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ACO, ECPG, ITRI, CPO, USNA, ALTR Expected to Trade Down Short Term

September 1, 2011 / M2 PRESSWIRE / BUYINS.NET / http://www.squeezetrigger.com is monitoring top equities trading strategies and these stocks are the most likely to trade Down in the coming weeks. AMCOL INTERNATIONAL CORP (NYSE:ACO), ENCORE CAPITAL GROUP INC (NASDAQ:ECPG), ITRON INC (NASDAQ:ITRI), CORN PRODUCTS INTL INC (NYSE:CPO), USANA HEALTH SCIENCES INC (NYSE:USNA), ALTERA CORP (NASDAQ:ALTR) are all expected to go Down as Bearish signals have been generated by top equity trading strategies. This trading system is designed to identify high probability reversion to mean trading candidates. It looks to go long immediately following strong sell-offs, and goes short after sharp run ups. Its trades are short term and hone in on the irrational decisions of emotional traders around these extreme moves. The specific technology used to make these predictions is available for a low monthly fee at: http://www.squeezetrigger.com/services/sw/ot.php The chart below displays the stocks expected to go Down and a suggested stop level to limit any potential trading losses.

     Symbol     Company                             Price          Price Stop Level
     ACO        AMCOL INTERNATIONAL CORP            29.100         $30.56    
     ECPG       ENCORE CAPITAL GROUP INC            23.670         $24.85    
     ITRI       ITRON INC                           39.820         $41.81    
     CPO        CORN PRODUCTS INTL INC              46.760         $49.10    
     USNA       USANA HEALTH SCIENCES INC           25.740         $27.03    
     ALTR       ALTERA CORP                         36.390         $38.21    

AMCOL INTERNATIONAL CORP (NYSE:ACO) - Amcol International Corporation focuses on the development and application of minerals and technology products and services to various industrial and consumer markets worldwide. The company operates in four segments: Minerals and Materials, Environmental, Oilfield Services, and Transportation. The Minerals and Materials segment mines, processes, and distributes minerals and products with applications for use in various industrial and consumer markets, including metal-casting, pet care, detergents, iron ore pelletizing, and drilling industries. The Environmental segment processes and distributes minerals, products, and services with applications for use as a moisture barrier in commercial construction, landfill liners, and various other industrial and commercial applications. The Oilfield Services segment provides both onshore and offshore water treatment filtration, pipeline separation, waste fluid treatment, nitrogen, rental tools, coil tubing, and well testing data services for the oil and natural gas industry. The Transportation segment includes both a long-haul trucking business and a freight brokerage business for domestic subsidiaries, as well as third parties. The company was founded in 1924 and is headquartered in Hoffman Estates, Illinois.

ENCORE CAPITAL GROUP INC (NASDAQ:ECPG) - Encore Capital Group, Inc. purchases and manages charged-off consumer receivable portfolios. Its receivable portfolios include unsecured, charged-off domestic consumer credit cards, auto loan deficiency, and telecom receivables purchased from national financial institutions, major retail credit corporations, telecom companies, and resellers. The company, through its subsidiary, Ascension Capital Group, Inc., also provides bankruptcy services to the finance industry, including negotiating bankruptcy plans, monitoring and managing the consumers compliance with bankruptcy plans, and recommending courses of action to clients. Encore Capital Group, Inc. was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in San Diego, California.

ITRON INC (NASDAQ:ITRI) - Itron, Inc. provides products and services for the energy and water markets worldwide. It produces electricity, gas, water, and heat meters; and various other associated metering products for residential, commercial and industrial (C&I), and transmission and distribution customers. The company offers electronic and smart electricity meters; gas and water meters; electricity, gas, and water automated meter reading (AMR) and advanced metering infrastructure (AMI)/smart meter modules; handheld, mobile, and network AMR data collection technologies; AMI network technologies; electromechanical, electronic, and smart electricity meters; mechanical and ultrasonic water and heat meters; diaphragm, turbine, and rotary gas meters; one-way and two-way electricity prepayment systems, including smart key, keypad, and smart card; and two-way gas prepayment systems using smart card. It also provides meter data management software and knowledge application solutions that provide utilities and C&I end-users with support for data collection, complex data applications, data warehouses, and analytic and visualization tools. In addition, the company offers managed services to utilities that allow them to outsource various operations, such as meter reading services and prepayment program activities; and consulting and analysis services comprising market research, load research, energy efficiency program evaluation and design, energy policy design, rate design, and regulatory support. The company sells its products through direct sales force, distributors, representative agencies, partners, and meter manufacturer representatives. Itron, Inc. was founded in 1977 and is headquartered in Liberty Lake, Washington.

CORN PRODUCTS INTL INC (NYSE:CPO) - Corn Products International, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, manufactures and sells various food ingredients to food and industrial customers in North America, South America, Asia, and Africa. It offers food ingredients and industrial products derived from wet milling, and the processing of corn and other starch-based materials. The company provides sweetener products, including fructose corn syrups, glucose corn syrups, maltose corn syrups, dextrose, polyols, maltodextrins, and glucose and corn syrup solids; and starch products, such as industrial and food-grade starches. It also offers refined corn oil to packers of cooking oil and to producers of margarine; salad dressings; shortening; mayonnaise; and other foods. In addition, the company provides corn gluten feed that is used as protein feed for chickens, pet food, and aquaculture; and steepwater, which is used as an additive for animal feed. Corn Products International offers its products to various industries, including the food and beverage, pharmaceutical, paper products, corrugated and laminated paper, textile, and brewing industries, as well as animal feed and corn oil markets. The company was founded in 1906 and is headquartered in Westchester, Illinois.

USANA HEALTH SCIENCES INC (NYSE:USNA) - USANA Health Sciences, Inc. engages in the development, manufacture, and sale of nutritional and personal care products in North America and the Asia Pacific. The company offers two product lines, USANA Nutritionals and Sense. The USANA Nutritionals product line consists of essentials, which include vitamins and mineral supplements that provide a foundation of nutrition for various age groups; optimizers, which are targeted supplements that support cardiovascular health, skeletal/structural health, and digestive health; and macro-optimizers comprising low-glycemic meal replacement shakes, snack bars, and other related products that provide optimal macro-nutrition. The Sense product line includes personal care products that support healthy skin and hair. These products include perfecting essence, gentle daily cleanser, hydrating toner, daytime protective emulsion, eye nourisher, night renewal, serum intensive, rice bran polisher, creme masque, revitalizing shampoo, nourishing conditioner, firming body nourisher, energizing shower gel, and intensive hand therapy. USANA Health Sciences also develops and sells resource materials and sales tools, including product brochures and business forms; reprints of other commercial publications; and contracts with authors and publishers to produce or provide books, tapes, and other items that deal with health topics and personal motivation to assist its associates. The company distributes its products through a network marketing system of organized independent distributors. USANA Health Sciences, Inc. was founded in 1992 and is headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah.

ALTERA CORP (NASDAQ:ALTR) - Altera Corp. designs, manufactures, and markets programmable logic devices (plds); structured application-specific integrated circuit devices; predefined design building blocks or intellectual-property cores; and associated development tools. Its programmable logic devices are semiconductor integrated circuits. Altera also provides HardCopy, HardCopy II, and other masked programmed logic devices, configuration devices, development software, and other tools and intellectual-property cores. Altera was founded in 1983 and is headquartered in San Jose, Calif.

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