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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14 April 2009

Merv's Daily Commentary, 14 Apr 2009


After The Close, 14 Apr 2009

Merv’s Daily Uranium Index
Market Data

Open: 150.05
High: 153.97
Low: 146.08
Close: 150.33
Volume: 6016

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

Another a slight up day. Not much but better than a down day. It’s actually difficult to say if it was an up day or not. Although the final close was ahead of yesterday’s close it was still below its opening price. So, take your pick.

The Merv’s Daily Uranium Index closed slightly higher by 0.55 points or 0.37%. There were 21 winners, 19 losers and 10 unchanged. Not a very positive day. The largest five stocks were mixed. Cameco lost 1.7%, First Uranium lost 0.5%, Paladin lost 0.6%, Uranium One gained 1.1% and USEC gained 3.0%. The best winner on the day was Denison Mines with a gain of 16.2% while the loser on the day was Laramide with a loss of 7.9%. Maybe I should include Denison in my yesterday’s list of stocks that are looking technically good. It has been acting quite strong these past few days so has some catching up to do but could be in its early stages of a reversal.

Nothing has changed with today’s action so I’ll just cop-out and refer you to yesterday’s commentary. That long term moving average line has still not reversed so it remains a watching game. One more thing, the volume indicator has now moved into new all time high territory.

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