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BUYINS.NET: Market Maker Surveillance Report. MO, CIM, ATVI, FSLR, CLWR, UAL, Bearishly Biased Price Friction For Thursday, March 1st 2012
[March 02, 2012]

BUYINS.NET: Market Maker Surveillance Report. MO, CIM, ATVI, FSLR, CLWR, UAL, Bearishly Biased Price Friction For Thursday, March 1st 2012


(M2 PressWIRE Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) 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 3925 companies with "abnormal" market making, 3384 companies with positive Friction Factors and 2360 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. ALTRIA GROUP INC (NYSE:MO), CHIMERA INVESTMENT CORP (NYSE:CIM), ACTIVISION BLIZZARD INC (NASDAQ:ATVI), FIRST SOLAR INC (NASDAQ:FSLR), Clearwire Corp (NASDAQ:CLWR), United Continental Holdings Inc (NYSE:UAL). 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 MO $-0.090 -0.31% 3,606,582 37.48% 2,649,296 27.53% 957,286 Abnormal CIM $-0.110 -3.58% 37,658,727 36.14% 31,960,075 30.67% 5,698,652 Abnormal ATVI $-0.330 -2.76% 13,779,709 51.86% 12,790,892 48.14% 988,817 Abnormal FSLR $-1.880 -5.82% 6,589,727 55.41% 5,285,076 44.44% 1,304,651 Abnormal CLWR $-0.020 -0.87% 17,512,357 54.68% 14,516,817 45.32% 2,995,540 Abnormal UAL $-0.200 -0.97% 6,159,749 81.11% 1,196,597 15.76% 4,963,152 Abnormal Analysis of the Friction Factor chart above shows that each of the six stocks mentioned above had more buying than selling on Thursday 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 MO with 957,286 greater shares of buying than selling (NetVol) and the stock price was down $-0.09000. 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.


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.

CHIMERA INVESTMENT CORP (NYSE:CIM) - Chimera Investment Corporation, a real estate investment trust, invests in residential mortgage backed securities (RMBS), residential mortgage loans, real estate-related securities, asset backed securities (ABS), and various other asset classes in the United States. It invests in agency and non-agency RMBS; whole mortgage loans comprising prime, jumbo prime, and Alt-A mortgage loans; and ABS, including debt and equity tranches of CDOs, consumer and non-consumer ABS, and commercial mortgage backed securities. The company has elected to be treated as a REIT for federal income tax purposes and would not be subject to income tax, if it distributes at least 90% of its REIT taxable income to its share holders. Chimera Investment Corporation was incorporated in 2007 and is based in New York, New York.

ACTIVISION BLIZZARD INC (NASDAQ:ATVI) - Activision Blizzard, Inc., through its subsidiaries, publishes online, personal computer (PC), console, and handheld games worldwide. The company develops and publishes PC-based computer games and maintains its proprietary online-game related service, Battle.net. It publishes interactive software products and peripherals. Its products cover various game categories, such as action/adventure, action sports, racing, role-playing, simulation, first-person action, music, and strategy. Activisions products comprise Monsters vs. Aliens, Guitar Hero, X-Men Origins, PROTOTYPE, Transformers, Ice Age, Wolfenstein, Marvel Ultimate Alliance, Bakugan Battle Brawlers, DJ Hero, Band Hero, Call of Duty, Tony Hawk, Guitar Hero, Three map packs for Call of Duty, True Crime, Spider-Man, Bakugan, Blur, and Singularity. Its customers include retail outlets and distributors, including mass-market retailers, consumer electronics stores, discount warehouses, and game specialty stores. Activision Blizzard, Inc. is based in Santa Monica, California.

FIRST SOLAR INC (NASDAQ:FSLR) - First Solar, Inc. designs, manufactures, and sells solar electric power modules using a proprietary thin film semiconductor technology. It also designs, constructs, and sells photovoltaic (PV) solar power systems. The companys solar modules employ a thin layer of cadmium telluride semiconductor material to convert sunlight into electricity. Its integrated solar power systems activities include the project development; engineering, procurement, and construction services; operating and maintenance services; and project finance. First Solar, Inc. sells its products to solar project developers, system integrators, and operators of renewable energy projects in the United States, Germany, France, and internationally. The company was formerly known as First Solar Holdings, Inc. and changed its name to First Solar, Inc. in 2006. First Solar was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Tempe, Arizona.

Clearwire Corp (NASDAQ:CLWR) - Clearwire Corporation, through its subsidiaries, builds and operates mobile broadband networks that provide high-speed residential and mobile Internet access services and residential voice services in communities in the United States. It offers wireless broadband and mobile broadband services, as well as voice over Internet protocol telephony services for homes and offices. The company also leases residential modems, as well as sells modems and personal computer cards. As of December 31, 2009, the company operated in 61 markets in the United States and Europe, covering an estimated 44.7 million people, and had approximately 642,000 retail and 46,000 wholesale subscribers. It markets its products and services directly to consumers, as well as through cellular retailers, consumer electronics stores, satellite television dealers, and computer sales and repair stores. Clearwire Corporation also markets its products and services through company-operated retail outlets. The company, formerly known as WiMAX Operations of Sprint Nextel Corporation, is headquartered in Kirkland, Washington. Clearwire Corporation operates as a subsidiary of Sprint HoldCo, LLC.

United Continental Holdings Inc (NYSE:UAL) - United Continental Holdings, Inc., through its subsidiaries, engages in the provision of passenger and cargo air transportation services. As of February 24, 2011, it operated a total of approximately 5,675 flights a day to 372 airports on 6 continents from their hubs in Chicago, Cleveland, Denver, Guam, Houston, Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, and Tokyo, as well as in Washington, D.C. The company was formerly known as UAL Corporation and changed its name to United Continental Holdings, Inc. on October 1, 2010. United Continental Holdings, Inc. was founded in 1934 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.

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