Sprott Physical Asset Fund is standing in like a champ against a determined bear raid.
I suspect the bear are trying to shake out the specs, given that we are into the delivery periods in the metals at the Comex, and the numbers appear to be intimidating in potential physical offtake. No better time to hit an asset than in the thin holiday trade. 
“Some economists, when thinking about long memory, are concerned that it undercuts the Efficient Market Hypothesis that prices fully reflect all relevant information; that the random walk is the best metaphor to describe such markets; and that you cannot beat such an unpredictable market. Well, the Efficient Market Hypothesis is no more than that, a hypothesis. Many a grand theory has died under the onslaught of real data.” Benoît B. Mandelbrot