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Market Maker Surveillance Report. BIOF, FBN, ROYL, DARA, SRCH, VIRC, Winning Stocks With Lowest Price Friction For Friday, Sep

^{Published on 2012-09-14 18:00:45 - WOPRAI}
 

September 14, 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 4043 companies with "abnormal" market making, 3847 companies with positive Friction Factors and 1974 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. BioFuel Energy Corp (NASDAQ:BIOF), Furniture Brands International Inc (NYSE:FBN), Royale Energy Inc (NASDAQ:ROYL), DARA Biosciences Inc (NASDAQ:DARA), Searchlight Minerals Corp (OTCBB:SRCH), Virco Mfg Corp (NASDAQ:VIRC). 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
  BIOF    $2.410    37.60%    1,486,206    49.29%    1,479,048    49.05%    7,158        30      
  FBN     $0.430    37.39%    571,569      40.29%    415,392      29.28%    156,177      3,632   
  ROYL    $0.480    19.51%    264,403      54.77%    218,307      45.23%    46,096       960     
  DARA    $0.220    25.27%    4,130,316    57.11%    3,101,413    42.89%    1,028,903    46,768  
  SRCH    $0.190    22.09%    273,730      47.10%    146,850      25.27%    126,880      6,678   
  VIRC    $1.190    76.77%    464,107      60.81%    293,231      38.42%    170,876      1,436   

For example, the chart above shows BIOF with a dollar gain Friday of $2.41000 and a Friction Factor of 30 shares. That means that it only took 30 more shares of buying than selling to move BIOF 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.

BioFuel Energy Corp (NASDAQ:BIOF) - BioFuel Energy Corp. engages in the production and sale of ethanol and its co-products primarily in the United States. The company has two ethanol plants that produce 115 million gallons of ethanol per year, which are located in Wood River, Nebraska and Fairmont, Minnesota. It sells its products to its third party marketer and distributor. The company was founded in 2006 and is headquartered in Denver, Colorado..

Furniture Brands International Inc (NYSE:FBN) - Furniture Brands International, Inc. designs, manufactures, sources, and retails home furnishings. It offers case goods, including bedroom, dining room, and living room furniture products; stationary upholstery products comprising sofas, loveseats, sectionals, and chairs; motion upholstered furniture products consisting of recliners and sleep sofas; occasional furniture products, such as accent pieces, home entertainment centers, and home office furniture products, as well as wood, metal, and glass tables; and decorative accessories. The company markets its products under the Broyhill, Lane, Thomasville, Drexel Heritage, Henredon, Hickory Chair, Pearson, Laneventure, and Maitland-Smith brand names. Furniture Brands International sells its products through a network of independently owned furniture retailers, national and regional department stores and chains, and trade showrooms, as well as through various retail channels, including mass merchant stores, single-branded stores, independent dealers, and specialized interior designers. As of December 31, 2009, it operated 37 stores. The company was founded in 1836 and is headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri..

Royale Energy Inc (NASDAQ:ROYL) - Royale Energy, Inc. operates as an independent oil and natural gas producer in the United States. It engages in the production and sale of oil and natural gas; acquisition of oil and gas lease interests and proved reserves; drilling of exploratory and development wells; and sale of working interests in wells to be drilled. The company also owns wells and leases located principally in the Sacramento Basin and San Joaquin Basin in California, as well as in Utah, Texas, and Louisiana. In addition, it holds proved developed producing reserves of oil and natural gas in Texas and Louisiana. As of December 31, 2009, Royale Energy operated 52 natural gas wells in California; owned and operated 7 natural gas wells in Utah; and had non operating interests in 17 oil and gas wells in Texas, 3 in Oklahoma, 1 in California, and 2 in Louisiana. It also had proved developed reserves of 4,563 MMcf and total proved reserves of 4,617 MMcf of natural gas; and proved developed oil reserves of 16 Mbbl and total proved oil reserves of 16 Mbbl. The company was founded in 1986 and is based in San Diego, California..

DARA Biosciences Inc (NASDAQ:DARA) - DARA BioSciences, Inc., a development-stage pharmaceutical company, acquires promising therapeutic small molecules and develops them through proof of concept in humans for subsequent sale or out-licensing to larger pharmaceutical companies. The company has two drug candidates in development with cleared investigational new drug applications from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Its drug development programs include KRN5500, which completed a Phase IIa clinical trial for the treatment of neuropathic pain in cancer patients; and DB959 for the treatment of metabolic diseases, including type 2 diabetes. The company is headquartered in Raleigh, North Carolina..

Searchlight Minerals Corp (OTCBB:SRCH) - Searchlight Minerals Corp., an exploration stage company, engages in the exploration, acquisition, and development of mining and mineral properties, as well as in slag reprocessing projects. It holds interest in the Clarkdale slag project, located in Clarkdale, Arizona, which is a reclamation project to recover precious and base metals from the reprocessing of slag produced from the smelting of copper ore mined at the United Verde Copper Mine in Jerome, Arizona; and the Searchlight gold project that involves in the exploration for precious metals on mining claims near Searchlight, Nevada. The company was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Henderson, Nevada..

Virco Mfg Corp (NASDAQ:VIRC) - Virco Mfg. Corporation engages in the design, production, and distribution of furniture for the commercial and education markets in the United States. The company offers mobile tables, mobile storage equipment, desks, computer furniture, chairs, activity tables, folding chairs, and folding tables. It also offers seating products under various barand names, including ZUMA; ZUMAfrd that features Fortified Recycled Wood plastic seats, backrests, and work surfaces; The Sage, which serves students in college, university, and other adult education settings, as well as high school campuses; Sage tablet arm model for high school and adult learning venues; Ph.D.task chairs; I.Q. Series classroom chairs; and Virtuoso chairs. Its table products include TEXT table collections for learning environments; Lunada tables for seminar, conference, and related settings; Plateau tables; traditional folding and banquet tables, activity tables and office tables; and the computer tables and mobile tables. Virco also offers computer furniture, such as keyboard mouse trays, CPU holders, and support columns; desks and workstations; and specialty tables and other products for computing applications. In addition, the company offers desks/chair desks related products, including teacher desks and tablet arm units; and Parameter collection of desks, returns, and credenzas for teachers, principals, and district administrators, as well as business environments. Further, it offers administrative office furniture, such as desks, returns, bookcases, and other items; laboratory furniture for biology and chemistry classes, and other school and college based lab settings; mobile furniture that includes mobile chairs for school settings and offices; storage equipment comprising stackable storage trucks; and chairs and folding tables for convention center, arena, and auditorium customers. Virco Mfg. Corporation founded in 1950 and is based in Torrance, California..

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