RE: Trading below our 30 day avg.....Buckeye....don't know if Vulcan's management have gone to the extremes that you suggest in order to prevent snoopers from gaining information on the well ahead of a public press release, however, I am not at all surprised to see a "total news blackout" while drilling is in progress. That has always been the modus operandi of Vulcan management...and we have to respect them for playing it exactly "by the book".
Believer's have put their money down....skeptics have likely vacated the market in the past week or so.
It is my belief that the current "no-news-situation" simply means that the well has not yet reached target depth, rather than a "no-news-bad-news" interpretation that some investors may have taken it to be. At the same time, I expect that we shouldn't have much longer to wait before we hear something one way or another.
Len