Market Maker Surveillance Report. DELL, MRVL, FMER, PSTI, HK, FB, Bearishly Biased Price Friction For Thursday, September 13th
September 13, 2012 / M2 PRESSWIRE / BUYINS.NET / www.buyins.net, announced today its proprietary Market Maker Friction Factor Report for Thursday. 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 Thursday there were 3888 companies with "abnormal" market making, 4064 companies with positive Friction Factors and 1723 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. Dell Inc (NASDAQ:DELL), Marvell Technology Group Ltd (NASDAQ:MRVL), Firstmerit Corp (NASDAQ:FMER), Pluristem Therapeutics Inc (NASDAQ:PSTI), Huakan International Mining (NASDAQ:HK), Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB). 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 DELL $-0.010 -0.09% 9,030,782 53.96% 7,628,524 45.58% 1,402,258 Abnormal MRVL $-0.040 -0.39% 6,463,375 55.10% 5,184,509 44.20% 1,278,866 Abnormal FMER $-1.780 -10.39% 5,246,305 53.21% 4,496,015 45.60% 750,290 Abnormal PSTI $-0.700 -15.42% 4,969,739 56.90% 3,758,052 43.03% 1,211,687 Abnormal HK $-0.430 -5.67% 11,471,846 32.62% 10,574,251 30.07% 897,595 Abnormal FB $-0.270 -1.29% 32,669,706 50.44% 31,873,220 49.21% 796,486 AbnormalAnalysis of the Friction Factor chart above shows that each of the six stocks mentioned above had more buying than selling on Thursday and their stock prices dropped. 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 DELL with 1,402,258 greater shares of buying than selling (NetVol) and the stock price was down $-0.01000. 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.
Dell Inc (NASDAQ:DELL) - Dell Inc. provides integrated technology solutions in the information technology (IT) industry worldwide. The company designs, develops, manufactures, markets, sells, and supports mobility products, including laptops, netbooks, tablets, and smartphones; desktops PCs; and servers and networking products. It also offers storage solutions comprising storage area networks, network-attached storage, direct-attached storage, disk and tape backup systems, and removable disk backup. In addition, the company provides third-party software products consisting of operating systems, business and office applications, anti-virus and related security software, and entertainment software; and peripherals, such as printers, televisions, notebook accessories, mice, keyboards, networking and wireless products, and digital cameras. In addition, it offers IT and business services, including transactional services, such as support, managed deployment, enterprise installation, and configuration services; outsourcing services comprising data center and systems management, network management, life cycle application development and management, and business process outsourcing services; and project-based services consisting of IT infrastructure, applications, business process, and business consulting services, as well as offers asset recovery, recycling, and applications maintenance services. Further, the company provides financial services, including originating, collecting, and servicing customer receivables related to the purchase of its products. Dell Inc. sells its products and services through its sales representatives, telephone-based sales, and online at dell.com, as well as through indirect sales channels. The company was founded in 1984 and is headquartered in Round Rock, Texas..
Marvell Technology Group Ltd (NASDAQ:MRVL) - Marvell Technology Group Ltd. designs, develops, and markets analog, mixed-signal, and digital signal processing and embedded microprocessor integrated circuits. The company offers storage products, including storage system-on-a-chip, read channel, hard disk controller, tape drive controllers, solid-state drive controllers, and storage-system products for hard disk drives, tape drive electronics, optical disk drives, solid-state flash drives, and storage subsystems technology; and switching products comprising Prestera switch family, Link Street multi-port integrated switch family, and Link Street gateway products. It also provides communications controller and embedded processor products, such as Discovery Innovation, Discovery system controllers, Horizon WAN communication controllers, Kirkwood embedded processor, and Orion embedded processor; and enterprise transceiver and PC connectivity products consisting of Alaska and Alaska X 10 Gigabit Ethernet transceiver families, Fast Ethernet transceiver family, and Yukon Gigabit Ethernet PC connectivity products. In addition, the company offers cellular and applications processor products that include communications processors, applications processors, and ecosystem partners; wireless and personal area networking products, such as Libertas wireless LAN family and Avastar multi-function wireless networking family; printing ASIC products; and digital video processing products. It also provides power management and green technology products, including DSP switcher integrated regulators, analog switching regulators, and digital PFC controllers. Marvell serves business enterprise, consumer electronics, and emerging markets primarily in the United States, Canada, China, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Israel, Italy, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, the Netherlands, Singapore, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, and the United Kingdom. The company was founded in 1995 and is based in Hamilton, Bermuda..
Firstmerit Corp (NASDAQ:FMER) - FirstMerit Corporation operates as the bank holding company for FirstMerit Bank, N.A. that provides a range of banking, fiduciary, financial, insurance, and investment services to corporate, institutional, and individual customers in northern and central Ohio, and western Pennsylvania. The companys commercial business offers commercial term loans, revolving credit arrangements, asset-based lending, leasing, commercial mortgages, real estate construction lending, letters of credit, cash management services, and other depository products. Its retail business provides various financial products and services, including consumer direct and indirect installment loans, debit and credit cards, debit gift cards, residential mortgage loans, home equity loans and lines of credit, fixed and variable annuities, and ATM network services, as well as deposit products comprising checking, savings, money market accounts, and certificates of deposit. The companys wealth business provides asset management, private banking, financial planning, estate settlement and administration, and credit and deposit products and services. FirstMerit Corporation also offers trust and investment services, including personal trust and planning, and investment management; retirement plan services; retail mutual funds, other securities, variable and fixed annuities, personal disability and life insurance products, and brokerage services; and private banking services, including credit, deposit, and asset management solutions. As of December 31, 2009, it operated a network of 160 full service banking offices and 182 ATMs. The company was founded in 1855 and is headquartered in Akron, Ohio..
Pluristem Therapeutics Inc (NASDAQ:PSTI) - Pluristem Therapeutics Inc., a development stage bio-therapeutics company, engages in the research, development, and production of placental-derived adherent stromal cells (ASCs). The company also involves in the commercialization of non-personalized (allogeneic) cell therapy products for the treatment of various severe degenerative, ischemic, and autoimmune disorders. It develops a pipeline of products that are derived from the human placenta, a non-controversial, non-embryonic, and adult stem cell source. These placental adherent stromal cells (ASCs) are expanded in the companys proprietary PluriX three-dimensional bioreactor, which imitates the natural microstructure of bone marrow and does not require supplemental growth factors or other exogenous materials. The companys principal product under Phase I clinical trial is PLX-PAD for people suffering from peripheral artery disease. Its pre-clinical products include PLX-IBD for inflammatory bowel diseases; PLX-STROKE for ischemic strokes; PLX-BMT for bone marrow transplantation; and PLX-MS for multiple sclerosis. The company was formerly known as Pluristem Life Systems Inc. and changed its name to Pluristem Therapeutics Inc. in November 2007. Pluristem Therapeutics Inc. was founded in 2001 and is based in Haifa, Israel..
Huakan International Mining (NASDAQ:HK) - Petrohawk Energy Corporation engages in the exploration, development, and production of oil and natural gas properties in the United States. The company holds interests in various properties located in North Louisiana, Arkansas, South Texas, East Texas, and Oklahoma. As of December 31, 2009, it had total proved oil and natural gas reserves of approximately 2,750 billion cubic feet of natural gas equivalents. The company was founded in 1997 and is based in Houston, Texas..
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