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COLB, AYI, ESS, AIZ, EW, WCG Are Seasonally Ripe To Go Up In the Next Five Weeks

August 6, 2012 / M2 PRESSWIRE / BUYINS.NET / www.squeezetrigger.com is monitoring the Seasonality of Columbia Banking System Inc (NASDAQ:COLB), Acuity Brands Inc (NYSE:AYI), Essex Property Trust Inc (NYSE:ESS), Assurant Inc (NYSE:AIZ), East West Petroleum Corp (NYSE:EW), Wellcare Health Plans Inc (NYSE:WCG) and each have a high seasonal probability to go Up in the next weeks. By identifying stocks that are poised to go up or down based on seasonal tendencies, traders can increase their odds of making money. SqueezeTrigger.com is able to analyze over 20 years of data in less than 1 second for any stock in the market and determine if the stock has a long or short seasonal bias, how many trading days the move is expected to last, the probability of that move and the percentage move the stock is expected to make based on the seasonal bias. The technology used to generate these predictions is available for a low monthly fee at: http://www.squeezetrigger.com/services/strat/mh.php

The following stocks are expected to go Up:

  Symbol  Company                          Expected Return  Odds                 By The Following Date
  COLB    Columbia Banking System Inc      8.39%            91.67% (11 of 12)    Friday, September 14th 2012
  AYI     Acuity Brands Inc                5.17%            90.00% (9 of 10)     Monday, September 17th 2012
  ESS     Essex Property Trust Inc         6.38%            77.78% (14 of 18)    Monday, September 17th 2012
  AIZ     Assurant Inc                     2.39%            87.50% (7 of 8)      Thursday, August 30th 2012
  EW      East West Petroleum Corp         4.74%            75.00% (9 of 12)     Wednesday, September 5th 2012
  WCG     Wellcare Health Plans Inc        7.91%            100.00% (8 of 8)     Monday, September 17th 2012

Columbia Banking System Inc (NASDAQ:COLB) - Columbia Banking System, Inc. operates as the bank holding company for Columbia State Bank, which provides a range of banking services to small and medium-sized businesses, professionals, and individuals in the states of Washington and Oregon. It offers checking and saving accounts, certificate of deposit accounts, and consumer and residential lending products; and remote deposit capture, cash management, commercial and industrial lending, real estate and real estate construction lending, equipment finance, and small business services. The company also provides Visa card, investment, international banking, merchant card, online banking, electronic bill pay, and private banking services. As of February 19, 2010, Columbia Banking System had 84 branch offices, including 60 branches in Washington and 24 branches in Oregon. The company was founded in 1988 and is headquartered in Tacoma, Washington.

Acuity Brands Inc (NYSE:AYI) - Acuity Brands, Inc., through its subsidiaries, engages in the design, production, and distribution of lighting fixtures, lighting controls, and related products and services in North America and internationally. Its lighting equipment includes indoor and outdoor lighting fixtures for commercial and institutional, industrial, infrastructure, and residential applications. The company markets its lighting products under various brands, including Lithonia Lighting, Holophane, Peerless, Mark Architectural Lighting, Hydrel, American Electric Lighting, Gotham, Carandini, SpecLight, Metal Optics, Antique Street Lamps, Tersen, Synergy Lighting Controls, Lighting Control & Design, Sensor Switch, Dark to Light, and ROAM. Acuity Brands sells its products through independent sales agents, factory sales representatives, distribution centers, regional warehouses, and commercial warehouses to electrical distributors, retail home improvement centers, national accounts, electric utilities, utility distributors, municipalities, contractors, lighting showrooms, and energy service companies. The company was founded in 2001 and is based in Atlanta, Georgia.

Essex Property Trust Inc (NYSE:ESS) - Essex Property Trust, Inc., a real estate investment trust (REIT), engages in the ownership, operation, management, acquisition, development, and redevelopment of apartment communities primarily in the West Coast of the United States. It has a 90.9% general partner interest in Essex Portfolio, L.P. As of September 4, 2008, the company owned interests in 133 communities comprising 26,790 units, as well as had 1,658 units in active development. The company has elected to be taxed as a REIT and would not be subject to federal income tax on the portion of its income that is distributed to stockholders. Essex Property Trust was founded in 1971 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

Assurant Inc (NYSE:AIZ) - Assurant, Inc., through its subsidiaries, provides specialized insurance products and related services in North America and internationally. The company operates in four segments: Assurant Solutions, Assurant Specialty Property, Assurant Health, and Assurant Employee Benefits. The Assurant Solutions segment offers credit insurance, including life, disability, and unemployment insurance; debt protection administration services; warranties and extended service contracts; life insurance policies; and annuity products that provide benefits to fund pre-arranged funerals. The Assurant Specialty Property segment provides creditor-placed homeowners insurance and manufactured housing homeowners insurance. The Assurant Health segment offers individual, short-term, and small group health insurance. The Assurant Employee Benefits segment provides employee and employer paid dental, disability, and life insurance products and related services. The company distributes its insurance products and services through various distribution channels, including independent employee benefits specialists, brokers, managing general agents, life agents, financial institutions, mortgage lenders and servicers, retailers, funeral homes, association groups, and other third-party marketing organizations. Assurant, Inc. was founded in 1978 and is based in New York, New York.

East West Petroleum Corp (NYSE:EW) - Edwards Lifesciences Corporation provides products and technologies designed to treat advanced cardiovascular diseases. It offers products and technologies for heart valve therapy, critical care, cardiac surgery systems, and vascular diseases. The company provides tissue heart valves, such as pericardial and porcine valves, as well as repair products, including annuloplasty rings and systems used to replace or repair a patient's diseased or defective heart valve. It also offers hemodynamic monitoring equipment that is used to measure a patient's heart function in surgical and intensive care settings; and disposable pressure transducers. In addition, the company provides cardiac surgery systems products, including cannulae, intra-aortic filtration system, and other disposable products used during cardiopulmonary bypass procedures; and vascular products that comprise balloon-tipped and catheter-based embolectomy products, surgical clips, and clamps to treat endolumenal occlusive disease. Edwards Lifesciences Corporation distributes its products through a direct sales force and independent distributors worldwide. It has a collaboration agreement with DexCom, Inc. to develop products for monitoring blood glucose levels in patients hospitalized for various conditions. The company was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Irvine, California. Edwards Lifesciences Corporation operates independently of Baxter International Inc., as of March 31, 2000.

Wellcare Health Plans Inc (NYSE:WCG) - WellCare Health Plans, Inc. provides managed care services for government-sponsored healthcare programs in the United States. The company offers Medicaid and Medicare plans, including health plans for families, children, aged, blind, and disabled, as well as prescription drug plans. Its Medicaid plans include plans for individuals who are dually eligible for Medicare and Medicaid; and beneficiaries of the Temporary Assistance to Needy Families program (TANF), Supplemental Security Income Program (SSI), ABD program, State Childrens Health Insurance program (S-CHIP), and the Family Health Plus program(FHP). The TANF program provides assistance to low-income families with children; the SSI and ABD program offers assistance to low-income aged, blind, and disabled individuals; and the S-CHIP and FHP programs provides assistance for families not eligible for Medicaid. Its Medicare plans include stand-alone prescription drug plans; and Medicare Advantage plans comprising coordinated care plans (CCP). The Medicare Advantage is Medicares managed care alternative to original Medicare fee-for-service that provides individuals standard Medicare benefits through Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. CCPs are administered through a health maintenance organization and require members to seek health care services from a network of health care providers. As of December 31, 2009, WellCare Health Plans, Inc. had approximately 1,349,000 Medicaid members and approximately 972,000 Medicare members. The company was founded in 1985 and is headquartered in Tampa, Florida.

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