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Market Maker Surveillance Report. EMKR, ITRI, SYNT, STFC, CYBI, FREE, Winning Stocks With Lowest Price Friction For Thursday,

February 16, 2012 / M2 PRESSWIRE / BUYINS.NET / www.buyins.net, announced today its proprietary Market Maker Friction Factor Report for Thursday. 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 Thursday there were 3543 companies with "abnormal" market making, 4166 companies with positive Friction Factors and 2078 companies with negative Friction Factors. Here is a list of the top companies with the largest percentage gain per share Thursday and low price friction (bullish). This means that there was more buying than selling in the stocks and their stock prices rose faster with less Friction. EMCORE CORP (NASDAQ:EMKR), ITRON, INC. (NASDAQ:ITRI), SYNTEL INC (NASDAQ:SYNT), STATE AUTO FINANCIAL CORP (NASDAQ:STFC), CYBEX INTERNATIONAL INC (NASDAQ:CYBI), FreeSeas Inc. - Common Stock (NASDAQ:FREE). 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
     EMKR       $0.890       17.66%       167,281         54.29%       143,118         46.45%       24,163          271     
     ITRI       $8.120       20.24%       2,121,520       50.06%       2,087,024       49.24%       34,496          42      
     SYNT       $9.720       21.39%       303,379         50.46%       289,119         48.08%       14,260          15      
     STFC       $3.240       26.45%       66,297          60.54%       42,908          39.18%       23,389          72      
     CYBI       $0.480       26.01%       460,872         57.50%       332,038         41.43%       128,834         2,684   
     FREE       $0.340       30.67%       259,660         55.26%       210,249         44.74%       49,411          1,453   

Analysis of the Friction Factor chart above shows that each of the six stocks mentioned above have high net buy volumes (buy volume, sell volume) and 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 EMKR with a dollar gain Thursday of $0.89000 and a Friction Factor of 271 shares. That means that it only took 271 more shares of buying than selling to move EMKR higher by one penny. The Market Makers are currently allowing the stock to rise quickly (low friction). The combination of low friction and positive market direction can drive prices higher much faster than normal.

EMCORE CORP (NASDAQ:EMKR) - EMCORE Corporation provides compound semiconductor-based components and subsystems for the fiber optics and solar power markets. The company operates in two segments, Fiber Optics and Photovoltaics. The Fiber Optics segment offers optical components, subsystems, and systems that enable the transmission of video, voice, and data over fiber optic cables for high-speed data and telecommunications, cable television, and fiber-to-the-premises networks. The Photovoltaics segment provides solar products for satellite applications, including compound semiconductor-based multi-junction solar cells, covered interconnect cells, and integrated solar panels; and terrestrial applications, such as concentrating photovoltaic systems (CPV) for commercial and utility scale solar applications, multi-junction solar cells, and CPV components for use in solar power concentrator systems. It sells its products worldwide through direct sales force, external sales representatives, distributors, and application engineers. The company was founded in 1984 and is headquartered in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

ITRON, INC. (NASDAQ:ITRI) - Itron, Inc. provides products and services for the energy and water markets worldwide. It produces electricity, gas, water, and heat meters; and various other associated metering products for residential, commercial and industrial (C&I), and transmission and distribution customers. The company offers electronic and smart electricity meters; gas and water meters; electricity, gas, and water automated meter reading (AMR) and advanced metering infrastructure (AMI)/smart meter modules; handheld, mobile, and network AMR data collection technologies; AMI network technologies; electromechanical, electronic, and smart electricity meters; mechanical and ultrasonic water and heat meters; diaphragm, turbine, and rotary gas meters; one-way and two-way electricity prepayment systems, including smart key, keypad, and smart card; and two-way gas prepayment systems using smart card. It also provides meter data management software and knowledge application solutions that provide utilities and C&I end-users with support for data collection, complex data applications, data warehouses, and analytic and visualization tools. In addition, the company offers managed services to utilities that allow them to outsource various operations, such as meter reading services and prepayment program activities; and consulting and analysis services comprising market research, load research, energy efficiency program evaluation and design, energy policy design, rate design, and regulatory support. The company sells its products through direct sales force, distributors, representative agencies, partners, and meter manufacturer representatives. Itron, Inc. was founded in 1977 and is headquartered in Liberty Lake, Washington.

SYNTEL INC (NASDAQ:SYNT) - Syntel, Inc. provides information technology (IT) and knowledge process outsourcing (KPO) services worldwide. It operates in four segments: Applications Outsourcing, KPO, e-Business, and TeamSourcing. The Applications Outsourcing segment provides software applications development; maintenance, testing, and migration services; and infrastructure services. The KPO segment offers a host of outsourced solutions for knowledge and business processes. Its solutions enhance back-office services, such as transaction processing, loan servicing, retirement processing, and collections and payment processing. The e-Business segment provides technology services in the areas of architecture strategy, Web solutions, data warehousing/business intelligence, enterprise applications integration, and enterprise resource planning, and software package implementation. The TeamSourcing segment offers professional IT consulting services, including IT applications systems specification, design, development, implementation, and maintenance involving various computer hardware, software, data and networking technologies, and practices. The company primarily serves financial services, healthcare, insurance, automotive, and retail industries. Syntel, Inc. was founded in 1980 and is headquartered in Troy, Michigan.

STATE AUTO FINANCIAL CORP (NASDAQ:STFC) - State Auto Financial Corporation, through its subsidiaries, writes personal and business lines of insurance in the United States. It markets a line of property and casualty insurance products, such as standard personal and commercial automobile, nonstandard personal automobile, homeowners and farmowners, commercial multi-peril, workers compensation, commercial general liability, fire and allied lines, and property insurance. State Auto Financial Corporation offers its products and services through independent insurance agencies in 34 states and the District of Columbia. The company was founded in 1950 and is headquartered in Columbus, Ohio. State Auto Financial Corporation is a subsidiary of State Automobile Mutual Insurance Company.

CYBEX INTERNATIONAL INC (NASDAQ:CYBI) - Cybex International Inc. develops, makes, and markets exercise gear and fitness equipment. It offers various cardiovascular products, including cross trainers, treadmills, bikes, and steppers. The company also engages in parts and freight sales. In addition, Cybex offers leasing and various financing options for its commercial customers, including health clubs, corporate fitness centers, hotels, resorts, educational institutions, sports teams, and military installations. The company was founded in 1947 and is based in Medway, Mass.

FreeSeas Inc. - Common Stock (NASDAQ:FREE) - FreeSeas Inc., incorporated in April 2004, is a Marshall Islands corporation operating out of Piraeus, Greece. The Company is engaged in the transportation of dry bulk cargoes through the ownership and operation of drybulk vessels. It has a fleet of three Handysize vessels. The Company operates through its wholly owned subsidiaries, Adventure Two, S.A., Adventure Three, S.A. and Adventure Four, S.A. The operations of the vessels are managed by Free Bulkers, an affiliated Marshall Islands corporation. Free Bulkers provides FreeSeas with a wide range of shipping services at a fixed monthly fee per vessel. These services include technical management, such as managing day-to-day vessel operations including supervising the crewing, supplying, maintaining and drydocking of vessels, commercial management regarding identifying suitable vessel charter opportunities and certain accounting services.

On March 24 2005, Trinity Partners Acquisition Company Inc. (Trinity), which was a black check company, and FreeSeas entered into an agreement and plan of merger providing for the merger of Trinity into FreeSeas. On December 16, 2005, the Company announced that it had completed its merger with Trinity, and in accordance with the terms of the merger, FreeSeas was the surviving corporation.

The operations of the Company's vessels are managed by Free Bulkers S.A. (Free Bulkers), an affiliated company. Free Bulkers provides FreeSeas with a range of shipping services at a fixed monthly fee per vessel. These services include technical management, such as managing day-to-day vessel operations, including supervising the crewing, supplying, maintaining and dry docking of vessels, commercial management regarding identifying suitable vessel charter opportunities, and certain accounting services.

During the year ended December 31, 2004, one charterer, Express Sea Transport Corporation, chartered both M/V Free Destiny and the M/V Free Envoy. Until the acquisition of the M/V Free Fighter, FreeSeas' only sources of revenue were the charters by Express Sea Transport Corporation. The M/V Free Fighter is being chartered by other charterers.

The Company competes with Dryships Inc., Diana Shipping Inc., Eagle Bulk Shipping Inc. and Excel Maritime Carriers Ltd.

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