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Market Maker Surveillance Report. ANR, CTRP, GE, TSM, FHN, QQQ, Bearishly Biased Price Friction For Monday, July 16th 2012

^{Published on 2012-07-16 18:00:12 - WOPRAI}
 

July 16, 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 3938 companies with "abnormal" market making, 2211 companies with positive Friction Factors and 3045 companies with negative Friction Factors. Here is a list of the top companies with Abnormal Price Friction (bearish bias) in their stock prices. This means that there was more buying than selling in the stocks and their stock prices dropped. Alpha Natural Resources Inc (NYSE:ANR), Ctrip.Com International Ltd (NASDAQ:CTRP), General Electric Co (NYSE:GE), Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd (NYSE:TSM), First Horizon National Corp (NYSE:FHN), Powershares Qqq Trust Series 1 (NASDAQ:QQQ). 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
  ANR     $-0.780   -10.22%   9,850,565    36.06%    8,686,773    31.80%    1,163,792    Abnormal
  CTRP    $-0.260   -1.73%    2,307,147    65.51%    1,213,098    34.44%    1,094,049    Abnormal
  GE      $-0.190   -0.96%    11,928,754   34.19%    8,630,585    24.74%    3,298,169    Abnormal
  TSM     $-0.210   -1.63%    4,916,555    35.83%    3,865,392    28.17%    1,051,163    Abnormal
  FHN     $-0.160   -1.81%    3,273,181    42.96%    1,732,579    22.74%    1,540,602    Abnormal
  QQQ     $-0.160   -0.25%    14,383,821   52.25%    12,886,404   46.81%    1,497,417    Abnormal

For example, the chart above shows ANR with 1,163,792 greater shares of buying than selling (NetVol) and the stock price was down $-0.78000. This means the Market Makers were trading the stock in a way inconsistent with normal supply and demand (Economics 101); more buying than selling should cause prices to rise.

Alpha Natural Resources Inc (NYSE:ANR) - Alpha Natural Resources, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, engages in the production, processing, and sale of coal in the United States. The company offers metallurgical coal for use in the steel-making process; and thermal coal to electric utilities and manufacturing industries. It operates 66 mines and 13 coal preparation plants in Northern and Central Appalachia, and the Powder River Basin regions. The company sells coal to electric utilities, steel and coke producers, industrial customers, and energy traders and brokers. Alpha Natural Resources, Inc. was founded in 2004 and is based in Abingdon, Virginia.

Ctrip.Com International Ltd (NASDAQ:CTRP) - Ctrip.com International, Ltd., together with its subsidiaries, provides travel services for hotel accommodations, airline tickets, and packaged tours in the Peoples Republic of China. It also sells independent leisure travelers bundled package-tour products, which include transportation and accommodation, as well as guided tours covering various domestic and international destinations. In addition, the company offers Internet-related advertising, aviation casualty insurance, and air-ticket delivery services. Further, it sells Property Management System, a hotel information software; travel guidebooks, which provide information for independent travelers; and VIP membership cards that allow cardholders to receive discounts from various restaurants, clubs, and bars. The company was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Shanghai, the Peoples Republic of China.

General Electric Co (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.

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd (NYSE:TSM) - Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited engages in the computer-aided designing, manufacturing, packaging, testing, and selling integrated circuits and other semiconductor devices; and manufacturing masks. It offers a range of wafer fabrication processes, including processes to manufacture complementary metal oxide silicon (CMOS) logic, mixed-signal, radio frequency, embedded memory, BiCMOS mixed-signal, and other semiconductors. The companys semiconductor products include logic semiconductors that process digital data to control the operation of electronic systems, as well as standard logic devices that include microprocessors, microcontrollers, digital signal processors, graphic chips, and chip sets; and mixed-signal/RF semiconductors, which combine analog and digital devices on a single semiconductor to process analog and digital data for use in hard disk drives, wireless communications equipment, and network communications equipment. It also offers memory semiconductors that are used in electronic systems to store data and program instructions; CMOS image sensor semiconductors, which are primarily used in camera phones; and high voltage semiconductors, including high voltage CMOS, bipolar-CMOS-DMOS, and ultra-high voltage technology products for use in various panel-size display driver and power IC applications. In addition, the company offers design and technology platforms, and multi-project wafer processing services. It serves fabless semiconductor and systems companies, and integrated device manufacturers primarily in North America, Asia, and Europe. The company was founded in 1987 and is headquartered in Hsinchu, Taiwan.

First Horizon National Corp (NYSE:FHN) - First Horizon National Corporation operates as the holding company for First Tennessee Bank National Association, which provides various financial services in the United States and internationally. The company principally offers general banking services for consumers, businesses, financial institutions, and governments; fixed income sales and trading; underwriting of bank-eligible securities and other fixed-income securities eligible for underwriting by financial subsidiaries; equity sales, trading, and research; loan sales; advisory services; correspondent banking; and derivative sales. It provides transaction processing services, such as nationwide check clearing services and remittance processing; mortgage banking services; trust, fiduciary, and agency services; credit card products; discount brokerage and full-service brokerage; equipment finance; and investment and financial advisory services. First Horizon National Corporation also involves in mutual fund sales and retail and commercial insurance sales; offers private mortgage reinsurance; and provides services related to health savings accounts. As of December 31, 2009, the company had approximately 200 business locations in 16 U.S. states, Hong Kong, and Tokyo. First Horizon National Corporation was founded in 1968 and is headquartered in Memphis, Tennessee.

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