Derrimon Trading exchanged 2.5m shares on Friday.
Trading rose 134 percent on the Junior Market of the Jamaica Stock Exchange on Friday, resulting in an exchange of 3,096,487 units valued at $9,592,204, 78 percent higher than the $5,378,634 expended on 1,321,507 shares traded on Thursday.
The increased market activity failed to move the index up. At the close, the index dropped 35.46 points to 3,071.06 as 24 securities changed hands with prices of 5 rising, 13 declining and 6 remaining unchanged, compared with 25 securities changing hands previously.
Trading ended with an average of 129,020 units for an average of $399,675 in contrast to 52,860 units for an average of $215,145 on Thursday. The average volume and value for the month to date amounts to units 110,022 valued at $409,011 and previously 105,552 valued at $411,207 for each security traded. In contrast, March closed with an average of 195,942 shares valued at $777,498 for each security traded.
IC bid-offer Indicator| At the end of trading, the Investor’s Choice bid-offer indicator reading shows 7 stocks ended with bids higher than their last selling prices and 4 with lower offers.
At the close of the market, AMG Packaging ended at $2.20, with 12,842 stock units changing hands, Blue Power concluded trading with 500 units at $4.50, Cargo Handlers settled at $11, with an exchange of 100 shares, Caribbean Cream ended trading with a loss of 4 cents at $5.50, with 3,782 shares traded. Caribbean Flavours traded 102,200 stock units with a loss of 15 cents, in closing at $16.95, Caribbean Producers closed with 4,100 units changing hands, after falling 4 cents to end at $4.95, Derrimon Trading ended with a loss of 10 cents at $2.50, with an exchange of 2,510,989 shares. Dolphin Cove concluded trading of 750 shares, with a rise of 1 cent to $14, Everything Fresh finished with a loss of 4 cents at $1.41, with 48,000 stock units changing hands, Express Catering ended trading of 3,100 shares with a loss of 24 cents to end at $7.51, FosRich Group exchanged 4,462 shares and rose 
40 cents to $4.30. Fontana finished trading 91,304 shares and fell 1 cent to $3.99, General Accident closed with a loss of 25 cents at $4.25, in exchanging 20,000 stock units, GWest Corporation ended at $1.50, with 7,000 units trading. Honey Bun concluded trading of 2,055 shares with a loss of 18 cents in closing at $4, iCreate added 1 cent and closed at $1.01, with an exchange of 100,791 shares, Indies Pharma finished 1 cent higher at $3.06, with an exchange 979 shares, Jamaican Teas traded with a loss of 90 cents at a 52 weeks’ low of $3.20, in swapping 61,000 units. Jetcon Corporation finished trading 26,470 shares, with a loss of 59 cents to close at $2.31, Knutsford Express concluded trading 18,881 stock units with a loss of 89 cents to $12.99, Lasco Distributors finished with a loss of 10 cents at $3.70, with an exchange 68,485 units. Lasco Manufacturing ended trading with 4,597 shares with a loss of 10 cents at $3.45, Medical Disposables traded 100 stock units at $8 and Stationery and Office concluded trading of 4,000 shares at $6.75.
Prices of securities trading for the day are those at which the last trade took place.
