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Market Maker Surveillance Report. LVLT, STSA, IEF, F, RF, ISLN, Highest Net Sell Volume and Negative Price Friction For Thursd

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November 18, 2010 / M2 PRESSWIRE / BUYINS.NET / www.buyins.net, announced today its proprietary Market Maker Friction Factor Report for Thursday. Since October 2008 market makers are now required to be on the bid as much as they are on the offer and for like amounts of stock. This Fair Market Making Requirement is designed to prevent market makers from manipulating stock prices. On Thursday there were 2726 companies with "abnormal" market making, 3648 companies with positive Friction Factors and 1609 companies with negative Friction Factors. Here is a list of the top companies with the highest net sell volume on Thursday and lowest negative price Friction (bearish). This means that there was more selling than buying in the stocks and their stock prices dropped faster with less Friction. LEVEL 3 COMMUNICATIONS INC (NASDAQ:LVLT), STERLING FINL CORP/SPOKANE (NASDAQ:STSA), ISHARES BARCLAYS 7-10 YEAR (NYSE:IEF), FORD MOTOR CO (NYSE:F), REGIONS FINANCIAL CORP (NYSE:RF), ISILON SYSTEMS INC (NASDAQ:ISLN). To access Friction Factor, Naked Short Data and SqueezeTrigger Prices on all stocks please visit http://www.buyins.net .

Market Maker Friction Factor is shown in the chart below:

     Symbol     Change      Percent     Buy Volume      Buy %%       Sell Volume     Sell %%      Net Volume      Friction
     LVLT       $-0.01      -0.900%     9,122,906       41.600%      12,794,107      58.340%      -3,671,201      -4      
     STSA       $-0.02      -8.260%     6,414,183       36.670%      11,079,059      63.330%      -4,664,876      -2      
     IEF        $-0.23      -0.240%     326,904         11.010%      2,646,388       89.150%      -2,319,484      -100,847
     F          $-0.54      -3.240%     107,976,784     42.320%      120,038,109     47.040%      -12,061,325     -223,358
     RF         $-0.23      -4.160%     48,335,074      38.740%      58,665,406      47.020%      -10,330,332     -449,145
     ISLN       $-0.01      -0.030%     2,684,636       37.540%      4,466,042       62.450%      -1,781,406      -2      

Analysis of the Friction Factor chart above shows that each of the six stocks mentioned above have low price friction combined with more selling than buying (negative Net Volume) in their stocks. The Friction Factor displays how many more shares of buying than selling are required to move a stock higher by one cent or how many more shares of selling than buying moves a stock lower by 1 cent.

For example, the chart above shows ISLN down $-0.010 with a Friction Factor of -2 and a Net Volume of -1,781,406. That means that it takes 2 more shares of selling than buying to drop ISLN by one penny. On Monday the Market Makers allowed the stock to move down on heavier selling than buying (low negative friction).

LEVEL 3 COMMUNICATIONS INC (NASDAQ:LVLT) - Level 3 Communications, Inc. engages in the communications business in North America and Europe. It offers network and Internet services, including transport services, high speed Internet protocol services, dedicated Internet access, virtual private network services, and dark fiber services, as well as managed modem, an outsourced, turn-key infrastructure solution; and colocation services. The company also provides various media services, comprising Vyvx services that provide audio and video feeds over fiber or satellite; content delivery network services; media delivery services to customers seeking to manage, protect, and monetize content delivered over the Internet; a range of local and long distance voice services, such as voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) and traditional circuit-switch based services; and VoIP Enhanced Local, a VoIP service that enables broadband cable operators, IXCs, VoIP providers, and other companies operating their own switching infrastructure to launch IP-based local and long-distance voice services through a broadband connection. Level 3 Communications media services also consist of SIP Trunking, a VoIP-based local phone service; Local Inbound service that terminates traditional telephone network originated calls to Internet Protocol termination points; Primary Rate Interface, a TDM local phone service that could be configured in various ways; Long Distance services portfolio comprising local and long distance transport and termination services; and Toll Free services portfolio, which terminate toll free calls that are originated on the traditional telephone network. As of December 31, 2009, its network encompassed approximately 67,000 intercity route miles in North America and an intercity network covering approximately 12,000 miles across Europe. Further, it sells coal primarily through long-term contracts with public utilities. The company was founded in 1884 and is headquartered in Broomfield, Colorado.

STERLING FINL CORP/SPOKANE (NASDAQ:STSA) - Sterling Financial Corporation operates as the bank holding company for Sterling Savings Bank that provides various banking products and services to small and medium-sized businesses, and individuals. The company generates a range of deposit products, including transaction (checking) accounts, interest and non-interest bearing checking accounts, savings accounts, money market demand accounts, certificates of deposit accounts, and time deposits. It also provides loans products comprising commercial lending products, such as lines of credit, receivable and inventory financing, equipment loans, and term real estate financing for owner-occupied properties; multifamily residential and commercial real estate loans; one-to four-family residential loans; and consumer loans for automobiles, boats and recreational vehicles, and lines of credit for personal use. Sterling Financial Corporation also markets fixed income and equity products, mutual funds, fixed and variable annuities, and other financial products. The company, through its subsidiary, Golf Savings Bank, engages in the origination and sale of residential mortgage loans. As of December 31, 2009, it operated 178 branches in the states of Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, and California. The company was founded in 1983 and is headquartered in Spokane, Washington.

ISHARES BARCLAYS 7-10 YEAR (NYSE:IEF) - ISHARES LEHMAN 7-10

FORD MOTOR CO (NYSE:F) - Ford Motor Company designs, develops, manufactures, and services cars and trucks worldwide. It operates in two sectors, Automotive and Financial Services. The Automotive sector sells vehicles under Ford, Mercury, Lincoln, and Volvo brand names. This sector markets cars, trucks, and parts through retail dealers in North America, and through distributors and dealers outside of North America. It also sells cars and trucks to dealers for sale to fleet customers, including daily rental car companies, commercial fleet customers, leasing companies, and governments. In addition, this sector provides retail customers with a range of after-the-sale vehicle services and products in areas, such as maintenance and light repair, heavy repair, collision, vehicle accessories, and extended service warranty under the Genuine Ford, Lincoln-Mercury Parts and Service, Ford Custom Accessories, Ford Extended Service Plan, and Motorcraft brand names. The Financial Services sector offers various automotive financing products to and through automotive dealers. It offers retail financing, which includes purchasing retail installment sale contracts and retail lease contracts from dealers, and financing to commercial customers to purchase or lease vehicle fleets; wholesale financing that comprises making loans to dealers to finance the purchase of vehicle inventory; and other financing, which consists of making loans to dealers for working capital, improvements to dealership facilities, and to purchase or finance dealership real estate. This sector also services the finance receivables and leases that it originates and purchases, makes loans to its affiliates, purchases receivables, and provides insurance services related to its financing programs. Ford Motor Company was founded in 1903 and is based in Dearborn, Michigan.

REGIONS FINANCIAL CORP (NYSE:RF) - Regions Financial Corporation operates as the holding company for the Regions Bank that provides a range of commercial, retail, and mortgage banking services in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia. It offers various deposit products, including savings accounts, transaction accounts, money market accounts, and foreign deposits, as well as time deposits, including certificate of deposits and individual retirement accounts. The companys loan portfolio comprises commercial and industrial loans, including financial and agricultural, and owner occupied mortgage and construction loans; investor real estate loans, such as commercial real estate mortgage and construction loans; and consumer loans consisting of residential first mortgage, home equity, indirect, and other consumer loans. Regions Financial Corporation, through other subsidiaries, also provides regional brokerage and investment banking products and services, such as securities brokerage, asset management, financial planning, mutual funds, securities underwriting, sales and trading, investment banking services, and trust services, as well as insurance brokerage services for various lines of personal and commercial insurance, including property, casualty, life, health, accident, credit-related insurance, and debt cancellation products. In addition, the company provides domestic and international equipment financing products primarily to commercial clients. As of February 22, 2010, it offered its banking services approximately through 1,800 full-service banking offices and 2,200 automated teller machines; and investment and securities brokerage services through 300 offices. The company was founded in 1970 and is headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama.

ISILON SYSTEMS INC (NASDAQ:ISLN) - Isilon Systems, Inc. designs, develops, and markets network attached storage systems for storing and managing file-based data, including video, audio, digital images, computer models, PDF files, scanned images, reference information, test and simulation data, and other file-based information, as well as other unstructured data worldwide. Its products include Isilon IQ Platform Nodes that supports gigabit Ethernet interfaces for intra-cluster communication and provides front-side communication; Isilon IQ Accelerator-x, which enables customers to increase the performance, or aggregate write and read throughput of their data storage system; Isilon EX 6000, EX 9000, and EX 12000 products that increases data storage capacity; SyncIQ replication software application that provides asynchronous file-based replication to one or more Isilon IQ clusters over WAN/LAN IP network; and SmartConnect Load-Balancing Software application, which streamlines connection management by automatically distributing client connections across individual nodes in a cluster based on defined policies. The company also offers SnapshotIQ Protection Software application that helps in the enterprise-class protection for clustered storage; and SmartQuotas Data Management Software application that helps enterprises to control and limit storage usage across their organization, as well as provides Isilon clustered storage for storage solutions. Isilon Systems sells its products indirectly through a channel partner program comprising value-added resellers and distributors, and directly through its sales force to media and entertainment, Internet, life sciences, manufacturing, manufacturing, oil and gas, cable and telecommunications markets. The company was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington.

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