Market Maker Surveillance Report. ANR, UMC, WLP, WERN, GELYF, CERP, Highest Net Sell Volume and Negative Price Friction For We
November 28, 2012 / M2 PRESSWIRE / BUYINS.NET / www.buyins.net, announced today its proprietary Market Maker Friction Factor Report for Wednesday. 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 Wednesday there were 4135 companies with "abnormal" market making, 3009 companies with positive Friction Factors and 2277 companies with negative Friction Factors. Here is a list of the top companies with the highest net sell volume on Wednesday and lowest negative price Friction (bearish). This means that there was more selling than buying in the stocks and their stock prices dropped faster with less Friction. Alpha Natural Resources Inc (NYSE:ANR), United Microelectronics Corp (NYSE:UMC), WellPoint Inc (NYSE:WLP), Werner Enterprises Inc (NASDAQ:WERN), GEELY AUTOMOBILE HLD (OTC:GELYF), Cereplast Inc (NASDAQ:CERP). 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 $-0.020 -0.28% 5,770,181 28.03% 6,752,329 32.80% -982,148 -491,074 UMC $-0.010 -0.51% 550,482 23.76% 1,142,741 49.33% -592,259 -592,259 WLP $-0.180 -0.33% 1,324,374 29.08% 2,193,648 48.17% -869,274 -48,293 WERN $-0.180 -0.80% 244,003 23.33% 801,908 76.67% -557,905 -30,995 GELYF $-0.034 -7.23% 96,625 9.82% 646,951 65.78% -550,326 -161,861 CERP $-0.010 -5.81% 313,106 26.33% 875,927 73.67% -562,821 -562,821Analysis of the Friction Factor chart above shows that each of the six stocks mentioned above have low price friction combined with more selling than buying (negative Net Volume) in their stocks. 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 ANR down $-0.02000 with a Friction Factor of -491,074 and a Net Volume of -982,148. That means that it takes 491,074 more shares of selling than buying to drop ANR by one penny. On Monday the Market Makers allowed the stock to move down on heavier selling than buying (low negative friction).
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..
United Microelectronics Corp (NYSE:UMC) - United Microelectronics Corporation, a semiconductor foundry, provides technology and manufacturing services for applications spanning various sectors of the integrated circuits industry in Asia. The company offers various foundry solutions, including IP and design methodology; process technologies; the manufacture of wafers; and test services and package solutions. It also provides various mask services, such as frame generation, data handling, and jobdeck view. The company was founded in 1980 and is headquartered in Hsinchu, Taiwan..
WellPoint Inc (NYSE:WLP) - WellPoint, Inc., through its subsidiaries, operates as a health benefits company in the United States. It offers various network-based managed care plans to large and small employer, individual, Medicaid, and senior markets. The companys managed care plans include preferred provider organizations; health maintenance organizations; point-of-service plans; traditional indemnity plans; and other hybrid plans, including consumer-driven health plans, hospital only, and limited benefit products. WellPoint also provides various managed care services comprising claims processing, underwriting, stop loss insurance, actuarial services, provider network access, medical cost management, disease management, wellness programs, and other administrative services. In addition, it offers specialty and other products and services, including pharmacy benefit management; specialty pharmacy; life and disability insurance benefits; dental, vision, and behavioral health benefits; radiology benefit management; analytics-driven personal health care guidance; and long-term care insurance and flexible spending accounts. Further, WellPoint serves as an intermediary providing administrative service for the Medicare program that offers coverage for persons, who are 65 or older and for persons who are disabled or with end-stage renal disease. As of December 31, 2009, the company served approximately 33.7 million medical members. It markets its products through a network of independent agents and brokers, as well as through in-house sales force. The company, formerly known as Anthem, Inc., was founded in 1944 and is based in Indianapolis, Indiana..
Werner Enterprises Inc (NASDAQ:WERN) - Werner Enterprises, Inc., a transportation and logistics company, engages in hauling the truckload shipments of general commodities in interstate and intrastate commerce in the United States, Canada, Mexico, and internationally. The company operates through two segments, Truckload Transportation Services and Value Added Services. The Truckload Transportation Services segment offers dedicated services, such as truckload services for a distribution center or manufacturing facility; regional short-haul fleet services, including truckload van services; and expedited fleet services comprising truckload services utilizing driver teams. This segment also provides medium-to-long-haul van fleet for the transportation of various consumer nondurable products and other commodities using dry van trailers; and flatbed and temperature-controlled fleets that provide truckload services for products with specialized trailers. It primarily transports retail store merchandise, consumer products, manufactured products, and grocery products. The Value Added Services segment offers non-asset-based/non-trucking transportation and logistics services, including truck brokerage, freight management, and intermodal, as well as global logistics services. As of December 31, 2009, the company operated 6,575 company tractors and had contracts for 675 tractors owned by owner-operators. It also operated 23,880 trailers, including 22,515 dry vans; 400 flatbeds; 956 temperature-controlled trailers; and 9 specialized trailers. Werner Enterprises was founded in 1956 and is headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska..
GEELY AUTOMOBILE HLD (OTC:GELYF) - GEELY AUTOMOBILE HLD.
Cereplast Inc (NASDAQ:CERP) - Cereplast, Inc. develops and commercializes bio-based resins in the United States. The companys product includes Cereplast Compostables resins, which is substitutes for petroleum-based plastics targeting primarily single-use disposables and packaging applications. It also offers Cereplast Hybrid Resins that replace up to 50% of the petroleum content in conventional plastics with bio-based materials, such as industrial starches sourced from plants for use in a range of markets, including automotive, consumer goods, consumer electronics, medical, packaging, and construction. The companys resins are also used in various conventional converting processes, including injection molding, thermoforming, blow film, blow molding, and extrusion. Its developing product also includes Cereplast Algae Plastics to transform algae into bioplastics. The company was formerly known as Biocorp North America Inc. and changed its name to Cereplast, Inc. in March 2005. Cereplast, Inc. was incorporated in 2001 and is headquartered in El Segundo, California..
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