RE: huge volumeGet used to it. SMF is totally under the control of the shorters.
I guess today they decided that SMF should be "drowned" with the fall in the price of gold. However, there has been days that when the POG is down they decided to play hokey and pumped the SP of SMF up instead. I gave up on figuring why the SMF SP fluctuates anymore. I just wait for the first trading day of 2012 and get the hell out of this daily nightmare!