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Market Maker Surveillance Report. MU, BRCD, ORCL, RENN, QQQ, ZNGA, Highest Net Sell Volume and Negative Price Friction For Fri


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May 18, 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 3695 companies with "abnormal" market making, 1573 companies with positive Friction Factors and 4370 companies with negative Friction Factors. Here is a list of the top companies with the highest net sell volume on Friday 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. MICRON TECHNOLOGY INC (NASDAQ:MU), BROCADE COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS, INC. (NASDAQ:BRCD), Oracle Corp (NASDAQ:ORCL), RENAISSANCE CAP GR (NYSE:RENN), (NASDAQ:QQQ), (NASDAQ:ZNGA). 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
  MU      $-0.330   -5.55%    14,819,456   44.10%    18,669,780   55.56%    -3,850,324   -116,676
  BRCD    $-0.320   -6.48%    5,686,925    41.28%    8,080,814    58.66%    -2,393,889   -74,809 
  ORCL    $-0.670   -2.55%    31,404,111   46.06%    36,692,876   53.82%    -5,288,765   -78,937 
  RENN    $-1.270   -20.35%   9,776,321    30.13%    12,073,860   37.21%    -2,297,539   -18,091 
  QQQ     $-0.880   -1.43%    37,938,601   47.75%    40,765,147   51.30%    -2,826,546   -32,120 
  ZNGA    $-1.070   -12.94%   18,138,716   46.47%    20,489,136   52.49%    -2,350,420   -21,967 
Analysis 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 MU down $-0.33000 with a Friction Factor of -116,676 and a Net Volume of -3,850,324. That means that it takes 116,676 more shares of selling than buying to drop MU by one penny. On Monday the Market Makers allowed the stock to move down on heavier selling than buying (low negative friction).

MICRON TECHNOLOGY INC (NASDAQ:MU) - Micron Technology, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, engages in the manufacture and marketing of semiconductor devices worldwide. Its products include dynamic random access memory (DRAM) products that provide data storage and retrieval, which include DDR2 and DDR3; and other specialty DRAM memory products, including DDR, SDRAM, DDR and DDR2 mobile low power DRAM, pseudo-static RAM, and reduced latency DRAM. The company also offers NAND flash memory products, which are electrically re-writeable and non-volatile semiconductor devices that retain content when power is turned off. In addition, it provides NOR flash memory products that are electrically re-writeable and non-volatile semiconductor memory devices; phase change memory products; and image sensor products. Micron Technologys products are used in a range of electronic applications, including personal computers, workstations, network servers, mobile phones, flash memory cards, USB storage devices, digital still cameras, MP3/4 players, and in automotive applications. It sells its products to original equipment manufacturers and retailers through internal sales force, independent sales representatives, and distributors, as well as through a Web-based customer direct sales channel. The company was founded in 1978 and is headquartered in Boise, Idaho.

BROCADE COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS, INC. (NASDAQ:BRCD) - Brocade Communications Systems, Inc. supplies networking equipment comprising end-to-end Internet protocol based Ethernet and storage area networking solutions. Its Data Storage segment provides infrastructure products and solutions, including directors, switches, routers, fabric-based software applications, distance/extension products, management applications, and utilities to centralize data management; and host bus adapters, converged network adapters, mezzanine cards, and switch modules for bladed servers. The companys Ethernet Products segment offers Open Systems Interconnection Reference Model (OSI) Layer 2-3 switches and routers, which enable the use of bandwidth-intensive network business applications and digital entertainment on local area networks and wide area networks; and OSI Layer 47 switches that allow enterprises and service providers to build network infrastructures to direct the flow of traffic, and file area network products and associated management solutions. The companys Global Services segment provides break/fix maintenance, extended warranty, installation, consulting, network management, and related software maintenance and support services; consulting and support services that assist customers in designing, implementing, deploying, and managing networking solutions; and post-contract customer support and extended warranties. It serves various businesses and organizations, which include global enterprises and service providers, such as telecommunication firms, cable operators, and mobile carriers. The company has a strategic partnership with LG-Ericsson. It offers its products and services to end-user customers directly, and through various distribution partners comprising original equipment manufacturers, distributors, systems integrators, and value-added resellers in the United States, western Europe, Japan, and the greater Asia Pacific region. The company was founded in 1995 and is headquartered in San Jose, California.

Oracle Corp (NASDAQ:ORCL) - Oracle Corporation, an enterprise software company, develops, manufactures, markets, distributes, and services database and middleware software, applications software, and hardware systems worldwide. It engages in licensing database and middleware software, including database, application server and application grid, SOA suite and business process management, data migration and integration, business intelligence, identity and access management, content management, portal and user interaction, developer tools, Oracle enterprise manager, and Java platform. The company also offers application software, including enterprise resource planning, customer relationship management, enterprise performance management, supply chain management, business intelligence applications, enterprise project portfolio management, and industry-specific applications; and software license updates and product support services. In addition, it provides hardware systems products, such as servers, storage products, Solaris operating system and other hardware-related software, and networking components and products; and hardware systems support services. Further, the company offers consulting services, which include enterprise architecture design and implementation, business/IT strategy alignment, business process simplification, solution integration, and product implementation, enhancements, and upgrades; on demand and advanced customer services; and training services, as well as certification programs. It markets and sells its products directly, as well as through resellers, system integrators/implementers, consultants, education providers, Internet service providers, network integrators, and independent software vendors to various industries, government agencies, and educational institutions. The company has a strategic alliance with Cap Gemini S.A. to market and implement Oracle Revenue Management for public. Oracle was founded in 1977 and is headquartered in Redwood City, California.

RENAISSANCE CAP GR (NYSE:RENN) - Renaissance Capital Growth & Income Fund III, Inc. (the Fund), incorporated on January 20, 1994, is a non-diversified closed-end investment company and has elected to be treated as a business development company under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended. The investment objective of the Fund is to provide its shareholders with current income and long-term capital appreciation by investing primarily in privately placed securities of small public companies (Portfolio Companies). Renaissance Capital Group, Inc. serves as the investment adviser to the Fund. In this capacity, Renaissance Group is primarily responsible for the selection, evaluation, structure, valuation and administration of the Fund's investment portfolio.

The Fund generally invests in privately placed preferred stock or debentures of a Portfolio Company, which securities typically are convertible into or exchangeable for common stock of the Portfolio Company. While such common stock of the Portfolio Company may be publicly traded, the common stock acquired by the Fund is often unregistered. Therefore, such securities are restricted from distribution or sale to the public, except in compliance with certain holding periods and exemptions under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the Securities Act), or after registration pursuant to the Securities Act. The Fund also purchases shares of small and micro cap issuers in the secondary markets. These shares are freely tradeable and have no restrictions on resale.

From inception through December 31, 2002, the Fund had made investments in 46 different portfolio companies. The Fund had active investments in 29 portfolio companies, as of December 31, 2002, and is seeking additional investment opportunities. The Fund does not focus on particular industry segments. Instead, it makes investment decisions using a bottoms-up analysis of the potential Portfolio Company, with no predetermined industry bias.

As of December 31, 2002, the Fund had active investments in a number of Portfolio Companies, including AirNet Systems, Inc., Bentley Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Business Process Outsourcing, CaminoSoft Corporation, Canterbury Consulting Group, Capital Senior Living Corp., CareerEngine Network, Inc., Creative Host Services, Inc., Daisytek International, Inc., US Home Systems and Verso Technologies, Inc. The Company also has active investments in Active Link Communications, Inc., Dave & Busters, Inc., Dexterity Surgical, Inc., Dwyer Group, Inc., EDT Learning, Inc., eOriginal, Inc., Fortune Natural Resources Corporation, Gasco Energy, Inc., I-Flow Corporation, Inet Technologies, Integrated Security Systems, Inc., Interpool, Inc., JAKKS Pacific, Inc., Laserscope, Play By Play Toys & Novelties, Inc., Poore Brothers, Inc., Precis, Inc., RailAmerica, Inc., Simtek Corporation and ThermoView Industries, Inc.

AirNet Systems Inc. operates AirNet Express, an integrated national air transportation network that provides expedited air transportation and passenger charter services to banks, medical customers, the United States government and other time-critical small package shippers in more than 100 cities nationwide. The AirNet airline has more than 120 aircraft, including 36 Learjets, located strategically throughout the United States. AirNet Express flies over half a million miles per week. AirNet's fleet departs most cities several hours after other major package delivery companies.

Bentley Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is an international pharmaceutical company focused on improving drugs through new drug delivery technologies, and commercializing such drugs in the United States and other major markets. Bentley also manufactures and markets pharmaceutical products in Spain for the treatment of cardiovascular, gastrointestinal, neurological, infectious and other diseases.

Business Process Outsourcing is a privately held business process outsourcing firm that specializes in finance and accounting services, other administrative functions and high-volume transaction processing services. The Company's servic

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