Good observation Yeti....and its one I concur with.  I constantly go back to Cramer's interview where he talks about the manipulations he would employ when manipulating the market, and the tactics he'd employ with a stock he couldn't afford to have lift.....Given that RVX is so thinly traded, even at the 200 or 300K per day level we've seen recently, for a HF with 100s of millions it wouldn't cost much....I would imagine the pockets are deep.