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Market Maker Surveillance Report. UNH, USU, IBM, SNPMF, CROX, SD, Bearishly Biased Price Friction For Tuesday, October 18th 20

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October 18, 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 3866 companies with "abnormal" market making, 4222 companies with positive Friction Factors and 1942 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. UNITEDHEALTH GROUP INC (NYSE:UNH), USEC INC (NYSE:USU), INTL BUSINESS MACHINES CORP (NYSE:IBM), CHINA PETROLEUM & CHEMICAL-H (OTC:SNPMF), CROCS INC (NASDAQ:CROX), SANDRIDGE ENERGY INC (NYSE:SD). 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
     UNH        $-1.270      -2.73%       6,825,546       28.85%       6,300,464       26.63%       525,082         Abnormal
     USU        $-0.090      -4.11%       1,479,095       46.32%       916,869         28.71%       562,226         Abnormal
     IBM        $-7.490      -4.01%       4,933,128       31.78%       4,100,284       26.42%       832,844         Abnormal
     SNPMF      $-0.017      -1.78%       1,920,000       60.00%       1,280,000       40.00%       640,000         Abnormal
     CROX       $-10.460     -39.26%      13,681,065      51.42%       12,715,161      47.79%       965,904         Abnormal
     SD         $-0.130      -1.84%       4,761,014       29.71%       4,286,992       26.75%       474,022         Abnormal

For example, the chart above shows UNH with 525,082 greater shares of buying than selling (NetVol) and the stock price was down $-1.27000. 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.

UNITEDHEALTH GROUP INC (NYSE:UNH) - UnitedHealth Group Incorporated provides healthcare services in the United States. Its Health Benefits segment offers consumer-oriented health benefit plans and services to national employers, public sector employers, mid-sized employers, small businesses, and individuals; and non-employer based insurance options for purchase by individuals. It also provides health and well-being services for individuals aged 50 and older; and for services dealing with chronic disease and other specialized issues for older individuals, as well as health plans for the beneficiaries of acute and long-term care Medicaid plans. This segment offers its services through a network of 730,000 physicians and other health care professionals, and 5,300 hospitals. Its OptumHealth segment provides health, financial, and ancillary services and products that assist consumers through personalized health management solutions; benefit administration, and clinical and network management; health-based financial services; behavioral solutions; and specialty benefits, such as dental, vision, life, critical illness, short-term disability, and stop-loss product offerings. The companys Ingenix segment offers database and data management services, software products, publications, consulting and actuarial services, business process outsourcing services, and pharmaceutical data consulting and research services. Its Prescription Solutions segment provides integrated pharmacy benefit management services comprising retail network pharmacy contracting and management, claims processing, mail order pharmacy services, specialty pharmacy, benefit design consultation, rebate contracting and management, drug utilization review, formulary management programs, disease therapy management, and adherence programs to employer groups, union trusts, managed care organizations, Medicare-contracted plans, Medicaid plans, and third party administrators. The company was founded in 1974 and is based in Minnetonka, Minnesota.

USEC INC (NYSE:USU) - USEC Inc., together with its subsidiaries, supplies low enriched uranium (LEU) to commercial nuclear power plants in the United States and internationally. The company sells the separative work units (SWU) component of LEU; the SWU and uranium components of LEU; and uranium. SWU is a standard unit of measurement that represents the effort required to transform a given amount of uranium into two streams comprising enriched uranium having a higher percentage of U235 and depleted uranium having a lower percentage of U235. It also performs contract work for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and DOE contractors at the Paducah and Portsmouth gaseous diffusion plants. USEC Inc.s contract work includes support services and the maintenance of Portsmouth gaseous diffusion plant in a state of cold shutdown. In addition, the company provides nuclear energy solutions and services, including the design, fabrication, and implementation of spent nuclear fuel technologies; nuclear materials transportation and storage systems; and nuclear fuel cycle and energy consulting services. The company was founded in 1993 and is headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland.

INTL BUSINESS MACHINES CORP (NYSE:IBM) - International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) provides information technology (IT) products and services worldwide. Its Global Technology Services segment provides IT infrastructure and business process services, including strategic outsourcing, process, integrated technology, and maintenance services, as well as technology-based support services. The companys Global Business Services segment offers consulting and systems integration, and application management services. Its Software segment offers middleware and operating systems software, such as WebSphere software to integrate and manage business processes; information management software for database and enterprise content management, information integration, data warehousing, business analytics and intelligence, performance management, and predictive analytics; Tivoli software for identity management, data security, storage management, and datacenter automation; Lotus software for collaboration, messaging, and social networking; rational software to support software development for IT and embedded systems; business intelligence software, which provides querying and forecasting tools; SPSS predictive analytics software to predict outcomes and act on that insight; and operating systems software. Its Systems and Technology segment provides computing and storage solutions, including servers, disk and tape storage systems and software, point-of-sale retail systems, and microelectronics. The companys Global Financing segment provides lease and loan financing to end users and internal clients; commercial financing to dealers and remarketers of IT products; and remanufacturing and remarketing services. It serves financial services, public, industrial, distribution, communications, and general business sectors. The company was formerly known as Computing-Tabulating-Recording Co. and changed its name to International Business Machines Corporation in 1924. IBM was founded in 1910 and is based in Armonk, New York.

CHINA PETROLEUM & CHEMICAL-H (OTC:SNPMF) - China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation, through its subsidiaries, operates as an integrated oil and gas, and chemical company in the Peoples Republic of China and Hong Kong. The company engages in the exploration, development, and production of crude oil and natural gas; refining, transportation, storage, and marketing of crude oil and petroleum products; and the production and sale of chemicals, as well as owns and operates oil depots and service stations. Its chemical products include basic organic chemicals, monomers and polymers for synthetic fiber, synthetic resin, synthetic rubber, synthetic fiber, and chemical fertilizers. The company was founded in 2000 and is based in Beijing, the Peoples Republic of China. China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation is a subsidiary of China Petrochemical Corporation.

CROCS INC (NASDAQ:CROX) - Crocs, Inc. and its subsidiaries engage in the design, development, manufacture, marketing, and distribution of footwear for men, women, and children. The company primarily offers casual and athletic shoes, and shoe charms. It also designs and sells a range of footwear and accessories that utilize its proprietary closed cell-resin, called Croslite. In addition, the company offers a line of apparel for boys and girls; men featuring Croslite material; and accessories, including snap-on charms and messenger bags. Further, it provides leather and ethylene vinyl acetate based sandals principally for the beach, adventure, and action sports markets. The company sells its products through domestic and international retailers and distributors, as well as directly to end-user consumers through its Web stores, company-operated retail stores, outlets, and kiosks primarily under the Crocs, Jibbitz, Ocean Minded, and YOU by Crocs brand names. As of December 31, 2009, it operated 170 domestic and international retail kiosks located in malls and other high foot traffic areas; 84 domestic and international retail stores; 63 domestic and international outlet stores; and 23 Web stores. Crocs, Inc. operates in the Americas, Europe, and Asia. The company was formerly known as Western Brands, LLC and changed its name to Crocs, Inc. in January 2005. Crocs, Inc. was founded in 1999 and is based in Niwot, Colorado.

SANDRIDGE ENERGY INC (NYSE:SD) - SandRidge Energy, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, operates as an independent natural gas and oil company in the United States. The company engages in the exploration, development, and production of oil and gas properties. Its Exploration and Production segment explores for, develops, and produces natural gas and oil reserves in the West Texas Overthrus (WTO) and the Permian Basin. The companys Drilling and Oil Field Services segment drills wells for other oil and natural gas companies, primarily in the west Texas region. This segments oil field services include providing drilling rigs, pulling units, mud logging, trucking, rental tools, location and road construction, and roustabout services to third-parties. Its Midstream Gas Services segment provides gathering, compression, processing, and treating services of natural gas in west Texas. The company also captures and transports CO2 to the Permian Basin for use in tertiary oil recovery operations, as well as operates interests in the Mid-Continent, the Cotton Valley Trend in east Texas, the Gulf Coast, and the Gulf of Mexico. As of December 31, 2009, it had estimated proved reserves of 1,312.2 Bcfe, of which 52% were natural gas. The company also had 3,373 gross producing wells, as well as had oil interests in 1,720,909 gross leased acres. In addition, it had 8 rigs drilling in the WTO, 4 rigs drilling in the Permian Basin, 2 rigs drilling in East Texas, and 1 rig drilling in the Mid-Continent. The company, formerly known as Riata Energy, Inc., was founded in 1984 and is headquartered in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

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