Market Maker Surveillance Report. COP, ANH, MO, DTV, BKRKF, PNSN, Bearishly Biased Price Friction For Wednesday, December 26th
December 26, 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 3834 companies with "abnormal" market making, 1835 companies with positive Friction Factors and 3455 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. ConocoPhillips (NYSE:COP), Anworth Mortgage Asset Corp (NYSE:ANH), Altria Group Inc (NYSE:MO), DIRECTV (NASDAQ:DTV), BANK RAKYAT INDONESIA PERSER (OTC:BKRKF), Penson Worldwide Inc (OTC:PNSN). 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 COP $-0.440 -0.75% 2,150,509 45.38% 1,107,914 23.38% 1,042,595 Abnormal ANH $-0.070 -1.18% 1,634,823 44.65% 987,804 26.98% 647,019 Abnormal MO $-0.340 -1.08% 3,073,778 38.57% 2,532,690 31.78% 541,088 Abnormal DTV $-0.450 -0.90% 2,010,394 62.08% 1,223,646 37.79% 786,748 Abnormal BKRKF $-0.010 -1.45% 1,639,779 97.89% 35,325 2.11% 1,604,454 Abnormal PNSN $-0.010 -21.28% 971,978 75.45% 316,300 24.55% 655,678 AbnormalAnalysis of the Friction Factor chart above shows that each of the six stocks mentioned above had more buying than selling on Wednesday 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 COP with 1,042,595 greater shares of buying than selling (NetVol) and the stock price was down $-0.44000. 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.
ConocoPhillips (NYSE:COP) - ConocoPhillips operates as an integrated energy company worldwide. The companys Exploration and Production (E&P) segment explores for, produces, transports, and markets crude oil, bitumen, natural gas, liquefied natural gas, and natural gas liquids. Its Midstream segment gathers, processes, and markets natural gas; and fractionates and markets natural gas liquids in the United States and Trinidad. The companys Refining and Marketing (R&M) segment purchases, refines, markets, and transports crude oil and petroleum products, such as gasolines, distillates, and aviation fuels. Its Chemicals segment manufactures and markets petrochemicals and plastics. This segment offers olefins and polyolefins, including ethylene, propylene, and other olefin products; aromatics products, such as benzene, styrene, paraxylene, and cyclohexane, as well as polystyrene and styrene-butadiene copolymers; and various specialty chemical products comprising organosulfur chemicals, solvents, catalysts, drilling chemicals, mining chemicals, and engineering plastics and compounds. The companys Emerging Businesses segment develops new technologies and businesses. It focuses on power generation; and technologies related to conventional and nonconventional hydrocarbon recovery, refining, alternative energy, biofuels, and the environment. This segment also offers E-Gas, a gasification technology producing high-value synthetic gas. ConocoPhillips was founded in 1917 and is based in Houston, Texas..
Anworth Mortgage Asset Corp (NYSE:ANH) - Anworth Mortgage Asset Corporation operates as a real estate investment trust (REIT) in the United States. It invests primarily in the United States agency mortgage-backed securities (agency MBS) guaranteed by the United States government, including pass-through certificates, collateralized mortgage obligations (CMOs), and other types of MBS, such as mortgage derivative securities and mortgage warehouse participations, as well as in other mortgage related assets. The company's agency MBS portfolio includes adjustable-rate agency MBS, hybrid adjustable-rate agency MBS, fixed-rate Agency MBS, and agency floating-rate CMOs. It also invests in non-agency mortgage-backed securities comprising floating-rate CMOs. The company qualifies as a REIT for federal income tax purposes. As a REIT it would not be subject to federal corporate income taxes if it distributes at least 90% of its taxable income to its stockholders. Anworth Mortgage Asset Corporation was founded in 1997 and is based in Santa Monica, California..
Altria Group Inc (NYSE:MO) - Altria Group, Inc., through its subsidiaries, engages in the manufacture and sale of cigarettes, wine, and other tobacco products in the United States and internationally. It primarily offers cigarettes under the Marlboro, Virginia Slims, and Parliament brands; smokeless tobacco products under the Copenhagen, Skoal, Red Seal, and Husky brands, as well as Marlboro snus; and machine-made large cigars and pipe tobacco. The company also maintains a portfolio of leveraged and direct finance leases principally in transportation, including aircraft, as well as power generation and manufacturing equipment, and facilities. It serves wholesalers, including distributors; large retail organizations, such as chain stores; and the armed services. The company was founded in 1919 and is headquartered in Richmond, Virginia..
DIRECTV (NASDAQ:DTV) - DIRECTV provides digital television entertainment primarily in the United States and Latin America. The company engages in acquiring, promoting, selling, and distributing digital entertainment programming primarily via satellite to residential and commercial subscribers. It offers direct-to-home (DTH) digital television services, as well as multi-channel video programming distribution services under the DIRECTV and SKY brands. The company provides various channels of digital-quality video entertainment and CD-quality audio programming directly to subscribers' homes or businesses, including approximately 170 national high-definition television channels and 4 3D channels; and video-on-demand service, which provides movie and television programs to broadband-connected subscribers. It also provides premium professional and collegiate sports programming, such as the NFL SUNDAY TICKET package that allows subscribers to view the NFL games. In addition, the company owns and operates three regional sports television networks based in Seattle, Washington; Denver, Colorado; and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania under the ROOT SPORTS brand name. As of March 31, 2012, it served approximately 20.0 million subscribers in the United States; approximately 4.3 million subscribers primarily in Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela, and the Caribbean; approximately 4.2 million subscribers in Brazil; and 4.3 million subscribers in Mexico. The company was founded in 1990 and is based in El Segundo, California..
BANK RAKYAT INDONESIA PERSER (OTC:BKRKF) - PT Bank Rakyat Indonesia (Persero) Tbk provides various banking products and services in Indonesia and internationally. The companys deposit products include demand, savings, and time deposits. It also offers working capital, Kupedes, investment, program, syndicated, and employee loans, as well as consumer loans, including housing, motor vehicles, and other personal loans. The company also provides micro-finance and consumer finance for small and middle businesses and agribusiness sectors. In addition, it offers various services, such as BRI Link, a medium to perform its e-banking non-cash transaction; Internet banking; and SSB Payment Point a service to its card users for making payments. As of December 31, 2009, the company had 17 regional offices, 14 inspection offices, 402 branch offices, 1 special branch office, and 3 overseas branch/representative offices, as well as 434 sub-branch offices, 728 cash offices, 4,538 BRI units, and 68 village service unit. PT Bank Rakyat Indonesia (Persero) Tbk was founded in 1968 and is headquartered in Jakarta, Indonesia..
Penson Worldwide Inc (OTC:PNSN) - Penson Worldwide, Inc., through its subsidiaries, provides various critical securities and futures processing infrastructure products and services to the financial services industry. Its products and services include securities and futures clearing and execution, clearing and custody services, trade settlement, technology services, risk management services, and customer account processing and customized data processing services, as well as financing and cash management technology and other related products. The company also participates in margin lending, securities borrowing, and lending transactions, primarily to facilitate clearing and financing activities, as well as provides tools and services to support trading in multiple markets, asset classes, and currencies. In addition, it offers Internet account portfolio information, holding and safeguarding securities and cash deposits, securities lending and borrowing, proprietary trading, futures products, and institutional and active retail front-end trading software products and services, as well as technology and data product offerings, including customizable front-end trading platforms, options and futures trade data, and order-management services. It serves online, direct access, and traditional retail brokers, as well as banks, institutional brokers, financial technology companies, and securities exchanges in the United States, Canada, Europe, and Asia. The companys securities and futures processing infrastructure products and services are marketed principally under the Penson name. Penson Worldwide, Inc. was founded in 1995 and is headquartered in Dallas, Texas..
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