Market Maker Surveillance Report. STRS, BCSI, CSC, SIGM, EDE, GU, Losing Stocks With Lowest Price Friction For Thursday, May 26th 2011.

M2 PRESSWIRE-May 27, 2011-BUYINS.NET: Market Maker Surveillance Report. STRS, BCSI, CSC, SIGM, EDE, GU, Losing Stocks With Lowest Price Friction For Thursday, May 26th 2011(C)1994-2011 M2 COMMUNICATIONS

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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 2689 companies with "abnormal" market making, 3274 companies with positive Friction Factors and 1676 companies with negative Friction Factors. Here is a list of the top companies with the largest percentage loss per share Thursday 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. STRATUS PROPERTIES INC (NASDAQ:STRS), BLUE COAT SYSTEMS INC (NASDAQ:BCSI), COMPUTER SCIENCES CORP (NYSE:CSC), SIGMA DESIGNS INC (NASDAQ:SIGM), EMPIRE DISTRICT ELECTRIC CO (NYSE:EDE), GUSHAN ENVIRONMENTAL ENE-ADR (NYSE:GU). 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

STRS $-4.550 -30.64% 31,422 744.24% 32,600 772.15% -1,178 -3

BCSI $-2.710 -11.62% 1,450,645 48.75% 1,453,063 48.83% -2,418 -9

CSC $-5.710 -12.94% 4,181,353 29.80% 4,191,236 29.87% -9,883 -17

SIGM $-2.260 -20.55% 1,212,399 43.95% 1,542,552 55.92% -330,153 -1,461

EDE $-3.400 -15.18% 809,160 31.46% 1,027,471 39.94% -218,311 -642

GU $-0.770 -18.29% 130,595 28.36% 144,612 31.41% -14,017 -182

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 STRS with a dollar loss Thursday of $-4.55000 and a Friction Factor of -3 shares. That means that it only took 3 more shares of selling than buying to move STRS 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.

STRATUS PROPERTIES INC (NASDAQ:STRS) - Stratus Properties Inc., a real estate company, engages in the acquisition, development, management, operation, and sale of commercial, multi-family, and residential real estate properties located primarily in the Austin, Texas area. The company also owns undeveloped commercial property in San Antonio, Texas. As of December 31, 2009, its investment in real estate includes approximately 2,273 acres of land located in Austin, Texas. The principal holdings consisted of 1,513 acres of residential, multi-family, and commercial property; and 122 developed residential estate lots within the Barton Creek community. Stratus Properties also holds approximately 35 acres of commercial property under development and 352 acres of undeveloped commercial property within the Circle C Ranch (Circle C) community. The company was founded in 1992 and is headquartered in Austin, Texas.

BLUE COAT SYSTEMS INC (NASDAQ:BCSI) - Blue Coat Systems, Inc. designs, develops, and sells products and services that secure and optimize the delivery of business applications and other information to distributed users over a wide area network (WAN) or the public Internet/Web. The companys products include ProxySG Appliance that serves as the foundation for secure Web gateway products and WAN Optimization offerings; ProxySG Virtual Appliance, a software that provides WAN optimization functionality; CacheFlow 5000 Appliance for telecommunications service providers; Blue Coat ProxyAV Appliance to use with ProxySG appliances to provide inline threat protection and malware scanning of Web content at the Internet gateway; and Blue Coat WebFilter Software, a content filtering database that operates on ProxySG appliance and includes client-based software for remote workers. Its products also include Blue Coat Reporter Software that collects data and generates pre-defined and custom reports to provide an IT administrator with better visibility into the enterprises Web-related user activity; Blue Coat Director Appliance, which enables an IT administrator to centrally manage an enterprises Blue Coat ProxySG appliances; Blue Coat PacketShaper Appliance that helps IT administrators to monitor applications running on the enterprises network to obtain information on its LAN/WAN/Internet traffic; Blue Coat IntelligenceCenter Software, which provides application performance monitoring for PacketShaper appliances deployed across the distributed enterprise; and Blue Coat PolicyCenter Software that helps IT administrators to centrally manage the configuration, policy management, software distribution, and adaptive response tracking of a distributed PacketShaper environment. The company was formerly known as CacheFlow, Inc. and changed its name to Blue Coat Systems, Inc. in August 2002. Blue Coat Systems was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.

COMPUTER SCIENCES CORP (NYSE:CSC) - Computer Sciences Corporation offers information technology (IT) and business process outsourcing, as well as IT and professional services to the commercial and government markets. The companys outsourcing services include the operation of customers technology infrastructure, including systems analysis, applications development, network operations, desktop computing, and data center management. Its business process outsourcing services consist of procurement and supply chain, call centers and customer relationship management, credit services, claims processing, and logistics. It also provides IT and professional services comprising systems integration services, such as designing, developing, implementing, and integrating information systems; and consulting and professional services that include advising clients on the strategic acquisition and utilization of IT and on business strategy, security, modeling, simulation, engineering, operations, change management, and business process reengineering. In addition, the company licenses sophisticated software systems for the financial services and other industry-specific markets and provides a range of end-to-end business solutions; offers enterprise modernization, telecommunications and networking, managed services, base and range operations, and training and simulation; and provides computer equipment repair and maintenance services and credit reporting services. It offers its services to the aerospace and defense, automotive, chemical and natural resources, consumer goods, financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, retail and distribution, telecommunications, and technology industries. The company has operations in North America, Europe, and the Asia-Pacific region, including India and Australia. Computer Sciences Corporation was founded in 1959 and is based in Falls Church, Virginia.

SIGMA DESIGNS INC (NASDAQ:SIGM) - Sigma Designs, Inc. provides integrated system-on-chip solutions (SoC) for the Internet protocol television (IPTV), media processor, connected home and media player, prosumer and industrial audio/video, high definition television, and PC-based add-in markets. The company offers semiconductors with a suite of real-time software that enables synchronous processing of video, audio, and graphics streams for various applications. Its media processor product line represents a family of SoC solutions that are a component of multiple consumer applications, which process digital video and audio content comprising IPTV, connected media players, and portable media players. The companys home networking product line consists of wired networking solutions based on HomePNA, HomePlug AV, and G.hn standards, as well as wireless connectivity solutions based on Ultra-wideband technology. Its standards are used for transferring Internet protocol content across coaxial cables, phone lines, and power lines to enable service providers to deliver IPTV solutions and other media-rich applications. The companys video image processor product line comprises of semiconductors that provide video output for professional and prosumer applications. Its home control and energy management automation product line includes wireless transceiver devices along with a mesh networking protocol. The company offers its home connectivity products under the CopperGate; wireless connectivity solutions under the CoAir; video image processors under the VXP; and wireless transceiver devices under the Z-Wave brands. It also provides software elements, such as multimedia library, security management software, and porting adaptations. In addition, the company offers PC-based solutions. It sells its products through direct sales force, manufacturer representatives, and independent distributors primarily in Asia, Europe, and North America. The company was founded in 1982 and is headquartered in Milpitas, California.

EMPIRE DISTRICT ELECTRIC CO (NYSE:EDE) - The Empire District Electric Company, together with its subsidiaries, primarily engages in the generation, purchase, transmission, distribution, and sale of electricity in Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Arkansas. The company generates electricity from steam, hydro, coal, and natural gas with fuel oil and tire-derived fuel (TDF) sources for residential, commercial, industrial, wholesale on-system, and wholesale off-system transactions customers, as well as for public authorities. As of December 31, 2009, it owned generating facilities with an aggregate generating capacity of 1,257 megawatts; transmission system of approximately 22 miles of 345 kV lines, 434 miles of 161 kV lines, 745 miles of 69 kV lines, and 81 miles of 34.5 kV lines; and distribution system of approximately 6,905 miles of lines. The company also owns and operates water pumping facilities and distribution systems consisting of a total of approximately 87 miles of water mains in 3 communities in Missouri. In addition, The Empire District Electric Company provides natural gas distribution to customers in 44 communities in northwest, north central, and west central Missouri. Its principal gas utility properties include approximately 87 miles of transmission mains and approximately 1,118 miles of distribution mains. Further, it engages in leasing fiber optics cable and equipment. The company was founded in 1909 and is based in Joplin, Missouri.

GUSHAN ENVIRONMENTAL ENE-ADR (NYSE:GU) - Gushan Environmental Energy Limited, through its subsidiaries, produces biodiesel and its by-products. Its biodiesel is used to produce chemical products, primarily produced from various feed stocks, such as vegetable oil, animal fat, and recycled cooking oil; to fuel a range of diesel engines in trucks, mass transit vehicles, marine vessels, and generators; and as fatty acid methyl ester in the chemical industry. The companys biodiesel by-products include glycerine, plant asphalt, erucic acid, and erucic amide, which are used in various commercial applications in the food, pharmaceutical, and manufacturing industries. The company serves direct users, including marine vessel operators and chemical companies; petroleum wholesalers, such as local subsidiaries of state-owned enterprises or privately owned companies; and individual retail gas stations in the Peoples Republic of China. Gushan Environmental Energy Limited was founded in 2001 and is based in Fuzhou City, the Peoples Republic of China.

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