Sum, I think you put way too much into looking at trading by outfits like CIBC. For example, they have a lot of funds and a bunch of no load funds that don't do terribly well. They use to do a lot of after 4:00 pm trades , shuffling stuff to presumably oscure their actual performance. Who really cares ?? What you should be concerned with is fine-tuning all your McFaulds positions now while it is cheap. After the election, it will be pump, pump, pump to avoid further downward spiral in N. Am. and Europe. Things will get pricier, and the US manipulation will be history as far as commodity resurgence is concerned. Be honoured that CIBC is so interested in NOT. We have our protectors.