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Market Maker Surveillance Report. MET, SNDK, LSI, LQMT, RDEA, SEFE, Highest Net Buy Volume With Lowest Price Friction For Mond


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April 23, 2012 / M2 PRESSWIRE / BUYINS.NET / www.buyins.net, announced today its proprietary Market Maker Friction Factor Report for Monday. 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 Monday there were 3714 companies with "abnormal" market making, 1568 companies with positive Friction Factors and 4220 companies with negative Friction Factors. Here is a list of the top companies with the highest net buy volume on Monday and lowest price Friction (bullish). This means that there was more buying than selling in the stocks and their stock prices rose faster with less Friction. METLIFE, INC. (NYSE:MET), SANDISK CORP (NASDAQ:SNDK), LSI CORP (NYSE:LSI), LIQUIDMETAL TECHNOLOGIES INC (OTCBB:LQMT), ARDEA BIOSCIENCES, INC. (NASDAQ:RDEA), (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
  MET     $0.390    1.12%     4,892,727    37.47%    3,091,441    23.68%    1,801,286    46,187  
  SNDK    $0.520    1.44%     6,930,414    55.97%    5,441,095    43.94%    1,489,319    28,641  
  LSI     $0.090    1.17%     4,939,992    36.55%    3,941,231    29.16%    998,761      110,973 
  LQMT    $0.160    39.02%    13,474,755   53.13%    11,872,360   46.81%    1,602,395    100,150 
  RDEA    $10.770   51.70%    16,344,565   57.46%    11,888,923   41.79%    4,455,642    4,137   
  SEFE    $0.560    32.00%    7,455,367    46.38%    5,471,358    34.04%    1,984,009    35,429  
Analysis of the Friction Factor chart above shows that each of the six stocks mentioned above have high net dollar gains (Change) and very 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 MET with a Net Buy Volume of 1,801,286 shares and a Friction Factor of 46,187 shares. That means that it takes 46,187 more shares of buying than selling to move MET higher by one penny. This means the Market Makers are allowing the stock to move up higher as of Monday (lower friction). And with one of the highest Net Buy Volumes, the combination of low friction and high net buy volume is bullish.

METLIFE, INC. (NYSE:MET) - MetLife, Inc., through its subsidiaries, provides insurance, employee benefits, and financial services in the United States, Latin America, the Asia Pacific, Europe, the Middle East, and India. It offers group life insurance products and services as employer-paid benefits, including variable life, universal life, and term life products, as well as employee paid supplemental life products; individual life insurance products and services comprising variable life, universal life, term life, and whole life products, as well as a range of mutual funds and other securities products; and non-medical health insurance products and services, such as dental insurance, group short- and long-term disability, individual disability income, long-term care, critical illness, and accidental death and dismemberment coverages, as well as employer-sponsored auto and homeowners insurance and administrative services-only arrangements to employers. The company also provides retirement products consisting of variable and fixed annuities for individuals and employees of corporations, and other institutions. In addition, MetLife provides an array of annuity and investment products, including guaranteed interest products and other stable value products, income annuities, and separate account contracts for the investment management of defined benefit and defined contribution plan assets, as well as offers certain products to fund postretirement benefits. Further, it offers auto insurance and homeowners insurance policies, as well as personal excess liability and coverage for recreational vehicles and boat owners; and credit insurance and endowment products. Additionally, the company funds company initiatives, various start-up entities, and run-off entities; and banking services, such as residential mortgage loans and various deposit products. The company was founded in 1868 and is based in New York, New York.

SANDISK CORP (NASDAQ:SNDK) - SanDisk Corporation designs, develops, manufactures, and markets NAND-based flash storage card products that are used in various consumer electronics products. Flash storage technology allows digital information to be stored in a durable, compact format that retains the data even after the power has been switched off. It offers removable cards, embedded products, universal serial bus flash drives, and flash-based digital media players, as well as wafers and components. The companys removable card products are used in various consumer electronics devices, such as mobile phones, digital cameras, gaming devices, and laptop computers; and embedded flash products are used in mobile phones, navigation devices, gaming systems, imaging devices, and computing platforms. It offers its products through retail and original equipment manufacturer distribution channels primarily in the United States, the Asia Pacific, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. The company was formerly known as SunDisk Corporation and changed its name to SanDisk Corporation in August 1995. SanDisk Corporation was founded in 1988 and is based in Milpitas, California.

LSI CORP (NYSE:LSI) - LSI Corporation designs, develops, and markets storage and networking semiconductors and storage systems. Its Semiconductor segment offers integrated circuits for hard disk and tape drive solutions, including systems-on-a-chip, read channels, pre-amplifiers, serial physical interfaces, and hard disk controllers, as well as custom firmware; and magnetic and optical disk drives, and disk and tape-based storage systems. Its hard disk and tape drive electronics are used to store and retrieve data in personal computers, corporate network servers, archive/back-up devices, and consumer electronics products, such as digital video recorders, game consoles, and digital media players. This segment also offers networking solutions that include chips, such as network processors, digital signal processors, content-inspection processors, traffic shaping devices, and physical layer devices, as well as software, evaluation systems, and reference designs for office, home, and small-to-medium business applications. The companys Storage Systems segment provides a line of open, modular storage products that comprises complete systems and sub-assemblies, such as storage controller modules, disk drive enclosure modules, related management software, and data protection software for creating local and remote copies of critical data. Its products and solutions are used in various open operating systems, such as Windows, UNIX and UNIX variants, and Linux environments. This segments products serve Internet-based applications, such as online transaction processing and e-commerce, data warehousing, file serving, video editing and post-production, and computing. The company operates in the North America, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East. LSI Corporation serves original equipment manufacturers through a network of direct sales, and marketing and field engineering offices. The company, formerly known as LSI Logic Corporation, was founded in 1980 and is headquartered in Milpitas, California.

LIQUIDMETAL TECHNOLOGIES INC (OTCBB:LQMT) - Liquidmetal Technologies, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, develops, manufactures, and sells products and components made from bulk amorphous alloys worldwide. It operates in two segments, Liquidmetal Alloy Industrial Coatings and Bulk Liquidmetal Alloy. The Liquidmetal Alloy Industrial Coatings segment offers proprietary coatings, powders, bulk alloys, and composites that are primarily used as a protective coating for industrial machinery and equipment, such as drill pipe used by drilling industry and boiler tubes used in coal-burning power plants. The Bulk Liquidmetal Alloy segment manufactures and sells casing components for electronic devices, medical devices, sporting goods, tooling, prototype sampling, defense applications, and metal processing equipment. The company also markets and sells a line of proprietary amorphous alloy-based industrial coatings under the Liquidmetal Armacor Coatings brand name. The company was founded in 1987 and is based in Rancho Santa Margarita, California.

ARDEA BIOSCIENCES, INC. (NASDAQ:RDEA) - Ardea Biosciences, Inc., a biotechnology company, focuses on the discovery and development of small-molecule therapeutics for the treatment of gout, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), and cancer in the United States. The companys products include RDEA594, a Phase IIb clinical trial product for the treatment of gout; RDEA684, a preclinical trial product for the treatment of gout with hyperuricemia; RDEA806, a non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor, which completed Phase II clinical trial for the treatment of patients with HIV; and RDEA427, which is in first-in-human micro-dose pharmacokinetic study for the treatment of HIV infection. It is evaluating RDEA119, an inhibitor of Mitogen-activated ERK kinase (MEK), which is in Phase I/II study in combination with sorafenib and as a single agent in a Phase I study, both in advanced cancer patients. The company has a license agreement with Bayer to develop and commercialize MEK inhibitors for various indications. Ardea Biosciences, Inc. is based in San Diego, California.

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