I think that someone wants to accumulate at 1.40 or less and someone else is cooperating with them by putting just enuf of their own shares on the ask to keep it there so that the traders who want to make their few bucks now (ie. to sell now)have to also put their ask at 1.40 to sell. Then when the accumulator is all done he'll feed all the 1.40 shares he got from his pal back to that pal at that price and keep all the suckers' shares he got at 1.40. I'm not very knowlgeagable (sp?) in market manipulation but there's gotta be some explanation for why the ask can't get above 1.40 for the last 2 days.--does this sound like a do-able strategy and explanation ? Another thing---look at all the TD,RBC,BMO,Scotia asks--I would say that those are probably home traders looking to tie in their little profits on this latest little run up and not the serious longs who are holding for the big bucks to come and I take that as an encouraging sign for next week.