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Market Maker Surveillance Report. HKFI, RAMR, FNMFN, ZLC, EMMS, BRN, Winning Stocks With Lowest Price Friction For Wednesday,

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January 12, 2011 / M2 PRESSWIRE / BUYINS.NET / www.buyins.net, announced today its proprietary Market Maker Friction Factor Report for Wednesday. 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 Wednesday there were 2508 companies with "abnormal" market making, 3279 companies with positive Friction Factors and 2028 companies with negative Friction Factors. Here is a list of the top companies with the largest percentage gain per share Wednesday and low price friction (bullish). This means that there was more buying than selling in the stocks and their stock prices rose faster with less Friction. HANCOCK FABRICS INC /DE (OTC:HKFI), RAYMAR BOOK CORP (OTC:RAMR), FED NATL NTG PFD O (OTCBB:FNMFN), ZALE CORP (NYSE:ZLC), EMMIS COMMUNICATIONS-CLASS A (NASDAQ:EMMS), BARNWELL INDUSTRIES INC (AMEX:BRN). 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
     HKFI       $0.280       28.00%       91,222          61.33%       39,884          26.82%       51,338          1,834   
     RAMR       $0.290       26.36%       242,729         64.84%       110,699         29.57%       132,030         4,553   
     FNMFN      $0.370       52.86%       265,600         38.89%       230,900         33.81%       34,700          938     
     ZLC        $1.670       41.44%       5,339,502       47.89%       4,925,491       44.18%       414,011         2,479   
     EMMS       $0.350       40.70%       1,569,687       56.33%       1,216,794       43.67%       352,893         10,083  
     BRN        $1.680       27.68%       119,125         58.55%       66,665          32.77%       52,460          312     

Analysis of the Friction Factor chart above shows that each of the six stocks mentioned above have high net buy volumes (buy volume, sell volume) and 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 BRN with a dollar gain Wednesday of $1.68000 and a Friction Factor of 312 shares. That means that it only took 312 more shares of buying than selling to move BRN higher by one penny. The Market Makers are currently allowing the stock to rise quickly (low friction). The combination of low friction and positive market direction can drive prices higher much faster than normal.

HANCOCK FABRICS INC /DE (OTC:HKFI) - Hancock Fabrics, Inc. operates as a specialty retailer of fashion and home decorating textiles, sewing accessories, needlecraft supplies, and sewing machines in the United States. Its stores offer a range of apparel fabrics; home decorating products, including drapery and upholstery fabrics, and home accent pieces; quilting materials; and notions, which include sewing aids and accessories, such as zippers, buttons, threads, sewing machines, and patterns, as well as various seasonal and current fashion merchandise. The company primarily serves the sewing, needle arts, and home decorating markets. As of January 30, 2010, it operated 265 stores in 37 states, and an Internet store under the domain name hancockfabrics.com. The company was founded in 1957 and is headquartered in Baldwyn, Mississippi.

RAYMAR BOOK CORP (OTC:RAMR) - RAM Holdings Ltd. (RAM Holdings), incorporated on January 28, 1998, is a provider of financial guaranty reinsurance. The Company conducts all of its operations through its wholly owned subsidiary, RAM Reinsurance Company Ltd. (RAM Re). RAM Holdings provides financial guaranty reinsurance for public finance and structured finance obligations, covering risks in both the United States and international markets. Its business consists of a single operating segment, financial guaranty reinsurance, the purpose of which is to indemnify a primary financial guarantor, referred to as the primary insurer, against the portion of any loss it may sustain under financial guaranty policies it has ceded to the Company.

RAM Re provides reinsurance in two product lines: public finance and structured finance. Public finance obligations consist primarily of debt obligations issued by or on behalf of states or other governmental entities or their political subdivisions (counties, cities, towns and villages, utility districts, public housing and transportation authorities), other public and quasi-public entities (including public universities and not-for-profit hospitals, and non-United States sovereigns and their political subdivisions), private universities, and hospitals and investor-owned utilities. Structured finance obligations are generally securities backed by pools of assets, such as residential mortgage loans, consumer or trade receivables, securities, short-term bank deposits or other assets having a specified cash flow or market value, which are generally held by a special purpose issuing entity.

RAM Re's customers are the seven primary monoline financial guaranty insurers, referred to as the primary insurers by the Company. The four largest primary insurers are MBIA Insurance Corporation (MBIA), Financial Security Assurance Inc. (FSA), Financial Guaranty Insurance Company and Ambac Assurance Corporation (Ambac). Other insurers include CDC IXIS Financial Guaranty North America, Inc., XL Capital Assurance Inc. and Assured Guaranty Corp. As of September 30, 2005, RAM Re had quota share reinsurance treaties in place with Ambac, FSA and MBIA. The Company markets its reinsurance directly through the execution of treaty and facultative contracts with seven primary insurers, with approximately 85% of its gross written premiums ceded from three companies as of September 30, 2005.

Treaty reinsurance requires primary insurers to cede and the Company to assume financial guarantees underwritten by the primary insurer for specific types of obligations as determined by the treaty terms. Facultative reinsurance requires RAM Re as the reinsurer to assume, and the primary insurer to cede, part or all of one or more individual financial guarantees, and is subject to separate negotiation for each reinsurance cession.

FED NATL NTG PFD O (OTCBB:FNMFN) - FED NATL NTG PFD O

ZALE CORP (NYSE:ZLC) - Zale Corporation operates as a specialty retailer of fine jewelry. The company operates through three segments: Fine Jewelry, Kiosk Jewelry, and All Other. The Fine Jewelry segment operates under five brands. Its Zales Jewelers brand provides diamond jewelry primarily in the bridal and fashion segments through 693 stores in 50 states and Puerto Rico; Gordon's Jewelers brand provides jewelry in 202 stores in 31 states of the United States and Puerto Rico; the Peoples Jewellers and Mappins Jewellers brands offer gold jewelry, gemstone jewelry, and watches through 212 stores in Canada; and Zales Outlet brand offers branded watches, gemstones, gold merchandise, and diamond fashion and solitaire products through 140 stores in 36 states and Puerto Rico. The Fine Jewelry segment also sells its products through e-commerce sites, such as zales.com and gordonsjewelers.com. The Kiosk Jewelry segment provides gold and silver products, such as bracelets, earrings, charms, rings, 14 karat and 10 karat gold chains, and silver and diamond jewelry primarily under Piercing Pagoda, Plumb Gold, and Silver and Gold Connection brand names, through 684 mall-based kiosks. The All Other segment provides insurance and reinsurance facilities for various types of insurance coverage, such as merchandise replacement coverage, credit insurance coverage, and discontinued lines of insurance. Zale Corporation was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in Irving, Texas.

EMMIS COMMUNICATIONS-CLASS A (NASDAQ:EMMS) - Emmis Communications Corporation, a diversified media company, together with its subsidiaries, engages in radio broadcasting activities in the United States. It also operates an international radio business; operates a network of radio stations in the Flanders region of Belgium; owns a national radio network in Slovakia; operates three national radio networks in Bulgaria; and owns interest in a national radio station in Hungary. In addition, the company publishes various city and regional magazines, which consist of Texas Monthly, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Indianapolis Monthly, Cincinnati, Orange Coast, Country Sampler, and related magazines. Further, it engages in various businesses, such as Website design and development, consulting, and broadcast tower leasing, as well as operating a news information radio network in Indiana. As of February 28, 2009, the company owned and operated 7 FM radio stations serving New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago, as well as 14 FM and 2 AM radio stations in St. Louis, Missouri; Austin, Texas; and Indianapolis and Terre Haute, Indiana. Emmis Communications Corporation was founded in 1981 and is based in Indianapolis, Indiana.

BARNWELL INDUSTRIES INC (AMEX:BRN) - Barnwell Industries, Inc., through its subsidiaries, engages in oil and natural gas exploration, real estate, and contract drilling service operations. The company operates in four segments: Oil and Natural Gas, Land Investment, Residential Real Estate, and Contract Drilling. The Oil and Natural Gas segment involves in the acquisition, exploration, and development of oil and natural gas properties in Canada. It produces and sells oil and natural gas. This segment owns oil and natural gas property interests principally in the Province of Alberta with minor holdings in the Provinces of Saskatchewan and British Columbia. Its undeveloped acreage includes 8,832 net acres at Doris, 6,793 net acres at Bonanza/Balsam, 5,949 net acres at Thornbury, 4,440 net acres at Rycroft, and 3,296 net acres at Paddle River in Alberta, as well as 4,511 net acres in Roncott, Saskatchewan. The Land Investment Segment invests in leasehold land and other real estate interests in Hawaii, the United States. It owns interests in leasehold land and development rights for property located approximately six miles north of the Kona International Airport in the North Kona District; and 14 lot acquisition rights as to lots within approximately 5,000 acres of agricultural-zoned leasehold land in the upland area of Kaupulehu, North Kona. The Residential Real Estate segment acquires house lots for investment and development of homes for sale in Hawaii. The Contract Drilling segment provides well drilling services and offers water pumping system installation and repairs, and distributes pumps and equipment in Hawaii. It drills water, water monitoring, and geothermal wells of various depths. The company was founded in 1956 and is based in Honolulu, Hawaii.

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