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Market Maker Surveillance Report. PLAB, LBIX, SWS, MCZ, DSW, GWAY, Winning Stocks With Lowest Price Friction For Wednesday, Fe

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February 9, 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 2551 companies with "abnormal" market making, 1978 companies with positive Friction Factors and 3299 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. PHOTRONICS INC (NASDAQ:PLAB), LEADING BRANDS INC (NASDAQ:LBIX), SWS GROUP INC (NYSE:SWS), MAD CATZ INTERACTIVE INC (AMEX:MCZ), DSW INC-CLASS A (NYSE:DSW), GATEWAY INDUSTRIES INC (OTC:GWAY). 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
     PLAB       $1.100       16.37%       2,098,067       57.25%       1,553,838       42.40%       544,229         4,948   
     LBIX       $0.590       19.60%       86,423          53.43%       75,318          46.57%       11,105          188     
     SWS        $1.420       33.10%       1,496,612       46.95%       1,396,759       43.82%       99,853          703     
     MCZ        $0.330       29.46%       2,045,857       53.15%       1,676,228       43.55%       369,629         11,201  
     DSW        $5.480       15.13%       1,042,726       45.19%       994,314         43.09%       48,412          88      
     GWAY       $0.990       52.38%       212,843         21.02%       138,707         13.70%       74,136          749     

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 GWAY with a dollar gain Wednesday of $0.99000 and a Friction Factor of 749 shares. That means that it only took 749 more shares of buying than selling to move GWAY 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.

PHOTRONICS INC (NASDAQ:PLAB) - Photronics, Inc. engages in the manufacture and sale of photomasks primarily in the United States, Europe, and Asia. Photomasks are high precision photographic quartz plates containing microscopic images of electronic circuits, which are used in the manufacture of semiconductors and flat panel displays, as well as used as masters to transfer circuit patterns onto semiconductor wafers and flat panel substrates during the fabrication of integrated circuits, and other types of electrical and optical components. The company sells its photomasks to semiconductor designers, manufacturers, foundries, and other high performance electronics manufacturers through its sales personnel and customer service representatives. Photronics, Inc. was founded in 1969 and is headquartered in Brookfield, Connecticut.

LEADING BRANDS INC (NASDAQ:LBIX) - Leading Brands, Inc., an integrated beverage company, together with its subsidiaries, engages in the development, production, marketing, and distribution of its branded beverages, and other food and beverage products licensed to the company in North America. It offers water and snack foods. The company also engages in brand licensing and development activities. In addition, it offers beverage bottling services. The company offers its products under the TrueBlue, TrueBlue Lite, PureBlue, Infinite Health Water, Stoked Energy Drink, Die Hard Sports Energy Drink, and Caesar s Caesar Cocktail brands. It also licenses various brands, which include BooKoo Energy Drinks, Icelandic Glacial Water, and Stewart s Fountain Classics. Leading Brands, Inc. was founded in 1986 and is based in Vancouver, Canada.

SWS GROUP INC (NYSE:SWS) - SWS Group, Inc., through its subsidiaries, provides various financial services in the United States. The company operates in four segments: Clearing, Retail, Institutional, and Banking. The Clearing segment provides clearing and execution services for general securities broker/dealers, bank affiliated firms, and firms specializing in high volume trading. The Retail segment includes retail securities products and services, such as equities, mutual funds, and fixed income products; insurance products; and managed accounts. The Institutional brokerage segment serves institutional customers in securities lending, investment banking and public finance, fixed income sales and trading, proprietary trading, and agency execution services. The Banking segment offers various banking products and services, including certificates of deposit, money market accounts, interest-bearing demand accounts, savings accounts, federal home loan bank advances, federal funds purchased, and non interest-bearing demand accounts, as well as 1-4 family residential loans and construction loans, land and land development loans, commercial real estate loans, commercial loans, and consumer loans. The company was founded in 1972 and is headquartered in Dallas, Texas.

MAD CATZ INTERACTIVE INC (AMEX:MCZ) - Mad Catz Interactive, Inc. designs, manufactures, markets, and distributes accessories for videogame platforms, personal computers (PC), and iPod and other audio devices. Its products include videogame, PC, and audio accessories, such as control pads, video cables, steering wheels, joysticks, memory cards, light guns, flight sticks, dance pads, microphones, car adapters, carry cases, mice, keyboards, and headsets. The company also markets videogame enhancement products; and publishes videogames. It markets its accessories under the Mad Catz, Saitek, Joytech, GameShark, and AirDrives brand names. The company sells its products to retailers of interactive entertainment products directly in the United States, Europe, Canada, Australia, China, Japan, Korea, New Zealand, and Singapore, as well as through distributors. Mad Catz Interactive, Inc. was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in San Diego, California.

DSW INC-CLASS A (NYSE:DSW) - dsw Inc. operates as a specialty branded footwear retailer in the U.S. It offers womens and mens dress and casual footwear, as well as athletic footwear and accessories. The company also provides handbags, hosiery, and other accessories, and operates leased shoe departments for retailers. As of Feb. 3, 2007, dsw operated 223 stores in 35 states in the U.S. The company was incorporated in 1969. It was formerly known as Shonac Corp. and changed its name to dsw in 2005. Headquartered in Columbus, Ohio, dsw is a subsidiary of Retail Ventures Inc.

GATEWAY INDUSTRIES INC (OTC:GWAY) - Gateway Industries, Inc., through its subsidiary, provides database management services, and Web site design and maintenance for national not-for-profit, healthcare, and publishing entities in the United States. It offers marketing solutions to organizations that need information management tools. The companys services include Web-based database management, integrated product fulfillment, integrated list rental fulfillment, integrated subscription management, integrated e-commerce functions, fundraising campaign management, physical product fulfillment, mail preparation services, and Web site design and hosting. Gateway Industries, Inc. was formerly known as Gateway Communications, Inc. and it changed its name to Gateway Industries, Inc. in October 1994. The company was incorporated in 1994 and is based in New York, New York.

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