Well pardon me for my cynicism, after 8 years and thousands of 3 digit no news stick saves in the DOW, continuing to this day. Now as never before we have HFT computers front running practically every market as the mechanism for manipulation (see nanex). Prior to 2008 there wasn't the desperate need for daily pre-market dumping of billions in paper gold and silver contracts practically every morning to bolster confidence in the almighty dollar. How do you explain the 100 to 1 ratio of paper contracts to available physical gold and silver (with no auditing being done)? This is the mechanism used to manipulate gold and silver price up or down, IMO mostly down. I have seen first hand how the MM's will divert US OTC buys over to TSX side to presumably keep US OTC volume down in that particular stock, IMO that seems to be a form of manipulation. I could be wrong, I hope I am but, I don't trust any of these bastards. Never the less, I am long on all my miner positions and eventually patience will be rewarded.