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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09 September 2009

Merv's Daily Commentary 09 Sept 2009


After The Close, 09 Sep 2009

Merv’s Daily Uranium Index
Market Data


Open: 169.22
High: 173.20
Low: 165.27
Close: 169.93
Volume: 5259

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

Well, the Index went up and the Index went down but in the end the Index went basically nowhere. It was up just a little, enough to affect some indicators but not enough to change anything. After a few good days and with the Index having moved into a strong resistance area I was not surprised that it went nowhere today. Uranium price down another dollar this week --- not helping.

The Merv’s Daily Uranium Index was up 0.42 points or 0.25%. There were 21 winners, 19 losers and 10 just piddling along. Most of the five largest stocks were bummers today although one was a winner. Cameco lost 2.5%, First Uranium gained 1.1%, Paladin lost 4.8%, Uranium One lost 0.8% and Uranium Participation lost 0.5%. The best of the bunch was Hathor with a gain of 22.5% while the worst of the bunch was Ucore with a loss of 12.0%.

There was no change to the indicators to cause a change in the ratings. About the only change was the very short tern moving average line crossing above the short term moving average line to confirm the previous BULLISH short term rating. The intermediate term also remains BULLISH.

I will go with the lateral as the direction of least resistance. The Index seems to have hit a wall for now.

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