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Market Maker Surveillance Report. OTT, CXW, LACO, UCTT, CPLA, DHRM, Losing Stocks With Lowest Price Friction For Tuesday, Apri


Published on 2012-04-24 18:00:18 - WOPRAI
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April 24, 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 3734 companies with "abnormal" market making, 3307 companies with positive Friction Factors and 2402 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. Otelco Inc (NASDAQ:OTT), CORRECTIONS CORPORATION OF AMERICA (NYSE:CXW), LAKES ENTERTAINMENT INC (NASDAQ:LACO), ULTRA CLEAN HOLDINGS (NASDAQ:UCTT), CAPELLA EDUCATION CO (NASDAQ:CPLA), DEHAIER MEDICAL SYSTEMS LTD (NASDAQ:DHRM). 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
  OTT     $-0.960   -14.41%   552,771      40.26%    819,731      59.70%    -266,960     -2,781  
  CXW     $-2.710   -8.94%    2,267,410    31.90%    2,419,968    34.05%    -152,558     -563    
  LACO    $-0.220   -9.69%    161,293      40.85%    233,582      59.15%    -72,289      -3,286  
  UCTT    $-0.640   -8.81%    366,791      43.09%    466,396      54.79%    -99,605      -1,556  
  CPLA    $-3.260   -9.48%    199,668      45.44%    233,825      53.22%    -34,157      -105    
  DHRM    $-0.440   -14.38%   37,636       41.47%    53,011       58.42%    -15,375      -349    
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 OTT with a dollar loss Tuesday of $-0.96000 and a Friction Factor of -2,781 shares. That means that it only took 2,781 more shares of selling than buying to move OTT 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.

Otelco Inc (NASDAQ:OTT) - Otelco Inc. provides wireline telephone services to residential and business customers primarily in north central Alabama, Maine, New Hampshire, western Massachusetts, central Missouri, and southern West Virginia. It offers wireline local telephone services, which include caller identification, call waiting, call forwarding, and voicemail; long distance telephone services; communications services comprising data and voice network configurations; telephone related services, such as leasing, selling, installing, and maintaining customer premise telecommunications equipment; billing and collection services for other carriers under contract; and directory advertising services, as well as publishes local telephone directories. The company also provides network access services, such as the origination, transport, and termination of calls of long distance, wireless, and other interexchange carriers; cable television services, including basic, digital, high-definition, digital video recording, and pay per view cable television services; Internet services that comprise digital high-speed data lines, dial-up Internet access, and ancillary services, which include Web hosting and computer virus protection; and transport services consisting of the rental of fiber to transport data and other telecommunications services. As of December 31, 2009, it operated approximately 100,356 voice and data access lines; had approximately 132,324 wholesale network connections; and served approximately 4,195 cable television customers and 9,116 other Internet customers. The company was founded in 1998 and is based in Oneonta, Alabama.

CORRECTIONS CORPORATION OF AMERICA (NYSE:CXW) - Corrections Corporation of America, together with its subsidiaries, owns and operates privatized correctional and detention facilities in the United States. The company owns, operates, and manages prisons and other correctional facilities, as well as provides inmate residential and prisoner transportation services for governmental agencies. In addition to providing the fundamental residential services relating to inmates, its facilities offer various rehabilitation and educational programs, including basic education, religious services, life skills and employment training, and substance abuse treatment. The company also offers healthcare services, including medical, dental, and psychiatric services; food services; and work and recreational programs. As of December 31, 2009, Corrections Corporation operated 65 correctional and detention facilities, including 44 facilities that it owned, with a total design capacity of approximately 87,000 beds in 19 states and the District of Columbia. It also owned 2 additional correctional facilities that it leased to third-party operators. Corrections Corporation serves federal, state, and local correctional and detention authorities. The company was founded in 1983 and is based in Nashville, Tennessee.

LAKES ENTERTAINMENT INC (NASDAQ:LACO) - Lakes Entertainment, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, develops, finances, and manages Indian-owned casino properties. As of December 31, 2009, the company held development and management or financing agreements with four separate tribes for casino operations in Michigan, California, and Oklahoma for a total of five separate casino projects. It manages the Cimarron Casino for the Iowa Tribe of Oklahoma; the Four Winds Casino Resort for the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians; and the Red Hawk Casino for the Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians. The company also develops non-Indian casino projects in Mississippi, Kansas, and Ohio. In addition, it develops, buys, patents, and licenses rights for new table game concepts to market/distribute and license to casinos. The company was formerly known as Lakes Gaming, Inc. and changed its name to Lakes Entertainment, Inc. in 2002. Lakes Entertainment, Inc. was founded in 1998 and is based in Minnetonka, Minnesota.

ULTRA CLEAN HOLDINGS (NASDAQ:UCTT) - Ultra Clean Holdings, Inc. develops and supplies critical subsystems to the original equipment manufacturers of semiconductor capital equipment in North America, Europe, and Asia. The companys products include gas delivery systems, which control the flow, pressure, sequencing, and mixing of specialty gases into and out of the reaction chambers of semiconductor manufacturing tools; chemical mechanical planarization subsystems; and chemical delivery modules that deliver gases and reactive chemicals from a centralized subsystem to the reaction chamber, as well as gas delivery systems, and liquid and vapor delivery systems. It also offers top-plate assemblies that form the top portion of the reaction chamber, within which gases controlled by gas delivery systems react to form thin films or etch films on the wafer; frame assemblies that form the support structure, to which various other assemblies are attached; and pneumatic harnesses and cables that connect other critical subsystems. In addition, the company provides process modules that comprise frame assembly, top-plate assembly, and gas and chemical delivery modules, as well as the chamber and electronic, pneumatic, and mechanical subsystems; and other high level assemblies, which are used in semiconductor manufacturing, research, flat panel, energy, and medical equipment industries. Ultra Clean Holdings, Inc. was founded in 1991 and is headquartered in Hayward, California.

CAPELLA EDUCATION CO (NASDAQ:CPLA) - Capella Education Company, through its subsidiary, Capella University, provides online post-secondary education services in the United States. It offers a range of doctoral, masters, and bachelors programs in various markets, such as behavioral health and human services, business management and technology, and education and public service leadership primarily for working adults. The company also provides various learner support services comprising academic services, such as new learner orientation, technical support, academic advising, research services for doctoral degree candidates, writing services, and online tutoring; and administrative services consisting of registration for classes, application for financial aid, paying tuition, and accessing their billing statements and transcripts online. In addition, its learner support services include library services with access to collection of online journals, eBooks, and interlibrary loan services; and career counseling services that comprise individualized phone, e-mail and face-to-face communications, online newsletters, online seminars, and conference calls to provide career planning services to learners and alumni. As of December 31, 2009, it offered approximately 1,050 online courses and 36 academic programs with 124 specializations to approximately 34,000 learners. Capella Education Company was founded in 1991 and is headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

DEHAIER MEDICAL SYSTEMS LTD (NASDAQ:DHRM) - Dehaier Medical Systems Limited, through its subsidiaries, designs, develops, and markets respiratory and oxygen homecare products, and other medical devices in the Peoples Republic of China. The company also distributes products designed and manufactured by other companies. It offers various medical devices, including C-arm X-ray systems, anesthesia machines, patient monitors, and general hospital products; and respiratory and oxygen homecare products, such as oxygen concentrators, CPAP devices, portable sleep screening and diagnostic devices, and thermotherapy devices; and air compressors and ventilator trolleys. Dehaier Medical sells its products primarily to distributors, as well as to hospitals, clinics, and government health bureaus directly. The company was formerly known as De-Haier Medical Systems Limited and changed its name to Dehaier Medical Systems Limited in June 2005. Dehaier Medical Systems Limited was incorporated in 2003 and is based in Beijing, the People's Republic of China.

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