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Market Maker Surveillance Report. FORD, ALJ, AMRS, UNXL, DUF, LRAD, Winning Stocks With Lowest Price Friction For Monday, Dece

^{Published on 2012-12-31 18:45:32 - WOPRAI}
 

December 31, 2012 / M2 PRESSWIRE / BUYINS.NET / www.buyins.net, announced today its proprietary Market Maker Friction Factor Report for Monday. 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 Monday there were 4098 companies with "abnormal" market making, 4476 companies with positive Friction Factors and 1657 companies with negative Friction Factors. Here is a list of the top companies with the largest percentage gain per share Monday 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. Forward Industries Inc (NASDAQ:FORD), Alon USA Energy Inc (NYSE:ALJ), AMYRIS INC (NASDAQ:AMRS), Uni-Pixel Inc (NASDAQ:UNXL), DUFF & PHELPS CORPORATION (NYSE:DUF), LRAD Corp (NASDAQ:LRAD). 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
  FORD    $0.290    24.37%    138,650      66.18%    70,843       33.82%    67,807       2,338   
  ALJ     $2.950    19.48%    594,811      36.64%    517,832      31.90%    76,979       261     
  AMRS    $0.670    27.35%    627,107      58.12%    451,020      41.80%    176,087      2,628   
  UNXL    $2.850    26.32%    573,245      52.44%    513,589      46.98%    59,656       209     
  DUF     $2.570    19.69%    1,284,264    32.56%    1,101,980    27.94%    182,284      709     
  LRAD    $0.210    23.60%    269,800      71.63%    106,855      28.37%    162,945      7,759   

For example, the chart above shows FORD with a dollar gain Monday of $0.29000 and a Friction Factor of 2,338 shares. That means that it only took 2,338 more shares of buying than selling to move FORD 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.

Forward Industries Inc (NASDAQ:FORD) - Forward Industries, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, engages in the design, marketing, and distribution of carry solutions primarily for hand held electronic devices. The companys products include soft-sided carrying cases, bags, clips, hand straps, protective face plates, and other accessories for medical monitoring and diagnostic kits, cellular telephones, and bar code scanners. The company also designs, markets, and distributes carry cases for laptop computers, MP3 players, firearms and sporting, recreational, and aeronautical and products. Its products are used by consumers for carrying or transporting portable electronic products, such as cellular telephones, medical monitoring and diagnostic kits, and other handheld devices. Forward Industries sells its products to original equipment manufacturers and contract manufacturers in the Asia Pacific, the Americas, and Europe. Forward Industries was founded in 1954 and is based in Pompano Beach, Florida..

Alon USA Energy Inc (NYSE:ALJ) - Alon USA Energy, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, engages in the refining and marketing of petroleum products primarily in the United States. The company operates in three segments: Refining and Unbranded Marketing, Asphalt, and Retail and Branded Marketing. The Refining and Unbranded Marketing segment refines crude oil into petroleum products, including gasoline, diesel fuel, jet fuel, petrochemicals, petrochemicals feedstocks, and asphalts, which are marketed primarily in the south central, southwestern, and western United States. The Asphalt segment markets paving and roofing grades of asphalt comprising performance-graded asphalts, emulsions, and cutbacks through its 12 refinery/terminal locations. This segment also owns a 50% interest in Wright Asphalt Products Company, LLC, which specializes in patented tire rubber modified asphalt products. The Retail and Branded Marketing segment operates convenience stores that offer various grades of gasoline, diesel fuels, general merchandise, and food and beverage products to the general public, primarily under the 7-Eleven and FINA brand names. It also licenses the use of the FINA brand name and provides credit card processing services to approximately 300 licensed locations. As of December 31, 2009, this segment operated 308 convenience stores primarily in central and west Texas, and New Mexico. The company was founded in 2000 and is based in Dallas, Texas. Alon USA Energy, Inc. is a subsidiary of Alon Israel Oil Company, Ltd..

AMYRIS INC (NASDAQ:AMRS) - Amyris, Inc., an integrated renewable products company, offers renewable compounds for a variety of markets. It builds and applies its industrial synthetic biology platform to provide alternatives to select petroleum-sourced products used in specialty chemical and transportation fuel markets worldwide. The company modifies microorganisms, primarily yeast, and use them as living factories in established fermentation processes to convert plant-sourced sugars into a variety of hydrocarbon molecules. It focuses its commercialization efforts on a molecule called farnesene or Biofene, which forms the basis for a range of products comprising detergents, cosmetics, perfumes, industrial lubricants, and diesel. The company was formerly known as Amyris Biotechnologies, Inc. and changed its name to Amyris, Inc. in June 2010. Amyris, Inc. was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in Emeryville, California..

Uni-Pixel Inc (NASDAQ:UNXL) - Uni-Pixel, Inc., a development stage company, focuses on the research, development, and commercialization of flat panel displays using its Time Multiplexed Optical Shutter (TMOS) technology. The TMOS technology is used in various applications, such as mobile phones, digital cameras, notebook computers, televisions, and other consumer electronic devices. The company was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in The Woodlands, Texas..

DUFF & PHELPS CORPORATION (NYSE:DUF) - Duff & Phelps Corporation, through its subsidiaries, provides independent financial advisory and investment banking services worldwide. It operates in three segments: Financial Advisory, Corporate Finance Consulting, and Investment Banking. The Financial Advisory segment offers valuation advisory, tax services, and dispute and legal management consulting services. The Corporate Finance Consulting segment provides services related to portfolio valuation, financial engineering, strategic value advisory, and due diligence. The Investment Banking segment provides mergers and acquisitions advisory services, transaction opinions, and restructuring advisory services. The company serves financial institutions, entertainment companies, professional service firms, energy, utilities, chemical, pharmaceutical, healthcare, and consumer product companies. Duff & Phelps Corporation was founded in 1932 and is based in New York, New York..

LRAD Corp (NASDAQ:LRAD) - LRAD Corporation engages in the design, development, and commercialization of directed sound technologies and products in North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. The company s directed acoustic products that beam, focus, and control sound over short and long distances. Its products include Long Range Acoustic Device (LRAD), which creates directed acoustic beam to communicate at operational ranges in high ambient noise environments; and SoundSaber, a thin film magnetic speaker technology that provides high clarity throughout the audio range for public address, high-end sound, and mass notification applications. The company s LRAD products are used in military applications; and SoundSaber hardened panels are used in acoustic environments, such as hangar bays, industrial buildings, airports, and other facilities. LRAD Corporation sells its products directly to government, military, large end-users, and defense-related companies. The company was formerly known as American Technology Corporation and changed its name to LRAD Corporation in March 2010. LRAD Corporation was founded in 1980 and is headquartered in San Diego, California..

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