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Market Maker Surveillance Report. BEXP, LOJN, EP, WU, VRUS, GEDU, Bullishly Biased Price Friction For Monday, November 21st 20

^{Published on 2011-11-21 18:00:12 - WOPRAI}
 

November 21, 2011 / M2 PRESSWIRE / BUYINS.NET / www.buyins.net, announced today its proprietary Market Maker Friction Factor Report for Monday. 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 Monday there were 3479 companies with "abnormal" market making, 1143 companies with positive Friction Factors and 5445 companies with negative Friction Factors. Here is a list of the top companies with Abnormal Price Friction (bullish bias) in their stock prices. This means that there was more selling than buying in the stocks and their stock prices rose. BRIGHAM EXPLORATION CO (NASDAQ:BEXP), LOJACK CORPORATION (NASDAQ:LOJN), EL PASO CORP (NYSE:EP), WESTERN UNION CO (NYSE:WU), PHARMASSET INC (NASDAQ:VRUS), (NASDAQ:GEDU). 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
     BEXP       $0.030       0.08%        1,074,043       38.12%       1,743,530       61.88%       -669,487        Abnormal
     LOJN       $0.030       1.22%        164,020         10.37%       1,417,310       89.63%       -1,253,290      Abnormal
     EP         $0.020       0.08%        1,948,084       23.00%       2,912,631       34.39%       -964,547        Abnormal
     WU         $0.030       0.17%        2,394,714       29.44%       3,195,819       39.29%       -801,105        Abnormal
     VRUS       $61.690      84.90%       10,911,610      44.81%       13,433,204      55.16%       -2,521,594      Abnormal
     GEDU       $5.230       97.39%       1,880,152       43.40%       2,452,352       56.60%       -572,200        Abnormal

For example, the chart above shows BEXP with 669,487 greater shares of selling than buying (NetVol) and the stock price was up $0.03000. This means the Market Makers were trading the stock in a way inconsistent with normal supply and demand (Economics 101); more selling than buying should cause prices to drop.

BRIGHAM EXPLORATION CO (NASDAQ:BEXP) - Brigham Exploration Company engages in the exploration, development, and production of onshore oil and natural gas reserves in the Rocky Mountains, the Gulf Coast, the Anadarko Basin, and west Texas. It holds property interests in the Powder River Basin located in Wyoming; Onshore Gulf Coast consisting of the Vicksburg trend in Brooks County, Texas; Miocene and Upper Oligocene trends in Southern Louisiana; and the Frio trend in and around Matagorda County, Texas. As of December 31, 2009, the company had estimated proved reserves of 27.7 MMBoe. It had approximately 282,584 net leasehold acres in the Williston Basin. The company sells its oil and natural gas to intrastate pipeline purchasers, operators of processing plants, and marketing companies. Brigham Exploration Company was founded in 1990 and is based in Austin, Texas.

LOJACK CORPORATION (NASDAQ:LOJN) - LoJack Corporation provides technology products and services for the tracking and recovery of mobile assets, stolen vehicles, motorcycles, construction equipment, cargo, and people at risk. The company offers LoJack Unit, a LoJack System component that consists of a very high frequency transponder with a hidden antenna, microprocessor, power supply, and a set of codes unique to the unit; and LoJack Early Warning Unit, an optional component that provides early notification to vehicle owners in the event of unauthorized user operating the vehicle. It also provides Locate by LoJack for the construction market; ProximityPlus, a GPS monitoring device that enables customers to identify their vehicles location; ReuniteIT, a registration database that facilitates the identification and return of lost valuables; and LoJack for laptops. In addition, the company offers Boomerang Unit, a Boomerang Tracking System component, which consists of a cellular band radio frequency transponder to locate and track stolen assets; BoomerangXpress for the mid-price vehicle market; and Boomerang Espion and Espion Alert that utilize multiple wireless sensors to track vehicles. Further, it provides Boomerang2 and Boomerang Espion Alert Units that build upon the Boomerang Unit by integrating two-way communications and diagnostics to provide automatic theft notification by sending a signal upon any unauthorized vehicle movements; water resistant Boomerang Unit for installation on construction equipment and marine crafts; and portable Boomerang Unit for installation in special applications, such as cargo. The company markets its products to owners of commercial vehicles and to consumers through its sales force, telemarketing representatives, direct mail, and automobile dealers. It operates in the United States, Africa, Latin American and Caribbean countries, Canada, Europe, Asia, and South America. The company was founded in 1978 and is headquartered in Westwood, Massachusetts.

EL PASO CORP (NYSE:EP) - El Paso Corporation operates in the natural gas transmission, and exploration and production sectors of the energy industry primarily in the United States. It offers natural gas transmission services to a range of customers, including natural gas producers, marketers, and end-users, as well as other natural gas transmission, distribution, and electric generation companies through its interests in approximately 42,000 miles of interstate pipeline system. The company also operates approximately 230 billion cubic feet of storage capacity, and an LNG receiving terminal and related facilities in Elba Island, Georgia. El Paso also focuses on the exploration, acquisition, development, and production of natural gas, oil, and natural gas liquids in the United States, Brazil, and Egypt. As of December 31, 2009, it held an estimated 2.75 trillion cubic feet of natural gas equivalents of proved natural gas and oil reserves. El Paso Corporation has a joint venture agreement with AGL Resources Inc. to distribute liquefied natural gas (LNG) across the southeastern United States to the heavy-duty transportation market. The company was founded in 1928 and is based in Houston, Texas.

WESTERN UNION CO (NYSE:WU) - The Western Union Company provides money transfer and payment services worldwide. The companys Consumer-to-Consumer segment offers consumer-to-consumer money transfer services through a network of third-party agents using multi-currency and real-time money transfer processing systems. Its services include walk-in money transfer, online money transfer, telephone money transfer, account based money transfer, and mobile money transfer. The companys Global Business Payments segment provides business payments services for consumers to make payments to various organizations, such as utilities, auto finance companies, mortgage servicers, financial service providers, governmental agencies, and other businesses, as well as offers international business-to-business cross-border, and cross-currency payment services. Its global business payment services include Custom House that conducts payment transactions through various channels comprising the telephone and Internet; services that allow consumers to send funds using cash and debit cards under Western Union Quick Collect and Quick Pay names; Quick Cash, a cash disbursement service for businesses and government agencies to send money to employees or individuals; Western Union Convenience Pay, a service to send payments by cash or check; walk-in and cash bill payment services under the Pago Fcil and Western Union brand names; Speedpay electronic payments service that enables consumers to make payments to various billers using credit cards, debit cards, automated clearing house (ACH), and checks; and Equity Accelerator service, which enables consumers to make mortgage payments by ACH. In addition, the company provides money orders, as well as sells prepaid cards that allow consumers to load money or receive a direct deposit from their employer onto the card. It offers its services through a network of approximately 445,000 agent locations. The company was incorporated in 2006 and is headquartered in Englewood, Colorado.

PHARMASSET INC (NASDAQ:VRUS) - Pharmasset, Inc., a clinical-stage pharmaceutical company, focuses on discovering, developing, and commercializing novel drugs to treat viral infections. Its primary focus is on the development of nucleoside/tide analogs as oral therapeutics for the treatment of chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection. Nucleoside/tide analogs are a class of compounds, which act as alternative substrates for the viral polymerase, inhibiting viral replication. The company has three clinical stage product candidates, including RG7128, an HCV cytosine nucleoside polymerase inhibitor; PSI-7977, an HCV uracil nucleotide analog polymerase inhibitor, which in Phase IIb clinical trial; and PSI-938, an HCV guanine nucleotide analog polymerase inhibitor, which in Phase Ib clinical trial. It is also developing PSI-661, an HCV guanine nucleotide analog polymerase inhibitor; and PSI-7977, PSI-938, and PSI-661. In addition, the company is developing Racivir for the treatment of human immunodeficiency virus. It has a strategic collaboration with F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd and Hoffmann-La Roche Inc. for the development of PSI-6130 and its prodrugs, including RG7128. The company also has collaboration and licensing agreements with University of Cincinnati; Apath, LLC; and Emory University. Pharmasset, Inc. was founded in 1998 and is based in Princeton, New Jersey.

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