Seems to me the market makers and investment house guys know all the tricks in the books. I imagine they've got quants on staff that have figured out how to take advantage of every scenario imaginable with ECU and probably a whole lot of other stocks too. Any stock they find easy to manipulate will be....well.......manipulated.
Anyone talking to Messrs. Altmann or Roy or the other brass at ECU should ask them their take on what they think is really going on with the stock price. If they don't know, who would? Um.............they would tell us if they knew, wouldn't they?