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Market Maker Surveillance Report. CERP, RGS, V, MSB, PKOH, THLD, Losing Stocks With Lowest Price Friction For Thursday, Decemb

^{Published on 2010-12-16 19:00:31, Last Modified on 2010-12-22 19:48:12 - WOPRAI}
 

December 16, 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 2544 companies with "abnormal" market making, 3412 companies with positive Friction Factors and 1932 companies with negative Friction Factors. Here is a list of the top companies with the largest percentage loss per share Thursday and low price friction (bearish). This means that there was more selling than buying in the stocks and their stock prices dropped faster with less Friction. CEREPLAST INC (NASDAQ:CERP), REGIS CORP (NYSE:RGS), VISA INC-CLASS A SHARES (NYSE:V), MESABI TRUST (NYSE:MSB), PARK-OHIO HOLDINGS CORP (NASDAQ:PKOH), THRESHOLD PHARMACEUTICALS (NASDAQ:THLD). 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
     CERP       $-0.410      -10.46%      48,347          48.45%       51,445          51.55%       -3,098          -76     
     RGS        $-2.280      -12.44%      2,363,094       42.74%       2,549,073       46.10%       -185,979        -816    
     V          $-10.090     -13.11%      20,666,204      41.40%       21,381,045      42.84%       -714,841        -708    
     MSB        $-7.430      -13.98%      1,113,080       40.18%       1,333,485       48.14%       -220,405        -297    
     PKOH       $-2.240      -10.02%      57,741          37.51%       95,189          61.84%       -37,448         -167    
     THLD       $-0.170      -12.88%      87,848          31.61%       190,094         68.39%       -102,246        -6,014  

Analysis of the Friction Factor chart above shows that each of the six stocks mentioned above have high net dollar losses (Change) and extremely low price friction 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 THLD with a dollar loss Thursday of $-0.17000 and a Friction Factor of -6,014 shares. That means that it only took 6,014 more shares of selling than buying to move THLD lower by one penny. This means the Market Makers are allowing the stock to drop quickly (low friction). The combination of low friction and negative market direction can drive prices lower faster than normal.

CEREPLAST INC (NASDAQ:CERP) - Cereplast, Inc. develops and commercializes bio-based resins in the United States. The companys product includes Cereplast Compostables resins, which is substitutes for petroleum-based plastics targeting primarily single-use disposables and packaging applications. It also offers Cereplast Hybrid Resins that replace up to 50% of the petroleum content in conventional plastics with bio-based materials, such as industrial starches sourced from plants for use in a range of markets, including automotive, consumer goods, consumer electronics, medical, packaging, and construction. The companys resins are also used in various conventional converting processes, including injection molding, thermoforming, blow film, blow molding, and extrusion. Its developing product also includes Cereplast Algae Plastics to transform algae into bioplastics. The company was formerly known as Biocorp North America Inc. and changed its name to Cereplast, Inc. in March 2005. Cereplast, Inc. was incorporated in 2001 and is headquartered in El Segundo, California.

REGIS CORP (NYSE:RGS) - Regis Corporation engages in the ownership, operation, and franchising of hairstyling and hair care salons in the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Puerto Rico, and internationally. It offers haircutting and styling, including shampooing and conditioning; hair coloring; and waving to men, women, and children. The company also owns and operates hair restoration centers, which provide hair systems, hair transplants, and hair therapy services, as well as hair care products. Regis Corporations salons operate primarily under the Regis Salons, Supercuts, MasterCuts, SmartStyle, Cost Cutters, Hair Masters, First Choice Haircutters, Magicuts, and Hair Club trade names in malls, strip centers, lifestyle centers, Wal-Mart supercenters, department stores, mass merchants, and high-street locations. As of June 30, 2009, it owned, franchised, or held ownership interests in approximately 12,900 locations. The company was founded in 1954 and is headquartered in Edina, Minnesota.

VISA INC-CLASS A SHARES (NYSE:V) - Visa Inc. operates retail electronic payments network worldwide. It facilitates commerce through the transfer of value and information among financial institutions, merchants, consumers, businesses, and government entities. The company owns and operates VisaNet, a global processing platform that provides transaction processing services, primarily authorization, clearing, and settlement, as well as related value-added services. It offers a range of branded payments product platforms, which customers use to develop and offer credit, charge, deferred debit, debit, and prepaid payments, as well as cash access programs for cardholders. The company owns a range of payment brands, including Visa, Visa Electron, PLUS, and Interlink that are licensed to customers for use in their payment programs. In addition, it provides other value-added processing services, including risk management, debit issuer processing, loyalty, dispute management, and value-added information services. Visa Inc. has a joint venture with Monitise plc. The company was incorporated in 2007 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

MESABI TRUST (NYSE:MSB) - Mesabi Trust operates as a grantor trust in the United States. It holds interests in various iron ore properties in the Mesabi Iron Range, including its interest as assignor in the Amended Assignment of Peters Lease and the Amended Assignment of Cloquet Lease, which cover properties aggregating approximately 9,750 contiguous acres in St. Louis County, Minnesota. The company also owns interests in Mesabi Land Trust, which holds a 20% interest as fee owner in the Peters Lease Lands, and a 100% fee ownership in various non-mineral-bearing lands adjacent to the Peters and Cloquet Lease Lands. Its Peters Lease Lands and the Cloquet Lease Lands are located at the northeastern end of the Mesabi Iron Range and contain mineral deposits consisting of a sedimentary bed of banded magnetite in siliceous gangue, a form of low-grade iron ore known as taconite. The company was founded in 1919 and is based in New York, New York.

PARK-OHIO HOLDINGS CORP (NASDAQ:PKOH) - Park-Ohio Holdings Corp., through its subsidiaries, operates as an industrial supply chain logistics and diversified manufacturing company in the United States, Asia, Canada, Mexico, and Europe. The company operates in three segments: Supply Technologies, Aluminum Products, and Manufactured Products. The Supply Technologies segment provides supply chain management services for specialty production components. It offers engineering and design support, part usage and cost analysis, supplier selection, quality assurance, bar coding, product packaging and tracking, electronic billing, and ongoing technical support services; and engineers and manufactures precision cold formed and cold extruded products, such as locknuts, SPAC nuts, and wheel hardware. It serves original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) in the heavy-duty truck, automotive and vehicle parts, electrical distribution and controls, consumer electronics, power sports/fitness equipment, HVAC, agricultural and construction equipment, semiconductor equipment, plumbing, aerospace and defense, and appliance industries. The Aluminum Products segment casts and machines aluminum engine, transmission, brake, suspension, and other components for automotive, agricultural equipment, construction equipment, and marine equipment OEMs. It provides front engine covers, cooling modules, control arms, knuckles, pump housings, clutch retainers and pistons, master cylinders, pinion housings, oil pans, and flywheel spacers; and design engineering, machining, and part assembly services. The Manufactured Products segment offers engineered products, such as induction heating and melting systems, pipe threading systems, rubber products, and forged and machined products. This segment serves component manufacturers and OEMs in the ferrous and non-ferrous metals, silicon, coatings, forging, foundry, automotive, truck, construction equipment, and oil and gas industries. The company was founded in 1961 and is based in Cleveland, Ohio.

THRESHOLD PHARMACEUTICALS (NASDAQ:THLD) - Threshold Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a biotechnology company, engages in the discovery and development of drugs targeting the microenvironment of solid tumors for patients living with cancer. Its product line includes TH-302, a product candidate in Phase I and Phase I/II for the potential treatment of patients with cancer; and 2DG, a product candidate for the potential treatment of patients with cancer and has been evaluated in a Phase I clinical trial alone and in combination with docetaxel as a combination therapy. The company was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Redwood City, California.

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