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Black Out period are typically only relevant to Half Year , Full Year , and Annual Reports though. Obviously insider trading regulations kick in for ALL other breeches in continuous disclosures and actions taken which may be preemptive to knowledge about ' commercial & in confidence ' and price sensitive matters.

But the key is you have to prove it. And that can be difficult. But if enough investors bring the same issue to the attention of the Authorities , then they pretty much have no choice then but to act in the interest of these ' questions '.

And the rules as you say do apply under Sayona's constitution in regards trading , shorting etc..... Not so much with respects to a major shareholders who isn't bound by a Directorship or BOD position.

But the lines definitely become blurred when you consider that they ( Piedmont ) are in fact a related party by virtue of their 25% joint venture interest. SO there is definitely a conflict of interest here. And especially since up to now , their ( Piedmont's ) economic interest in Sayona has been much larger than the prima facie 25% prescribed by the JV. These are just my opinions though.