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Market Maker Surveillance Report. WFT, SDS, EWJ, SNV, EK, ASTM, Bearishly Biased Price Friction For Friday, December 10th 2010

^{Published on 2010-12-10 19:00:49, Last Modified on 2010-12-22 19:44:58 - WOPRAI}
 

December 10, 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 2415 companies with "abnormal" market making, 3440 companies with positive Friction Factors and 2010 companies with negative Friction Factors. Here is a list of the top companies with Abnormal Price Friction (bearish bias) in their stock prices. This means that there was more buying than selling in the stocks and their stock prices dropped. WEATHERFORD INTL LTD (NYSE:WFT), PROSHARES ULTRASHORT S&P500 (NYSE:SDS), ISHARES MSCI JAPAN INDEX FD (NYSE:EWJ), SYNOVUS FINANCIAL CORP (NYSE:SNV), EASTMAN KODAK CO (NYSE:EK), AASTROM BIOSCIENCES INC (NASDAQ:ASTM). 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
     WFT        $-0.600      -2.82%       8,648,678       50.30%       7,371,395       42.87%       1,277,283       Abnormal
     SDS        $-0.330      -1.33%       14,965,745      53.48%       13,017,106      46.51%       1,948,639       Abnormal
     EWJ        $-0.020      -0.24%       10,946,543      55.87%       9,178,860       46.85%       1,767,683       Abnormal
     SNV        $-0.010      -0.42%       4,254,248       53.46%       3,264,425       41.02%       989,823         Abnormal
     EK         $-0.190      -3.58%       9,748,337       49.18%       8,145,803       41.10%       1,602,534       Abnormal
     ASTM       $-0.710      -23.13%      5,687,795       56.73%       4,339,855       43.29%       1,347,940       Abnormal

Analysis of the Friction Factor chart above shows that each of the six stocks mentioned above had more buying than selling on Friday and their stock prices dropped. 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 ASTM with 1,347,940 greater shares of buying than selling (NetVol) and the stock price was down $-0.71000. This means the Market Makers were trading the stock in a way inconsistent with normal supply and demand (Economics 101); more buying than selling should cause prices to rise.

WEATHERFORD INTL LTD (NYSE:WFT) - Weatherford International Ltd. provides equipment and services used in the drilling, evaluation, completion, production, and intervention of oil and natural gas wells to independent oil and natural gas producing companies worldwide. It primarily offers artificial lift systems, which include progressing cavity pumps, reciprocating rod lift systems, gas lift systems, hydraulic lift systems, plunger lift systems, and hybrid lift systems, as well as wellhead systems and production optimization. The company also designs and manufactures drilling jars, rotating control devices, and other pressure-control equipment used in drilling oil and natural gas wells; and provides a selection of in-house or third-party manufactured equipment for the drilling, completion, and work over of oil and natural gas wells for operators and drilling contractors. In addition, Weatherford International offers a line of completion tools and sand screens; wireline and evaluation services; re-entry, fishing, and thru-tubing services; pipeline and specialty services; and drilling and well construction services. Further, it provides chemical technology and services, including fracturing technologies, coiled tubing technologies, cement services, chemical systems, and drilling fluids; and operates land drilling rigs. The company was founded in 1972 and is headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland.

PROSHARES ULTRASHORT S&P500 (NYSE:SDS) - ULTRASH'T SP500 PROS

ISHARES MSCI JAPAN INDEX FD (NYSE:EWJ) - ISHARE MSCI JAPAN

SYNOVUS FINANCIAL CORP (NYSE:SNV) - Synovus Financial Corp., a diversified financial services and bank holding company, provides commercial and retail banking, financial management, insurance, and mortgage services in Georgia, Alabama, South Carolina, Florida, and Tennessee. Its retail banking services include accepting customary types of demand and savings deposits; individual, consumer, installment, and mortgage loans; safe deposit services; automated banking services; automated fund transfers; Internet based banking services; and bank credit card services, including mastercard and visa services, as well as commercial banking services comprise commercial, financial, agricultural, and real estate loans. The company also provides various other financial services, which include the portfolio management for fixed-income securities, investment banking, the execution of securities transactions as a broker/dealer, and the provision of individual investment advice on equity and other securities; trust services; mortgage services; financial planning services; and asset management services. Synovus Financial Corp. was founded in 1888 and is headquartered in Columbus, Georgia.

EASTMAN KODAK CO (NYSE:EK) - Eastman Kodak Company provides imaging technology products and services to the photographic and graphic communications markets worldwide. It operates in three segments: Consumer Digital Imaging Group (CDG); Film, Photofinishing, and Entertainment Group (FPEG); and Graphic Communications Group (GCG). The CDG segment offers consumer digital capture and devices, including digital still and pocket video cameras, digital picture frames, imaging essentials, accessories, memory products, snapshot printers and related media; retail kiosks and consumables, consumer and retailer software workflows, remote business monitoring, retail store merchandising and identity programs, and after sale service and support; imaging sensors; and all-in-one inkjet printers. It also provides online merchandise and sharing services. The FPEG segment comprises traditional photographic products and services, including paper, film, and chemistry used for consumer, professional, and industrial imaging applications, as well as those products and services used in the creation of motion pictures. It manufactures and markets motion picture, consumer, professional, industrial, and aerial films; one-time-use cameras; photographic paper and photo chemicals; and industrial components. The GCG segment provides digital and traditional prepress equipment and consumables, including plates, chemistry, and media; workflow software and digital controller development; color, and black and white electrophotographic equipment and consumables; commercial inkjet printing systems; production and workgroup document scanners; and micrographic peripherals and media. It also provides imaging services; and maintenance and professional services for other manufacturers products. This segment serves various customers in the creative, in-plant, data center, commercial printing, packaging, newspaper, and digital service bureau market segments. The company was founded in 1880 and is headquartered in Rochester, New York.

AASTROM BIOSCIENCES INC (NASDAQ:ASTM) - Aastrom Biosciences, Inc. engages in developing autologous cell products for the treatment of severe, chronic, and cardiovascular diseases. The company's proprietary tissue repair cell (TRC) technology expands the numbers of stem and early progenitor cells from a small amount of bone marrow collected from the patient. The company is conducting a Phase II cardiac regeneration clinical trial (the IMPACT-DCM trial) in patients with dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM severe chronic heart failure) and a Phase IIb vascular regeneration clinical trial (the RESTORE-CLI trial) in patients with critical limb ischemia (CLI the most severe form of peripheral arterial disease). Aastrom Biosciences would also initiate its U.S. Phase II clinical trial to evaluate the catheter delivery of CRCs for the treatment of DCM. The company was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

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