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Market Maker Surveillance Report. BAC, INTC, MSFT, FTNT, PCS, FSC, Bearishly Biased Price Friction For Thursday, April 11th 20

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April 11, 2013 / M2 PRESSWIRE / BUYINS.NET / www.buyins.net, announced today its proprietary Market Maker Friction Factor Report for Thursday. 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 Thursday there were 3972 companies with "abnormal" market making, 2984 companies with positive Friction Factors and 2382 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. BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION (NYSE:BAC), INTEL CORPORATION (NASDAQ:INTC), MICROSOFT CORPORATION (NASDAQ:MSFT), Fortinet Inc (NASDAQ:FTNT), Platinum Communications Corp (NYSE:PCS), Fifth Street Finance Corp (NASDAQ:FSC). 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
  BAC     $-0.060   -0.49%    34,759,463   34.97%    28,387,828   28.56%    6,371,635    Abnormal
  INTC    $-0.540   -2.41%    31,729,515   53.67%    27,226,709   46.06%    4,502,806    Abnormal
  MSFT    $-1.480   -4.89%    66,999,480   51.32%    62,007,457   47.49%    4,992,023    Abnormal
  FTNT    $-2.900   -13.27%   13,747,398   54.86%    10,869,356   43.37%    2,878,042    Abnormal
  PCS     $-0.200   -1.73%    17,079,173   39.77%    14,237,381   33.15%    2,841,792    Abnormal
  FSC     $-0.370   -3.34%    7,955,743    55.26%    6,435,703    44.70%    1,520,040    Abnormal

For example, the chart above shows BAC with 6,371,635 greater shares of buying than selling (NetVol) and the stock price was down $-0.06000. 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.

BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION (NYSE:BAC) - Bank of America Corporation, through its subsidiaries, provides various banking and financial products and services for individual consumers, small and middle market businesses, institutional investors, corporations, and governments in the United States and internationally. The company s Consumer & Business Banking segment offers traditional and money market savings accounts, CDs and IRAs, checking accounts, and investment accounts and products, as well as credit and debit cards; and lending related products and services, working capital management, and treasury solutions. This segment provides its products and services through operating 5,500 banking centers, 16,300 ATMs, call centers, and online and mobile banking platforms. Its Consumer Real Estate Services segment offers consumer real estate products comprising fixed and adjustable-rate first-lien mortgage loans for home purchase and refinancing needs, home equity lines of credit, and home equity loans. The company s Global Banking segment provides various commercial loans, leases, commitment facilities, trade finance, real estate and asset-based loans, and consumer loans; treasury management, foreign exchange, and short-term investing options; and debt and equity underwriting and distribution, and merger-related and other advisory services. Its Global Markets segment offers sales and trading services for securities and derivative products in primary and secondary markets; market-making, financing, securities clearing, settlement, and custody services to institutional investor clients; and risk management products. The company s Global Wealth & Investment Management segment provides investment and brokerage, estate and financial planning, fiduciary portfolio management, cash and liability management, and specialty asset management services; and retirement and benefit plan, philanthropic management, and asset management services. The company was founded in 1874 and is based in Charlotte, North Carolina..

INTEL CORPORATION (NASDAQ:INTC) - Intel Corporation designs, manufactures, and sells integrated digital technology platforms worldwide. The company operates through PC Client Group, Data Center Group, Other Intel Architecture, Software and Services, and All Other segments. It offers microprocessors that process system data and controls other devices in the system; and chipsets, which sends data between the microprocessor and input, display, and storage devices, such as keyboard, mouse, monitor, hard drive or solid-state drive, and optical disc drives; system-on-chip products that integrate its processing functions with other system components, including graphics, audio, and video onto a single chip; wired network connectivity products; and wireless connectivity products. The company also provides mobile phone components comprising baseband processors, radio frequency transceivers, and power management integrated circuits; and mobile phone platforms, such as Bluetooth wireless technology and global positioning systems receivers, software solutions, customization, and interoperability tests. In addition, it offers endpoint security, network and content security, risk and compliance, and consumer and mobile security software products for consumer, mobile, and corporate environments to protect systems from malicious virus attacks, as well as loss of data. Further, the company provides NAND flash memory products, which are used in solid-state drives. It sells its products primarily to original equipment manufacturers, original design manufacturers, and industrial and communications equipment manufacturers in the computing and communications industries. Intel Corporation was founded in 1968 and is based in Santa Clara, California..

MICROSOFT CORPORATION (NASDAQ:MSFT) - Microsoft Corporation develops, licenses, and supports software products and services; and designs and sells hardware worldwide. The company s Windows & Windows Live division offers PC operating system that primarily includes Windows 7 operating system, Windows live suite of applications and Web services, and PC hardware products. Its Server and Tools division provides Windows Server operating systems, Windows Azure; Microsoft SQL Server, SQL Azure, Windows Intune, Windows Embedded, Visual Studio, Silverlight, system center products, Microsoft consulting services, and Premier product support services. This division also offers cloud-based services; and training and certification to developers and information technology professionals, as well as builds standalone and software development lifecycle tools for software architects, developers, testers, and project managers. The company s Online Services division provides online information and content, including Bing, MSN, adCenter, and Atlas online tools for advertisers. Its Microsoft Business division offers Microsoft office, Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Lync, Microsoft Office project and office Visio, and Microsoft Dynamics ERP and CRM, as well as Microsoft Office Web Apps and Microsoft Office 365, which are online service offerings. The company s Entertainment and Devices Division segment provides Xbox 360 entertainment platform, which includes the Xbox 360 gaming and entertainment console, Kinect for Xbox 360, Xbox 360 video games, and Xbox 360 accessories; Xbox LIVE; Skype; and Windows Phone. Microsoft Corporation markets and distributes its products and services primarily through original equipment manufacturers, distributors, and resellers, as well as through online. The company has strategic alliances with Nokia, and NIIT Ltd., as well as a strategic relationship Dominion Enterprises, Inc. Microsoft Corporation was founded in 1975 and is based in Redmond, Washington..

Fortinet Inc (NASDAQ:FTNT) - Fortinet, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, provides network security solutions to enterprises, service providers, and government entities worldwide. It primarily offers Unified Threat Management (UTM) solution that consists of FortiGate physical and virtual appliance products, providing a range of security and networking functions, such as firewall, virtual private network, application control, antivirus, intrusion prevention, Web filtering, vulnerability management, antispam, wireless controller, and WAN acceleration. The company also offers a family of FortiManager product, which enables end-customers to manage the system configuration and security functions of multiple FortiGate devices from a centralized console; and FortiAnalyzer product that enables collection, analysis, and archiving of content and log data generated by its products. In addition, it provides FortiAP, a secure wireless access points; FortiWeb, a security for Web-based applications; FortiMail, a family of messaging security appliances; FortiDB, a product that offers database-specific security; FortiClient, a software product that provides endpoint security for desktops, laptops, and mobile devices; FortiScan, FortiSwitch, and Ethernet switches; FortiBridge, an appliances to ensure network availability; FortiAuthenticator, a scalable secure authentication for enterprise networks; FortiBalancer, a product that optimizes the availability and performance of mobile, cloud, and enterprise applications; FortiCache, a product that reduces cached internet content; and FortiDNS, an appliances, which provide secure DNS caching. The company offers its products and services directly to distributors, who sell to end-customers in various industries, including telecommunications, government, financial services, retail, education, technology, healthcare, and manufacturing. Fortinet, Inc. was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California..

Platinum Communications Corp (NYSE:PCS) - MetroPCS Communications, Inc., a wireless telecommunications carrier, together with its subsidiaries, provides wireless broadband mobile services in the United States. Its services comprise voice services, such as local, domestic long distance, and international call services; and data services, including domestic and international text messaging, multimedia messaging, mobile Internet access, mobile instant messaging, location based services, social networking services, push e-mail, and multimedia streaming and downloads, as well as services provided through the binary runtime environment for wireless, Blackberry, Windows, and the Android platforms comprising ringtones, ring back tones, games, content, and applications. The company also offers custom calling features consisting of caller ID, call waiting, three-way calling, and voicemail services. In addition, it sells a range of feature phones and smartphones. The company provides its products and services under the MetroPCS brand name through independent retail outlets and company operated retail stores, as well as through Internet. As of December 31, 2011, it served approximately 9.3 million customers, as well as operated 162 retail stores primarily in the metropolitan areas of Atlanta, Boston, Dallas/Fort Worth, Detroit, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, Orlando/Jacksonville, Philadelphia, Sacramento, San Francisco, and Tampa/Sarasota. MetroPCS Communications, Inc. was incorporated in 2004 and is headquartered in Richardson, Texas..

Fifth Street Finance Corp (NASDAQ:FSC) - Fifth Street Finance Corp..

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