Investor confidence is the driving force behind higher share prices as is the lack of it, for lower prices. Although Arcana has exciting news along with valid potential to support higher share price certain funds have chosen to hedge their long positions in the big golds with shorting the juniors according to Mr. James Sinclair. I suspect this is what has happened with stocks like Arcana.

Another possible element of strained investor confidence is likely that hedge funds have been pressuring the low priced juniors along with the explorers. One only has to research Overstock.com to understand how hedge funds make their gravy and their managers make their billions of dollars of income every year.

In the case of Overstock.com a Superior Court judge ruled as a result of naked short selling by funds that investor confidence had been damaged and the company itself had been hurt by activities of the naked short sellers. One has only to wonder the extent of this criminal behavior in the market place. It doesn't take too much of an imagination to see how the resources of hedge funds could easily over power any junior or exploration company's share price. 

Somewhere ahead in time the hedge funds who have practiced this type of behavior for profit will suffer a rude awakening when the public wakes up to the lucrative potential of the juniors and explorers as much higher precious metal prices become a reality.

Selling shares that you don't own or can not borrow is FRAUD. The regulators have failed to protect the investing public. In essence, they are responsible for the state of investor confidence today in the continuing low priced shares of natural resource companies.