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Market Maker Surveillance Report. FBN, OCCF, OSBC, AFOP, TRID, TZOO, Losing Stocks With Lowest Price Friction For Thursday, Fe

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February 3, 2011 / 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 2675 companies with "abnormal" market making, 2615 companies with positive Friction Factors and 2484 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. FURNITURE BRANDS INTL INC (NYSE:FBN), OPTICAL CABLE CORP (NASDAQ:OCCF), OLD SECOND BANCORP INC (NASDAQ:OSBC), ALLIANCE FIBER OPTIC PRODUCT (NASDAQ:AFOP), TRIDENT MICROSYSTEMS INC (NASDAQ:TRID), TRAVELZOO INC (NASDAQ:TZOO). 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
     FBN        $-0.790      -17.21%      2,656,224       46.91%       2,679,860       47.32%       -23,636         -299    
     OCCF       $-0.940      -14.94%      71,637          40.07%       103,728         58.02%       -32,091         -341    
     OSBC       $-0.280      -18.54%      138,378         47.04%       155,772         52.96%       -17,394         -621    
     AFOP       $-4.640      -23.81%      512,880         41.55%       713,414         57.80%       -200,534        -432    
     TRID       $-0.220      -14.67%      170,106         45.60%       202,906         54.40%       -32,800         -1,491  
     TZOO       $-9.160      -17.36%      740,866         43.85%       931,758         55.14%       -190,892        -208    

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 TZOO with a dollar loss Thursday of $-9.16000 and a Friction Factor of -208 shares. That means that it only took 208 more shares of selling than buying to move TZOO 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.

FURNITURE BRANDS INTL INC (NYSE:FBN) - Furniture Brands International, Inc. designs, manufactures, sources, and retails home furnishings. It offers case goods, including bedroom, dining room, and living room furniture products; stationary upholstery products comprising sofas, loveseats, sectionals, and chairs; motion upholstered furniture products consisting of recliners and sleep sofas; occasional furniture products, such as accent pieces, home entertainment centers, and home office furniture products, as well as wood, metal, and glass tables; and decorative accessories. The company markets its products under the Broyhill, Lane, Thomasville, Drexel Heritage, Henredon, Hickory Chair, Pearson, Laneventure, and Maitland-Smith brand names. Furniture Brands International sells its products through a network of independently owned furniture retailers, national and regional department stores and chains, and trade showrooms, as well as through various retail channels, including mass merchant stores, single-branded stores, independent dealers, and specialized interior designers. As of December 31, 2009, it operated 37 stores. The company was founded in 1836 and is headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri.

OPTICAL CABLE CORP (NASDAQ:OCCF) - Optical Cable Corporation provides fiber optic and copper data communications cabling and connectivity solutions primarily for the enterprise market in the United States and internationally. It designs, manufactures, markets, and sells fiber optic cable products that include A-series assembly fiber optic cables for jumpers and pigtails; B-series breakout fiber optic cables for in campus and industrial complex installations; D-Series fiber optic cables for longer distance, buried, and over head applications; and G-series subgrouping fiber optic cables. The company also markets and sells copper datacom cable products, including unshielded twisted pair and shielded twisted pair. In addition, Optical Cable Corporation designs, manufactures, markets, and sells fiber optic enterprise connectivity products that provide a range of fiber distribution solutions for the equipment room, telecommunication closet, datacenter, and workstation; copper enterprise connectivity products, which offer customers a line of copper connectivity components necessary for the equipment room, telecommunications closet, datacenter, and workstation; rack solutions that provide an array of network, data storage, and telecommunications management systems for commercial and residential uses; and residential systems, which offer wiring products designed for single dwelling and multiple dwelling residential uses. Further, it designs, manufactures, markets, and sells applied interconnect systems, including specialty fiber optic connectors and connectivity components, ruggedized copper datacom connectors, and related systems and solutions for the military and harsh environment applications. Its products also have applications in industrial, mining, and broadcast applications. The company sells its products to various distributors, original equipment manufacturers, resellers, and end-users. Optical Cable Corporation was founded in 1983 and is headquartered in Roanoke, Virginia.

OLD SECOND BANCORP INC (NASDAQ:OSBC) - Old Second Bancorp, Inc., through its subsidiaries, provides community banking and trust services. The company provides various consumer and commercial products and services, including demand, NOW, money market, savings, time deposit, individual retirement, and Keogh deposit accounts; installment loans, student loans, agricultural loans, lines of credit, and overdraft checking; and safe deposit services. It also offers trust services; wealth management services; and additional services, such as the acquisition of U.S. Treasury notes and bonds, the sale of travelers checks, money orders, cashiers checks and foreign currency, direct deposit, discount brokerage, debit cards, credit cards, and other special services. In addition, the company provides electronic banking services, such as Internet banking; and corporate cash management consisting of remote deposit capture. The company offers its commercial and consumer loans to corporations, partnerships, and individuals. Its commercial lending activities focus on business, capital, construction, inventory, and real estate lending. Further, the company provides installment lending services comprising direct and indirect loans to consumers and commercial customers; residential mortgages, such as conventional, government, and jumbo loans; and handles the secondary marketing of these mortgages, as well as offers a range of trust, investment, agency, and custodial services for individual, corporate, and not-for-profit clients. As of December 31, 2009, it operated 30 banking locations and 1 commercial loan production office in Kane, Kendall, DeKalb, DuPage, LaSalle, Will, and southwestern Cook counties in Illinois. Old Second Bancorp, Inc. was founded in 1982 and is based in Aurora, Illinois.

ALLIANCE FIBER OPTIC PRODUCT (NASDAQ:AFOP) - Alliance Fiber Optic Products, Inc. designs, manufactures, and markets fiber optic components and integrated modules for communications equipment manufacturers and service providers in North America, Europe, and Asia. The company offers interconnect devices that are used to connect optical fibers and components; couplers and splitters, which are used to divide and combine optical power; and dense wavelength division multiplexing, or DWDM devices that separate and combine multiple specific wavelengths. Its connectivity products include connectivity modules; optical connectors, adapters, and cable assemblies; fused and planar fiber optical splitters and couplers; optical tap couplers and ultra low polarization dependent loss tap couplers; amplifier wave divison multiplexing (WDM) couplers; optical fixed attenuators; fused fiber WDM couplers; and planar lightwave circuit splitters. Alliance Fibers optical passive products comprise filter WDMs, amplifier filter WDMs, DWDMs, coarse wavelength division multiplexers, compact coarse wavelength division multiplexers, add/drop DWDM filters, optical isolators, optical bypass switches, and automatic variable optical attenuators. The company was founded in 1995 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.

TRIDENT MICROSYSTEMS INC (NASDAQ:TRID) - Trident Microsystems, Inc. provides high-performance multimedia semiconductor solutions for the digital home entertainment market. It designs, develops, and markets integrated circuits (ICs), and related software for processing, displaying, and transmitting high quality audio, graphics, and images in home consumer electronics applications, such as digital TVs, PC and analog TVs, and set-top boxes. The company offers system-on-a-chip semiconductors that provide integrated solutions for processing and optimizing video, audio, and computer graphic signals to produce high-quality and realistic images and sound; and frame rate converter, demodulator and audio decoder products, DOCSISR modems, interface devices, and media processors. It sells its products primarily to digital television and set-top box original equipment manufacturers through direct sales efforts, distributors, and independent sales representatives in South Korea, Japan, Europe, and the Asia Pacific. The company was founded in 1987 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California.

TRAVELZOO INC (NASDAQ:TZOO) - Travelzoo Inc., an Internet media company, publishes travel and entertainment offers from various travel and entertainment companies in North America and Europe. The companys publications and products include the Travelzoo Web sites, including travelzoo.com, travelzoo.ca, travelzoo.co.uk, travelzoo.de, travelzoo.es, and travelzoo.fr; the Travelzoo Top 20 e-mail newsletter; and the Newsflash e-mail alert service. It also offers the SuperSearch pay-per-click travel search tool; and the Travelzoo Network, a network of third-party Web sites that list deals published by Travelzoo. In addition, the company operates Fly.com, a travel search engine that allows users to find the best prices on flights from various airlines and online travel agencies. Its products provide advertising opportunities for airlines, hotels, cruise lines, vacation packagers, and other travel and entertainment companies. Travelzoo Inc. was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in New York, New York.

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