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Market Maker Surveillance Report. ERTS, SYMC, MF, THC, CELG, VMED, Bearishly Biased Price Friction For Thursday, October 27th


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October 27, 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 3465 companies with "abnormal" market making, 5484 companies with positive Friction Factors and 1492 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. ELECTRONIC ARTS INC (NASDAQ:ERTS), SYMANTEC CORPORATION (NASDAQ:SYMC), MF GLOBAL HOLDINGS LTD (NYSE:MF), TENET HEALTHCARE CORP (NYSE:THC), CELGENE CORP (NASDAQ:CELG), VIRGIN MEDIA INC (NASDAQ:VMED). 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
     ERTS       $-0.890      -3.65%       9,122,471       49.43%       7,774,291       42.12%       1,348,180       Abnormal
     SYMC       $-0.720      -3.89%       11,223,820      53.93%       9,467,905       45.49%       1,755,915       Abnormal
     MF         $-0.280      -16.47%      23,687,079      32.31%       21,781,332      29.71%       1,905,747       Abnormal
     THC        $-0.010      -0.23%       5,729,808       28.41%       4,997,856       24.78%       731,952         Abnormal
     CELG       $-1.180      -1.78%       3,910,632       52.53%       3,488,265       46.86%       422,367         Abnormal
     VMED       $-1.820      -6.53%       6,798,796       53.91%       5,624,229       44.60%       1,174,567       Abnormal
Analysis of the Friction Factor chart above shows that each of the six stocks mentioned above had more buying than selling on Thursday 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 ERTS with 1,348,180 greater shares of buying than selling (NetVol) and the stock price was down $-0.89000. 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.

ELECTRONIC ARTS INC (NASDAQ:ERTS) - Electronic Arts Inc. develops, markets, publishes, and distributes video game software and content. The companys games include a range of categories, including action-adventure, casual, sports, family, fantasy, racing, music, massively-multiplayer online role-playing, simulation, and strategy. Its portfolio of properties includes various brands, such as Need for Speed, The Sims, Spore, Dead Space, Mass Effect, and Battlefield; and EA SPORTS Active, Dragon Age, Origins, and Dantes Inferno. The companys portfolio of games based on licensed intellectual property includes sports-based titles, such as Madden NFL Football, FIFA Soccer, and Tiger Woods PGA Tour, as well as titles based on brands, such as Harry Potter and Hasbro. It also co-develops, co-publishes, and/or distributes video games that are developed and published by other companies, including the MTV Games/Harmonix series Rock Band and the Crytek series Crysis. The companys games are played on various platforms, including video game consoles, personal computers, handheld game players, and mobile devices. It offers its products for videogame consoles, PCs, and handhelds on physical media, such as disks and cartridges that are sold at retailers; and game content and services online. The company provides its products through mass market retailers, electronics specialty stores, game software specialty stores, and online stores. It has operations in North America, Europe, Australia, Asia, and Latin America. Electronic Arts Inc. was founded in 1982 and is headquartered in Redwood City, California.

SYMANTEC CORPORATION (NASDAQ:SYMC) - Symantec Corporation provides security, storage, and systems management solutions to secure and manage information. It operates in four segments: Consumer, Security and Compliance, Storage and Server Management, and Services. The Consumer segment provides Internet security and protection solutions, suites, and services to individual users and home offices. The Security and Compliance segment provides solutions for enterprise security, system management, and software-as-a-service. The Storage and Server Management segment focuses on providing storage management, high availability, and backup and recovery solutions in heterogeneous storage and server platforms to enterprise customers. The Services segment offers consulting services, which include advisory, product enablement, and residency services to enable customers to assess, design, transform, and operate their infrastructure; education services, including programs on technical training and security awareness training; and business critical services. It also provides managed security services, managed endpoint protection services, and managed backup services. In addition, the company offers maintenance support contracts, including content, upgrades, and technical support to enterprises; and self-help online services, phone, chat, email support, and fee-based premium support and diagnostic services to consumers. Symantec Corporation markets and sells its products through distributors, retailers, direct marketers, Internet-based resellers, original equipment manufacturers, system builders, and Internet service providers; and its e-commerce channels, as well as direct sales force, value-added and large account resellers, and system integrators. It has operations in the Americas, which include the United States, Canada, and Latin America; Europe, the Middle East, and Africa; and the Asia Pacific Japan. Symantec Corporation was founded in 1982 and is headquartered in Mountain View, California.

MF GLOBAL HOLDINGS LTD (NYSE:MF) - MF Global Holdings Ltd., together with its subsidiaries, operates as a brokerage firm offering customized solutions in global cash and derivatives markets. It provides execution and clearing services for products in the exchange-traded and over-the-counter derivative markets, as well as for products in the cash market. The company primarily offers execution and clearing services for equities, fixed income products, interest rate products, foreign exchange products, and commodities. It also provides research, execution, and clearing services for listed and OTC equity-linked derivatives and cash securities; and execution, clearing, and financing services for fixed income and interest rate derivative products. In addition, the company offers foreign exchange services directly to its clients on an agency and principal basis; and clients execution, clearing, and financing services for transactions relating to derivative contracts, including futures, options, forward sale agreements, and other types of instruments based on the price of metals, steel products, and industrial materials. Further, it provides clearing and execution services for exchange-listed and OTC-traded energy derivatives. The company serves corporate hedgers, asset managers, professional traders, hedge funds, sovereign institutions, and individual investors through employee brokers and sales professionals, introducing brokers, and online platforms. It operates primarily in the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Singapore, Australia, Hong Kong, Canada, India, and Japan. The company was formerly known as MF Global Ltd. and changed its name to MF Global Holdings Ltd. in January 2010. MF Global Holdings Ltd. is based in New York, New York.

TENET HEALTHCARE CORP (NYSE:THC) - Tenet Healthcare Corporation, an investor-owned health care services company, operates general hospitals and related health care facilities. The companys general hospitals offer acute care services, radiology services, and respiratory therapy services, as well as operate operating and recovery rooms, and clinical laboratories and pharmacies. It also provides intensive care, critical care and/or coronary care units, and physical therapy; orthopedic, oncology, and outpatient services; tertiary care services, such as open-heart surgery, neonatal intensive care, and neuroscience; quaternary care in areas, including heart, lung, liver, and kidney transplants; gamma-knife brain surgery; cyberknife surgery for tumors and lesions in the brain, lung, neck, and spine; and bone marrow transplants. As of December 31, 2008, Tenet Healthcare Corporation operated 53 general hospitals; and a critical access hospital with a combined total of 14,352 licensed beds serving urban and rural communities. The company also operated various related health care facilities, including a rehabilitation hospital; a long-term acute care hospital; a skilled nursing facility; various medical office buildings; and physician practices, captive insurance companies, and other ancillary health care businesses, such as outpatient surgery centers, diagnostic imaging centers, and occupational and rural health care clinics, as well as owned interests in two health maintenance organizations. It has a joint venture agreement with MED3000 Inc. to provide services to physician practices. The company was founded in 1967 and is headquartered in Dallas, Texas with additional offices in Santa Ana, California; Coral Springs, Florida; and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

CELGENE CORP (NASDAQ:CELG) - Celgene Corporation discovers, develops, and commercializes innovative therapies to treat cancer and immune-inflammatory diseases in the United States, Europe, and internationally. Its commercial stage products include REVLIMID for the treatment in combination with dexamethasone for multiple myeloma patients, as well as patients with transfusion-dependent anemia; and THALOMID to treat, in combination with dexamethasone, patients with newly diagnosed multiple myeloma, as well as for the prevention and suppression of cutaneous manifestations of erythema nodosum leprosum recurrence. The company also sells VIDAZA, used to subtypes of myelodysplastic syndromes; RITALIN to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder; FOCALIN to prevent oncology-related disorders; and ALKERAN to treat multiple myeloma and carcinoma of the ovary. Its development stage products consist of CC-4047, which is in Phase I and Phase II clinical trials for treating disease indications, including sickle cell anemia, myelofibrosis, and multiple myeloma; CC-10004, a Phase II clinical trial product for psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis; CC-11050, a Phase I clinical trial completed product for inflammatory conditions; CC-401, a Phase I clinical trial completed product to identify kinases that regulate pathways critical in inflammation and oncology; CC-930, a Phase Ib clinicial trial completed product for fibrotic conditions; and Amrubicin, a Phase III clinical trial product for small cell lung cancer treatment. In addition, the company is researching stem cells derived from the human placenta, as well as from the umbilical cord. Celgene Corporation has strategic collaborations with Acceleron Pharma, Inc. and Agios Pharmaceuticals Inc. The company was founded in 1980 and is headquartered in Summit, New Jersey.

VIRGIN MEDIA INC (NASDAQ:VMED) - Virgin Media Inc., through its subsidiaries, provides of entertainment and communications services in the United Kingdom. The company operates through three segments: Consumer, Business, and Content. The Consumer segment offers cable broadband Internet, television, and fixed line telephone services under the Virgin Media brand to residential customers; mobile telephony services through Virgin Mobile, a mobile virtual network operator; and broadband and telephone services to residential customers through third-party telecommunications networks. The Business segment provides a portfolio of voice, data, and Internet solutions to commercial customers, including analog telephony and managed data networks and applications, as well as supplies communications services to emergency services providers. The Content segment operates various television channels, including Virgin1, Living, Bravo, Challenge, and Challenge Jackpot; and owns a 50% interest in the companies that comprise the UKTV Group, a series of joint ventures with BBC Worldwide. The company was formerly known as NTL Incorporated and changed its name to Virgin Media Inc. in February 2007. The company was founded in 1993 and is based in New York, New York.

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