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 February 2009

Merv's Daily Commentary 25 Feb 2009


After The Close, 25 Feb 2009

Merv’s Daily Uranium Index
Market Data

Open: 128.25
High: 133.22
Low: 125.31
Close: 130.51
Volume: 3385

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

We seem to be back to the nibble, nibble market. Very small steps up and down without any real strength either way. I guess we’ll just have to live with it until the day comes when the sky’s open up. That day will probably be totally unexpected but we will catch it here within a day or two of its happening.

The Merv’s Daily Uranium Index closed higher today by 1.27 points or 0.98%. There were 20 winners, 20 losers and 10 going nowhere. A real neutral day. Although the Index closed lower by almost a % the average price of a component stock went nowhere with only a 0.06% loss. As for those five largest stocks, Cameco gained 3.1%, Paladin lost 2.6%, Uranium One gained 2.2%, Uranium Participation lost 0.3% and USEC lost 2.9%, The best winner on the day was a tie between Bayswater Uranium and Uranium Energy each with a 16.7% gain while the loser on the day was Quaterra with a loss of 16.5%.

Once again with the small move nothing has changed in the indicators or ratings. Both the intermediate and short term remain BEARISH although the indicators are improving but not yet to the point of changing anything.

As for the immediate direction of least resistance, sideways or lateral remains the word.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Great chart Merv. Dont like the way it looks technically though with the 15 and 65 DMA now providing resistance, instead of support.

Hopefully we can break through to the upside here pretty quickly.