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Market Maker Surveillance Report. XRIT, HPQ, AA, HOV, ERT, SEFE, Bullishly Biased Price Friction For Tuesday, April 10th 2012

^{Published on 2012-04-10 18:00:40 - WOPRAI}
 

April 10, 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 3180 companies with "abnormal" market making, 1249 companies with positive Friction Factors and 5404 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. X-RITE INC (NASDAQ:XRIT), HEWLETT-PACKARD COMPANY (NYSE:HPQ), ALCOA INC. (NYSE:AA), HOVNANIAN ENTERPRISES-A (NYSE:HOV), (NASDAQ:ERT), (OTCBB:SEFE). 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
  XRIT    $1.540    38.50%    1,441,808    33.54%    2,848,871    66.27%    -1,407,063   Abnormal
  HPQ     $0.220    0.95%     6,671,666    25.86%    8,340,671    32.33%    -1,669,005   Abnormal
  AA      $0.170    1.77%     12,328,171   28.10%    15,167,179   34.57%    -2,839,008   Abnormal
  HOV     $0.010    0.51%     1,576,326    29.70%    1,897,740    35.75%    -321,414     Abnormal
  ERT     $0.060    0.75%     5,283,399    44.58%    6,568,857    55.42%    -1,285,458   Abnormal
  SEFE    $0.075    6.15%     1,612,285    41.62%    2,034,526    52.52%    -422,241     Abnormal

For example, the chart above shows XRIT with 1,407,063 greater shares of selling than buying (NetVol) and the stock price was up $1.54000. 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.

X-RITE INC (NASDAQ:XRIT) - X-Rite, Incorporated, a technology company, develops a range of color management systems primarily in the United States, Europe, and Asia. The company offers various management solutions comprising hardware, software, and services. Its products include colorimeters, which measure light using red, green, and blue receptors, as well as measure printed colors on packages, labels, textiles, and other materials; spectrophotometers used in predicting color formulation of materials, such as plastics, paints, inks, ceramics, and metals; densitometers that measure optical or photographic density; spectrodensitometers, which provide measurements for monitoring color reproduction used for controlling the color of printed inks in graphic arts applications; and sensitometers used to expose various types of photographic film for comparison to a reference standard. The company also offers software and databases that allow the users to collect and store color measurement data, compare that data to established standards and databases, communicate color results, and formulate colors from a database. In addition, it provides products for the communication and reproduction of color, digitally or in print; and support services, which offer customers access to color professional specialists, training, and technical support through color seminars, classroom workshops, on-site consulting, and interactive media development, as well as service repair operations. The company serves printing, packaging, photography, graphic design, video, automotive, paints, plastics, textiles, and dental and medical markets through sales personnel, independent sales representatives, and dealers. It has a collaboration agreement with BASF. The company was founded in 1958 and is headquartered in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

HEWLETT-PACKARD COMPANY (NYSE:HPQ) - Hewlett-Packard Company offers various products, technologies, software, solutions, and services to individual consumers and small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), as well as to the government, health, and education sectors worldwide. The companys Services segment provides consulting, outsourcing, and technology services to infrastructure, applications, and business process domains. Its Enterprise Storage and Servers segment offers storage and server products. This segment provides industry standard servers, business critical systems, and storage works offerings. The companys HP Software segment provides enterprise IT management solutions, information management and business intelligence solutions, and communications and media solutions. Its Personal Systems Group segment offers commercial personal computers (PCs), consumer PCs, workstations, handheld computing devices, calculators and other related accessories, and software and services for the commercial and consumer markets. The companys Imaging and Printing Group segment provides consumer and commercial printer hardware, printing supplies, printing media, and scanning devices, such as inkjet and Web solutions, laserjet and enterprise solutions, managed enterprise solutions, graphics solutions, and printer supplies. Its HP Financial Services segment offers leasing, financing, utility programs, and asset recovery services; and financial asset management services for enterprise customers, as well as specialized financial services to SMBs, and educational and governmental entities. The company also provides network infrastructure products under the ProCurve, 3Com, and TippingPoint brand names; video collaboration products under the Halo brand name; and Palm smartphones, as well as licenses its specific technology to third parties. Hewlett-Packard Company was founded in 1939 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

ALCOA INC. (NYSE:AA) - Alcoa, Inc. engages in the production and management of aluminum, fabricated aluminum, and alumina. The company operates in four segments: Alumina, Primary Metals, Flat-Rolled Products, and Engineered Products and Solutions. The Alumina segment engages in mining of bauxite, which is then refined into alumina. The Primary Metals segment produces aluminum. The Flat-Rolled Products segment engages in the production and sale of aluminum plate, sheet, and foil. The Engineered Products and Solutions segment produces and sells titanium, aluminum, and super alloy investment castings, hard alloy extrusions, forgings and fasteners, aluminum wheels, integrated aluminum structural systems, and architectural extrusions. Its products are used in aircraft, automobiles, commercial transportation, packaging, building and construction, oil and gas, defense, and industrial applications. The company holds interests in bauxite mining activities. It operates primarily in the United States, Australia, Spain, Brazil, the Netherlands, Norway, France, Hungary, Italy, the United Kingdom, Russia, and Germany. Alcoa, Inc. was founded in 1888 and is based in New York, New York.

HOVNANIAN ENTERPRISES-A (NYSE:HOV) - Hovnanian Enterprises, Inc. engages in homebuilding and financial services businesses in the United States. The company designs, constructs, markets, and sells single-family detached homes, attached townhomes and condominiums, mid-rise and high-rise condominiums, urban infill, and active adult homes. It markets and builds homes for first-time buyers, first and second-time move-up buyers, luxury buyers, active adult buyers, and empty nesters. The company offers homes for sale in 192 communities in 40 markets in 18 states in the United States. It also provides various financial services, including originating mortgages from homebuyers and selling such mortgages in the secondary market, as well as offers title insurance services. The company was founded in 1959 and is headquartered in Red Bank, New Jersey.

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