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Market Maker Surveillance Report. QTM, CYRX, AMIE, GIGM, MIPS, EK, Losing Stocks With Lowest Price Friction For Wednesday, Jan

^{Published on 2011-01-26 17:51:21 - WOPRAI}
 

January 26, 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 2468 companies with "abnormal" market making, 3767 companies with positive Friction Factors and 1641 companies with negative Friction Factors. Here is a list of the top companies with the largest percentage loss per share Wednesday 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. QUANTUM CORP (NYSE:QTM), CRYOPORT INC (OTCBB:CYRX), AMBASSADORS INTERNATIONAL (NASDAQ:AMIE), GIGAMEDIA LTD (NASDAQ:GIGM), MIPS TECHNOLOGIES INC (NASDAQ:MIPS), EASTMAN KODAK CO (NYSE:EK). 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
     QTM        $-0.830      -21.67%      3,020,516       41.24%       3,808,430       52.00%       -787,914        -9,493  
     CYRX       $-0.180      -14.63%      33,673          27.13%       90,425          72.87%       -56,752         -3,153  
     AMIE       $-0.230      -14.29%      45,063          27.01%       115,702         69.34%       -70,639         -3,071  
     GIGM       $-0.150      -11.03%      604,148         42.59%       814,252         57.41%       -210,104        -14,007 
     MIPS       $-1.720      -11.39%      5,551,840       47.53%       6,042,269       51.73%       -490,429        -2,851  
     EK         $-0.800      -17.70%      30,835,453      43.73%       35,045,437      49.71%       -4,209,984      -52,625 

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 EK with a dollar loss Wednesday of $-0.80000 and a Friction Factor of -52,625 shares. That means that it only took 52,625 more shares of selling than buying to move EK 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.

QUANTUM CORP (NYSE:QTM) - Quantum Corporation operates as a storage company that provides backup, recovery, and archive solutions. The company offers a range of disk, tape, and software solutions for information technology departments in various organizations to protect, retain, and access their digital assets. Its products include tape automation systems, such as autoloaders and entry-level, and mid-range and enterprise libraries; disk-based backup appliances, and virtual tape library for mid-range enterprises; and data management software designed for open system computing environments. The company also provides device and media products, such as removable disk devices, and a range of tape drives and media representing various tape technology formats, including LTO, DLT, and DAT/DDS. It sells its products through value added resellers, direct marketing resellers, branded channels, distributors, and original equipment manufacturers primarily to small businesses, government agencies, and multinational corporations. The company was founded in 1980 and is headquartered in San Jose, California.

CRYOPORT INC (OTCBB:CYRX) - Cryoport, Inc. focuses on providing a solution for the frozen shipping market in the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries worldwide. The company offers the CryoPort Express System that provides a solution for the frozen or cryogenic transport of biological or pharmaceutical materials using a Web-based order-entry system, which manages the scheduling and shipping of the CryoPort Express Shippers, a line of multiple size, cryogenic dry vapor shippers. It also provides biological material holders for the shipment of infectious and dangerous goods. The company transports cell pharmaceutical products, including cancer vaccines, diagnostic materials, reproductive tissues, and infectious substances that require continuous exposure to frozen or cryogenic temperatures. It sells its products directly, as well as through third party resellers in the Americas, Europe, and Asia. The company was founded in 1999 and is based in Lake Forest, California.

AMBASSADORS INTERNATIONAL (NASDAQ:AMIE) - Ambassadors International, Inc., through its subsidiary, Windstar Sail Cruises Limited, provides travel and cruise services. The company operates international-flagged motor-sail yachts that sail to destinations in the Caribbean, Europe, the Americas, and the Greek Isles. As of December 31, 2009, it maintained a fleet of 3 internationally-flagged luxury yachts, which included the 312-passenger Wind Surf, 148-passenger Wind Spirit, and 148-passenger Wind Star. The company was formerly known as International Ambassador Programs, Inc. and changed its name to Ambassadors International, Inc. in 1995. Ambassadors International, Inc. was founded in 1967 and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington.

GIGAMEDIA LTD (NASDAQ:GIGM) - GigaMedia Limited provides gaming software and services to the online gaming industry in the Peoples Republic of China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macau. It operates through two segments, Gaming Software and Service, and Online Game and Service. The Gaming Software and Service segment develops and licenses online poker and casino gaming software solutions and application services primarily for continental European markets. This segment offers online gaming software, online gaming management tools, and application and consulting services. The Online Game and Service segment operates play-for-fun games online, and provides related services for online game players. This segment offers a portfolio of online games, including MahJong, a traditional Chinese tile game; MMORPG, an Internet-based computer game; advanced casual games; and card, chance-based, and simple casual games. The company offers its products and services to online poker and casino markets. It has strategic alliance with Access China Holding Limited, Numen Soft Co. Ltd., and Gorilla Banana Entertainment Corp. GigaMedia Limited was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in Taipei, Taiwan.

MIPS TECHNOLOGIES INC (NASDAQ:MIPS) - MIPS Technologies, Inc. develops embedded processors and related intellectual property for use in performance-oriented markets, such as digital entertainment, wired and wireless communications (including broadband access), office automation, security, and automotive markets. Its designs are based on its 32-bit and 64-bit reduced instruction set computing architectures. The company licenses its MIPS32 and MIPS64 instruction-set architectures, application-specific extensions, core designs, and other related intellectual property to semiconductor companies and system original equipment manufacturers. It also offers a variety of embedded processors that scale across multiple markets in standard, custom, semi custom, and application-specific products. The companys core and processor designs and related intellectual property are used in digital set-top boxes, digital televisions, DVD players, video game systems, laser printers, automotive telematics, broadband access devices, 802.11 wireless networking devices, and network routers. It has sales offices in California, Japan, Taiwan, Germany, and Israel. The company has a collaboration agreement with Digital Media Professionals Inc. It also has a strategic alliance with Imagination Technologies Ltd. The companys predecessor, MIPS Computer Systems, Inc., was founded in 1984. MIPS Technologies was spun off from Silicon Graphics, Inc. in 1998. The company is headquartered in Mountain View, California.

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.

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