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Market Maker Surveillance Report. TORM, BW, KAI, CBOU, EFUT, HKN, Winning Stocks With Lowest Price Friction For Thursday, Febr

February 24, 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 2754 companies with "abnormal" market making, 2581 companies with positive Friction Factors and 2478 companies with negative Friction Factors. Here is a list of the top companies with the largest percentage gain per share Thursday 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. TOR MINERALS INTERNATIONAL (NASDAQ:TORM), BRUSH ENGINEERED MATERIALS (NYSE:BW), KADANT INC (NYSE:KAI), CARIBOU COFFEE CO INC (NASDAQ:CBOU), EFUTURE INFORMATION TECHNOLO (NASDAQ:EFUT), HKN INC (AMEX:HKN). 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
     TORM       $2.190       19.87%       119,038         53.88%       93,441          42.30%       25,597          117     
     BW         $7.040       20.43%       271,603         44.99%       252,852         41.88%       18,751          27      
     KAI        $3.080       14.80%       382,051         51.09%       335,457         44.86%       46,594          151     
     CBOU       $1.280       14.51%       417,697         53.54%       360,192         46.17%       57,505          449     
     EFUT       $1.040       21.53%       82,202          61.65%       50,637          37.98%       31,565          304     
     HKN        $0.600       18.64%       259,450         47.84%       223,427         41.19%       36,023          600     

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 TORM with a dollar gain Thursday of $2.19000 and a Friction Factor of 117 shares. That means that it only took 117 more shares of buying than selling to move TORM 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.

TOR MINERALS INTERNATIONAL (NASDAQ:TORM) - TOR Minerals International, Inc., a specialty chemical company, engages in the manufacture and marketing of mineral products. Its mineral products are used as pigments, pigment extenders, and flame retardants for the manufacture of paints, industrial coatings, plastics, catalysts, and solid surface applications. The company principally offers, HITOX, a light buff-colored titanium dioxide pigment used primarily in paints, coatings, plastics, paper, and various other products. It also offers ALUPREM (premium alumina) products, which are used for color critical applications as fillers and flame retardants; BARTEX, an inert extender pigment used in coatings; HALTEX/OPTILOAD used in technical applications, including SMC/BMC thermoset molding compounds, thermoplastic profiles, electrical wire and cable insulation, mining conveyor belts, specialty coatings, adhesives, and sealants; TIOPREM, a series of heat stable colored TiO2 hybrid pigments used in various applications comprising engineered plastics, laminates, window profiles, plastic lumber, roofing granules, and ceramic coatings; and SYNTHETIC RUTILE used as a feed stock for white TiO2 and as a component in welding rod flux. TOR Minerals International sells its products through direct sales representatives and independent stocking distributors in the United States, as well as through distributors and agents internationally. The company was founded in 1973 and is headquartered in Corpus Christi, Texas.

BRUSH ENGINEERED MATERIALS (NYSE:BW) - Brush Engineered Materials Inc. engages in the manufacture and sale of engineered materials for the telecommunications and computer, data storage, aerospace and defense, automotive electronics, industrial components, and appliance and medical markets in the United States and internationally. It operates in four segments: Advanced Material Technologies and Services (AMTS), Specialty Engineered Alloys (SEA), Beryllium and Beryllium Composites, and Engineered Material Systems. The AMTS segment manufactures precious, non-precious, and specialty metal products, including vapor deposition targets, frame lid assemblies, clad and precious metal preforms, high temperature braze materials, ultra-fine wires, specialty inorganic materials, optics, performance coatings, and electronic packages, which are used in wireless, semiconductor, photonic, hybrid, and other micro-electronic applications. This segment also supplies optical filters, optical reflectors, and high-end coated products and devices; and supplies precious metal targets to the architectural glass, solar energy, medical, and microelectronics industries, as well as has refining capabilities for reclaim of precious metals from secondary scrap markets. The SEA segment manufactures and sells strip products, including thin gauge precision strip and thin diameter rod and wire; and non-beryllium-containing alloys, as well as produces beryllium hydroxide from mined bertrandite ore and purchased beryl ore. The Beryllium and Beryllium Composites segment manufactures beryllium-based metals and metal matrix composites in rod, sheet, foil, and a range of customized forms. This segment also offers beryllia ceramics. The Engineered Materials Systems segment manufactures clad inlay and overlay metals, precious and base metal electroplated systems, electron beam welded systems, contour profiled systems, and solder-coated metals systems. The company was founded in 1931 and is based in Mayfield Heights, Ohio.

KADANT INC (NYSE:KAI) - Kadant Inc. develops, manufactures, and markets equipment and products for the papermaking and paper recycling industries. Its principal products include custom-engineered stock-preparation systems and equipment, including recycling and approach flow systems, and virgin pulping process equipment for the preparation of wastepaper for conversion into recycled paper; and fluid-handling systems, such as rotary joints, syphons, Turbulator tube bars, and engineered steam and condensate systems used primarily in the dryer section of the papermaking process and during the production of corrugated boxboard, metals, plastics, rubber, textiles, and food. The company also offers paper machine accessory equipment and related consumables, including doctor systems and holders, profiling systems, and doctor blades for the operation of paper machines; and water-management systems that comprise shower and fabric-conditioning systems, formation systems, and water-filtration systems for draining, purifying, and recycling process water. In addition, Kadant produces biodegradable absorbent granules from papermaking byproducts for use primarily as carriers for agricultural, home lawn and garden, professional lawn, turf, and ornamental applications, as well as for oil and grease absorption. It operates primarily in the United States, China, and Europe. The company was formerly known as Thermo Fibertek Inc. and changed its name to Kadant Inc. in July 2001. Kadant Inc. was founded in 1991 and is headquartered in Westford, Massachusetts.

CARIBOU COFFEE CO INC (NASDAQ:CBOU) - Caribou Coffee Company, Inc. operates coffeehouses primarily in the United States. It offers premium coffee and espresso-based beverages, as well as specialty teas, baked goods, whole bean coffee, branded merchandise, and related products. As of January 3, 2010, the company had 534 coffeehouses, including 121 franchised coffeehouses located in Minnesota; Illinois; Ohio; Michigan; North Carolina; Georgia; Wisconsin; Virginia; Colorado; Maryland; Iowa; Washington, D.C.; North Dakota; Nebraska; Pennsylvania; Kansas; South Dakota; Missouri; Indiana; and Nevada, as well as in the international markets. It also sells premium whole bean and ground coffee to grocery stores, mass merchandisers, office coffee providers, airlines, hotels, sports and entertainment venues, college campuses, and online customers. The company was founded in 1992 and is headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Caribou Coffee Company, Inc. is a subsidiary of Caribou Holding Company Limited.

EFUTURE INFORMATION TECHNOLO (NASDAQ:EFUT) - eFuture Information Technology, Inc., through its subsidiary, eFuture (Beijing) Royalstone Information Technology, Inc., provides front-end supply chain management software and services in the Peoples Republic of China. Its software solutions include e-Future ONE Visual-DRP, a Web-based product designed to meet the distribution and network management needs of manufacturers; e-Future ONE DMS, a mini-enterprise resource planning application utilized by wholesalers and distributors in the consumer goods industry; e-Future ONE POS-ERP, a software solution designed to meet the demands of retailers for goods flow, order flow, information flow, and cash flow management; and e-Future ONE LRP, an application for distributors or logistics companies to improve warehouse management, transportation management, and logistics management. The company also offers e-Future ONE SCM, an application designed to promote collaborative business between retailers and their suppliers; e-Future ONE CPFR/VMI, a program that provides customers with collaborative planning, forecasting, and replenishment features; e-Future ONE CRM, a system tool mining and analyzing customer data for retailing operations; eFuture ONE SRM for managing an enterprise's interactions with the organizations that supply the goods and services it uses; e-Future ONE BI, a program designed for intelligent distribution; and e-Future ONE eWalkman, an all-in-one portable payment system, which can place information at both the operator and customer locations. In addition, e-Future provides software updates, maintenance, project management, and consulting services. It offers integrated software and service solutions to manufacturers, distributors, wholesalers, logistics companies, and retailers in China's front-end supply chain market, primarily in the retail and consumer goods industries. The company was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in Beijing, the Peoples Republic of China.

HKN INC (AMEX:HKN) - HKN, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, engages in the exploration, exploitation, development, and production of crude oil and natural gas properties primarily in the onshore and offshore Gulf Coast regions of south Texas and Louisiana. The company also explores and develops coal bed methane in Indiana and Ohio. As of December 31, 2009, it operated or owned a non-operating working interest in 69 oil wells, 65 gas wells, and 12 injection wells. The company was founded in 1973 and is based in Southlake, Texas.

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