I don't think it is ECU that is being sat on for poor performance. If you listened to Pierre Lassonde's interview on KWN, he spent much of the interview complaining about how the prices of Franco Nevada and New Gold were being held down and are really worth significantly more. The entire pm and junior pm market has been sold short by the cartel and its friendly Canadian bankers. With the exception of a few of my stocks like FVI, SLW and to some extent GPR the sp has not been correlated to the rise in silver and gold.
Looking at today the TSX Venture, XAU, and GDXJ are barely positive which tells us what JPMorgan and the Cartel are doing. They are fighting for their lives and will pull ever dirty trick in the books to stop the silver default on the Comex March 1st.
I am looking forward to some normalcy returning to the pm/jpm markets early in March when JPMorgan takes their foot off of our necks.