No offense to you Silverbull, but several months ago, I implied something similar, in a letter to Mr. Clevenger. He said to me in reply, "I can assure you that we at Golden Minerals share your frustrations with the current performance of junior mining stocks and that of Golden Minerals in particular. We have heard other shareholders opine that the "banks" are shorting junior mining stocks, including that of Golden Minerals. If you would be so kind as to provide some evidence that there is illegal activity involved in market manipulation of our stock, we would be happy to aggresively pursue the perpetrators." IMHO, it certainly looks like some of these funds are bailing in addition to the day traders. I don't know why, but I'm still holding my shares for now.