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. 
Behind the concrete, the visible events, behind all the objective, logical considerations, we find the struggle against evil, against the servants of the antichrist. Everywhere and always demonic powers lurk in the dark, waiting for the moment when man is weak. When he yields to the forces of evil, he separates himself from the power of a higher order; after taking the first step, he is driven on and on to the next and to the next, at a furiously accelerating rate.
Die Weiße Rose, 1942