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Market Maker Surveillance Report. SD, CSCO, PCBC, C, EBAY, LVLT, Highest Net Sell Volume and Negative Price Friction For Frida

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November 19, 2010 / M2 PRESSWIRE / BUYINS.NET / www.buyins.net, announced today its proprietary Market Maker Friction Factor Report for Friday. 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 Friday there were 2732 companies with "abnormal" market making, 2993 companies with positive Friction Factors and 2076 companies with negative Friction Factors. Here is a list of the top companies with the highest net sell volume on Friday 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. SANDRIDGE ENERGY INC (NYSE:SD), CISCO SYSTEMS INC (NASDAQ:CSCO), PACIFIC CAPITAL BANCORP (NASDAQ:PCBC), CITIGROUP INC (NYSE:C), EBAY INC (NASDAQ:EBAY), LEVEL 3 COMMUNICATIONS INC (NASDAQ:LVLT). 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
     SD         $-0.09      -1.690%     4,969,135       36.580%      7,983,878       58.770%      -3,014,743      -334,971
     CSCO       $-0.01      -0.050%     48,261,663      47.300%      56,135,297      55.020%      -7,873,634      -8      
     PCBC       $-0.06      -16.210%     7,373,676       42.210%      10,097,226      57.790%      -2,723,550      -453,925
     C          $-0.04      -0.930%     107,646,915     43.860%      131,069,761     53.400%      -23,422,846     -6      
     EBAY       $-0.27      -0.870%     5,150,827       39.430%      7,858,800       60.150%      -2,707,973      -100,295
     LVLT       $-0.08      -7.410%     16,607,058      46.670%      20,634,786      57.990%      -4,027,728      -503,466

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 LVLT down $-0.080 with a Friction Factor of -503,466 and a Net Volume of -4,027,728. That means that it takes 503,466 more shares of selling than buying to drop LVLT by one penny. On Monday the Market Makers allowed the stock to move down on heavier selling than buying (low negative friction).

SANDRIDGE ENERGY INC (NYSE:SD) - SandRidge Energy, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, operates as an independent natural gas and oil company in the United States. The company engages in the exploration, development, and production of oil and gas properties. Its Exploration and Production segment explores for, develops, and produces natural gas and oil reserves in the West Texas Overthrus (WTO) and the Permian Basin. The companys Drilling and Oil Field Services segment drills wells for other oil and natural gas companies, primarily in the west Texas region. This segments oil field services include providing drilling rigs, pulling units, mud logging, trucking, rental tools, location and road construction, and roustabout services to third-parties. Its Midstream Gas Services segment provides gathering, compression, processing, and treating services of natural gas in west Texas. The company also captures and transports CO2 to the Permian Basin for use in tertiary oil recovery operations, as well as operates interests in the Mid-Continent, the Cotton Valley Trend in east Texas, the Gulf Coast, and the Gulf of Mexico. As of December 31, 2009, it had estimated proved reserves of 1,312.2 Bcfe, of which 52% were natural gas. The company also had 3,373 gross producing wells, as well as had oil interests in 1,720,909 gross leased acres. In addition, it had 8 rigs drilling in the WTO, 4 rigs drilling in the Permian Basin, 2 rigs drilling in East Texas, and 1 rig drilling in the Mid-Continent. The company, formerly known as Riata Energy, Inc., was founded in 1984 and is headquartered in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

CISCO SYSTEMS INC (NASDAQ:CSCO) - Cisco Systems, Inc. designs, manufactures, and sells Internet Protocol (IP)-based networking and other products to the communications and IT industry worldwide. The company offers routers that interconnect public and private IP networks for mobile, data, voice, and video applications; switching systems, which provide connectivity to end users, workstations, IP phones, access points, and servers; application networking services; home networking products, such as voice and data modems, routers and gateways, Internet video cameras, home entertainment storage, wireless home audio, and home network management software; and network and content security, email, and Web security products. It also provides storage area networking products that deliver connectivity between servers and storage systems; unified communication products to integrate voice, video, data, and mobile applications on fixed and mobile networks; video systems, including digital set-top boxes and digital media products; and wireless systems. In addition, the company offers optical networking products, cable access, and service provider VoIP services; and Cisco TelePresence systems and exchange services, physical security and video surveillance, digital media systems, and building systems to manage energy efficiency. It serves enterprise businesses, public institutions, telecommunications companies, commercial businesses, and personal residences through systems integrators, service providers, resellers, distributors, and retail partners. Cisco Systems has strategic alliances with Accenture Ltd; AT&T Inc.; Cap Gemini S.A.; EMC Corporation; Fujitsu Limited; Intel Corporation; International Business Machines Corporation; Italtel SpA; Johnson Controls Inc.; Microsoft Corporation; Nokia; Nokia Siemens Networks; Oracle Corporation; SAP AG; Sprint Nextel Corporation; Tata Consultancy Services Ltd.; VMware, Inc.; and Wipro Limited. The company was founded in 1984 and is headquartered in San Jose, California.

PACIFIC CAPITAL BANCORP (NASDAQ:PCBC) - Pacific Capital Bancorp operates as the holding company for Pacific Capital Bank, N.A., which provides a range of commercial and consumer banking services to households, professionals, and businesses primarily in the central coast of California. The company primarily offers its banking services under Santa Barbara Bank & Trust, First National Bank of Central California, South Valley National Bank, San Benito Bank, and First Bank of San Luis Obispo brand names. It offers a range of deposit products, including NOW accounts, money market deposit accounts, savings accounts, time certificates of deposit, interest bearing and non-interest bearing deposits, and demand deposits. The company also provides various loans comprising real estate loans, such as residentialone to four family, multi-family residential, commercial, and construction; home equity loans; consumer loans; leases; and demand deposit overdraft protection products, as well as commercial, industrial, and agricultural loans. In addition, it offers safe deposit boxes, travelers checks, money orders, foreign exchange services, and cashiers checks. Further, the company provides trust and investment advisory services, as well as a range of wealth management services. As of December 31, 2009, it operated 50 locations. The company was founded in 1960 and is based in Santa Barbara, California.

CITIGROUP INC (NYSE:C) - Citigroup, Inc., a global financial services company, provides consumers, corporations, governments, and institutions with a range of financial products and services, including consumer banking, credit cards, corporate and investment banking, securities brokerage, and wealth management. The company has two primary segments, Citicorp and Citi Holdings. The Citicorp segment operates as a global bank for businesses and consumers with two primary businesses, Regional Consumer Banking and Institutional Clients Group. The Regional Consumer Banking business provides traditional banking services, including retail banking, branded cards, and small commercial banking in North America, Asia, Latin America, and Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. The Institutional Clients Group business provides securities and banking services, including investment banking and advisory services, lending, debt and equity sales and trading, institutional brokerage, foreign exchange, structured products, cash instruments and related derivatives, and private banking; and transaction services consisting of treasury and trade solutions, and securities and fund services. The Citi Holdings segment has three businesses: Brokerage and Asset Management, Local Consumer Lending, and Special Asset Pool. The Brokerage and Asset Management business, through its 49% stake in Morgan Stanley Smith Barney joint venture and Nikko Cordial Securities, offers retail brokerage and asset management services. The Local Consumer Lending business provides residential mortgage loans, retail partner card loans, student loans, personal loans, auto loans, commercial real estate, and other consumer loans, as well as western European cards and retail banking services. The Special Asset Pool business is a portfolio of securities, loans, and other assets. Citigroup Inc. has approximately 200 million customer accounts and operates in approximately 140 countries. The company was founded in 1812 and is based in New York, New York.

EBAY INC (NASDAQ:EBAY) - eBay Inc. and its subsidiaries provide online marketplaces for the sale of goods and services, online payments services, and online communication offerings to individuals and businesses in the United States and internationally. It operates in two segments, Marketplaces and Payments. The Marketplaces segment provides online commerce platforms that enable buyers and sellers to interact and trade with one another. It enables online commerce through various platforms, including the traditional eBay.com platform and other online platforms, such as Den Bla Avis, BilBasen, eBay Anuncios, eBay Kleinanzeigen, eBay Annunci, Gumtree, Kijiji, LoQUo, Marktplaats.nl, and mobile.de, as well as StubHub, Half.com, Rent.com, and Shopping.com. This segment also provides various services, including feedback forum, safe harbor program, verified rights owner program, loyalty programs, customer support, and tools and services. The Payments segment offers PayPal, a payments platform that enables individuals or businesses with an email address to send and receive payments online. Its services include joining the network, verification of its PayPals account holders, withdrawing money, and trust and safety programs, including PayPals seller protection and buyer protection programs. This segment also provides Bill Me Later, a payment solution, which offers transactional credit at the point of sale for the U.S. online consumers. The company was founded in 1995 and is headquartered in San Jose, California.

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.

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