I suspect what we are seeing is a lot of interest in building positioons in ECU and the warrants.
Big financial institutions think they have a right to screw everybody and to hell with buying near market. Part of their operation is to smash prices then enter on the long side. They can't spread enough effective lies, so they use their get out of jail free cards to do things that would land Martha in jail.
As painful as it is, I take it as a positive sign for the future of our silver company! I agree with max, the price of pm related stocks are not fairing too poorly given the price of the metals thhis week.