Market Maker Surveillance Report. AUY, DRYS, NBR, IDTI, ACAS, AEHI, Bearishly Biased Price Friction For Tuesday, September 27t
September 27, 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 4290 companies with "abnormal" market making, 4498 companies with positive Friction Factors and 1844 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. YAMANA GOLD INC (NYSE:AUY), DRYSHIPS INC (NASDAQ:DRYS), NABORS INDUSTRIES LTD (NYSE:NBR), INTEGRATED DEVICE TECH INC (NASDAQ:IDTI), AMERICAN CAPITAL, LIMITED (NASDAQ:ACAS), ALTERNATE ENERGY HOLDINGS IN (OTC:AEHI). 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 AUY $-0.140 -0.99% 4,840,746 30.44% 4,383,743 27.57% 457,003 Abnormal DRYS $-0.010 -0.38% 5,373,873 53.16% 4,729,020 46.78% 644,853 Abnormal NBR $-0.640 -4.32% 3,735,857 31.07% 3,051,783 25.38% 684,074 Abnormal IDTI $-0.030 -0.44% 2,536,534 59.88% 1,686,083 39.80% 850,451 Abnormal ACAS $-0.140 -1.81% 3,991,717 52.68% 3,522,773 46.49% 468,944 Abnormal AEHI $-0.010 -11.11% 830,227 83.15% 168,237 16.85% 661,990 AbnormalAnalysis of the Friction Factor chart above shows that each of the six stocks mentioned above had more buying than selling on Tuesday 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 AUY with 457,003 greater shares of buying than selling (NetVol) and the stock price was down $-0.14000. 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.
YAMANA GOLD INC (NYSE:AUY) - Yamana Gold Inc. engages in gold and other precious metals mining and related activities, including exploration, extraction, processing, and reclamation. It also explores for copper and silver properties. The company holds interests in the gold production, gold development stage, and exploration stage properties, as well as land positions in Brazil, Chile, Argentina, Mexico, and Colombia. Its producing mines include the Chapada, Jacobina, and Fazenda Brasileiro mines located in Brazil; the El Penon and Minera Florida mines in Chile; and the Gualcamayo mine in Argentina. The company was founded in 2003 and is based in Toronto, Canada.
DRYSHIPS INC (NASDAQ:DRYS) - DryShips, Inc., through its subsidiaries, engages in the ownership and operation of drybulk carriers and drilling rigs that operate worldwide. Its drybulk fleet principally carries various drybulk commodities, including bulk items comprising coal, iron ore, and grains; and minor bulk items, such as bauxite, phosphate, fertilizers, and steel products. The company owns and operates a fleet of 39 drybulk carriers consisting of 7 Capesize, 28 Panamax, 2 Supramax vessels, and 2 Panamax newbuilding vessels with a combined deadweight tonnage of approximately 3.5 million dwt; and 12 tankers comprising 6 Suezmax and 6 Aframax with a combined deadweight tonnage of approximately 1.6 million tons. DryShips, Inc., through its subsidiary, Ocean Rig UDW, Inc., also owns and operates 6 offshore ultra deepwater drilling units comprising 2 ultra deepwater semisubmersible drilling rigs and 4 ultra deepwater drillships, of which 3 would be delivered to the company during 2011. The company was founded in 2004 and is based in Athens, Greece.
NABORS INDUSTRIES LTD (NYSE:NBR) - Nabors Industries Ltd. operates as a land drilling contractor worldwide. It conducts oil, gas, and geothermal land drilling operations in the United States Lower 48 states, Alaska, Canada, South America, Mexico, the Caribbean, the Middle East, the Far East, Russia, and Africa. The company also operates as a land well-servicing and workover contractor in the United States and Canada. In addition, Nabors Industries provides offshore platform workover and drilling rigs that offer well-servicing, workover, and drilling services. Further, the company offers a range of ancillary well-site services, including engineering, transportation, construction, maintenance, well logging, directional drilling, rig instrumentation, data collection, and other support services; and logistics services for onshore drilling in Canada using helicopters and fixed-winged aircraft. Additionally, it manufactures and leases or sells top drives for a range of drilling applications, directional drilling systems, rig instrumentation and data collection equipment, pipeline handling equipment, and rig reporting software. Nabors Industries also invests in oil and gas exploration, development, and production activities. As of December 31, 2009, its fleet consisted of approximately 542 land drilling rigs, 558 domestic and 172 international land workover and well-servicing rigs, 40 offshore platform rigs, 13 jack-up units, and 3 barge rigs, as well as various trucks and fluid hauling vehicles. The company was founded in 1968 and is based in Hamilton, Bermuda.
INTEGRATED DEVICE TECH INC (NASDAQ:IDTI) - Integrated Device Technology, Inc. designs, develops, manufactures, and markets a range of integrated circuits for communications, computing, and consumer industries worldwide. It operates in two segments, Communications, and Computing and Consumer. The Communications segment offers communication clocks, digital logic products, FIFO memories, serial RapidIO solutions for wireless base station infrastructure applications, static random access memory products, and telecommunications semiconductor products. This segment markets its products to the enterprise, data center, and wireless markets. The Computing and Consumer segment provides timing products, PCI Express switching and bridging solutions, high-performance server memory interfaces, multi-port products, touch controllers, signal integrity products, and PC audio and video products. This segments computing products are designed for desktop, notebook, sub-notebook, storage, and server applications; and consumer products are optimized primarily for gaming consoles, set-top boxes, digital TV, and smart phones. The company markets its products primarily to original equipment manufacturers through various channels, including a direct sales force, distributors, electronic manufacturing suppliers, and independent sales representatives. Integrated Device Technology, Inc. was founded in 1980 and is headquartered in San Jose, California.
AMERICAN CAPITAL, LIMITED (NASDAQ:ACAS) - American Capital, Ltd. is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in management and employee buyouts, mezzanine, acquisition, recapitalization, middle market, and growth capital investments. The firm seeks to invest in senior debt mezzanine and equity financing for buyouts of private equity firms and direct in private and public companies. It also invests in special situations and in government. In special situations, the firm invests in troubled situations and in distressed situations. In this area, it invests in acquisitions of true turnarounds, 363 auctions, portfolio add-ons, operationally challenged companies; financings in exit, ABL loans, second lien refinance, and direct lending to distressed companies. The firm invests in manufacturing, services, and distribution companies with a special focus on energy sector. In energy production sector, the firm invests in lower risk oil and gas exploration, production and development; natural gas liquids; coal mining and coal-fired generation; uranium mining and nuclear-fired generation; wind-powered generation; and solar-powered generation. In energy transmission sector, the firm invests in oil and gas pipelines; LNG tankers and regasification facilities; and power transmission. In energy distribution sector, it targets propane distribution; gas distribution; electricity distribution. In energy services sector, the firm invests in oil and gas services and utility services. The firm also targets investments in companies that provide services or products to federal, state or local governments. It seeks to invest in information technology, human resources/benefit administration, outsourcing, transaction processing, engineering and construction, logistics, original equipment manufacturers homeland security and component, after market parts and supplies, and technology. It invests as lead or participative investor. The firm and its affiliates invest from $5 million to $300 million per company in North America and 5 million ($6.92520 million) to 25 million ($34.6260 million) per company in Europe. It invests in companies with at least $4 million in EBITDA. American Capital, Ltd. was founded in 1986 and is based in Bethesda, Maryland with additional offices in United States, Europe, and Asia.
ALTERNATE ENERGY HOLDINGS IN (OTC:AEHI) - Alternate Energy Holdings, Inc., a development stage company, focuses on the purchase, optimization, and construction of green energy sources primarily nuclear power plants in the United States. The company, through its subsidiaries, develops and markets clean energy sources. Its other projects include Energy Neutral, which lowers energy demands from homes and businesses; Colorado Energy Park, a nuclear and solar generation project; and International Reactors, which assists developing countries with nuclear reactors for power generation, production of potable water, and other applications. The company was formerly known as Sunbelt Energy Resources, Inc. and changed its name in September, 2006. Alternate Energy Holdings, Inc. was incorporated in 2001 and is based in Eagle, Idaho.
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