Market Maker Surveillance Report. GE, ALTH, CSCO, LQMT, CLWR, ERT, Highest Net Sell Volume and Negative Price Friction For Wed
April 25, 2012 / M2 PRESSWIRE / BUYINS.NET / www.buyins.net, announced today its proprietary Market Maker Friction Factor Report for Wednesday. 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 Wednesday there were 3714 companies with "abnormal" market making, 3858 companies with positive Friction Factors and 1891 companies with negative Friction Factors. Here is a list of the top companies with the highest net sell volume on Wednesday and lowest negative price Friction (bearish). This means that there was more selling than buying in the stocks and their stock prices dropped faster with less Friction. GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY (NYSE:GE), ALLOS THERAPEUTICS INC (NASDAQ:ALTH), CISCO SYSTEMS INCORPORATED (NASDAQ:CSCO), LIQUIDMETAL TECHNOLOGIES INC (OTCBB:LQMT), Clearwire Corp (NASDAQ:CLWR), (NASDAQ:ERT). 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 GE $-0.050 -0.26% 13,913,001 29.03% 15,939,370 33.26% -2,026,369 -405,274 ALTH $-0.010 -0.30% 333,818 4.71% 6,757,350 95.29% -6,423,532 -6,423,532 CSCO $-0.050 -0.26% 22,368,946 46.34% 25,016,677 51.82% -2,647,731 -529,546 LQMT $-0.110 -26.85% 6,008,599 41.01% 8,628,990 58.89% -2,620,391 -238,001 CLWR $-0.080 -5.71% 10,819,338 37.85% 17,768,316 62.15% -6,948,978 -868,622 ERT $-0.010 -0.15% 360,172 8.94% 3,670,227 91.06% -3,310,055 -3,310,055Analysis of the Friction Factor chart above shows that each of the six stocks mentioned above have low price friction combined with more selling than buying (negative Net Volume) 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 GE down $-0.05000 with a Friction Factor of -405,274 and a Net Volume of -2,026,369. That means that it takes 405,274 more shares of selling than buying to drop GE by one penny. On Monday the Market Makers allowed the stock to move down on heavier selling than buying (low negative friction).
GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY (NYSE:GE) - General Electric Company (GE) operates as a technology, media, and financial services company worldwide. Its Energy Infrastructure segment produces gas, steam, and aero derivative turbines; generators; combined cycle systems; and renewable energy solutions, as well as provides water treatment services and equipment. This segment also sells surface and subsea drilling and production systems, floating production platform equipment, compressors, turbines, turboexpanders, and high pressure reactors to oil and gas companies. The companys Technology Infrastructure segment manufactures jet engines, turboprop and turbo shaft engines, and its replacement parts for use in military and commercial aircraft, as well as provides repair and maintenance services. This segment also produces healthcare products, including diagnostic imaging systems; offers transportation products and maintenance services; provides enterprise solutions using sensors for temperature, pressure, moisture, gas and flow rate, as well as non-destructive testing inspection equipment. GEs NBC Universal segment engages in the production and distribution of films and television programs; operation of television stations and cable/satellite television networks, as well as theme parks. The companys Capital Finance segment offers commercial lending and leasing products to manufacturers, distributors, and end-users of equipment and capital assets; consumer financial services to consumers and retailers; capital and investment solutions for real estate; commercial finance to the energy and water industries; and commercial aircraft leasing and finance, and fleet and financing solutions. Its Consumer & Industrial segment produces various home appliances, lighting products, and electrical equipment and control products, as well as provides related services. The company has a joint venture with Shenhua International Limited. The company was founded in 1892 and is based in Fairfield, Connecticut.
ALLOS THERAPEUTICS INC (NASDAQ:ALTH) - Allos Therapeutics, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company, focuses on developing and commercializing anti-cancer therapeutics. It is developing FOLOTYN (pralatrexate injection), a folate analogue metabolic inhibitor, for the treatment of patients with relapsed or refractory peripheral T-cell lymphoma. The company is also developing FOLOTYN as a single agent and in combination therapy regimens in various hematologic malignancies and solid tumor indications, including stage IV breast cancer and recurrent/metastatic head and neck cancer. It sells FOLOTYN to pharmaceutical wholesale distributors who then resell it to patients respective health care providers. The company was formerly known as HemoTech Sciences, Inc. and changed its name to Allos Therapeutics, Inc. in October 1994. Allos Therapeutics, Inc. was founded in 1992 and is headquartered in Westminster, Colorado.
CISCO SYSTEMS INCORPORATED (NASDAQ:CSCO) - Cisco Systems, Inc. designs, manufactures, and sells Internet protocol (IP)-based networking and other products related to the communications and information technology industry worldwide. It offers routers that interconnect public and private IP networks for mobile, data, voice, and video applications; switching products, which offer connectivity to end users, workstations, IP phones, access points, and servers; application networking services; and home networking products, such as adapters, gateways, modems, and home network management software products. The company also provides security products comprising span firewall, intrusion prevention, remote access, virtual private network, unified client, Web, and email security products; storage area networking products that deliver connectivity between servers and storage systems; unified communication products to integrate voice, video, data, and mobile applications on fixed and mobile networks; video systems, including digital set-top boxes and digital media products; and wireless systems. In addition, it offers optical networking products, cable access and flip video products, service provider VoIP services, Cisco TelePresence systems, Cisco Unified Computing Systems, physical security and video surveillances, digital media systems, and building systems. Further, the company provides technical support services; and responsive, preventive, and consultative support services for its technologies. Cisco Systems, Inc. has strategic alliances with Accenture Ltd; AT&T Inc.; Cap Gemini S.A.; EMC Corporation; Fujitsu Limited; Intel Corporation; International Business Machines Corporation; Italtel SpA; Johnson Controls Inc.; Microsoft Corporation; Nokia Corporation; Nokia Siemens Networks; Oracle Corporation; SAP AG; Sprint Nextel Corporation; Tata Consultancy Services Ltd.; VMware, Inc.; BMC Software Inc.; and Wipro Limited. The company was founded in 1984 and is headquartered in San Jose, 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.
Clearwire Corp (NASDAQ:CLWR) - Clearwire Corporation, through its subsidiaries, builds and operates mobile broadband networks that provide high-speed residential and mobile Internet access services and residential voice services in communities in the United States. It offers wireless broadband and mobile broadband services, as well as voice over Internet protocol telephony services for homes and offices. The company also leases residential modems, as well as sells modems and personal computer cards. As of December 31, 2009, the company operated in 61 markets in the United States and Europe, covering an estimated 44.7 million people, and had approximately 642,000 retail and 46,000 wholesale subscribers. It markets its products and services directly to consumers, as well as through cellular retailers, consumer electronics stores, satellite television dealers, and computer sales and repair stores. Clearwire Corporation also markets its products and services through company-operated retail outlets. The company, formerly known as WiMAX Operations of Sprint Nextel Corporation, is headquartered in Kirkland, Washington. Clearwire Corporation operates as a subsidiary of Sprint HoldCo, LLC.
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