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Market Maker Surveillance Report. HMPR, DWCH, MED, SIMO, MERU, OCZ, Winning Stocks With Lowest Price Friction For Friday, July

^{Published on 2012-07-27 18:00:34 - WOPRAI}
 

July 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 3485 companies with "abnormal" market making, 4404 companies with positive Friction Factors and 1463 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. Hampton Roads Bankshares Inc (NASDAQ:HMPR), Datawatch Corp (NASDAQ:DWCH), Medifast Inc (NYSE:MED), Silicon Motion Technology Corp (NASDAQ:SIMO), Meru Networks Inc (NASDAQ:MERU), OCZ Technology Group Inc (NASDAQ:OCZ). 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
  HMPR    $0.420    23.08%    110,767      56.98%    84,036       43.23%    26,731       636     
  DWCH    $3.100    25.63%    139,315      55.92%    107,004      42.95%    32,311       104     
  MED     $5.460    26.47%    488,311      33.41%    434,603      29.74%    53,708       98      
  SIMO    $2.720    21.58%    1,848,161    53.11%    1,596,157    45.86%    252,004      926     
  MERU    $0.960    56.80%    866,940      51.53%    791,344      47.04%    75,596       787     
  OCZ     $1.660    30.51%    7,825,724    55.19%    5,930,565    41.82%    1,895,159    11,417  

For example, the chart above shows HMPR with a dollar gain Friday of $0.42000 and a Friction Factor of 636 shares. That means that it only took 636 more shares of buying than selling to move HMPR 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.

Hampton Roads Bankshares Inc (NASDAQ:HMPR) - Hampton Roads Bankshares, Inc. operates as the holding company for Bank of Hampton Roads (BOHR) and Shore Bank that provide community and commercial banking services primarily to individuals and businesses. The company offers a range of interest-bearing and non-interest-bearing deposit accounts, including commercial and retail checking accounts, money market accounts, individual retirement accounts, regular interest bearing savings accounts, and certificates of deposit. Its loan portfolio comprises commercial loans, construction loans, real estate-commercial mortgage loans, real estate-residential mortgage loans, and installment loans to individuals, as well as loans to businesses for working capital, plant expansion, and equipment purchases. It also offers telephone banking, Internet banking, remote deposit capture, automatic teller machine (ATM), and debit card services. In addition, the company provides other banking-related products and services, such as travelers checks, coin counters, wire services, and safe deposit box services. Further, it offers securities, brokerage, and investment advisory services; wealth management products and services, including stocks, bonds, annuities, mutual funds, and financial consultation; title insurance; and insurance products. BOHR operates 28 full-service offices in the Hampton Roads region of southeastern Virginia, and 24 full-service offices located in the Northeastern, Southeastern, and Research Triangle regions of North Carolina and in Richmond, Virginia; and Shore Bank operates 8 full-service offices and 1 investment center located on the Delmarva Peninsula. The company operates a network of 72 ATM machines. Hampton Roads Bankshares, Inc. was founded in 1961 and is based in Norfolk, Virginia.

Datawatch Corp (NASDAQ:DWCH) - Datawatch Corporation designs, develops, markets, and distributes business computer software products in the United States and the United Kingdom. Its products include Monarch that transforms structured text files into a live database that users can sort, filter, summarize, graph, and export to other applications; Monarch Data Pump, which provides information delivery and data extract, transform, and load capabilities in one automated solution; Monarch BI Server, an out-of-the-box Web-based business intelligence solution; Monarch RMS, a Web-based report mining and analysis solution that integrates with enterprise record management, document, or content management archiving solutions; and Datawatch ES, an enterprise business intelligence system offering Web-enabled report management, mining, and distribution, as well as data analysis and MS Excel integration. The company also provides Datawatch BDS, a document archive system that stores text, as well as images, intelligent data streams, and unstructured content with file compression and encryption; Datawatch MailManager, an email management solution that provides lifecycle, compliance, and storage management for Microsoft Exchange environments; Datawatch Dashboards, a fully interactive dashboard solution; Visual Insight, a performance management solution that offers key performance indicator reporting, as well as workflow and knowledge base portals; Visual QSM, an Internet-enabled IT service management system; Visual Help Desk, an enterprise-wide support solution supporting an organizations IT infrastructure; and VorteXML software that converts structured text output generated from various systems into valid XML for Web services using DTD or XDR schema without programming. Datawatch Corporation sells products through internal and external sales force, value-added partners, system integrators, distributors, and national resellers. The company was founded in 1985 and is headquartered in Chelmsford, Massachusetts.

Medifast Inc (NYSE:MED) - Medifast, Inc., through its subsidiaries, engages in the production, distribution, and sale of weight management and disease management products, and other consumable health and diet products in the United States. The companys product lines include weight and disease management, meal replacement, and vitamins. It also operates weight control centers that offer Medifast programs for weight loss and maintenance, customized patient counseling, and inbody composition analysis. The company markets its products under the Medifast and Essential brand names, including shakes, appetite suppression shakes, womens health shakes, diabetics shakes, joint health shakes, coronary health shakes, calorie burn drinks, calorie burn flavor infusers, antioxidant shakes, antioxidant flavor infusers, bars, crunch bars, soups, chili, oatmeal, pudding, scrambled eggs, hot cocoa, cappuccino, chai latte, iced teas, fruit drinks, pretzels, puffs, brownie, pancakes, soy crisps, crackers, and omega 3 and digestive health products. Medifast Inc. sells its products through various channels of distribution comprising Web, call center, independent health advisors, medical professionals, weight loss clinics, and direct consumer marketing supported via the phone and the Web; Take Shape for Life, a physician led network of independent health coaches; and weight control centers. The company was founded in 1980 and is headquartered in Owings Mills, Maryland.

Silicon Motion Technology Corp (NASDAQ:SIMO) - Silicon Motion Technology Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, operates as a fabless semiconductor company. It designs, develops, markets, and supplies a portfolio of multimedia data processing, storage, and transfer solutions primarily for consumer electronics applications. It offer a range of microcontrollers for NAND flash memory storage products, including flash memory cards, USB flash drives, card readers, and embedded flash and solid state drives, which are used to store data for multimedia consumer electronics devices, such as mobile phones, digital still cameras, camcorders, personal navigation devices, personal multimedia players, and notebook and desktop Personal computers. The companys products also comprise Multimedia SoCs that include embedded graphics processors, which is used to enhance the speed and complexity of images that can be displayed on a monitor, television, or screen, as well as improves color definition and image resolution; and Image processors that process and enhances the image captured by the CMOS image sensors located behind the lens of a Webcam. In addition, it offers mobile TV IC solutions, such as mobile TV tuners and integrated tuner plus demodulator SoCs for mobile phones and other portable devices; CDMA radio frequency integrated circuits (RFICs); and electronic toll collection system RFICs. The company sells its semiconductor solutions to original equipment manufacturers and original design manufacturers. It sells products through its direct sales force and distributors in Canada, China, Europe, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, and the United States. Silicon Motion Technology Corporation was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in Jhubei City, Taiwan.

Meru Networks Inc (NASDAQ:MERU) - Meru Networks, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, engages in the development and marketing of a virtualized wireless LAN solution. Its solution enables enterprises to deliver business-critical applications over wireless networks. The company also offers products designed to deliver centralized network management, predictive, and proactive diagnostics, as well as enhanced security. Meru Networks sells its products and services to education, finance, government, healthcare, hospitality, manufacturing, retail, technology, telecom, transportation, and utilities markets primarily through value-added resellers, distributors, and sales force. The company was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.

OCZ Technology Group Inc (NASDAQ:OCZ) - OCZ Technology Group, Inc. designs, develops, manufactures, and distributes computer components for computing devices and systems worldwide. It primarily offers solid state drives, flash memory storage, memory modules, thermal management solutions, AC/DC switching power supply units, and computer gaming solutions. The companys products are used in industrial equipment and computer systems; computer and computer gaming solutions; mission critical servers and high end workstations; personal computer (PC) upgrades to extend the useable life of existing PCs; high performance computing and scientific computing; video and music editing; home theatre PCs and digital home convergence products; and digital photography and digital image manipulation computers. OCZ Technology Group, Inc. offers its products to retailers, on-line retailers, original equipment manufacturers, systems integrators, and distributors. The company was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in San Jose, California.

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