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Market Maker Surveillance Report. LVLT, SBIB, MGM, HGSI, ALU, POTG, Bearishly Biased Price Friction For Wednesday, July 27th 2
July 27, 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 3507 companies with "abnormal" market making, 1650 companies with positive Friction Factors and 6163 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. LEVEL 3 COMMUNICATIONS INC (NASDAQ:LVLT), STERLING BANCSHARES INC/TX (NASDAQ:SBIB), MGM RESORTS INTERNATIONAL (NYSE:MGM), HUMAN GENOME SCIENCES INC (NASDAQ:HGSI), ALCATEL-LUCENT-SPONSORED ADR (NYSE:ALU), (OTC:POTG). 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
LVLT $-0.070 -3.14% 24,011,158 53.88% 19,983,780 44.84% 4,027,378 Abnormal
SBIB $-0.240 -3.03% 21,501,827 105.22% 5,158,917 25.25% 16,342,910 Abnormal
MGM $-0.480 -3.02% 10,466,083 35.30% 8,817,767 29.74% 1,648,316 Abnormal
HGSI $-0.550 -2.60% 4,307,422 67.44% 2,377,092 37.21% 1,930,330 Abnormal
ALU $-0.320 -6.13% 15,744,580 31.24% 13,225,359 26.24% 2,519,221 Abnormal
POTG $-0.158 -25.72% 11,654,346 53.03% 8,909,153 40.54% 2,745,193 Abnormal
Analysis of the Friction Factor chart above shows that each of the six stocks mentioned above had more buying than selling on Wednesday and their stock prices dropped. 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 LVLT with 4,027,378 greater shares of buying than selling (NetVol) and the stock price was down $-0.07000. 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.
LEVEL 3 COMMUNICATIONS INC (NASDAQ:LVLT) - Level 3 Communications, Inc. engages in the communications business in North America and Europe. It offers network and Internet services, including transport services, high speed Internet protocol services, dedicated Internet access, virtual private network services, and dark fiber services, as well as managed modem, an outsourced, turn-key infrastructure solution; and colocation services. The company also provides various media services, comprising Vyvx services that provide audio and video feeds over fiber or satellite; content delivery network services; media delivery services to customers seeking to manage, protect, and monetize content delivered over the Internet; a range of local and long distance voice services, such as voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) and traditional circuit-switch based services; and VoIP Enhanced Local, a VoIP service that enables broadband cable operators, IXCs, VoIP providers, and other companies operating their own switching infrastructure to launch IP-based local and long-distance voice services through a broadband connection. Level 3 Communications media services also consist of SIP Trunking, a VoIP-based local phone service; Local Inbound service that terminates traditional telephone network originated calls to Internet Protocol termination points; Primary Rate Interface, a TDM local phone service that could be configured in various ways; Long Distance services portfolio comprising local and long distance transport and termination services; and Toll Free services portfolio, which terminate toll free calls that are originated on the traditional telephone network. As of December 31, 2009, its network encompassed approximately 67,000 intercity route miles in North America and an intercity network covering approximately 12,000 miles across Europe. Further, it sells coal primarily through long-term contracts with public utilities. The company was founded in 1884 and is headquartered in Broomfield, Colorado.
STERLING BANCSHARES INC/TX (NASDAQ:SBIB) - Sterling Bancshares, Inc. operates as the holding company of Sterling Bank, which provides commercial and consumer banking services to consumers and small to medium-sized businesses in Texas. The company offers a range of banking services, including demand, savings, and time deposits; commercial, real estate, and consumer loans; merchant credit card services; letters of credit; and cash and asset management services. It also facilitates brokerage, mutual fund, alternative financing, and insurance products through third-party vendors. In addition, the company offers treasury management, specialized lending consisting of energy lending, and private client services; and involves in the purchase of government guaranteed loans and wholesale real estate lending activities. Further, Sterling Bancshares provides investment advisory and pension administration/consulting services. As of December 31, 2009, it served through 58 banking centers in the greater metropolitan areas of Houston, San Antonio, Dallas, and Fort Worth. The company was founded in 1974 and is headquartered in Houston, Texas.
MGM RESORTS INTERNATIONAL (NYSE:MGM) - MGM Resorts International, through its subsidiaries, owns and operates casino resorts in the United States. The companys resorts offer gaming, hotel, dining, entertainment, retail, and other resort amenities. It also owns and operates golf courses and a golf club. As of November 16, 2010, the company owned and operated 15 properties located in Nevada, Mississippi, and Michigan, and has 50% investments in 4 other properties in Nevada, Illinois, and Macau. In addition, MGM Resorts International has an agreement with the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation, which owns and operates a casino resort under the MGM Grand brand name in Mashantucket, Connecticut. The company was formerly known as MGM MIRAGE and changed its name to MGM Resorts International on June 15, 2010. MGM Resorts International was founded in 1986 and is based in Las Vegas, Nevada.
HUMAN GENOME SCIENCES INC (NASDAQ:HGSI) - Human Genome Sciences, Inc. operates as a biopharmaceutical company. Its principal products in development include BENLYSTA for systemic lupus erythematosus; and raxibacumab for inhalation anthrax. The companys mid- and early-stage pipeline products comprise Mapatumumab for the treatment of non-small cell lung cancer, multiple myeloma, and hepatocellular cancer; IAP Inhibitors that are compounds, which block the activity of IAP (inhibitor of apoptosis) proteins, allowing apoptosis to proceed and causing the cancer cells to die; and CCR5 mAb, a human monoclonal antibody to the CCR5 receptor for the treatment of ulcerative colitis. Human Genome Sciences, Inc. also holds financial rights to certain products in the GlaxoSmithKline clinical development pipeline, including darapladib, a Phase III clinical trial product for the treatment of coronary heart disease and ischemic stroke; and Albiglutide for the treatment for type 2 diabetes, which is in Phase III clinical trial stage. The company has a license agreement with GlaxoSmithKline for the co-development and commercialization of BENLYSTA; and a collaboration and license agreement with Aegera Therapeutics, Inc. to develop and commercialize certain oncology molecules and related backup compounds. Human Genome Sciences, Inc. was founded in 1992 and is headquartered in Rockville, Maryland.
ALCATEL-LUCENT-SPONSORED ADR (NYSE:ALU) - Alcatel-Lucent offers products, solutions, and transformation services that enable service providers, enterprises, governments, and strategic industries to deliver voice, data, and video communication services to end-users worldwide. It engages in the development and sale of software and related services to manage customer interactions. The company offers a software suite that connects customers with the resources to fulfill customer requests and meet customer care goals. It also provides software and related services, which support service provider business priorities in the areas of application innovation, enhanced communications, digital media, real-time rating and charging, and subscriber data management, as well as offers tools for providers to enable consumers set up and manage their mobile devices and services at-home. In addition, the company offers voice telephony and data networking solutions; and end-to-end communications networks and individual network elements, as well as designs and sells a suite of radio frequency products, such as cable, antenna, tower systems, and their related electronic components. Further, the company designs, integrates, manages, and maintains networks. Alcatel-Lucent is headquartered in Paris, France.
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