Hi pic,
I, and I'm sure many others, have noticed the low volume. I posted the other day that a number of my juniors were stair-stepping up in price while stair-stepping down in volume. Not to my liking at all. And ECU's volume is now about as low as it was at the beginning of September, for what that's worth.
It could be that the forced liquidation and selling of some of my juniors, and I guess a lot of others, has dried up to the extent that there are more buyers now than sellers, in spite of the low volume. A couple of mine have about doubled in just several days. Maybe ECU will be next.