I saw this info on Yahoo (courtesy Allsport232) and it may be useful for those trading AUMN.

"I mentioned that a huge buy order took out every sell order within 20 cents (about 20000 shares) on both 1/18 and 1/19. It just happened again today at 1045EST (every sell order from $8.30 to 8.55 was taken out at once)

This is a classic short squeeze, and this is an illiquid stock - if you have to sell, do not panic and sell low.

We are still $2/sh below book value at these prices, and SLV is breaking out "