please explain in Remarks)
99  	Correction of information (please explain in Remarks)
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Trade Workstation

Your Trade Workstation allows you to see highly detailed broker activity for a specific stock, and shows you all the trades on a given day or in a given date range.

Here you can assess the aggregrate interest of major brokers and banks in certain stocks over time, by seeing what they're buying, selling, and holding.

This analysis tool enables you to combine the functions of:

  • Broker Codes List
  • Trade Workstation for CDN Exchanges
  • Individual Trades by Date for US Exchanges

Trade Workstation for CDN Exchanges

This application lets you search three different ways:

  • Individual Trades by Date
  • Broker Summary by Date Range
  • One Broker by Date Range
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Company Picker

This page allows you to screen companies using a variety of criteria, such as:

  • shares issued
  • last close price
  • within % of year high/low
  • earnings per share
  • market capitalization
  • last trade date
  • price earnings ratio
  • dividends per share
  • dividend yield
  • belongs to index (TSE300, TSE200, TSE100, TSE35)

This application allows users to find companies based on the specific search criteria that they enter. None of the search criteria are required fields, however, many have default values.

Search Tips

If you find you are getting no results, try submitting the form without entering anything. Then add your parameters one by one.

All data used for this search is updated daily at 3:30pm Pacific time. Search results will only display current data, back data cannot be searched. The year high/low values used are rolling figures for the past 365 days, just like when you get a quote. Market capitalization is the number of shares multiplied by the share price - this is the total value the market is placing on the company.

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Short Positions

Here you can generate reports on short positions for stocks listed on Canadian Exchanges. Calculations use the last available close price.

Figures are updated from TSE reports on a twice monthly basis, on or about the 3rd and 18th.