http://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/aumn/institutional-holdings

What stands out the most in this position page as of March 31, 2012 is that Gilder, Gagnon, et al has reduced their collective position from 3 milliion + shares down to 1 million through relentless quarterly sales over the past 12 months. Given the recent carnage and above avg. daily volume, my assumption is that they may be entirely out of their position seeing that their selling in Q1 had accelerated. I may be wrong, but I beleive they acquired the stock via their Apex Silver recapitialization so they were probably never considered to be a strong, longterm shareholder.

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