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Market Maker Surveillance Report. DHT, VTG, DOLE, VALV, PATH, USLV, Losing Stocks With Lowest Price Friction For Tuesday, Marc


Published on 2012-03-20 18:00:39 - WOPRAI
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March 20, 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 3680 companies with "abnormal" market making, 1962 companies with positive Friction Factors and 3985 companies with negative Friction Factors. Here is a list of the top companies with the largest percentage loss per share Tuesday 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. DHT HOLDINGS INC (NYSE:DHT), VANTAGE DRILLING CO (AMEX:VTG), DOLE FOOD CO INC (NYSE:DOLE), SHENGKAI INNOVATIONS INC (NASDAQ:VALV), NUPATHE INC (NASDAQ:PATH), (NYSE:USLV). 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
  DHT     $-0.390   -26.35%   2,604,186    33.19%    3,198,225    40.76%    -594,039     -15,232 
  VTG     $-0.140   -8.33%    784,200      23.35%    1,939,225    57.74%    -1,155,025   -82,502 
  DOLE    $-0.890   -8.10%    293,628      32.99%    310,976      34.94%    -17,348      -195    
  VALV    $-0.240   -17.91%   26,028       18.48%    114,812      81.52%    -88,784      -3,699  
  PATH    $-0.490   -10.84%   356,525      43.30%    465,619      56.55%    -109,094     -2,226  
  USLV    $-3.320   -7.87%    177,783      26.56%    220,520      32.94%    -42,737      -129    
Analysis 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 DHT with a dollar loss Tuesday of $-0.39000 and a Friction Factor of -15,232 shares. That means that it only took 15,232 more shares of selling than buying to move DHT 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.

DHT HOLDINGS INC (NYSE:DHT) - DHT Holdings, Inc., through its subsidiary, DHT Maritime, Inc., operates a fleet of double-hull crude oil tankers. As of March 25, 2010, the companys fleet consisted of 3 very large crude carriers, which were tankers ranging in size from 200,000 to 320,000 deadweight tons (dwt); 2 Suezmax tankers that were tankers ranging in size from 130,000 to 170,000 dwt; and 4 Aframax tankers, which were tankers ranging in size from 80,000 to 120,000 dwt. Its fleet principally operates on international routes and had a combined carrying capacity of 1,656,921 dwt. The company is based in St. Helier, the Channel Islands.

VANTAGE DRILLING CO (AMEX:VTG) - Vantage Drilling Company provides offshore contract drilling services to multinational oil and natural gas companies, government owned oil and natural gas companies, and independent oil and natural gas producers worldwide. It involves in contracting drilling units, related equipment, and work crews to drill oil and natural gas wells, as well as offers construction supervision services. As of March 8, 2010, the companys fleet included four ultra-premium jackup rigs, three ultra-deepwater drillships, and two deepwater semisubmersibles. Vantage Drilling Company is based in Houston, Texas.

DOLE FOOD CO INC (NYSE:DOLE) - Dole Food Company, Inc. engages in sourcing, growing, processing, distributing, and marketing fresh fruits, vegetables, and packaged foods. The company operates in three segments: Fresh Fruit, Fresh Vegetables, and Packaged Foods. The Fresh Fruit segment produces and markets fresh fruit to wholesale, retail, and institutional customers. It offers bananas under the DOLE brand name; distributes DOLE and non-DOLE branded fresh produce in Europe; offers pineapples under DOLE TROPICAL GOLD label; and exports Chilean fruits, such as grapes, apples, pears, stone fruits, and kiwifruits primarily to North America, Latin America, and Europe. The Fresh Vegetables segment sources, harvests, cools, distributes, and markets approximately 20 types of fresh and fresh-cut vegetables, including iceberg lettuce, red and green leaf lettuce, romaine lettuce, butter lettuce, celery, cauliflower, broccoli, carrots, brussels sprouts, green onions, asparagus, snow peas, and artichokes; fresh strawberries; and packaged salads and packaged fresh-cut vegetables. The Packaged Foods segment produces canned pineapple, canned pineapple juice, fruit juice concentrate, fruit in plastic cups, jars and pouches, fruit parfaits, snack foods, and frozen fruit. The company sells its products principally to mass merchandisers and supermarkets. Dole Food Company operates in North America, Latin America, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, as well as in Asia, primarily comprising China, Japan, Korea, the Philippines, and Thailand. The company was founded in 1851 and is based in Westlake Village, California. Dole Food Company Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Dole Holding Company, LLC.

SHENGKAI INNOVATIONS INC (NASDAQ:VALV) - Shengkai Innovations, Inc., through its subsidiaries, designs, manufactures, and sells ceramic valves; and manufactures and sells ceramic materials. It offers ceramics gate valves, ball valves, back valves, adjustable valves, cut-off valves, and special valves. The company also provides technical consultation and services, including installation and maintenance of general industrial ceramic valves, as well as involves in the design and manufacture of various non-standard ceramic valves as required by customers' special operating conditions. In addition, it exports ceramic valves, ceramic materials, and related technologies. The company offers its products to electric power, petrochemical, chemical, metallurgy, ore mining, and environmental protection industries primarily in the People's Republic of China, Europe, North America, and the Asia-Pacific region. It markets its products through direct sales force and agents. Shengkai Innovations, Inc. is based in Tianjin, the People's Republic of China.

NUPATHE INC (NASDAQ:PATH) - NuPathe Inc., a specialty pharmaceutical company, focuses on the development and commercialization of therapeutics for diseases of the central nervous system, including neurological and psychiatric disorders. The company completed a pivotal Phase III clinical trial for Zelrix, an active, single-use transdermal sumatriptan patch for the treatment of acute migraine. Its research and development pipeline consists of two preclinical product candidates, NP201 for the symptomatic treatment of Parkinsons disease and NP202 for the treatment of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. The company was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in Conshohocken, Pennsylvania.

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