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Market Maker Surveillance Report. UCBI, TRGL, VICL, IART, BMTI, SPRD, Losing Stocks With Lowest Price Friction For Friday, Jan

^{Published on 2012-01-06 18:00:45 - WOPRAI}
 

January 6, 2012 / M2 PRESSWIRE / BUYINS.NET / www.buyins.net, announced today its proprietary Market Maker Friction Factor Report for Friday. 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 Friday there were 3789 companies with "abnormal" market making, 2585 companies with positive Friction Factors and 3095 companies with negative Friction Factors. Here is a list of the top companies with the largest percentage loss per share Friday and low price friction (bearish). This means that there was more selling than buying in the stocks and their stock prices dropped faster with less Friction. UNITED COMMUNITY BANKS/GA (NASDAQ:UCBI), TOREADOR RESOURCES CORP (NASDAQ:TRGL), Vical Inc (NASDAQ:VICL), INTEGRA LIFESCIENCES HOLDING (NASDAQ:IART), BIOMIMETIC THERAPEUTICS INC (NASDAQ:BMTI), Spreadtrum Communications Inc (NASDAQ:SPRD). 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
     UCBI       $-0.750      -10.36%      175,351         45.95%       177,947         46.63%       -2,596          -35     
     TRGL       $-0.500      -9.52%       154,912         40.77%       225,036         59.23%       -70,124         -1,402  
     VICL       $-0.540      -12.52%      2,300,214       33.76%       4,510,878       66.20%       -2,210,664      -40,938 
     IART       $-6.000      -19.67%      1,421,148       46.75%       1,543,182       50.77%       -122,034        -203    
     BMTI       $-0.210      -9.50%       227,081         41.97%       313,435         57.93%       -86,354         -4,112  
     SPRD       $-4.310      -22.38%      3,281,007       46.26%       3,770,577       53.17%       -489,570        -1,136  

For example, the chart above shows UCBI with a dollar loss Friday of $-0.75000 and a Friction Factor of -35 shares. That means that it only took 35 more shares of selling than buying to move UCBI lower by one penny. This means the Market Makers are allowing the stock to drop quickly (low friction). The combination of low friction and negative market direction can drive prices lower faster than normal.

UNITED COMMUNITY BANKS/GA (NASDAQ:UCBI) - United Community Banks, Inc. operates as the bank holding company for United Community Bank that provides retail and corporate banking services. Its deposit product line includes interest-bearing and non interest bearing deposits, NOW accounts, money market accounts, checking accounts, savings deposits, time deposits, and brokered deposits. The companys loan portfolio comprises commercial and industrial loans, commercial loans secured by real estate, commercial construction loans, residential construction loans, residential mortgage, and consumer installment loans. It also offers wire transfers, brokerage services, and other financial services. In addition, the company provides insurance brokerage services, as well as retail brokerage services through an affiliation with a third party broker/dealer. As of December 31, 2009, United Community Bank operated at 107 locations in north Georgia, the Atlanta, Georgia MSA, the Gainesville, Georgia MSA, coastal Georgia, western North Carolina, and east Tennessee. The company was founded in 1950 and is based in Blairsville, Georgia.

TOREADOR RESOURCES CORP (NASDAQ:TRGL) - Toreador Resources Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, engages in the acquisition, development, exploration, and production of crude oil. The company primarily holds interests in the two conventional oilfield areas, including the Neocomian Complex and Charmottes fields located in the Paris Basin of France. As of December 31, 2009, the company owned interests in approximately 750,000 gross exploration acres; and had proved plus probable reserves of 9.1 thousand barrels and proved plus probable plus possible reserves of 14.3 thousand barrels. Toreador Resources Corporation was founded in 1951 and is headquartered in Paris, France.

Vical Inc (NASDAQ:VICL) - Vical Incorporated engages in the research and development of biopharmaceutical products based on its deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) delivery technologies for the prevention and treatment of serious or life-threatening diseases. Its products include Allovectin-7 immunotherapeutic, a Phase III clinical trial product to treat metastatic melanoma; TransVax, a Phase II clinical trial product to prevent viral reactivation and disease after transplant; Prophylactic vaccine for H5N1 pandemic influenza virus, which completed Phase I clinical trial to protect against infection, disease, and/or viral shedding; Prophylactic vaccine for H1N1 pandemic influenza virus, which is under preclinical trial to protect against infection, disease, and/or viral shedding; CyMVectin prophylactic vaccine for cytomegalovirus, which is under preclinical trial to prevent infection before and during pregnancy; and Therapeutic vaccine for herpes simplex type 2 virus, which is under research to prevent recurring flare-ups. The company, through corporate collaborations, develops Collategene angiogenic therapy encoding Hepatocyte Growth Factor, Temusi angiogenic therapy encoding Fibroblast Growth Factor 1, and Angiogenic therapy encoding Hepatocyte Growth Factor to induce local growth of blood vessels to restore blood flow to limbs and heart affected by ischemia; Therapeutic vaccine encoding human telomerase reverse transcriptase to treat non-small cell lung, prostate cancer, melanoma, or carcinomas of the upper GI tract, colon, kidney, or bladder; Prophylactic and/or therapeutic hepatitis C vaccine to protect farm-raised salmon from infection; and ONCEPT therapeutic cancer vaccine encoding human tyrosinase for the treatment to increase survival time of dogs with oral melanoma. Vical Incorporated, through government collaboration, develops Prophylactic and/or therapeutic HIV vaccine to prevent/treat infection or disease. The company was founded in 1987 and is based in San Diego, California.

INTEGRA LIFESCIENCES HOLDING (NASDAQ:IART) - Integra LifeSciences Holdings Corporation develops, manufactures, and markets surgical implants and medical instruments for neurosurgery, extremity reconstruction, orthopedics, and general surgery. Its orthopedics products include specialty metal implants for surgery of the extremities and spine; orthobiologics products for repair and grafting of bone; dermal regeneration products and tissue-engineered wound dressings to treat acute and chronic wounds; nerve and tendon for the peripheral nerve repair and protection; bone and joint fixation devices and instruments for upper and lower extremity reconstruction; and bone graft substitutes for extremity reconstruction. The companys spine products comprise spinal fusion implant technologies; interbody/vertebral body replacement devices; anterior interbody fusion devices; cervical fixation to treat disorders of the cervical spine; deformity correction to correct abnormal curvitures of the spine; orthobiologic products for the repair and regeneration of bone in spinal and other orthopedic surgical procedures; and minimally invasive spinal implant products. Its neurosciences products include tissue ablation equipment for the ablation of unwanted tissue; cerebral spinal fluid management devices for managing the intracranial pressure of the neurologically compromised patient; intracranial monitoring equipment for monitoring intracranial pressure and brain tissue oxygenation; cranial stabilization equipment; and dural repair products. The companys instruments product portfolio comprises specialty and general surgical, and dental instruments and surgical lighting for sale to hospitals and outpatient surgery centers, as well as physician, veterinarian, and dental practices. It sells its products directly through various sales forces and other distribution channels primarily in the United States, Europe, and the Asia Pacific. The company was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in Plainsboro, New Jersey.

BIOMIMETIC THERAPEUTICS INC (NASDAQ:BMTI) - BioMimetic Therapeutics, Inc., a biotechnology company, engages in the development and commercialization of regenerative protein therapeutic-device combination products for the treatment of musculoskeletal injuries and conditions affecting bones, tendons, ligaments, and cartilage. The companys orthopedic products include Augment Bone Graft for open fracture and fusion treatment; and Augment Injectable Bone Graft for closed fracture treatment and minimally invasive fracture/fusion treatment. Its products also comprise Augment C to treat cartilage repair; Augment RC for rotator cuff tendon to bone repair; Augment AT for the treatment of acute tendon injuries; and Augment CT for chronic tendon injuries, as well as TBD, which is under development for spine fusion. The company was formerly known as BioMimetic Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and changed its name to BioMimetic Therapeutics, Inc. in July 2005. BioMimetic Therapeutics, Inc. was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Franklin, Tennessee.

Spreadtrum Communications Inc (NASDAQ:SPRD) - Spreadtrum Communications, Inc., a fabless semiconductor company, designs, develops, and markets baseband processors, radio frequency (RF) transceivers, and turnkey solutions for the wireless communications and mobile television markets. It offers a portfolio of integrated baseband processor solutions that support a range of wireless communications standards, including global system for mobile communications, general packet radio service, and time division synchronous code division multiple access, a 3G standard for wireless communications. The companys solutions also provide various multimedia capabilities, such as TV-out, MP3 digital audio playback, touch screen, JAVA accelerators, digital camera support up to 5 mega-pixels, Motion JPEG, MPEG4, AVS and H.264 digital video playback, and 64-channel polyphonic ringtone playback. In addition, it designs, develops, and markets RF transceivers; and a CMMB-based channel demodulator and audio/video decoder processor solution for the mobile television market, as well as AVS audio/video decoder processor solutions for the Internet protocol television, satellite, cable, and terrestrial digital television markets. Further, the company provides turnkey solutions, including total reference design solutions, which combine its baseband semiconductors, RF transceivers, and reference designs. It sells its products directly to brand manufacturers, independent design houses, and original design manufacturers primarily in the Peoples Republic of China, Hong Kong, and Macau. The company was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Shanghai, the Peoples Republic of China.

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