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 January 2009

Merv's Daily Commentary, 13 Jan 2009


After The Close, 13 Jan 2009

Merv’s Daily Uranium Index
Market Data

Open: 137.98
High: 144.29
Low: 134.78
Close: 140.58
Volume: 4784

Note that the volume is an average volume of round lot sales for the 5 0 component stocks. For total volume, multiply by 5000.

The reaction may have reached a low point and it may be lateral to upside from here. Nothing much is changing during this rest period so we just have to go with the flow for now.

The Merv’s Daily Uranium Index closed higher by 1.96 points or 1.41%. There were 18 winners, 26 losers and 6 going nowhere. A mixed market with the Index moving higher but more stocks closing lower. The five largest stocks were primarily higher. Cameco gained 3.0%, Paladin gained 5.2%, Uranium One gained 1.1%, Uranium Participation lost 1.0% and USEC gained 1.9%. The best winner of the day was Western Prospector with a gain of 43.6% while the loser of the day was Formation Capital with a loss of 15.0%.

The small gain on the day did nothing for the indicators or ratings. On the intermediate and short term nothing changed from yesterday so both time periods remain BULLISH.

As for the immediate direction of least resistance, I will continue with the lateral direction. The Index is below its very short term moving average line and the line is sloping downward. The Stochastic Oscillator has entered its negative zone, below its negative trigger line. It is very close to entering its oversold zone. Despite this downward very short term drift I will still remain with the lateral as the best guess for direction, for now.

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