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Market Maker Surveillance Report. LTON, IMH, OPTT, CUR, AUMN, SAVE, Losing Stocks With Lowest Price Friction For Friday, Septe

^{Published on 2012-09-14 18:00:36 - 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 loss per share Friday and low price friction (bearish). This means that there was more selling than buying in the stocks and their stock prices dropped faster with less Friction. Linktone Ltd (NASDAQ:LTON), Impac Mortgage Holdings Inc (AMEX:IMH), Ocean Power Technologies Inc (NASDAQ:OPTT), Diagnocure Inc (AMEX:CUR), Golden Minerals Co (AMEX:AUMN), Spirit Airlines Inc (NASDAQ:SAVE). 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
  LTON    $-0.300   -11.67%   199,952      37.91%    327,261      62.05%    -127,309     -4,244  
  IMH     $-1.070   -13.44%   100,943      30.18%    118,688      35.49%    -17,745      -166    
  OPTT    $-0.350   -10.17%   74,619       45.95%    87,790       54.05%    -13,171      -376    
  CUR     $-0.280   -20.29%   3,230,864    27.80%    3,688,819    31.75%    -457,955     -16,356 
  AUMN    $-1.160   -16.52%   1,328,791    28.81%    1,603,125    34.76%    -274,334     -2,365  
  SAVE    $-3.090   -15.72%   2,443,935    47.23%    2,694,122    52.06%    -250,187     -810    

For example, the chart above shows LTON with a dollar loss Friday of $-0.30000 and a Friction Factor of -4,244 shares. That means that it only took 4,244 more shares of selling than buying to move LTON lower by one penny. This means the Market Makers are allowing the stock to drop quickly (low friction). The combination of low friction and negative market direction can drive prices lower faster than normal.

Linktone Ltd (NASDAQ:LTON) - Linktone Ltd. provides entertainment-oriented telecom value-added services to mobile phone users over mobile telecommunications networks in China. The company specializes in the development, aggregation, marketing, and distribution of user wireless content and applications for access by mobile phone users through three mobile network operators, including China Mobile Communications Corporation, China United Telecommunications Corporation, and China Telecom Group. Its 2G short messaging service (SMS)-based services comprise ringtones, icons and screen savers, interactive SMS messaging in certain television programs, adventure, action, trivia and fortune-telling games, lunar and Western horoscopes, POP Messaging, jokes, fan clubs, event-driven or entertainment news updates, and a virtual mobile amusement park called WonderWorld. The companys 2.5G services include multimedia messaging services, such as animated cartoons and screensavers, comic strips, magazine-style mobile articles on various topics, and event-driven news updates; and WAP services, which consist of WAP-based ringtones, screensavers, games and dating services, and advanced Java games. In addition, it offers audio-related services, including ringback, which replaces the common ring-ring sound heard by callers with music and sound effects; and interactive voice response services that allow users to listen to songs, jokes, stories, and coverages of events. The company was founded in 1999 and is based in Beijing, the Peoples Republic of China. Linktone Ltd. is a subsidiary of MNC International Limited..

Impac Mortgage Holdings Inc (AMEX:IMH) - Impac Mortgage Holdings, Inc., through its subsidiaries, offers mortgage and real estate services in the United States. It offers outsourced loss mitigation services, such as loan modification and short sale services to investors and institutions with distressed and delinquent residential and multifamily mortgage portfolios, as well as provides modification solutions to individual borrowers by interacting with loan servicers on behalf of the borrowers to assist them in lowering the monthly mortgage payments to an affordable level allowing them to remain in their homes. The company also provides real estate solutions comprising real estate owned (REO) surveillance services to servicers and portfolio managers to assist them in maximizing loss mitigation performance in managing distressed mortgage portfolios and foreclosed real estate assets, and disposition of such assets, as well as performs default surveillance and monitoring services for residential and multifamily mortgage portfolios for investors and servicers. In addition, it offers real estate brokerage services, such as listing and selling REO and pre-foreclosure properties associated with short sales. Further, the company provides mortgage lending operations, including brokering loans to third-party lenders and originating loans through its mortgage banking platform under the Impac brand name. Additionally, the company provides title insurance, escrow, and settlement services to residential mortgage lenders, real estate agents, asset managers, and REO companies in the residential market sector of the real estate industry. It also involves in collecting loan payments from loan servicers and remitting loan payments to a trustee or other purchaser; and the management of the long-term mortgage portfolio, as well as offers real estate advisory services. The company was founded in 1995 and is based in Irvine, California..

Ocean Power Technologies Inc (NASDAQ:OPTT) - Ocean Power Technologies, Inc. engages in the development and commercialization of proprietary systems that generate electricity by harnessing the renewable energy of ocean waves primarily in North America, Europe, and Australia. Its product portfolio includes utility PowerBuoy system to supply electricity to a local or regional electric power grid; and autonomous PowerBuoy system that is designed to generate power for use independent of the power grid in remote locations. The companys autonomous PowerBuoy system is also used for sonar and radar surveillance, tsunami warning, oceanographic data collection, offshore platforms, and offshore aquaculture applications. Its customers include public utilities, independent power producers, and other governmental entities and agencies. The company was incorporated in 1984 and is headquartered in Pennington, New Jersey..

Diagnocure Inc (AMEX:CUR) - Neuralstem, Inc., a biopharmaceuticals company, focuses on the development and commercialization of treatments for central nervous system diseases based on transplanting human neural stem cells and small molecule drugs. It uses its proprietary human neural stem cell technology as a tool for use in the small-molecule drug discovery, as well as to create cell therapy biotherapeutics for the treatment of central nervous system diseases, various neurodegenerative conditions, and for the regenerative repair of acute diseases. The company was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Rockville, Maryland..

Golden Minerals Co (AMEX:AUMN) - Golden Minerals Company engages in the exploration and development of mining properties, as well as provision of mining services. It owns and controls a diversified portfolio of approximately 30 exploration projects principally in Latin America. The company's principal property in Argentina includes El Quevar, a silver prospective project, which is in the feasibility stage of exploration. Golden Minerals Company also has three drilling stage projects located in Mexico, including Zacatecas, a silver-copper-zinc-lead-gold project located in the Zacatecas district; La Pinta, a zinc and silver prospect in northeastern Zacatecas state; and Matehuapil project situated in northeastern Zacatecas state. In addition, it owns 100% interest in Palca project, a silver, gold, and base metals prospective located in the Puno province in southern Peru. The company was formerly known as Apex Silver Mines Limited and changed its name to Golden Minerals Company on March 24, 2009 as a result of reorganization. Golden Minerals Company was founded in 1996 and is based in Golden, Colorado..

Spirit Airlines Inc (NASDAQ:SAVE) - .

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