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Market Maker Surveillance Report. AWRE, ABAX, MBTF, ARNA, VIMC, SEFE, Winning Stocks With Lowest Price Friction For Friday, Ap

^{Published on 2012-04-27 18:00:51 - WOPRAI}
 

April 27, 2012 / M2 PRESSWIRE / BUYINS.NET / www.buyins.net, announced today its proprietary Market Maker Friction Factor Report for Friday. 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 Friday there were 3782 companies with "abnormal" market making, 3566 companies with positive Friction Factors and 2150 companies with negative Friction Factors. Here is a list of the top companies with the largest percentage gain per share Friday and low price friction (bullish). This means that there was more buying than selling in the stocks and their stock prices rose faster with less Friction. AWARE INC/MASS (NASDAQ:AWRE), ABAXIS, INC. (NASDAQ:ABAX), Mbt Financial Corp (NASDAQ:MBTF), ARENA PHARMACEUTICALS INC (NASDAQ:ARNA), VIMICRO INTERNATIONAL CO-ADR (NASDAQ:VIMC), (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
  AWRE    $2.410    64.44%    377,777      48.78%    372,505      48.09%    5,272        22      
  ABAX    $6.220    20.86%    290,733      57.20%    210,716      41.46%    80,017       129     
  MBTF    $0.450    18.37%    129,690      61.31%    81,844       38.69%    47,846       1,063   
  ARNA    $0.470    21.86%    17,609,567   53.34%    15,383,239   46.59%    2,226,328    47,369  
  VIMC    $0.220    17.46%    773,105      52.66%    688,818      46.92%    84,287       3,831   
  SEFE    $0.300    17.86%    3,824,902    52.47%    3,094,653    42.46%    730,249      24,342  

For example, the chart above shows AWRE with a dollar gain Friday of $2.41000 and a Friction Factor of 22 shares. That means that it only took 22 more shares of buying than selling to move AWRE higher by one penny. The Market Makers are currently allowing the stock to rise quickly (low friction). The combination of low friction and positive market direction can drive prices higher much faster than normal.

AWARE INC/MASS (NASDAQ:AWRE) - Aware, Inc. provides products for the biometrics and Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) test industries in the United States, Germany, and internationally. It offers Biometrics Services Platform, a software platform that enables developers, integrators, and end-users to build and deploy multimodal biometric data processing solutions in support of a service-oriented architecture. The company also offers professional services to certain customers to assist in the implementation of biometrics systems. In addition, it licenses and sells software products used in various biometric functionalities, such as the enrollment of fingerprints and facial images, ID personalization and reading, and networking for criminal justice and border management in government agencies and commercial enterprises. Further, the company sells DSL test and diagnostics hardware and software products to original equipment manufacture (OEM) suppliers of DSL test equipment, including automated test-heads and handheld testers to pre-qualify, monitor, and troubleshoot DSL services. It sells its biometric software products for medical and digital imaging applications, as well as DSL test hardware and software products to telephone companies and network equipment suppliers primarily through an OEM sales channel. The company was founded in 1986 and is headquartered in Bedford, Massachusetts.

ABAXIS, INC. (NASDAQ:ABAX) - Abaxis, Inc. develops, manufactures, markets, and sells portable blood analysis systems for use in the human or veterinary patient-care setting to provide clinicians with rapid blood constituent measurements in the medical and veterinarian markets. Its products include point-of-care blood chemistry analyzer, which performs a panel of 14 tests on human patients and 13 tests on veterinary patients marketed under the Piccolo xpress and Piccolo Classic names in the human medical market, and under the VetScan VS2 and VetScan Classic names in the veterinary market. The companys products also include Reagent Discs that handle various technical steps of blood chemistry testing automatically; and VetScan HM5, VetScan HM2, VetScan HMII, and VetScan HMT hematology instruments, which offer blood count analysis for veterinary applications. In addition, its products comprise VetScan VSpro that assists in the diagnosis and evaluation of suspected bleeding disorders, toxicity/poisoning, disseminated intravascular disease, hepatic disease, and monitoring therapy, as well as progression of disease states; VetScan canine heartworm rapid test, a test for the detection of dirofilaria immitis in canine whole blood, serum, or plasma; and i-STAT 1 analyzer, a handheld instrument and associated consumables for blood gas, electrolyte, basic blood chemistry, and immunoassay testing for the animal health care market. Further, Abaxiss products consist of Orbos Discrete Lyophilization process, which allows the production of active chemical ingredient in the form of a soluble bead, as well as involves in flash-freezing a drop of liquid reagent to form a solid bead and then freeze-drying the bead to remove water. The company markets and sells its products through a direct sales force and independent distributors world wide. Abaxis, Inc. was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in Union City, California.

Mbt Financial Corp (NASDAQ:MBTF) - MBT Financial Corp. operates as the holding company for Monroe Bank & Trust that provides customary retail and commercial banking, and trust services in Michigan. Its deposit products include checking and savings accounts, NOW accounts, money market deposits, certificates of deposit, non-interest bearing deposits, and individual retirement accounts. The companys loan portfolio comprises commercial loans, personal loans, real estate mortgage loans, and installment loans. It also provides safe deposit facilities, automated teller machine and night depository facilities, treasury management services, telephone and Internet banking, personal trust, employee benefit, and investment management services. The company serves small and middle-market businesses and middle-income individuals. It operates 18 offices in Monroe County, Michigan; and 7 offices in Wayne County, Michigan. The company was founded in 1858 and is headquartered in Monroe, Michigan.

ARENA PHARMACEUTICALS INC (NASDAQ:ARNA) - Arena Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, focuses on discovering, developing, and commercializing oral drugs in the therapeutic areas of cardiovascular, central nervous system, inflammatory, and metabolic diseases. The company also discovers small molecule drug candidates that target G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs). Its clinical development programs include lorcaserin that has completed Phase III clinical trials for the treatment of weight management; APD791, an anti-thrombotic drug candidate, which completed Phase Ia and Phase Ib clinical trials; APD597 that is in Phase I clinical trials for the treatment of type II diabetes; APD916, which has completed preclinical development for the treatment of narcolepsy and cataplexy; and APD811, a preclinical drug candidate for the treatment of pulmonary arterial hypertension. The companys drug candidates use GPCR-focused drug discovery and development approach, as well as technologies, including Constitutively Activated Receptor Technology and Melanophore Technology. It has collaboration agreements with Ortho-McNeil-Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc. to further develop compounds for the potential treatment of type II diabetes and other disorders; and Merck & Co., Inc. to develop therapeutics for atherosclerosis and other disorders. Arena Pharmaceuticals also has a strategic cooperation agreement with Siegfried Ltd to manufacture lorcaserin. The company was founded in 1997 and is based in San Diego, California.

VIMICRO INTERNATIONAL CO-ADR (NASDAQ:VIMC) - Vimicro International Corporation, through its subsidiaries, designs, develops, and markets mixed-signal semiconductor products and system-level solutions for the consumer electronics, communications, and surveillance markets in Mainland China, Taiwan, Japan, Hong Kong, and Korea. It offers mixed-signal multimedia processors for personal computer and embedded notebook cameras, as well as for mobile phones. The company provides system-level solutions that include integrated semiconductors, customizable firmware and software, software development tools, reference designs, and applications support. It also offers video surveillance and security products comprising video capturing, compression, transmission, storage, processing, display, and video analysis products. In addition, the company involves in packaging, testing, and reselling third party image sensors. Its products support a range of standards, platforms, and components to facilitate its customers designs, and their assembly and supply chain management processes. Vimicro International sells its products through direct sales force and distributors to original design manufacturers, original equipment manufacturers, design houses, and module manufacturers. The company was founded in 1999 and is based in Beijing, the Peoples Republic of China.

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