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Market Maker Surveillance Report. FAZ, HBAN, DRYS, MU, DTV, VWO, Bullishly Biased Price Friction For Tuesday, January 4th 2011

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January 4, 2011 / M2 PRESSWIRE / BUYINS.NET / www.buyins.net, announced today its proprietary Market Maker Friction Factor Report for Tuesday. 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 Tuesday there were 2564 companies with "abnormal" market making, 1865 companies with positive Friction Factors and 3401 companies with negative Friction Factors. Here is a list of the top companies with Abnormal Price Friction (bullish bias) in their stock prices. This means that there was more selling than buying in the stocks and their stock prices rose. DIREXION DAILY FINL BEAR 3X (NYSE:FAZ), HUNTINGTON BANCSHARES INC (NASDAQ:HBAN), DRYSHIPS INC (NASDAQ:DRYS), MICRON TECHNOLOGY INC (NASDAQ:MU), DIRECTV-CLASS A (NASDAQ:DTV), VANGUARD EMERGING MARKET ETF (NYSE:VWO). 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
     FAZ        $0.040       0.46%        13,355,020      47.81%       14,728,960      52.73%       -1,373,940      Abnormal
     HBAN       $0.080       1.13%        15,408,240      46.41%       17,739,168      53.43%       -2,330,928      Abnormal
     DRYS       $0.130       2.50%        16,648,870      46.99%       18,216,355      51.41%       -1,567,485      Abnormal
     MU         $0.140       1.63%        21,445,862      48.62%       25,440,974      57.68%       -3,995,112      Abnormal
     DTV        $0.280       0.68%        4,048,363       41.37%       5,677,665       58.01%       -1,629,302      Abnormal
     VWO        $0.180       0.37%        8,298,827       46.12%       9,761,742       54.25%       -1,462,915      Abnormal

Analysis of the Friction Factor chart above shows that each of the six stocks mentioned above had more selling than buying on Tuesday and their stock prices rose. 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 VWO with 1,462,915 greater shares of selling than buying (NetVol) and the stock price was up $0.18000. This means the Market Makers were trading the stock in a way inconsistent with normal supply and demand (Economics 101); more selling than buying should cause prices to drop.

DIREXION DAILY FINL BEAR 3X (NYSE:FAZ) - Direxion Daily Financial Bear 3x

HUNTINGTON BANCSHARES INC (NASDAQ:HBAN) - Huntington Bancshares Incorporated operates as the holding company for The Huntington National Bank that provides commercial and consumer banking services. It offers deposit products, including checking accounts, savings accounts, interest bearing and non-interest bearing demand deposits, time deposits, money market deposits, and brokered deposits and negotiable certificate of deposits. The companys loan portfolio comprises home equity loans and lines of credit, first mortgage loans, direct installment loans, small business loans, automobile loans and leases, residential mortgage loans, commercial and industrial loans and leases, and commercial real estate loans. It also provides retail and commercial insurance agency services; and an array of insurance products, including individual life insurance products, such as basic term-life insurance, estate planning, group life and health insurance, property and casualty insurance, mortgage title insurance, and reinsurance for payment protection products. In addition, the company offers trust, asset management, investment advisory, brokerage, and private banking products and services; and investment banking, sales and trading of securities, mezzanine capital financing, and interest rate risk management products for corporate and institutional customers. Further, Huntington Bancshares provides mortgage banking, equipment leasing, and other financial products and services; and Internet banking and telephone banking services. As of December 31, 2009, the company operated 340 banking offices in Ohio, 115 in Michigan, 56 in Pennsylvania, 50 in Indiana, 28 in West Virginia, and 13 banking offices in Kentucky, as well as 9 private banking offices in Florida, 1 foreign office in the Cayman Islands, and 1 foreign office in Hong Kong. It also operated approximately 1,300 automated teller machines. The company was founded in 1866 and is headquartered in Columbus, Ohio.

DRYSHIPS INC (NASDAQ:DRYS) - DryShips, Inc., through its subsidiaries, engages in the ownership and operation of drybulk carriers and drilling rigs that operate worldwide. Its drybulk fleet principally carries various drybulk commodities, including bulk items comprising coal, iron ore, and grains; and minor bulk items, such as bauxite, phosphate, fertilizers, and steel products. As of April 6, 2010, the company owned and operated a fleet of 39 drybulk carriers consisting of 7 Capesize, 28 Panamax, 2 Supramax vessels, and 2 Panamax newbuilding vessels with a combined deadweight tonnage of approximately 3.3 million dwt, as well as owned and operated 2 ultra-deep water semi-submersible drilling rigs and 4 ultra deep-water newbuilding drillships. The company was founded in 2004 and is based in Athens, Greece.

MICRON TECHNOLOGY INC (NASDAQ:MU) - Micron Technology, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, engages in the manufacture and marketing of semiconductor devices worldwide. Its products include dynamic random access memory (DRAM) products that provide data storage and retrieval, which include DDR, DDR2, DDR3, and other specialty DRAM memory products, such as SDRAM, mobile DRAM, pseudo-static RAM, and reduced latency DRAM. The company also offers NAND flash memory products, which are electrically re-writeable and non-volatile semiconductor devices that retain content when power is turned off. Micron Technologys products are used in a range of electronic applications, including personal computers, workstations, network servers, mobile phones, flash memory cards, USB storage devices, digital still cameras, MP3/4 players, and in automotive applications. It sells its products to original equipment manufacturers and retailers through internal sales force, independent sales representatives, and distributors, as well as Web-based customer direct sales channel. Micron Technology, Inc. has joint ventures with Intel Corporation, Singapore Economic Development Board, Canon Inc., and Hewlett-Packard Company, Nanya Technology Corporation, and Photronics, Inc. The company was founded in 1978 and is headquartered in Boise, Idaho.

DIRECTV-CLASS A (NASDAQ:DTV) - DIRECTV provides digital television entertainment in the United States and Latin America. The company provides direct-to-home (DTH) digital television services, as well as multi-channel video programming distribution services in the United States. It distributes approximately 2,000 digital video and audio channels, including basic entertainment and music channels, premium movie channels, regional and specialty sports networks, Spanish and other foreign language special interest channels, pay-per-view movie and event choices, and national high-definition television channels. The company also provides premium professional and collegiate sports programming, such as the NFL SUNDAY TICKET package, which allows subscribers to view the NFL games. In addition, it offers DTH digital television services in Latin America and the Caribbean, including Puerto Rico. The company provides its local and international programming under the DIRECTV and SKY brand names. As of December 31, 2009, it served approximately 18.56 million customers in the United States; and 6.5 million customers in Latin America. The company was founded in 1990 and is based in El Segundo, California.

VANGUARD EMERGING MARKET ETF (NYSE:VWO) - VANGRD EMRG MKT V

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