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Market Maker Surveillance Report. ACUR, ARCI, ZIPR, OSBC, RWC, OPXA, Losing Stocks With Lowest Price Friction For Wednesday, M

March 6, 2013 / 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 4062 companies with "abnormal" market making, 2745 companies with positive Friction Factors and 2607 companies with negative Friction Factors. Here is a list of the top companies with the largest percentage loss per share Wednesday 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. Acura Pharmaceuticals Inc (NASDAQ:ACUR), Appliance Recycling Centers Of America Inc (NASDAQ:ARCI), Ziprealty Inc (NASDAQ:ZIPR), Old Second Bancorp Inc (NASDAQ:OSBC), Relm Wireless Corp (AMEX:RWC), Opexa Therapeutics Inc (NASDAQ:OPXA). 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
  ACUR    $-0.400   -13.16%   672,615      45.64%    801,120      54.36%    -128,505     -3,213  
  ARCI    $-0.150   -10.87%   34,227       34.25%    65,712       65.75%    -31,485      -2,099  
  ZIPR    $-0.420   -10.19%   37,526       37.06%    58,144       57.42%    -20,618      -491    
  OSBC    $-0.430   -11.89%   54,446       36.36%    89,708       59.90%    -35,262      -820    
  RWC     $-0.260   -11.87%   80,351       30.03%    91,465       34.19%    -11,114      -427    
  OPXA    $-0.290   -14.87%   254,072      41.93%    324,585      53.56%    -70,513      -2,431  

Analysis of the Friction Factor chart above shows that each of the six stocks mentioned above have high net dollar losses (Change) and extremely low price friction 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 ACUR with a dollar loss Wednesday of $-0.40000 and a Friction Factor of -3,213 shares. That means that it only took 3,213 more shares of selling than buying to move ACUR 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.

Acura Pharmaceuticals Inc (NASDAQ:ACUR) - Acura Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a specialty pharmaceutical company, engages in the research, development, and commercialization of pharmaceutical product candidates utilizing its proprietary Aversion and Impede technologies. Its products include Oxecta Tablets CII, a Schedule II narcotic indicated for the management of acute and chronic moderate to severe pain; and Nexafed, an OTC immediate-release pseudoephedrine HCl tablet that is used as a nasal decongestant in various non-prescription and prescription cold, sinus, and allergy products. Acura Pharmaceuticals, Inc. has a license, development, and commercialization agreement with King Pharmaceuticals Research and Development, Inc. to develop and commercialize certain opioid analgesic products utilizing the company s proprietary Aversion Technology in the United States, Canada, and Mexico. Acura Pharmaceuticals, Inc. was founded in 1935 and is based in Palatine, Illinois..

Appliance Recycling Centers Of America Inc (NASDAQ:ARCI) - Appliance Recycling Centers of America, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, sells new household appliances through a chain of company-owned stores under the ApplianceSmart name. Its stores offer new appliances; special-buy appliances, including out-of-carton merchandise; other affordable options, such as close-outs, factory overruns, and discontinued models; byproduct materials, such as metals of recycled appliances; and carbon offsets created by the destruction of ozone-depleting refrigerants. As of March 31, 2012, the company operated 20 ApplianceSmart stores located in Georgia, Minnesota, Ohio, and Texas. It also provides turnkey appliance recycling and replacement services for electric utilities and other sponsors of energy efficiency programs. As of the above date, the company also operated 12 processing and recycling centers in California, Colorado, Illinois, Kentucky, Minnesota, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, and Washington, as well as Nova Scotia and Ontario, Canada. Appliance Recycling Centers of America, Inc. was founded in 1976 and is based in Minneapolis, Minnesota..

Ziprealty Inc (NASDAQ:ZIPR) - ZipRealty, Inc., a residential real estate brokerage company, provides Internet-enabled technology and online marketing tools to residential real estate professionals in the United States. The company offers an online marketing and sales system to its owned and operated residential real estate brokerages and to its Powered by Zip network of third-party brokerages that enables them to offer brokerage services to buyers and sellers in residential real estate transactions. It operates ziprealty.com that provides information, such as home listings, neighborhood attributes, newly built home listings, school district information, comparable home sales data, maps and driving directions, and user-generated content; and ZAP, a customer-agent-brokerage relationship management system, which provides tools for the capture, analysis, and coordination of customer interactions and agent activities. The company empowers home buyers and sellers with information and tools that give them control over their transactions; and empowers real estate professionals with online marketing capabilities and sales system technologies to maximize their ability to attract, incubate, and service clients. It conducts its owned-and-operated brokerages in Maryland, District of Columbia, Massachusetts, Illinois, Texas, California, Arizona, Washington, Nevada, Florida, Colorado, Virginia, New York, Oregon, and Utah; and serves third-party brokerages in Arizona, Georgia, Florida, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Tennessee. ZipRealty, Inc. was founded in 1999 and is based in Emeryville, California..

Old Second Bancorp Inc (NASDAQ:OSBC) - Old Second Bancorp, Inc. operates as the bank holding company for Old Second National Bank that provides commercial and retail banking services to corporations, partnerships, individuals, and government agencies in India. The company offers demand, NOW, money market, savings, time deposit, individual retirement, and Keogh deposit accounts. It also provides commercial loans, including lines of credit for working capital and operational purposes, and term loans for the acquisition of equipment; commercial real estate loans; construction loans; residential real estate loans consisting of residential first mortgages, second mortgages, and home equity line of credit mortgages; and consumer loans, including motor vehicle, home improvement, and signature loans, as well as small personal credit lines. In addition, the company offers safe deposit operations; trust and wealth management services; and other banking services, including traveler s checks, money orders, cashier s checks, foreign currency, direct deposits, discount brokerage, debit cards, and credit cards. Further, it provides electronic banking services, such as Internet banking; and corporate cash management products, including remote deposit capture, investment sweep accounts, zero balance accounts, automated tax payments, ATM access, telephone banking, lockboxes, automated clearing house transactions, account reconciliation, controlled disbursement, detail and general information reporting, wire transfers, vault services, and checking accounts. Additionally, the company offers trust, investment, agency, and custodial services for individual, corporate, and not-for-profit clients. As of December 31, 2011, it operated 27 branches in Kane, Kendall, LaSalle, Will, DeKalb, DuPage, and southwestern Cook counties. The company was founded in 1982 and is headquartered in Aurora, Illinois..

Relm Wireless Corp (AMEX:RWC) - RELM Wireless Corporation engages in the design, manufacture, and marketing of wireless communications products in the United States and internationally. Its products include two-way land mobile radios, repeaters, base stations, and related components and subsystems. The company offers its products under the BK Radio brand name for the government and public safety market, as well as RELM brand name for the business and industrial market. Its BK Radio branded products consist of land-mobile radio equipment for professional radio users primarily in government and public safety applications, as well as P-25 digital products; and RELM branded products provide two-way communications for commercial and industrial concerns, such as hotels, construction firms, schools, and transportation services. RELM Wireless Corporation was founded in 1957 and is headquartered in West Melbourne, Florida..

Opexa Therapeutics Inc (NASDAQ:OPXA) - Opexa Therapeutics, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company, engages in the development of patient-specific cellular therapies for the treatment of autoimmune diseases. The company s principal therapy consists of Tovaxin, a cellular immunotherapy, which is under clinical development and is intended for the treatment of secondary progressive multiple sclerosis (MS), and relapsing remitting MS. It develops cellular therapies based on its proprietary T-cell technology. The company was formerly known as PharmaFrontiers Corp. and changed its name to Opexa Therapeutics, Inc. in June 2006. Opexa Therapeutics was founded in 2003 and is based in The Woodlands, Texas..

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