BASIC NOTES

Uranium Companies

There are very few pure uranium companies. Most companies, especially the small exploration type, are active in more than the uranium industry. This blog makes no attempt to guage the percentage of a companies activity that are related to the finding, mining or processing of uraniun. They all do, however, have some uranium activities (to the best of our review).

Merv's Uranium Indices

I have developed two Uranium Indices. They each have the same component stocks but are calculated using different methodologies. My weekly Index is based upon the average weekly performance of the component stocks. My daily Index is based upon the daily average of the component stocks open, high, low and close prices along with the daily average volume of all component stocks.

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25 October 2007

Merv's Daily Commentary, 25 Oct. 2007

After The Close, 25 Oct 2007

The market action continues to make uranium stocks look good. The Merv’s Daily Uranium Index closed up on the day by 0.102 points or 2.20%. There were 29 winners, 12 losers and 9 unchanged for a better than 2 to 1 ratio on the up side. Cameco closed up 3,2%, Denison closed up by 1.7%, Paladin closed down by 1.6%, UEX closed up by 2.1% and Uranium One closed up by 1.9%. The best performer on the day was Forsys Metals with a gain of 20.3% while the worst performer was Northern Continental with a loss of 7.7%.

The Index remains inside the up trending channel so no problem yet. It is presently almost in the middle of the band so we can guess that we have at least a few days where it will stay trapped, even should the Index turn around. For now the Index continues to trade above its intermediate term moving average line with the line continuing to turn more aggressively upwards. Momentum continues in its positive zone and moving higher. The volume indicator, however, continues to trace more of a lateral trend as opposed to up or down. We could use a little more strength here. However, that does not detract from a BULLISH rating for the intermediate term.

What I’ve said for the intermediate term may be repeated for the short term. BULLISH rating here also.

An interesting note. The Index had been in a gentle downward sloping channel for four months earlier, before plunging through the lower line. The recent rally has taken the Index back into that channel again. So, the Index is now under the influence of two channels, an upward trending channel and a downward trending channel. Which one will now take over? We’ll just have to wait and see.

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