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Market Maker Surveillance Report. NTAP, DRYS, HERO, SCHW, FTR, XSRAY, Bearishly Biased Price Friction For Tuesday, February 7t

^{Published on 2012-02-07 18:00:47 - WOPRAI}
 

February 7, 2012 / 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 3975 companies with "abnormal" market making, 3143 companies with positive Friction Factors and 2779 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. NetApp Inc (NASDAQ:NTAP), DRYSHIPS INC (NASDAQ:DRYS), HERCULES OFFSHORE INC (NASDAQ:HERO), SCHWAB (NYSE:SCHW), FRONTIER COMMUNICATIONS CORP (NYSE:FTR), XSTRATA PLC-UNSPONS ADR (OTC:XSRAY). 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
     NTAP       $-0.520      -1.30%       6,041,957       60.96%       3,282,705       33.12%       2,759,252       Abnormal
     DRYS       $-0.030      -0.89%       11,194,337      52.39%       10,162,981      47.56%       1,031,356       Abnormal
     HERO       $-0.030      -0.60%       3,703,161       63.76%       2,019,805       34.77%       1,683,356       Abnormal
     SCHW       $-0.300      -2.39%       7,637,086       27.45%       6,436,605       23.14%       1,200,481       Abnormal
     FTR        $-0.040      -1.01%       8,668,539       56.17%       6,443,398       41.75%       2,225,141       Abnormal
     XSRAY      $-0.170      -4.38%       1,566,683       47.16%       472,656         14.23%       1,094,027       Abnormal

For example, the chart above shows NTAP with 2,759,252 greater shares of buying than selling (NetVol) and the stock price was down $-0.52000. 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.

NetApp Inc (NASDAQ:NTAP) - NetApp, Inc. provides enterprise storage and data management software and hardware products and services in the United States and internationally. The company provides solutions for storing, managing, protecting, and archiving business data. It offers fabric-attached storage and V-series storage solutions that support mix of storage area network, network-attached storage, and Internet small computer system interface environments; storage management and application integration software; FAS storage systems family, which are unified networked storage systems that provide access to enterprise data for users on various platforms; and V-Series Family, a network-based virtualization solution. The company also provides data protection software products, including Snapshot technology that enables online backups of data sets; SnapRestore technology to recover file systems or data volumes; SnapVault and Open Systems SnapVault technologies, which offers network- and storage-optimized disk-to-disk backup solutions; MetroCluster that combines array-based clustering with synchronous mirroring; and SnapMirror data replication solution. In addition, it offers data retention and archive products; Flash Cache modules to optimize the performance of random read intensive workloads, such as file services and messaging; and DataFort storage security appliance for data security and management across NAS, IP SAN, and tape backup environments. Further, the company provides professional services, support solutions, and customer education and training services. It serves energy, financial services, government, high technology, Internet, life sciences and healthcare services, manufacturing, media, entertainment, animation and video postproduction, and telecommunications industries. The company was formerly known as Network Appliance, Inc. and changed its name to NetApp, Inc. in March 2008. NetApp was founded in 1992 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.

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.

HERCULES OFFSHORE INC (NASDAQ:HERO) - Hercules Offshore, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, provides shallow-water drilling and marine services to the oil and natural gas exploration and production industry in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico and internationally. The company serves integrated energy companies, independent oil and natural gas operators, and national oil companies. As of February 24, 2010, it owned a fleet of 30 jackup rigs, 17 barge rigs, 3 submersible rigs, 1 platform rig, a fleet of marine support vessels, and 60 liftboat vessels, as well as owned 4 retired jackup rigs and 10 retired inland barges located in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico. The company was founded in 2004 and is based in Houston, Texas.

SCHWAB (NYSE:SCHW) - The Charles Schwab Corporation, through its subsidiaries, provides securities brokerage, banking, and related financial services to individuals and institutional clients. The company offers various brokerage products and services comprising asset management accounts, including accounts with check-writing features, debit card, and billpay; individual retirement accounts; retirement plans for small to large businesses; 529 college savings accounts; separately managed accounts; designated brokerage accounts; equity incentive plan accounts; and margin loans, as well as access to fixed income securities, equity and debt offerings, and exchange traded funds. It also offers various banking products and services, including first mortgages, home equity lines of credit, pledged-asset loans, certificates of deposit, demand deposit accounts, checking accounts linked to brokerage accounts, savings accounts, and credit cards. In addition, the company provides trust custody services, personal trust reporting services, and administrative trustee services; and mutual funds, such as third-party mutual funds, no-load mutual funds, proprietary mutual funds, other third-party mutual funds, and mutual fund trading and clearing services to broker-dealers. Further, it provides research, analytic tools, performance reports, market analysis, and educational materials. Additionally, the company offers custodial, trading, technology, practice management, trust asset, and other support services to independent investment advisors; and retirement plan services, plan administrator services, and stock plan services. It operates primarily in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Hong Kong. The company was founded in 1971 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

FRONTIER COMMUNICATIONS CORP (NYSE:FTR) - Frontier Communications Corporation, a communications company, provides regulated and unregulated voice, data, and video services to residential, business, and wholesale customers in the United States. It offers local and long distance voice services, including basic telephone wireline services to residential and business customers; switched access services that allow other carriers to use the facilities to originate and terminate their long distance voice and data traffic; and directory services that provide white and yellow page directories for residential and business listings. The company also provides data and Internet services, which include residential services comprising high-speed Internet, dial up Internet, portal and e-mail products, and hard drive back-up services; and commercial and carriers services, such as metro Ethernet; dedicated Internet; Internet protocol, optical, multiprotocol label switching, and TDM data transport services. In addition, it offers direct broadcast satellite services and fiber optic video services, as well as provides online access to video content, entertainment, and news available on the worldwide Web through its Web site myfitv.com. The company was formerly known as Citizens Communications Company and changed its name to Frontier Communications Corporation in July 2008. Frontier Communications Corporation was founded in 1927 and is based in Stamford, Connecticut.

XSTRATA PLC-UNSPONS ADR (OTC:XSRAY) - Xstrata plc operates as a diversified metals and mining company in Switzerland and internationally. It primarily explores for copper, coking coal, thermal coal, ferrochrome, nickel, vanadium, and zinc metals, as well as platinum group metals, gold, cobalt, lead, and silver deposits. The companys operations and projects span in various countries, including Canada, the United States, the Dominican Republic, Spain, Norway, Germany, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Chile, Peru, Colombia, Argentina, Brazil, South Africa, Tanzania, Australia, the Philippines, New Caledonia, and Papua New Guinea. It also develops, markets, and supports technologies for the mining, mineral processing, and metals extraction industries; and provides supports services for commodity business, as well as manages an 'Engineer in Training' program. The company was formerly known as Sudelektra AG and changed its name to Xstrata plc in 1999. Xstrata plc was founded in 1926 and is headquartered in Zug, Switzerland.

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