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Market Maker Surveillance Report. PLM, ASYS, OSG, AMRS, AB, TTHI, Losing Stocks With Lowest Price Friction For Friday, Februar

^{Published on 2012-02-10 18:01:12 - WOPRAI}
 

February 10, 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 3734 companies with "abnormal" market making, 1805 companies with positive Friction Factors and 4137 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. POLYMET MINING CORP (AMEX:PLM), AMTECH SYSTEMS INC (NASDAQ:ASYS), OVERSEAS SHIPHOLDING GROUP, INC (NYSE:OSG), AMYRIS INC (NASDAQ:AMRS), ALLIANCEBERNSTEIN HOLDING LP (NYSE:AB), TRANSITION THERAPEUTICS INC (NASDAQ:TTHI). 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
     PLM        $-0.170      -12.88%      193,002         21.67%       400,925         45.03%       -207,923        -12,231 
     ASYS       $-2.300      -20.45%      282,507         44.56%       341,042         53.80%       -58,535         -255    
     OSG        $-1.650      -13.95%      623,063         33.14%       654,397         34.81%       -31,334         -190    
     AMRS       $-2.770      -28.47%      538,936         47.23%       599,372         52.52%       -60,436         -218    
     AB         $-2.160      -13.08%      308,534         23.78%       497,593         38.36%       -189,059        -875    
     TTHI       $-0.290      -12.94%      40,756          39.27%       63,020          60.73%       -22,264         -768    

For example, the chart above shows PLM with a dollar loss Friday of $-0.17000 and a Friction Factor of -12,231 shares. That means that it only took 12,231 more shares of selling than buying to move PLM 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.

POLYMET MINING CORP (AMEX:PLM) - PolyMet Mining Corp., together with its subsidiary, Poly Met Mining, Inc., engages in the exploration, development, and acquisition of natural resource properties. It controls 100% of the NorthMet copper-nickel-precious metals ore body through a long-term lease; and owns 100% of the Erie Plant, a large processing facility in the mining district of the Mesabi Range in northeastern Minnesota. The company was formerly known as Fleck Resources Ltd. and changed its name to PolyMet Mining Corp. in June 1998. PolyMet Mining Corp. was incorporated in 1981 and is based in Vancouver, Canada.

AMTECH SYSTEMS INC (NASDAQ:ASYS) - Amtech Systems, Inc., through its subsidiaries, engages in the design, assembly, sale, and installation of capital equipment and related consumables used in the manufacture of wafers, primarily for the solar and semiconductor industries. It operates in two segments, Solar and Semiconductor Equipment, and Polishing Supplies. The Solar and Semiconductor Equipment segment produces and sells horizontal diffusion furnaces used for solar (photovoltaic) cell and semiconductor manufacturing; solar automation equipment, including mass wafer transfer systems, sorters, long-boat transfer systems, load station elevators, buffers, and conveyers; plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition products, which apply an anti-reflective coating to solar wafers; semiconductor automation products; and small batch vertical furnaces. It also offers thermal processing systems, including related automation, parts, and services to the solar/photovoltaic, semiconductor, silicon wafer, and microelectromechanical industries. The Polishing Supplies segment supplies wafer carriers to the manufacturers of silicon wafers. It also manufactures polishing templates, steel carriers, and double-sided polishing and lapping machines to fabricators of light emitting diodes, optics, quartz, ceramics and metal parts, and to manufacturers of medical equipment components and computer disks. Amtech Systems, Inc. markets its products primarily through sales personnel, as well as through a network of domestic and international independent sales representatives and distributors primarily in the United States, Asia, and northern Europe. The company was formerly known as Quartz Engineering & Materials, Inc. and changed its name to Amtech Systems, Inc. in 1987. Amtech Systems, Inc. was founded in 1981 and is based in Tempe, Arizona.

OVERSEAS SHIPHOLDING GROUP, INC (NYSE:OSG) - Overseas Shipholding Group, Inc., a bulk shipping company, engages primarily in the ocean transportation of crude oil and petroleum products. It owns and operates a fleet of oceangoing vessels and involves in the transportation of liquid and dry bulk cargoes. The company primarily serves independent and state-owned oil companies, oil traders, and government entities. As of December 31, 2009, it owned and operated a fleet of 106 vessels, aggregating 10.9 million deadweight tons and 864,800 cubic meters, of which 84 vessels operated in the international market and 22 operated in the United States Flag market. The companys newbuilding program of owned and chartered-in vessels totaled 23 international and the U.S. Flag vessels. Overseas Shipholding Group, Inc. was founded in 1948 and is based in New York, New York.

AMYRIS INC (NASDAQ:AMRS) - Amyris, Inc., an integrated renewable products company, offers renewable compounds for a variety of markets. It builds and applies its industrial synthetic biology platform to provide alternatives to select petroleum-sourced products used in specialty chemical and transportation fuel markets worldwide. The company modifies microorganisms, primarily yeast, and use them as living factories in established fermentation processes to convert plant-sourced sugars into a variety of hydrocarbon molecules. It focuses its commercialization efforts on a molecule called farnesene or Biofene, which forms the basis for a range of products comprising detergents, cosmetics, perfumes, industrial lubricants, and diesel. The company was formerly known as Amyris Biotechnologies, Inc. and changed its name to Amyris, Inc. in June 2010. Amyris, Inc. was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in Emeryville, California.

ALLIANCEBERNSTEIN HOLDING LP (NYSE:AB) - AllianceBernstein Holding L.P. and its subsidiaries provide investment management and related services to institutional, retail, and private clients in the United States and internationally. The company offers institutional services, including separately managed accounts, sub-advisory relationships, structured products, collective investment trusts, mutual funds, hedge funds, and other investment vehicles to unaffiliated corporate and public employee pension funds, endowment funds, domestic and foreign institutions, and governments and affiliates. Its retail services comprise retail mutual funds, sub-advisory relationships with mutual funds sponsored by third parties, and separately managed account programs sponsored by various financial intermediaries and other investment vehicles. The company also provides separately managed accounts, hedge funds, mutual funds, and other investment vehicles for private clients, including high-net-worth individuals, trusts and estates, charitable foundations, partnerships, and private and family corporations. In addition, it offers research services, which serve institutional investors seeking research, portfolio strategy, and brokerage-related services; and issuers of publicly-traded securities seeking equity capital markets services. Further, AllianceBernstein provides distribution, shareholder servicing, and administrative services to its sponsored mutual funds. The company was founded in 1987 and is based in New York, New York.

TRANSITION THERAPEUTICS INC (NASDAQ:TTHI) - Transition Therapeutics Inc., a biopharmaceutical company, develops novel therapeutics for various disease indications primarily in Canada. Its lead products include ELND-005/AZD-103, a Phase II clinical trial product for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease; and TT-223 gastrin analogue, a Phase II clinical trial product for the treatment of diabetes. The companys TT-223 gastrin analogue, includes TT-223 in combination with a GLP-1 analogue as a therapy for the treatment of type 1 and type 2 diabetes, which is under Phase 1b clinical study in type 2 diabetes patients; and TT-223 in combination with EGF analogues that has completed two Phase I clinical trials for the drug candidate in type 1 and type 2 diabetics. In addition, it has an emerging pipeline of preclinical drug candidates developed using its proprietary drug discovery engine. Transition Therapeutics Inc. has a strategic collaboration with Elan Pharma International Limited to develop and commercialize ELND-005/AZD-103 therapeutic agent, as well as a licensing and collaboration agreement with Eli Lilly and Company to develop and commercialize gastrin based therapies, including the lead compound TT-223. The company was formerly known as Transition Therapeutics and Diagnostics Inc. and changed its name to Transition Therapeutics Inc. in December 2000. Transition Therapeutics Inc. was founded in 1987 and is based in Toronto, Canada.

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