I don't know who or what is selling or shorting under PI symbol but they again today had 100,000 share sell placed at .66 cents and Scotia also had some sizable stratgeig sells placed. This is capping any momentum upward and forcing selling under these caps by TD and Anonymous and Scotia the only sellers of note. We have seen Scotia trade ECU lots in the past as they are the old Etrade house and TD has been the most active of all so they are also likely the Anonymous seller as well. I also note that Jitney and TD made an effort to insure that ECU closed at the low of the day at .64 cents where little stock was traded all day. These little trader tactics mean nothing in the bigger picture even though they are frustrating.

HUI and silver did not look great today and many silver stories were suspect like MAG, EDR, SLW, SVM, EXN, GPR, IPT and mnay others along with lots of decent gold stories were weak. Could be taking a rest as this is still jobs week, before breaking out bigtime.

It's not normal for a stock to open at .66 cents and have a daily traded average price of .65 cents and then close at .64 cents in an up market unless something nefarious is going on like most precious metals stocks today seem to confirm. It seems the buyers are just biding their time and taking what the manipulators are giving for the time being but I suspect this game is about up shortly.

Here are all the house positions for : ECU for 2/2/2010.

House Positions

	Exch	House	Bought	$Value	Ave		Sold	$Value	Ave		Net	$Net
		2 RBC	103,900	67,794	0.65		250	162	0.65		103,650	-67,632
		99 Jitney	79,500	51,855	0.65		7,000	4,505	0.64		72,500	-47,350
		19 Desjardins	71,498	46,407	0.65		14,231	9,254	0.65		57,267	-37,153
		15 UBS	34,000	22,140	0.65		300	192	0.64		33,700	-21,948
		79 CIBC	16,500	10,825	0.66		2,500	1,630	0.65		14,000	-9,195
		62 Haywood	10,000	6,600	0.66		0				10,000	-6,600
		9 BMO Nesbitt	10,000	6,500	0.65		0				10,000	-6,500
		33 Canaccord	6,000	3,900	0.65		0				6,000	-3,900
		72 Credit Suisse	250	162	0.65		0				250	-162
		81 HSBC	0				100	64	0.64		-100	64
		83 Research Cap	0				6,000	3,840	0.64		-6,000	3,840
		27 Dundee	4,459	2,898	0.65		10,826	7,033	0.65		-6,367	4,135
		80 National Bank	0				10,000	6,515	0.65		-10,000	6,515
		14 ITG	0				21,500	14,190	0.66		-21,500	14,190
		85 Scotia	21,000	13,650	0.65		58,900	38,141	0.65		-37,900	24,491
		1 Anonymous	14,500	9,425	0.65		85,500	55,555	0.65		-71,000	46,130
		7 TD Sec	96,500	62,620	0.65		251,000	163,695	0.65		-154,500	101,075
		Total	468,107	304,776	0.65		468,107	304,776	0.65		0	0