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Market Maker Surveillance Report. KWK, SVU, ADI, KFY, WFR, SPLS, Bullishly Biased Price Friction For Tuesday, March 6th 2012

^{Published on 2012-03-06 18:01:19 - WOPRAI}
 

March 6, 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 3395 companies with "abnormal" market making, 1074 companies with positive Friction Factors and 5264 companies with negative Friction Factors. Here is a list of the top companies with Abnormal Price Friction (bullish bias) in their stock prices. This means that there was more selling than buying in the stocks and their stock prices rose. Quicksilver Resources Inc (NYSE:KWK), SUPERVALU INC (NYSE:SVU), ANALOG DEVICES INC (NYSE:ADI), Korn/Ferry International (NYSE:KFY), MEMC ELECTRONIC MATERIALS (NYSE:WFR), STAPLES INC (NASDAQ:SPLS). 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
     KWK        $0.070       1.40%        1,561,378       29.95%       2,206,864       42.33%       -645,486        Abnormal
     SVU        $0.220       3.61%        2,723,315       30.35%       3,399,262       37.88%       -675,947        Abnormal
     ADI        $0.120       0.32%        971,698         27.58%       1,272,408       36.12%       -300,710        Abnormal
     KFY        $0.130       0.82%        118,383         15.30%       412,429         53.30%       -294,046        Abnormal
     WFR        $0.070       1.93%        2,821,615       31.33%       3,159,875       35.08%       -338,260        Abnormal
     SPLS       $0.300       1.99%        7,031,546       45.94%       8,215,806       53.68%       -1,184,260      Abnormal

For example, the chart above shows KWK with 645,486 greater shares of selling than buying (NetVol) and the stock price was up $0.07000. This means the Market Makers were trading the stock in a way inconsistent with normal supply and demand (Economics 101); more selling than buying should cause prices to drop.

Quicksilver Resources Inc (NYSE:KWK) - Quicksilver Resources Inc. engages in the exploration, development, and production of unconventional natural gas onshore in North America. It primarily owns interest in the Horn River Basin of Northeast British Columbia and the Green River Basin of Colorado. The company owns producing oil and natural gas properties principally in Texas, Colorado, Wyoming, and Montana, the United States, as well as in Alberta and British Columbia, Canada. As of December 31, 2009, its estimated total proved reserves were approximately 2.4 trillion cubic feet of natural gas equivalents. The company was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas.

SUPERVALU INC (NYSE:SVU) - SUPERVALU INC., together with its subsidiaries, operates retail food stores in the United States. Its stores offer grocery, general merchandise, health and beauty care, pharmacy, and fuel products. The company operates stores under the Acme, Albertsons, Cub Foods, Farm Fresh, Hornbachers, Jewel-Osco, Lucky, Shaws, Shop n Save, Shoppers Food & Pharmacy, and Star Market banners, as well as in-store pharmacies under the Osco and Sav-on banners. It operates approximately 2,394 traditional and hard-discount retail food stores, including 899 licensed Save-A-Lot stores. The company also offers supply chain services, which include wholesale distribution of products to independent retailers, including single and multiple grocery store independent operators, regional and national chains, mass merchants, and the military customers, as well as provides logistics support services. SUPERVALU was founded in 1871 and is based in Eden Prairie, Minnesota.

ANALOG DEVICES INC (NYSE:ADI) - Analog Devices, Inc. engages in the design, manufacture, and marketing of analog, mixed-signal, and digital signal processing integrated circuits used in industrial, communication, computer, and consumer applications. The companys products convert real-world phenomena, such as light, sound, temperature, motion, and pressure into electrical signals. Its products are used in a range of electronic equipment, including industrial process controls, factory automation systems, instrumentation products, energy management systems, defense electronics, automobiles, medical imaging equipment, portable wireless communication devices, cellular base stations, central office networking equipment, computers, digital cameras, and digital televisions. The company sells its products worldwide through direct sales force, third-party distributors, and independent sales representatives, as well as through its Web site. Analog Devices, Inc. was founded in 1965 and is headquartered in Norwood, Massachusetts.

Korn/Ferry International (NYSE:KFY) - Search and recruiting firm Korn/Ferry International focuses on board level, chief executive, and other senior executive positions in the consumer, financial services, industrial, life sciences, and technology industries. The Los Angeles company, which was founded in 1969 by Lester Korn and Richard Ferry, also assists clients with programs to develop their executives, providing such services as coaching and talent management. Clients include both public and private companies, middle-market and emerging growth outfits, and government and not-for-profit organizations.

MEMC ELECTRONIC MATERIALS (NYSE:WFR) - MEMC Electronic Materials, Inc. engages in the development, manufacture, and sale of silicon wafers for the semiconductor industry worldwide. Its wafers are used as the starting material for the manufacture of various types of semiconductor devices, including microprocessor, memory, logic, and power devices. The company operates in three segments: Semiconductor Materials, Solar Materials, and Solar Energy. The Semiconductor Materials segment offers prime polished wafers, such as OPTIA and annealed products; epitaxial wafers consisting of thin silicon layer grown on the polished surface of the wafer; test/monitor wafers for testing semiconductor fabrication lines and processes; and silicon-on-insulator wafers used for the chip making process. The Solar Materials segment provides solar wafers that are used as the starting material for crystalline solar cells. The Solar Energy segment offers solar energy services that integrate the design, installation, financing, monitoring, operations, and maintenance portions of the downstream solar market. As of December 31, 2010, it interconnected approximately 393 solar power system systems representing 267 megawatt of solar energy generating capacity. In addition, the company develops and sells photovoltaic energy solutions. Its customers comprise semiconductor device manufacturers, including the memory, microprocessor, and ASIC manufacturers; and foundries, solar cell and module manufacturers, and flat panel display producers and other industries. The company also serves commercial customers, such as large, national retail chains, and real estate property management firms; federal, state, and municipal governments; and utilities. It markets its solar energy generation, monitoring, and maintenance services through a direct sales force, as well as through solar channel partners. The company was founded in 1984 and is based in St. Peters, Missouri.

STAPLES INC (NASDAQ:SPLS) - Staples, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, operates as an office products company. The company sells various office supplies and services, business machines and related products, computers and related products, and office furniture. It also provides high-speed, color and self-service copying, other printing services, faxing, and pack and ship services. As of January 30, 2010, the company operated approximately 2,243 superstores in 48 states and the District of Columbia in the United States, and 10 provinces and 2 territories in Canada, as well as in Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Sweden, the United Kingdom, the People's Republic of China, Argentina, and Australia. It also operated 125 distribution and fulfillment centers in 29 states in the United States and 8 provinces in Canada, as well as in Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, the United Kingdom, the People's Republic of China, Argentina, Brazil, and Australia. The company also offers its products through catalogs, Internet, and sales force. Staples, Inc. was founded in 1986 and is based in Framingham, Massachusetts.

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