Market Maker Surveillance Report. OPNT, PZZI, CPY, CDXS, ONE, APRI, Losing Stocks With Lowest Price Friction For Wednesday, Fe
February 8, 2012 / M2 PRESSWIRE / BUYINS.NET / www.buyins.net, announced today its proprietary Market Maker Friction Factor Report for Wednesday. 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 Wednesday there were 3930 companies with "abnormal" market making, 3120 companies with positive Friction Factors and 2796 companies with negative Friction Factors. Here is a list of the top companies with the largest percentage loss per share Wednesday 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. OPNET Technologies Inc (NASDAQ:OPNT), Pizza Inn Inc (NASDAQ:PZZI), CPI CORP (NYSE:CPY), CODEXIS, INCORPORATION (NASDAQ:CDXS), HIGHER ONE HOLDINGS INC (NYSE:ONE), Apricus Biosciences Inc (NASDAQ:APRI). 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 OPNT $-5.430 -14.30% 1,077,172 48.24% 1,084,638 48.57% -7,466 -14 PZZI $-1.370 -22.39% 101,379 48.07% 109,405 51.88% -8,026 -59 CPY $-0.210 -15.00% 211,935 20.11% 502,346 47.66% -290,411 -13,829 CDXS $-0.920 -15.41% 386,491 45.49% 445,595 52.44% -59,104 -642 ONE $-2.790 -15.48% 1,910,481 31.35% 2,637,587 43.28% -727,106 -2,606 APRI $-0.850 -17.17% 79,271 32.88% 161,820 67.12% -82,549 -971Analysis of the Friction Factor chart above shows that each of the six stocks mentioned above have high net dollar losses (Change) and extremely low price friction in their stocks. 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 OPNT with a dollar loss Wednesday of $-5.43000 and a Friction Factor of -14 shares. That means that it only took 14 more shares of selling than buying to move OPNT 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.
OPNET Technologies Inc (NASDAQ:OPNT) - OPNET Technologies, Inc. provides software products and related services for managing applications and networks in the United States and internationally. Its software products include ACE Analyst, which troubleshoots performance problems in production applications; ACE Live that determines the root source of application performance problems; IT Guru Network Planner for predictive network capacity planning, design optimization, and validation of network configuration changes; and IT Guru Systems Planner that offers capacity planning for servers. The companys software products also comprise nCompass for enterprises that provides centralized, real-time visibility of network topology, traffic, and status in a single, integrated view; IT Sentinel for automatic and continuous network configuration integrity and security auditing, and proactive change validation; OPNET Panorama that offers system analytics for application performance management; and VNE Server that automatically maintains near real-time data model of the production IT network. In addition, its software products consist of SP Guru Network Planner that contains analytics that are valuable to service providers for planning, network design optimization, and validation of configuration changes; SP Guru Transport Planner, an optical network-planning product; nCompass for service providers; OPNET Modeler, a network modeling and simulation product; Modeler Wireless suite that incorporates additional functionality to wireless network research and development organizations; and Modeler Wireless suite for defense. The company also develops and sells various OPNET software modules to simulate and analyze networking technologies and communication protocols; and offers consulting services, software license updates, technical support and services, and training services. OPNET Technologies Inc. was founded in 1986 and is headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland.
Pizza Inn Inc (NASDAQ:PZZI) - Pizza Inn, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, operates and franchises pizza buffet, delivery/carry-out and express restaurants in the United States and internationally. Its buffet restaurants offer dine-in, carryout, and catering services, as well as delivery services. The companys delivery/carryout restaurants provide delivery and carryout services and are located in shopping centers or other in-line retail developments. Its express restaurants serve its customers through various non-traditional points of sale and are located in convenience stores, food courts, college campuses, airport terminals, athletic facilities, or other commercial facilities. The company operates restaurants under Pizza Inn trademark. As of June 27, 2010, it operated 312 restaurants, including 3 company-owned restaurants and 309 franchised restaurants. Pizza Inn, Inc. was founded in 1958 and is based in The Colony, Texas.
CPI CORP (NYSE:CPY) - CPI Corp., through its subsidiaries, manufactures and sells professional portrait photography of young children, individuals, and families. It offers portrait photography of babies, preschoolers, school-age children, adults, families/groups, weddings, passports, and churches, as well as cruise ships, conventions/events, glamour, and business portraits. The companys PMPS brand focuses on the sale of packages and portrait collections. It operates under the PictureMe Portrait Studio, Walmart Portrait Studios, and Estudios Fotografia de Walmart names. The company also operates portrait studios in Walmart stores and supercenters. In addition, it provides on-line sales and services through its Website. As of May 1, 2010, the company operated 2,907 professional portrait studios in the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Puerto Rico principally under license agreements with Sears and Toys R Us, as well as under lease and license agreements with Walmart. CPI Corp. was founded in 1979 and is based in St. Louis, Missouri.
CODEXIS, INCORPORATION (NASDAQ:CDXS) - Codexis, Inc. develops industrial biocatalysts, enzymes, and microbes for energy, pharmaceutical, and environmental industries. The company focuses on conversion of renewable resources into transportation fuels and pharmaceuticals. It offers development of technologies for air and water treatment and chemical manufacturing. The company s products include biocatalyst panels, custom biocatalysts, enzymes, active pharmaceutical ingredients and intermediates, and human cytochrome biocatalysts. Codexis was incorporated in 2002 and is based in Redwood City, California with additional offices in Budapest, Hungary; Singapore; and Bangalore, India.
HIGHER ONE HOLDINGS INC (NYSE:ONE) - Higher One Inc. provides technology and payment services to the higher education industry in the United States. The company provides a suite of disbursement and payment solutions for higher education institutions and their students. It also offers campus communities with student-oriented banking services, which include user-friendly features. The companys products and services for its higher education institutional clients comprise OneDisburse Refund Management product that provides higher education institutional clients with a technology service for streamlining the student refund disbursement process; and a suite of payment transaction products and services. Its payment suite includes software-as-a-service products and services, such as ePayment that enables higher education institutions to securely accept online payments for tuition, charges, and fees from students via credit card, pinless debit, or without charge via ACH; eBill, which enables higher education institutions to automate payer billing and processing functions performed on campus and to extend payment services; MyPaymentPlan product that enables higher education institutions to personalize students payment plans; eMarket product, which enables higher education institutions to provide their academic, athletic, and other departments with Internet ecommerce storefronts; and Cashiering that enables higher education institutions to operate and manage their cashiering functions, back office payments, and campus-wide departmental deposits. The companys other products and services comprise OneDisburse ID, OneDisburse Payroll, and Financial Intelligence. In addition, it offers OneAccount product to the students of its higher education institutional clients, which includes an FDIC-insured deposit account, OneCard, and other retail banking services. The company was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in New Haven, Connecticut.
Apricus Biosciences Inc (NASDAQ:APRI) - Apricus Biosciences, Inc., through its subsidiaries, engages in the design and development of pharmaceutical products, as well as provision of pre-clinical contract research organization (CRO) services. The company, through its subsidiary, NexMed (U.S.A.) Inc., engages in designing and developing pharmaceutical products based on its patented NexACT drug delivery technology. The NexACT drug delivery technology is designed to enhance the delivery of an active drug to improve therapeutic outcomes and reduce systemic side effects that accompany oral and injectable medications. It offers Vitaros, which is approved for drug erectile dysfunction treatment. The company also has compounds in development from pre-clinical through Phase III that are focused on dermatology, sexual dysfunction, and cancer. Apricus Biosciences, through its other subsidiary, Bio-Quant, Inc., provides pre-clinical CRO services to pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies in the areas of in vitro and in vivo pharmacology, pharmacokinetics, and toxicology to support pre-investigational new drug enabling packages. Apricus Biosciences was founded in 1987 and is headquartered in San Diego, California.
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