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Market Maker Surveillance Report. XLF, EEM, SPY, IVV, VOD, KBH, Bearishly Biased Price Friction For Tuesday, April 5th 2011

^{Published on 2011-04-05 17:51:39 - WOPRAI}
 

April 5, 2011 / M2 PRESSWIRE / BUYINS.NET / www.buyins.net, announced today its proprietary Market Maker Friction Factor Report for Tuesday. 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 Tuesday there were 2573 companies with "abnormal" market making, 2747 companies with positive Friction Factors and 2601 companies with negative Friction Factors. Here is a list of the top companies with Abnormal Price Friction (bearish bias) in their stock prices. This means that there was more buying than selling in the stocks and their stock prices dropped. FINANCIAL SELECT SECTOR SPDR (NYSE:XLF), ISHARES MSCI EMERGING MKT IN (NYSE:EEM), SPDR S&P 500 ETF TRUST (NYSE:SPY), ISHARES S&P 500 INDEX FUND (NYSE:IVV), VODAFONE GROUP PLC-SP ADR (NYSE:VOD), KB HOME (NYSE:KBH). 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
     XLF        $-0.020      -0.10%       21,622,866      56.28%       18,227,015      47.45%       3,395,851       Abnormal
     EEM        $-0.130      -0.26%       37,833,109      54.60%       32,331,947      46.66%       5,501,162       Abnormal
     SPY        $-0.170      -0.13%       66,330,900      54.94%       54,706,766      45.31%       11,624,134      Abnormal
     IVV        $-0.080      -0.06%       3,986,529       73.13%       1,510,385       27.71%       2,476,144       Abnormal
     VOD        $-0.200      -0.69%       5,820,806       60.86%       3,116,162       32.58%       2,704,644       Abnormal
     KBH        $-0.510      -4.18%       8,264,656       57.40%       5,996,927       41.65%       2,267,729       Abnormal

For example, the chart above shows XLF with 3,395,851 greater shares of buying than selling (NetVol) and the stock price was down $-0.02000. This means the Market Makers were trading the stock in a way inconsistent with normal supply and demand (Economics 101); more buying than selling should cause prices to rise.

FINANCIAL SELECT SECTOR SPDR (NYSE:XLF) - FINANCIAL SEL SPD

ISHARES MSCI EMERGING MKT IN (NYSE:EEM) - ISHARES MSCI E.M.

SPDR S&P 500 ETF TRUST (NYSE:SPY) - S&P DEP RECEIPTS

ISHARES S&P 500 INDEX FUND (NYSE:IVV) - ISHARE S&P 500 IN

VODAFONE GROUP PLC-SP ADR (NYSE:VOD) - Vodafone Group plc provides mobile communications in Europe, Africa, the Asia Pacific, the Middle East, and the United States. The company offers various handsets; voice and messaging services; data services comprising Internet, email, music, games, and television; and fixed services, including fixed voice and fixed broadband solutions. It also offers value added services, such as Vodafone Email Plus and Windows Mobile Email, which provide enterprise customers with real time handheld access to email, calendar, and address book; Vodafone PC Backup and Restore that enable users to remotely store data automatically through their Internet connection; Vodafone Money Transfer system; and roaming services. In addition, the companys enterprise services include Vodafone One Net, which combines fixed and mobile communications in one system; Vodafone Unified Communications, which provides one interface for various communications, access emails, share documents and files, access calendars, hold Web and video conferences, and exchange instant messages; and enterprise mobile voice connections. Its business managed services include logistics, cost control, and security and online management portals offering single-sign-on services; and machine-to-machine communications for businesses to automate the capture of data, perform real-time diagnostics, and control assets remotely. The company owns and manages approximately 2,100 stores selling services and providing customer support, as well as operates approximately 7,600 Vodafone branded stores to sell its products and services through franchise and dealer arrangements. The company has approximately 341.1 million mobile customers. The company was formerly known as Vodafone AirTouch plc and changed its name to Vodafone Group Plc in July 2000. Vodafone Group Plc was incorporated in 1984 and is based in Newbury, the United Kingdom.

KB HOME (NYSE:KBH) - KB Home constructs and sells residential homes in the United States. It builds various homes, including attached and detached single-family homes, townhomes and condominiums, which are designed to appeal to first-time, move-up, and active adult buyers. The company provides title and insurance services to its homebuyers. It also offers mortgage banking services to its homebuyers indirectly through KBA Mortgage, LLC, a joint venture with a subsidiary of Bank of America, N.A. KB Home operates in Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Maryland, Nevada, North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas, and Virginia. As of November 30, 2009, it delivered 8,488 homes. The company was formerly known as Kaufman and Broad Home Corporation and changed its name to KB Home in 2001. KB Home was founded in 1957 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California.

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