.momentum and making it hold advances are two different things.

If you look at the charts when good news was received into the market, the volume spike was promptly sold off. In fact selling has been taking place at virtually every opportunity since the 1bil oz results were released in December , on the moving averages, etc etc.

I Know a lot of the trading/shorting is being supported by bashers operating over on stockhouse, and is acceptable to some because it 'helps' them get their lower prices.

I don't think it helps anybody to be spreading lies about the company to potential investors. If you have a good reason for the share price to go down based on issues or evironment all well and good, but a potential investor 'might' wait for a dip with the right company, or could go elsewhere if they think its a poor investment, and then again could be spreading the same misleading innuendo to others.

Maybe ECU needs to carry a small advertising budget and take out a regular on line gold site ad or two, that isnt so easy to trade down as individual news releases.

The daily trading range seems to have dropped dramatically here and on GPR, (3 cents range up until midday yesterday) and funnily enough CDE, which only moved about 5 cents a couple of days ago, volume has dropped off and someone posted yesterday they thought trading had opened up late in the US. Having noticed some discrepancies appearing on bigcharts recently and pondered on what was going on.. is this something to do with the market makers I wonder?