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Market Maker Surveillance Report. CCRN, PHMD, ITRI, DRYS, LHCG, TX, Winning Stocks With Lowest Price Friction For Thursday, No

November 3, 2016 / 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 5406 companies with "abnormal" market making, 2246 companies with positive Friction Factors and 3767 companies with negative Friction Factors. Here is a list of the top companies with the largest percentage gain per share Thursday 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. Cross Country Healthcare Inc. (NASDAQ:CCRN), PhotoMedex Inc. (NASDAQ:PHMD), Itron Inc. (NASDAQ:ITRI), DryShips Inc. (NASDAQ:DRYS), LHC Group (NASDAQ:LHCG), Ternium S.A. (NYSE:TX). 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
  CCRN    $2.260    0.20%     302,903      32.69%    301,219      32.51%    1,684        7       
  PHMD    $0.360    0.34%     38,533       46.93%    32,216       39.24%    6,317        175     
  ITRI    $7.740    0.15%     552,781      38.78%    369,770      25.94%    183,011      236     
  DRYS    $0.710    0.18%     80,958       41.42%    70,599       36.12%    10,359       146     
  LHCG    $4.810    0.14%     146,656      31.99%    135,531      29.56%    11,125       23      
  TX      $3.170    0.14%     450,825      35.35%    430,207      33.74%    20,618       65      

Analysis of the Friction Factor chart above shows that each of the six stocks mentioned above have high net buy volumes (buy volume, sell volume) and 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 CCRN with a dollar gain Thursday of $2.26000 and a Friction Factor of 7 shares. That means that it only took 7 more shares of buying than selling to move CCRN 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.

Cross Country Healthcare Inc. (NASDAQ:CCRN) - Cross Country Healthcare, Inc. provides healthcare staffing, recruiting, and workforce solutions in the United States. The company operates through three segments: Nurse and Allied Staffing, Physician Staffing, and Other Human Capital Management Services. The Nurse and Allied Staffing segment provides traditional staffing, including temporary and permanent placement of travel nurses and allied professionals, and branch-based local nurses and allied staffing; and short-term staffing of registered nurses, licensed practical nurses, certified nurse assistants, practitioners, pharmacists, and other allied professionals on per diem and short-term assignments. This segment markets its nurse and allied staffing services under the under the Cross Country Staffing, Mediscan, and DirectEd brands. It serves public and private acute-care and non-acute care hospitals, government owned facilities, public and charter schools, outpatient clinics, ambulatory care facilities, physician practice groups, retailers, and other healthcare providers. The Physician Staffing segment provides physicians in various specialties, certified registered nurse anesthetists, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants under the Medical Doctor Associates and Saber-Salisbury brand as independent contractors on temporary assignments at various healthcare facilities, such as acute and non-acute care facilities, medical group practices, government facilities, and managed care organizations. The Other Human Capital Management Services segment offers retained and contingent search services for physicians and healthcare executives. Cross Country Healthcare, Inc. was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Boca Raton, Florida..

PhotoMedex Inc. (NASDAQ:PHMD) - PhotoMedex, Inc., a skin health company, provides integrated disease management and aesthetic solutions to dermatologists, professional aestheticians, and consumers in North America, the Asia Pacific, Europe, and South America. The company operates through three segments: Consumer, Physician Recurring, and Professional. It offers products and services that address skin diseases and conditions, including psoriasis, vitiligo, acne, actinic keratosis, photo damage, and unwanted hair. The company also provides various home-use devices under the no no brand name for various indications, such as hair removal, acne treatment, skin rejuvenation, and lower back pain; and a professional product line for acne clearance, skin tightening, psoriasis care, and hair removal to physician clinics and spas. In addition, it offers Kyrobak that uses technology to treat unspecified, lower back pain; NEOVA skin care products for preventing premature skin aging due to UV-induced DNA damage; and Clear Touch, a handheld consumer product for the treatment of nail fungus. Further, the company develops, manufactures, and sells surgical products, including proprietary free-beam and Contact Laser systems for surgery under the PhotoMedex Surgical Products trade name. PhotoMedex, Inc. was founded in 1980 and is headquartered in Horsham, Pennsylvania..

Itron Inc. (NASDAQ:ITRI) - Itron, Inc. provides metering solutions to electricity, gas, and water utility markets worldwide. The company operates through three segments: Electricity, Gas, and Water. It offers standard electromechanical and electronic, gas, and water and heat meters; and advanced and smart electricity, gas, and water meters and communication modules. The company also provides prepayment systems, including smart key, keypad, and smart card communication technologies; advanced systems, such as handheld, mobile, and fixed network collection technologies; smart network technologies; meter data management software; and knowledge application solutions. In addition, it offers installation and software implementation; professional services comprising consulting and analysis; and project management and post-sale maintenance support services. The company offers its standard metering systems to measure electricity, natural gas, water, or thermal energy; advanced metering systems to collect, store, and transmit meter data to handheld computers, mobile units, and fixed networks; and smart metering systems to collect and transmit meter data for supporting various applications. Itron, Inc. markets its products directly through its sales force, as well as through indirect sales force consisting of distributors, sales representatives, partners, and meter manufacturer representatives to utilities. The company was founded in 1977 and is headquartered in Liberty Lake, Washington..

DryShips Inc. (NASDAQ:DRYS) - DryShips Inc. provides seaborne dry cargo and offshore support services. The company operates through Drybulk and Offshore Support segments. The Drybulk segment provides drybulk commodities transportation services for the steel, electric utility, construction, and agri-food industries. The Offshore Support segment offers its services to the global offshore energy industry. As of March 31, 2016, it owned a fleet of 20 Panamax drybulk carriers with a combined deadweight tonnage of approximately 1.5 million tons; and 6 offshore supply vessels comprising 2 platform supply and 4 oil spill recovery vessels. The company was founded in 2004 and is based in Athens, Greece..

LHC Group (NASDAQ:LHCG) - LHC Group, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, provides post-acute continuum of care primarily for Medicare beneficiaries in the United States. The company operates through four segments: Home Health Services, Hospice Services, Community-Based Services, and Facility-Based Services. The Home Health Services segment offers home nursing services, including wound care and dressing changes, cardiac rehabilitation, infusion therapy, pain management, pharmaceutical administration, skilled observation and assessment, and patient education; medically-oriented social services; and physical, occupational, and speech therapy services. The Hospice Services segment provides pain and symptom management accompanied by palliative medication, emotional and spiritual support, inpatient and respite care, homemaker services, dietary counseling, family bereavement counseling, and social worker visits. The Community-Based Services segment offers a range of services, such as assistance with grooming, medication reminders, meal preparation, assistance with feeding, light housekeeping, respite care, transportation, and errand services to patients in their home or in a medical facility. The Facility-Based Services segment operates long-term acute care hospitals that provide treatment for patients with severe medical conditions who require a high-level of care and frequent monitoring by physicians and other clinical personnel. The company also operates institutional pharmacy, a family health center, and a family health clinic. As of December 31, 2015, it operated 363 locations in Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, and Wisconsin. LHC Group, Inc. was founded in 1994 and is based in Lafayette, Louisiana..

Ternium S.A. (NYSE:TX) - Ternium S.A. manufactures and processes various steel products in Mexico, Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Paraguay, Uruguay, the United States, Central America, Colombia, and internationally. It operates through two segments, Steel and Mining. The Steel segment offers steel products, such as slabs, billets and round bars, hot-rolled coils and sheets, bars and stirrups, wire rods, cold-rolled coils and sheets, tin plates, hot dipped galvanized and electrogalvanized sheets, pre-painted sheets, steel pipes and tubular products, beams, and roll formed products, as well as pre-engineered metal building systems. The Mining segment sells iron ore concentrates and pellets. The company serves various companies and small businesses that are operating in the construction, automotive, home appliances, capital goods, container, food, and energy industries. The company was founded in 1961 and is headquartered in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Ternium S.A. is a subsidiary of San Faustin S.A..

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