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Market Maker Surveillance Report. TJX, LOW, WFR, HCA, AMD, OGZPY, Bullishly Biased Price Friction For Thursday, April 5th 2012

^{Published on 2012-04-05 18:01:10 - WOPRAI}
 

April 5, 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 3853 companies with "abnormal" market making, 2620 companies with positive Friction Factors and 2970 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. TJX COMPANIES INC (NYSE:TJX), LOWE'S COS INC (NYSE:LOW), MEMC ELECTRONIC MATERIALS (NYSE:WFR), HCA HOLDINGS INC (NYSE:HCA), ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES, INC. (NYSE:AMD), GAZPROM OAO-SPON ADR (OTC:OGZPY). 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
  TJX     $0.890    2.26%     2,348,763    28.84%    3,152,538    38.71%    -803,775     Abnormal
  LOW     $0.220    0.70%     3,915,978    29.42%    5,048,494    37.92%    -1,132,516   Abnormal
  WFR     $0.120    3.50%     1,132,966    20.73%    1,988,804    36.39%    -855,838     Abnormal
  HCA     $0.100    0.37%     1,067,219    21.00%    2,399,207    47.20%    -1,331,988   Abnormal
  AMD     $0.060    0.77%     4,532,328    30.30%    5,337,122    35.69%    -804,794     Abnormal
  OGZPY   $0.080    0.66%     550,510      28.75%    1,367,400    71.41%    -816,890     Abnormal

For example, the chart above shows TJX with 803,775 greater shares of selling than buying (NetVol) and the stock price was up $0.89000. 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.

TJX COMPANIES INC (NYSE:TJX) - The TJX Companies, Inc. operates as an off-price retailer of apparel and home fashions in the United States and internationally. Its stores offer apparel, including footwear and accessories; home fashions, including home basics, accent furniture, lamps, rugs, wall decor, decorative accessories, and giftware; jewelry and accessories; mens and juniors offerings; childrens furniture; seasonal merchandise; and other merchandise. The company operates its stores under the T.J. Maxx, Marshalls, HomeGoods, A.J. Wright, Winners, HomeSense, and T.K. MAXX trademarks. As of February 24, 2010, it operated 890 T.J. Maxx, 813 Marshalls, 323 HomeGoods, and 150 A.J. Wright stores in the U.S.; 208 Winners, 79 HomeSense, and 3 STYLESENSE stores in Canada; and 263 T.K. Maxx and 14 HomeSense stores in Europe. The company was founded in 1956 and is based in Framingham, Massachusetts.

LOWE'S COS INC (NYSE:LOW) - Lowe's Companies, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, operates as a home improvement retailer in the United States and Canada. The company offers a range of products for home decorating, maintenance, repair, remodeling, and property maintenance. It provides home improvement products in the categories of appliances, paint, lumber, flooring, building materials, millwork, lawn and landscape products, hardware, fashion plumbing, tools, lighting, seasonal living, rough plumbing, nursery, outdoor power equipment, cabinets and countertops, rough electrical, home environment, home organization, and windows and walls, as well as boards, panel products, irrigation pipes, vinyl sidings, and ladders. The company also offers installation services through independent contractors in various product categories. Lowe's Companies serves homeowners and renters primarily consisting of do-it-yourself customers and do-it-for-me customers, as well as others buying for personal and family use; and commercial business customers, who work in the construction, repair/remodel, commercial and residential property management, or business maintenance professions. As of January 29, 2010, it operated 1,710 stores, including 1,694 stores in the United States and 16 stores in Canada. The company also offers its products through electronic product catalogs and Lowes.com. Lowe's Companies, Inc. was founded in 1952 and is based in Mooresville, North Carolina.

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.

HCA HOLDINGS INC (NYSE:HCA) - HCA Holdings, Inc. offers health care services in the United States. It owns, manages, or operates hospitals, freestanding surgery centers, diagnostic and imaging centers, radiation and oncology therapy centers, rehabilitation and physical therapy centers, and various other facilities. The companys general acute care hospitals provide medical and surgical services, including inpatient care, intensive care, cardiac care, diagnostic services, and emergency services, as well as outpatient services, which include outpatient surgery, laboratory, radiology, respiratory therapy, cardiology, and physical therapy. Its psychiatric hospitals offer therapeutic programs, such as child, adolescent, and adult psychiatric care; and adult and adolescent alcohol, and drug abuse treatment and counseling. As of December 31, 2010, the company owned and operated 151 general, acute care hospitals with 38,321 licensed beds, and 7 general, acute care hospitals with 2,269 licensed beds through joint ventures, as well as 5 psychiatric hospitals with 506 licensed beds and 106 freestanding surgery centers in eastern, central, and western United States. It also operates six consolidating hospitals in England. HCA Holdings, Inc. is headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee.

ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES, INC. (NYSE:AMD) - Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. operates as a semiconductor company in the United States, Japan, China, and Europe. Its microprocessors for server platforms include multi-core AMD Opteron processors; notebook PC platforms consist of the AMD Dual-Core Accelerated Processor E-350, AMD Dual-Core Accelerated Processor C-50, AMD Phenom II Dual-Core Mobile Processor, AMD Phenom II Quad-Core Mobile Processor, AMD Turion X2 Mobile Processor, AMD Turion II Mobile Processor, AMD Turion II Ultra Mobile Processor, AMD Turion Neo X2 Mobile Processor, AMD Athlon II processor, AMD Athlon Neo processor, AMD Athlon Neo X2 Dual-Core processor, and the Mobile AMD Sempron processor products; and desktop PC platforms comprise AMD Phenom II, AMD Phenom, AMD Athlon II, AMD Athlon X2, AMD Athlon, and AMD Sempron processors. It also provides embedded processor products for vendors in industrial controls, digital signage, point of sale/self-service kiosks, medical imaging, set-top box, and casino gaming machines, as well as enterprise class telecommunications, networking, security, storage systems and thin-clients, or computers. In addition, the company offers chipset products, including integrated graphics processor chipsets and discrete chipsets for desktop and notebook PCs, professional workstations, and servers. Further, it provides graphic products consisting of 3D graphics, and video and multimedia products for use in desktop and notebook computers, such as home media PCs, professional workstations, and servers, as well as technology for game consoles. The company's graphics products comprise discrete desktop graphics, discrete notebook graphics, professional graphics, FireStream processors, and game consoles. It serves original equipment manufacturers, original design manufacturers, system builders, and independent distributors through direct sales force, independent distributors, and sales representatives. The company was founded in 1969 and is based in Sunnyvale, California.

GAZPROM OAO-SPON ADR (OTC:OGZPY) - OAO Gazprom, together with its subsidiaries, engages in the exploration, production, transportation, and sale of gas in the Russian Federation and internationally. The company also involves in the production and processing of crude oil, gas condensates, and other hydrocarbons; and sale of refined products. In addition, it engages in the generation and sale of electric and heat energy; storage of gas; and construction, banking, and production of other goods, works, and services. As of December 31, 2009, the company had proved and probable reserves of approximately 21.9 trillion cubic meters of natural gas, 727.2 million tons of gas condensate, and 1,154.0 million tons of oil for a total of 140.2 bboe. It also owned 160.4 thousand kilometers long gas pipeline system, including 215 compressor stations on the pipelines with a total capacity of approximately 42.0 thousand MW; and owned and operated 25 underground gas storage facilities in the Russian Federation. The company is based in Moscow, the Russian Federation.

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