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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13 November 2007

Merv's Daily Commentary, 13 Nov 2007


After the Close, 13 Nov 2007

After a day such as yesterday any little upside move is welcome. The Merv’s Daily Uranium Index closed the day up 0.007 points or 0.02%. There were 24 winners, 17 losers and 9 unchanged. Of the five largest stocks by market value, Cameco gained 0.4%, Denison lost 0.6%, Paladin gained 2.7%, UEX gained 1.9% and Uranium One lost 2.8%. All in all, some winners, some losers but basically a neutral kind of day. The best performer of the day was ESO Uranium with a gain of 10.5% while the worst performer was Uranium Energy with a loss of 6.5%.

With a basically neutral day the position of the ratings have not changed. With the Index still slightly above its positive intermediate term moving average line and the momentum just a hair below its neutral line I will remain with my – NEUTRAL rating for another day.

As for the short term, the Index continues below its negative short term moving average line and the momentum indicator remains below its neutral line. Shown is another momentum indicator, the Moving Average Convergence/Divergence (MACD) indicator. Using a daily chart I find this indicator with its predefined parameters to work as an in-between indicator, in-between short and intermediate term, when crossing its neutral line. However, a move below its trigger line is more of a short term signal. So what we have is all negative for the short term justifying continuing with the BEARISH rating.

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