Isn't trying to manipulate ECU at this stage rather pointless ? After all, most legitimate investers who still hold stock, were not frightened off by the much lower prices we saw recently. Neither were they forced out by margin calls. The true investers who hold ECU ( as opposed to the manipulators ) are believers who have now seen ECU come up about 40% from its recent lows. They see that the manipulation in the gold and silver markets is becoming less effective. They see that those wishing to manipulate the US dollar higher ( by running down the PMs ) are running out of credibility as well as solvency ( but not credit ). They see the Crimex may be running out of time. All of these are positive for ECU. I suspect that most of the small trades we are seeing, are merely between the manipulators, with the odd bit being picked up by the faithfull.